These tiny, inexpensive, unassuming, power efficient, little tiny boxes of joy are the single best routers I have ever used.
I've had MANY routers over the years. I've modified them and installed custom firmwares. I've had every type of router from cheap department store types, all they way to commercial units for critical fallback use. I've had home user routers from 10$ to over $300 dollars. THIS is the best router I have ever used. If you need to add wifi to your home, and all you want to do is connect it, set it up, and forget about it this is what you want. This router is the ONLY router I have ever used that has simply _NEVER_ needed to be rebooted. It is on 24/7 and just works! That's like, GODLY when it comes to routers. I got the highest end model with the 128MB of NAND added in, and was so impressed I bought two more in the form of these 16 MB Nor flash models. I reccomend these cheaper Nor flash ones unless you specifically need the extra space. I install the Easy Tether package and nothing else, so these 16 MB ones are perfect.

If you or anyone you know uses wifi at all, just get these. Get them as gifts even. Get them just to set on your desk and admire how a tiny little thing like this can do such a good job.

Now if you need a high speed LAN link to transfer terrabytes of data in short order, or other advanced tasks this may not be an ideal choice. For 98% of all wifi related tasks though, this is the one.

I am a computer building, newtwork mastering, IT tech who feels that the lack of constant babying require makes this router worth more than its weight in gold. Though it weighs almost nothing, still. You can set these up as access points for a hotel for example and never even have to think about them again. No climbing up into the crawl spaces to go reset the dang things. Honestly they are incredible for the price and beyond.

These little things are great. They have lots of features, but they do have performance limitations. With OpenVPN, you're not going to get 10Mbps with 256 encryption. More like 8Mbps. I've read that other protocols fair better.

They will load balance, and do failover almost seamlessly, as long as the session running isn't using the connection you pull. But it fails over in less than a second. Practically instant. From what I've read, only WAN bonding can sustain a break in a connection like that. I have no problems gaming with load balancing enabled.

I have a Unite Explore tethered over USB (configured as pass through) with a Netgear Nighthawk M1 over ethernet, both with external Netgear MIMO antennas. For some reason, load balancing didn't want to work by default, I had to edit some settings, and then reboot it a few times to get them to stick. I'm using USB + Wan for load balancing, and I wasn't even sure that would work. I couldn't find anyone else on the forums that was trying to do that.

Yes, I use this for home internet. It recognized my AT&T Unite Explore immediately with almost no configuration, and gave me 40Mbps+ down and 30Mbps up under ideal tower conditions. My phone is a tad faster, but hotspots have less priority than phones/tablets. The forums say they push ~90Mbps over the Wan/Lan interface over ethernet, so I wouldn't think this would be a bottleneck for LTE use.

Load balancing does make surfing *feel* faster, and other people using the internet do not noticeably affect me. Multiple videos in multiple tabs load noticeably faster. Downloads are faster only when you have multiples or are using a download manager. Uploads are faster, more consistent in speed, and this makes all browsing peppier. Latency is marginally improved (~5ms).

WIFI penetration is acceptable inside a log cabin with a huge stone fireplace. Not great, but at this price, that's not a con. I will upgrade the antennas soon.

I've had to reboot it a few times over a couple of days span a few months back. I changed out my charger/PS to something rated for over 2A at 5V. No problems since. It powers my Unite Explore over USB, so maybe this was a factor in the original power supply with my WIFI output maxed out in the settings. I think I also had the WIFI on and range maxed out on the UE at that time. I was still experimenting.

I've also noticed with a USB port voltmeter that not all cables will push over 1.5A, so make sure your cables aren't 1)cheap or 2)going out. I had a cable that tested perfect, and weeks later the wife said it wasn't fast charging on the QC 3.0 charger. I tested it, and it was not. Changed cables, and her phone was quick charging immediately. I can see how this would cause reliability problems with a travel router, as cables get twisted, stretched, and kinked constantly.

So,in summary, for nearly 6 months, hardly any reboots have been necessary, and none since the larger power supply and cable check. More reliable than any other router I've had that cost less than $100, while pushing more data than I pushed through any of them in a month, and using load balancing on top of all of that, over LTE as well, spanned over USB/Ethernet interfaces. I have two desktops, 3 phones, 1 tablet, a Fire Stick that sees lots of use, and both desktops game often. All use VPN more often than not. I do not do much data transfer over the LAN side of things, so that might show it's lack of CPU. I've had 15 devices connected for a week at a time, and no issues. Most were phones, though.

I use VyperVPN from the desktops and tablet, and they stay connected for several days at a time. I got the router to connect to VyperVPN, but as I said earlier, it was relatively poor performance at 256 bit encryption with OpenVPN. VyperVPN wasn't exactly plug and play like other services.

However, we all know that the processor isn't a beast. This is low power. For what it costs, for its size, it has amazing functionality, and in context, reliability. OpenWRT allows this to be very, very flexible if you're tech oriented.

I have yet to use the USB for anything but tethering and testing the webcam functionality, so I can't comment on its proficiency as a baby NAS or print server. My printer is ethernet.

Overall, this is a great value, and I can see it capable of many different uses. I'll probably buy a few more and see what the Mesh performance is like. Pittsburgh Mesh uses an older version of these with great success.

This was instrumental, along with Easytether Pro and ExpressVPN (using openVPN on the router), in getting me internet access in the middle of nowhere.

However, if you don't have a source of internet already, getting it running isn't for the technically inept. I had to use SSH and Putty to install the Easytether drivers to the router in a somewhat convoluted process (it was fairly well described on the GLi site, but was a bit tough due to not having internet directly on the router first).

However, once it was done, it has worked flawlessly. Coverage is remarkable for such a small device. I have placed it centrally in my place and get -80db SNR for 30 feet indoors in all directions.

This little box is amazing. It does exactly what it claims to, and it's super reliable at it. It easily blows away the Hootoo Tripmate Titan I bought which claims to perform the same tasks but is instead nothing but a useless brick sitting on my desk.

First reason why this device rocks? It worked right out of the box. I powered it on, connected to it, accessed its config panel with a browser, and I was up and running sharing a public WiFi in no time at all.

Second reason why it rocks? The firmware update happened ON THE DEVICE ITSELF!!! I was able to check for a firmware update using the control panel, the file downloaded TO THE DEVICE, and then the device UPDATED ITSELF!!! No annoying external storage with a file that I needed to download on another computer... ugh. The Hootoo Travelmate was a horrific nightmare in this regard, and I still have yet to successfully update its firmware.

Third reason of greatness: the range is amazing. For such a tiny, lightweight product, this thing packs a lot of power. It receives WiFi signals very well, and it transmits them just as well. I did get the model with external antennas because I'm more concerned with range than speed.

4th reason of awesomeness: DD-WRT. This is a mature and complete system for managing this device's features. There's a ton of available add-ons for any and all functionality you could ever imagine.

The only thing I'd like to see added is an SD card slot. Seems to me like there's plenty of room for one in the housing, and it could be infinitely useful. There's a USB port for attaching external storage, but an SD card slot would be even more useful because it would keep everything compact and simple. Oh well, for the price, I can hardly complain.

The Hootoo Travelmate Titan does offer an internal battery at the same price point which is useful, but not necessary for my needs. I just needed something that worked, and the Hootoo failed miserably on that front, so it's getting the boot in favor of this GL.iNet device.

Great little device. This is much more flexible and full-featured than I expected. I am using it as a home router but will take it when traveling too. I have it set up with both a cable modem (Comcast via WAN cable) and wireless modem (tethered ATT Mobley device via usb), and can still add a WiFi sources via WISP. I then have the LAN port wired to a network switch in my rack for my desk-side computers and VOIP phone; other devices throughout the house connected through the WiFi broadcast of this device (including media-streaming devices in the living room). It handles all this fine. I can pull the WAN cord from the router and the movie in the living room just keeps running switching to the 4G modem automatically - slick redundant broadband !