Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router
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Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router
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Re: Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router
#2Strange to see this device here. I have one and use it extensively, but this isn't even the current generation.
It does work well as a travel router, and can pull north of 400Mbps over WireGuard.
Runs openwrt, but not upstream, so installing some packages can be a pain.
Re: Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router
#3Cute but without sim capabilities. As a professional remote nomad, Starlink is king. The router is decent but not for hard wired things. You could put this in between and be double NAT’ed but why? If you need to transfer files on the go, AirDrop or hotspot on your device and connect from the other. I’m not exactly sure what niche this product is filling without supporting SIM cards for being a true travel router.
Re: Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router
#4If you want OpenWRT you don't want this, you want one of the Mediatek based routers (GL-MT*).
Re: Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router
#5How did this make FP???
Re: Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router
#6How likely is it that this router manufacturer is putting in software and hardware backdoors?
Re: Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router
#7> OpenVPN speed up to 560 Mbps (with DCO support); WireGuard speed up to 550 Mbps
Is the CPU missing AES headers? (curious why OpenVPN is faster)
Re: Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router
#8Cute but without sim capabilities. As a professional remote nomad, Starlink is king. The router is decent but not for hard wired things. You could put this in between and be double NAT’ed but why? If you need to transfer files on the go, AirDrop or hotspot on your device and connect from the other. I’m not exactly sure what niche this product is filling without supporting SIM cards for being a true travel router.
Drop the Starlink into bridge mode, use the Gl.inet in front as your edge router, have WireGuard/Tailscale/etc connections back to more permanent infrastructure.
Even without a SIM card itself -- Android and iOS devices will tether over USB, so you can tether your own phone directly in and share the connection to other devices as well when you don't want to mess with Starlink.
Re: Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router
#9Cute but without sim capabilities. As a professional remote nomad, Starlink is king. The router is decent but not for hard wired things. You could put this in between and be double NAT’ed but why? If you need to transfer files on the go, AirDrop or hotspot on your device and connect from the other. I’m not exactly sure what niche this product is filling without supporting SIM cards for being a true travel router.
I use a similar model to this extensively.
1. Hotels where you have to pay a "connection fee" you only have to pay once
2. I travel with a chromecast that can connect to my private network
3. I run wireguard, so all my traffic back is automatically encrypted
4. I can position this to get a better wifi signal, "boosting" the signal (via my private network) for all my devices
Re: Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router
#10Strange to see this device here. I have one and use it extensively, but this isn't even the current generation. It does work well as a travel router, and can pull north of 400Mbps over WireGuard. Runs openwrt, but not upstream, so installing some packages can be a pain.
Yea couldn't install gps, then realized the package manager only had maybe 10% of what most gli.net routers have because of the 'special' chip in this one.
Still a great travel router, but had to buy a BerylAX for what I wanted to do with the usb gps.