GL-AR300M16 Mini

Before spending money on a new router to use as a VPN server, check your uplink speed. Your uplink speed at the VPN server will be your maximum downlink speed to your remote router. Some cable and 5G home internet providers have great download speeds but poor upload speeds, like 500 Mbps down and 35

If you look at the specs the AR300M16 is slightly faster and supports EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol). The MT300N-V2 uses a proprietary WIFI driver and does not support EAP. I own multiple AR300M routers, and I would not buy an MT300N V2 because there is no real reason to choose a slower an

I travel fulltime and do development work. For years I regularly use a Shadow (AR300M) that pre-dates the Opal, as my VPN server, at a family members house who only has around 35 mbps upload speed over a home 5G internet connection. The Shadow is rated at 50 mbps over Wireguard by GL iNet. As long a

GL iNet keeps building and selling bigger, heavier, and more power hungry routers. I no longer consider them true travel routers, and I am currently refusing to buy anything new from them until they release something like a Mango 2. That said, their hardware is usually solid, and I am still using mu

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