GL-AR300M16 Mini

I have friends and family who let me put VPN servers in their houses/Apt. I pay for the routers, I manage them, and give them accounts on them, so they can also remotely use their home IP address when traveling. Most of them are GL iNet AR300M routers, running OpenWrt. Not fast, but cheap and depend

If you are looking for cheap and reliable, go with a pair of AR300M16. Unlike the Opel, it has great support for OpenWrt, so you will have an option for firmware with security fixes after GL iNet drops their support, and it's a bit faster than the Mango, at around the same price. Set it up with Wire

GL.iNet AR300M16-Ext (Shadow) it’s a mobile travel router with two wife dongles added to it. Here’s the you tube video I built it off of. https://youtu.be/67sGUzKJ8IU?si=t3ZmGzHVRHRj0-BE really fun project and way cheaper then that cheapest pineapple.

Remote hardware debugging is a pain. If it does need replaced and if you are only using it as a Wireguard server, you could use a GL iNet Brume, or about any small PC running Linux. Wireguard does not need a fast Linux server, as it is very low overhead. I am using a couple cheap, very low power, GL