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Gl.iNet Smart Router, Openwrt, 3g Modem, Tor, 16M Flash

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Brand	GL.iNET
Wireless communication standard	802.11bgn
Compatible devices	Laptop
Connectivity technology	Wireless
Colour	White
Item weight	0.09 Pounds
Operating system	Linux Openwrt
Voltage	5 Volts
RAM memory installed size	64 MB
Item dimensions L x W x H	5.8 x 5.8 x 2.2 Centimetres

About this item

WiFi Converter: Converts a wired network at hotels or offices to your own WiFi and shares to more devices, or converts a WiFi at cafes or restaurants to a private WiFi for securer surfing. Tethering, and 3G/4G USB Modem Compatible
Mini Travel Mate: 1.41 Oz only and pocket friendly. Instantly connects all your devices when switching to a new WiFi and avoids inputting the password on the devices one by one. Powered by any laptop USB, power banks or 5V DC adapters
Open Source and Programmable: OpenWrt pre-installed, DDWrt supported. USB disk and WebCam extendable
OpenVPN Client and TOR: OpenVPN client pre-installed, compatible with 20+ VPN service providers. TOR firmware available for downloading
Larger Storage and extensibility: 64MB RAM, 16MB Flash ROM, dual Ethernet ports, UART and 2.0mm standard GPIOs available for hardware DIY

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Product details

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.79 x 5.79 x 2.21 cm; 40.82 Grams
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ Sept. 5 2014
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ GL Technologies
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JKFE0FW
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 6416A

Customer Reviews:
693 ratings

Product description

GL.iNet6416 is a mini travel router for working professionals and a programmable gateway for DIY hobbyists.

Larger Storage and Extendibility:

The router is with storages of 64MB RAM and 16MB Nand Flash, which can be further extended using external USB sticks. There are 2 Ethernet ports, 1 UART, and 5 GPIOs available for hardware DIY. It is an ideal portable gateway for IoT development.

WiFi Converter:

WiFi is extremely popular but still may not be available at anywhere. If you are still using a wired network at hotels or cafes, this mini router is able to convert it to a wireless network for sharing the WiFi with all your devices.

Even in places like cafes or restaurants with WiFi, it is not good to expose your devices to the public network directly. This router converts a public WiFi to your own WiFi with a firewall and then works as an agent for securer surfing. The agent connects all your devices when switching to a new WiFi. You don't have to input password for each of your devices.

The router is also able to convert your phone tethering, or 3G/4G USB modems into a private Wi-Fi.

Portable Travel Mate:

The router is lightweight, pocket friendly, and portable. It can be plugged into any laptops, power banks, or 5V DC adapters for power supply.

Open Source and Programmable:

OpenWRT is pre-installed and backed with a repository of 4000+ software packages. DDWrt is supported. Pre-installed with an OpenVPN client, it works with 20+ VPN service providers. Tor firmware is available for download. The firmware is under active development and can be updated online with one click.

For more details, please check our online docs at http://www.gl-inet.com/docs

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Customer reviews

5 star		69%
4 star		13%
3 star		8%
2 star		4%
1 star		7%

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Lloyd McFadden

GLI Mini Travel Router GL-AR150 with external antenna at summer lake cabin

Reviewed in Canada on February 25, 2021

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Works great for what I want it for, looking forward to using it this summer at lake cabin. Noticed a price drop by half about a month after I bought it, but price seems fair for what it does.

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M Kahn

Excellent product and excellent price.

Reviewed in Canada on November 15, 2021

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Excellent little product, handy and compact also.

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Wren A.

Works great for me

Reviewed in Canada on October 8, 2021

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As a programmer who works on machines this provides me the excellent range that I need to move around a machines or the shop without having to worry about a cable.

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John Doe

Small, easy and fast

Reviewed in Canada on April 12, 2018

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This device is small, very small and that is awesome. It works extremely easy and even setting up openVPN took only a few minutes. Watching Films and Youtube is very smooth. Still have to try on 3G but so far its been great.

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SALMAN BUTT

just ok if u r a IT guy

Reviewed in Canada on August 13, 2020

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Not really a impressive thing ,complicated

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Yvonne Hooper

Item worked as advertised

Reviewed in Canada on March 15, 2021

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This item works fine and is being used in a project.

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jordan poppe

user friendly mini router

Reviewed in Canada on January 20, 2022

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works well pretty substantial range i have used it as a router as well as repeater off a power bank very low power draw

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David Hall

Absolutely brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2019

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Bought this router for various trips in hotels and the odd campsite, hotel or holiday park where the wifi might only be in a certain location. I figured that with the ability to connect a directional wifi antenna I could use it to pick up wifi in marginal signal areas for my devices, and to provide an added layer of security for the devices instead of connecting them directly to public wifi.

It has worked really well for it's first trip which was a few weeks abroad in about 10 different hotels and apartments. The Wireless N 150 speed isn't particularly quick, but neither is hotel wifi, and it hasn't been a bottleneck. Once connected to the router's web interface it let me upgrade the firmware, and the new version at least even allows you to override the clients' DNS settings and use a preconfigured Cloudflare DNS or your own for added security. A configuration option allowed me to set up a VPN client which along with my VPN subscription allowed me to connect all devices through a UK server and get the English pages for websites, and lets you turn this functionality on and off using the configurable function switch at the side of the device. The router handled the various hotels' wifi captive portals fine, with the added benefit that you only need to click "accept" once and all devices can then use the wifi. In addition to the pretty fully featured default firmware you can also access the underlying OpenWRT LUCI interface and do some more advanced configuration if you want to, and replace the stock firmware with vanilla OpenWRT/DD-WRT, although I haven't felt the need myself.

So in summary this little device has been a revelation. I wish that GL.inet made non-travel routers as the custom skin on OpenWRT solution they use is far superior to most consumer wifi firmware I've used, and basically the only downside of this device I can see is that wifi N 150 is a bit outdated nowadays. I'd definitely recommend this device as a travel router if you are comfortable using a web interface to configure it, and to be honest you could probably get away with using it as a home router should you be so inclined. Recommended.

5 people found this helpful

John Hayford

Amazing value for money - Updated

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 15, 2017

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A bit technical, fortunately I used to be an networking tech in another life so no issues. It really is amazing value for money. I am using it as a geteway to a marina hot spot for all the devices on my boat to save them all logging in separately.

It was all working great Until. yes a software update. Now the automatic scan and reconnect has stopped working. The settings will work when manually triggered, just not automatically. A real pain as the hot stop checks us off every few hours.

Later update - found a fix for the auto scan issue on google, now working great again, so added another star.
Still working great after two years.

3 people found this helpful

ajdriver

Great for the price

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2021

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For £25 this is great
I have it running off a solar panel in the shed, used as a repeater to get WiFi to the bottom of the garden for a WiFi camera. I wish I had done this before.
Fairly easy to setup and I think the range is greater than my router!
It's not the fastest, but fine for my needs.
Also could do with the ability to remote restart the WiFi, you can turn it off, but then you need to physical go to the device to enable it.

Roger

Nice bit of kit for the money

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2020

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Have previously used a TP-Link router version, which was a little more expensive, and larger, but easier to setup. The only gripe I have with this, which is why only 4 stars, is that it takes quite a while to connect with a third party wi-fi network when being used as a mobile router/hotspot, once connected it is fine, but took me several attempts, even though the wi-fi network signal was very strong.

I don't use all of its features such as VPN, or in a domestic setting using the LAN Ethernet connections, but for my mobile use it does exactly what is says on the can. Very good value for money and really tiny for mobile use with a laptop or creating your own secure network.

J Gowar

Reliable affordable flexible WiFi networking kit

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 12, 2017

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Reliable affordable flexible WiFi networking kit.

I've now purchased 2 of these devices, no least because they is considered "ideal hardware" for LEDE as they have over 4M flash and over 32M RAM. Quite honestly I find it difficult to fault. It comes supplied with GLs modified OpenWRT distribution, which in itself is feature-full and user-friendly. For my intended purpose though, I wanted to give dumb WiFi access around the building. I achieved this by installing vanilla OpenWRT and then disabled the DHCP server.

It's never let me down, easily more reliable than ISP supplied WiFi.

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