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    • 4 months ago

    Can also use your cellphone as a hotspot after connect to Wi-Fi, if you have Android. Idk about iPhone

    • 4 months ago

    Symmetric 5GB connection at home? Amazing.

    • 4 months ago

    Starlink is awesome.

    • 4 months ago

    Also a great option for securing free public wifi connections, and with a hefty USB charger battery (that can put out enough power for the router – 5V/3A on my gl.inet Beryl) you can run it without plugging it in with the AC adapter.

    • 4 months ago

    I just bought this router off of Amazon and it will be arriving tomorrow. Thanks for this overview. I'm excited to try it out.

    • 4 months ago

    You probably don't know this as an iPhone user, but you can already do 90% of this with an average Samsung phone. Just enable hotspot while connected to Wi-Fi.

    • 4 months ago

    I don't go on cruises.

    • 4 months ago

    Can anyone comment as to the GL-A1300 vs the one that Dave is using? It's currently $69 on Amazon, whereas the 1800 is $112 right now. Aside from lack of microSD and lack of EAP support, I think they are pretty similar?

    • 4 months ago

    The pocket router sounds like a game-changer for staying connected while traveling. Your explanation of how it works and the benefits for families with multiple devices is super helpful.

    • 4 months ago

    Nice device. The only thing missing is a built in SIM card slot, and possibly the ability to add an external antenna to boost cellular connectivity. Pocket mifi's have been around for a long time and have served a similar function as this pocket router, depending on your needs.

    • 4 months ago

    If you needed daily Internet access during the 90s, then why would you be going on cruise ships?

    • 4 months ago

    I have one for a slightly different usecase. I have a number of wifi cameras and a mesh network, where the 2.4/5G bands are on the same SSID, so I can't split them for the cameras. For those cameras at a distance, this is not a problem. But those close it is. So, I have one of these for the 2.4G cameras.

    • 4 months ago

    Symmetrical 5gb internet. God what i would do for symmetrical 1gb. Instead i get about 800mbps down (not awful) and 49mbps up (my media server cries).

    • 4 months ago

    this is some chronically online stuff 😂

    • 4 months ago

    lol You're mostly in this for the subs and likes? That's something only narcissists say and you don't see terribly narcissistic (in my subjective, uninformed opinion as someone who knows nothing about you).

    • 4 months ago

    Amazing video. Does anyone know it support a repeater of wifi connection with the ability to repeat the wifi signal based on your choice of encryption? For example if hotel wifi is WPA2, i want the pocket router to repeat this signal but without any encryption. Is that possible with this?

    • 4 months ago

    So Dave is formerly of Microsoft but uses an array of Apple products… heh that's very interesting.

    Thanks for the upload Dave. Very informative.

    • 4 months ago

    But, how can you connect the router to a Wifi that requires unlocking it over a web page?

    • 4 months ago

    The omission of a travel adaptor may not have been accidental.
    There is a possibility that router is meant for the americas. The frequency space for wifi varies slightly. Some wifi channels are availabile in the US that may not be available in Europe and vice versa because of frequency space allocation.

    Onboard wifi on laptops used to be handled by a little micro pci card thatbhad the antenna wired to it. i guess it made the certification for the radio related functionality easier, checking that it obeyed frequency allocation rules for that locale.

    • 4 months ago

    Thanks dude for explaining it to someone Can understand meaning me lol

    • 4 months ago

    I understood a few words.

    • 4 months ago

    why does this guy look like a badass member of a rock band?

    • 4 months ago

    5GB Ethernet 😮😮😮 The UK is still running 8-12 Mbps in some locations LOL 😂 especially my house 🤦🏻‍♂️

    • 4 months ago

    Geez, I remember spoofing the mac address of my Xbox on my laptop to connect to the internet at hotels as well. That takes me back!

    • 4 months ago

    Wonder when the cruise ships will start inspecting your baggage for such devices and hold it hostage so you have to buy more internet access. Maybe conduct sweeps with detectors look for such "rogue" devices?

    • 4 months ago

    I thought this video was going to about a tool, not a device. lol

    • 4 months ago

    I think the only reason you did this video was to show off how many tech words and terms you know. Lol

    • 4 months ago

    How is this any better then hotspot?

    • 4 months ago

    I recently purchased a pocket router but haven’t used it yet. Appreciate you sharing this video.
    de AA4SH

    • 4 months ago

    unusual to hear a youtuber who's every word actually mean something.. thanks for the info and for not wasting my time. you have a new subscriber .

    • 4 months ago

    I have a question about the certificate for this GLI net slate AX router. I just purchased one on Amazon and when I try to go to sites using Safari, it tells me the certificate is not trusted. As I researched through Google, it says the certificate that comes with the router is self signed and not secure. It also says that this is open source and can basically be hacked. i'm confused. I'm beyond my computer knowledge. Please help!

    • 4 months ago

    At 8:24, how do you set this up on your router at home? I am presuming that your home router has to have this built in, correct? I would love to find out and learn more about this feature. Can anyone jump in here?

    • 4 months ago

    I was engaged in this video until you showed the infamous Super Bowl my Seahawks gave to the Patriots! lol

    • 4 months ago

    Is that a router in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

    • 4 months ago

    Hi Dave, I bought exactly the one you recommended and it was a delight to use it! Thanks 😎🍀

    • 4 months ago

    Easiest way to solve this problem with 0 cost.

    Requirements:

    1. Unlimited data plan from a mobile carrier with hotspot (not unlimited is ok). 4g or 5g.
    2. Smallest laptop with at least Win 10 OS.
    3. PairVPN app for both Android/IOS and Windows.

    1. Install PairVPN on both your phone and laptop.
    2. Run it on your phone and set it up as server.
    3. Run it on your laptop and set it as client.
    4. Connect laptop to phone's hotspot.
    5. Run PairVPN on both phone and laptop.
    6. Share laptop Internet connection by opening Win 10 hotspot option with a new SSID.

    PairVPN:

    The only function I will mention here is that this app will use the unlimited data on your phone and routed through your hotspot without using your hotspot data. Thus, unlimited hotspot sharing using unlimited phone data plan.

    On most current Android phone, you will see a background Hotspot & tethering app (in Mobile data usage) and it will tell you how much of the hotspot data is being used.

    PairVPN will instead consume the plan's data (like any other app) and route it to the enabled hotspot to share that data.

    The Hotspot & tethering app will not detect this. You can obviously check and see very minute increase in your hotspot data.

    PairVPN currently only allows one connected device.

    So your phone will be the server with one connected client which will be your laptop. Once you have a connection from the laptop, enable Win 10 wifi hotspot option and share it with multiple devices.

    Notes:

    PairVPN do not advertise what I've written here, so most do not know.

    Make sure you do not use your phone if your planning to use it as a server. Same with the laptop. PairVPN could disconnect due to RAM issues between other running applications.

    If the PairVPN app disconnects either from the phone or the laptop, the real hotspot will still be connected to your laptop.

    If so, to avoid the other shared devices accidentally consumes your real hotspot, each connected device to the laptop's hotspot SSID should be set to "no automatic connection".

    • 4 months ago

    We wish the channel host would speak slower and enunciate – cannot understand half the sentences he says. Otherwise, a good topic to learn.

    • 4 months ago

    Living in a hotel now because of a house fire. The hotel internet is bad. Buying this asap. Thank you

    • 4 months ago

    You seem like you spend WAY too much time online and have a rather strange, unhealthy life.

    • 4 months ago

    ❤😂❤

    • 4 months ago

    There’s more than one comment saying if you have a Samsung phone you can use it as a hot spot. You can do it with an iPhone as well. Settings > Wi-Fi > Hotspot. I believe the benefit of having his device is that you’re not sharing the bandwidth with everyone else on the ship, for example.

    • 4 months ago

    Very informative thank you

    • 4 months ago

    To connect back to a home server vpn & network id need dynamic dns setup in my home network for this to work as he described, right ?

    • 4 months ago

    Why is everyone saying you can do this on a Samsung phone, that just makes no sense at all. If you're doing all this on a Samsung phone then you're going to run out of battery pretty fast Also the person who owns the phone what if they need to leave the hotel or cabin and all the connected devices will no longer be in range. C'mon Samsung guys that's the whole point of a "dedicated" device to do all these things

    • 4 months ago

    I'm just worried that the hotel and cruise industry will eventually put the smack down on travel routers 😞

    • 4 months ago

    Awso

    • 4 months ago

    I'm in a nursingwarehouse with little to no WiFi . I have 2 phones and an off brand Android tablet. Would this help me here?

    • 4 months ago

    does it have esim

    • 4 months ago

    Thanks, my brother had a similar device years ago before they became mainstream. He lived in a place up in Northern California with hardly any cell towers (at the time) and before starlink. Was magical to all his neighbors.

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