Features:

  • DUAL BAND AC ROUTER: Simultaneous dual band with wireless speed 300Mbps(2.4G)+433Mbps(5G). Convert a public network(wired/wireless) to a private Wi-Fi for secure surfing.
  • OPEN SOURCE & PROGRAMMABLE: OpenWrt/LEDE pre-installed, backed by software repository.
  • VPN CLIENT & SERVER: OpenVPN and WireGuard® pre-installed, compatible with 25+ VPN service providers.
  • LARGER STORAGE & EXTENSIBILITY: 128MB RAM, 16MB NOR Flash and 128MB NAND Flash, up to 128GB MicroSD slot, USB 2.0 port, three Ethernet ports.
  • PACKAGE CONTENTS: Slate (GL-AR750S-Ext) router with 1-year limited warranty, power adapter, USB cable, Ethernet cable and user manual. Please update to the latest firmware from the following link before using: https://dl.gl-inet.com/firmware/ar750s/release/
A very configurable, fast router.

Am hardly any authority on routers or networking, but am very happy with this little device. It's sold as a travel router, but in my situation, I can't find any good reason not to replace my large home router with this small one. The feature that attracted me initially was that it came with OpenWRT, on which the adblock package could be installed to filter ads and malware at a low level. The router seems to have plenty of memory to accommodate the many publicly available block lists. The admin panel provides for modification of typical parameters, e.g., repeater mode on/off, wireless ids and passwords, port forwarding, LAN IP, MAC address, firmware upgrade, and more. One little choice off to the side says "Advanced." Selecting that puts you into the Luci menus for OpenWRT, which appear to allow setting of every imaginable parameter under the sun, including all the above as a small subset. One can log in directly to the small linux-like system (Busybox apparently) on the router. Very knowledgeable people (not me) perhaps could even issue the basic commands invoked by Luci. My modem came with a wireless router. Had no choice about that. The AR750S is ethernet connected immediately downstream from the modem/router. A speed test via ethernet to the AR750S gave 209 megabits/sec. 200 Mbps is the rated speed of my ISP. A speed test via 5G wifi from the AR750S, at close proximity, yields 120 Mbs. The modem and router are upstairs in the house. Downstairs, in a largish old house (metal screen plaster lath in the walls), I see a wifi speed of over 90 Mbps for the AR750S, which is about 30% faster than my old, big router (-not- the built-in modem/router, which is very slow). When I installed a router firmware upgrade via the GL menus, the upgrade threw away the installation of the adblock plug-in. It was easy to re-install, but I was a bit surprised. It looks as though the Luci menus may give an option to apply an upgrade and keep any added packages.

Excellent travel kit piece

Like most traveling tech folks, I have a box of different versions of this kind of travel router. The firmware is really good and it's been much more reliable than other similar devices. I usually don't rate these very highly because they tend to look like they were very much created by non-English speakers, but this one is done right. Open Source software is running on the unit making it well established. The throughput isn't awesome but you don't need it with this kind of device. You can put it in your suitcase and it's a swiss army knife of solutions. Love it. If I lost it I'd buy another immediately.

Great device for traveling

This little product is a gem for travelers who need a lot of connectivity options for different devices. If you spend a lot of time in hotels you'll know that not all hotel WiFi are equal. Some hotels will not allow you to use a ChromeCast or AppleTV on their WiFi because it needs to go thru a sign-in page. Some hotels also limit the amount of devices you can connect per account/rooms. You just need to connect your computer via wireless or Ethernet cable to the router and then connect the router to the hotel's WiFi or Ethernet (if available in your room) and then go to the sign-in page to log-in. If you are going to use the hotel WiFi, you need to connect to the router first, then set it as a repeater and select the WiFi name you want to connect to. Once that's done, maybe your browser will trigger the hotel's log-in page, maybe it won't. No worries if it does not, you can manually trigger it yourself by going to this URL: www.msftconnecttest.com/redirect (save that in your favorites, it will always be useful as you can use it anytime you connect to a WiFi and the log-in webpage doesn't trigger). It's really that easy. Also, once you've connected to the internet for the first time with the router, go to the Upgrade section and upgrade the device's firmware as to avoid version 3.003 because it had a bug with auto-reconnect to WiFi if it disconnects for some reason. You don't need advanced knowledge of IT or networking to work the device as it is fairly simple. I'm enjoying it thoroughly and I'm sure you will too.

Great invention and implementation

Makes it easy to be secure in coffee shops and while traveling. Really does what it claims. It is easy to forget how insecure wifi can be. In fact, many people never change the router password, or update its firmware, let alone use a strong firewall or VPN. With this thing you can have just about the strongest possible security with ease. I built a router at home with a mini PC and OPNsense software. Everything at home is behind a strong firewall, and sent out a VPN. I can also VPN into my home network using two-factor authentication. With this thing, I have something very nearly as good, that automatically protects any wireless device that me or my family uses while traveling. If we have to pay for each connection, we just buy one for this device, and then am use it. We can easily vpn into our home network. That means we can use our home pihole to block all ads in every app and browser. We have web filtering for malicious sites, or child inappropriate sites. Very cool. All my work for that great home setup is now on the road with us.

Great!!!!

Works great as Repeater on the go and at home!!! Super compact and you can power it on just from your phone portable charger!!! I currently have it set up as Repeater for Xfinity Hotspot. I get 2 bands 2.4 and 5ghz from repeating just one 5ghz hotspot!!! it also has VPN feature, and I tested it.... works great!!!

Great travel router

I recently purchased this router to use at hotels during travel over the holidays. I have an OpenVPN setup running at my home and used this for secure tunneling from the hotel. Unit worked great in this role. The only real issue I ran into is I couldn't get it to page forward from the hotel signup page via bonjour so I could authenticate against the router MAC address. Instead I had to first connect to the hotel signup page, authenticate, then switch back to the router and have the router clone my laptop mac. It worked and was stable after that. It's entirely possible that I missed a setting or something to make this work smoother. A HUGE advantage to this router is 5G. By having dual-band capability you can connect to the hotel wifi using 2.4Ghz and your devices can connect to this router via 5GHz. Great improvement in speeds doing it this way. I also tested using it with a battery pack just in case that situation ever came up. I had a 6000MAh pack and it ran it for the better part of a day. Not a bad way to go. The one thing you have to remember to do is hit the reset button briefly after powering up. It doesn't just come up once you plug it in. All in all a nice little router for the price.

Powerful, compact, highly configurable, great for travel, can be configured to route through a VPN

Got one of these configured with a VPN for use when I travel so that I can use a USA based VPN. I have it configured in "router" mode with a Shadowsocks VPN that I have at home. I just plug it into the LAN port where I'm staying and connect all my devices to it. They all then get a VPN connection without any further setup. It comes preinstalled with OpenVPN and Wireguard but the OpenWRT package library has Shadowsocks packages. I plan to switch over to Wireguard once that's final. If your travel destination doesn't have a LAN port and only wireless access, you can also configure this device as a wireless repeater ("WISP" mode) but I haven't tested that yet. This device also uses a custom OpenWRT based firmware. I have a standard OpenWRT device at home and this device's menu seems more streamlined/simplified. Everything that I need seems to be available, however.

Excellent travel router!!!

This thing's freakin AWESOME! Works as advertised and then some, very customizable and secure. I'll say that the new firmware is a little buggy but otherwise everything else is totally solid such as the WiFi connection to the internet source as well as peripherals. The ONLY issue I've had is the physical switch button on the router, it only turned off the VPN and didn't turn it back ON however, I was able to work this issue out in the forums relatively quickly and now the switch works and the bug had been found. All in all I would recommend this router. It's totally worth getting if you want to be in control of your privacy and security. This thing is only going to get better and better.

Great little router

Great router easy to setup, easy to use, when my Samsung Galaxy S8 got firmware upgrade router stop recognizing phone as modem, contacted tech support they work with me diligently to recreate same issue on there side and promptly started working on fix, will fallow up with update ones issue resolved but tech support is excellent & I would recommend this product to any one... UPDATE As off 4/11/19... Support email new firmware upgrade and ones again tethering works like a charm with my Samsung Galaxy S8, my iPhone 7 Plus and with my iPhone 6S. Guys at support kept me in loop every step of the way till issue was resolved. Thank you for the outstanding work and fast resolution...

Fantastic portable router

I'm really putting this one to the test. I've had some other portable routers and sent most of them back (or they broke before I could). This one lets you use all 3 ports for LAN, which is great for control over two devices with my laptop plugged in. I use them for shows and performances, and I'm also surprised at how low power of a device it actually is. You can run it from almost any USB port. It's about the size of a Raspberry Pi and great for travel programming. I have it with me all of the time now. Plus the firmware is customizable and I'm always using the advanced menu to tweak various features on the router. I HIGHLY, recommend this if you are looking for one.

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