I didn’t know I needed this - GL.iNet Beryl AX

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cute little router. I mean, oh my gosh, it's so small and that's for good reason. Man, this could literally be pocket size. It is a travel router. and that's not something I ever thought I would need or even looked to see if it existed, but now that I'm looking at it it makes sense, okay, I mean let's do the pocket test, it fits pretty well in the pocket. I don't

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if I would recommend putting it in your pocket.

Static electricity exists, but it fits and I think we are getting a little ahead of ourselves. Let's look at the rest of the box before we look. We have one thing to start with that is helpful. Wi-Fi routers can be a little tricky because sometimes we have the little power brick. This thing has very little power. What is it? 5 volts, 3 amps, so 15 watt power brick, but the box itself maxes out at 8 watts, it even comes with all the little power adapters that usually feel like a cop-out when you get them all, it's like they just made one for everyone. the different countries, well this actually makes sense if what you want to have is a travel router while I travel.

I need that one or that one. I mean, today we'll only need this one. There's even more flexibility than that, too. just a normal USBC power brick, you only need a USB brick that can output 5 volts and 3 amps, which most of them should be able to do in the box itself, although we do have two Ethernet ports, a 2.5 gig Wan and a LAN from As I understand it, you can change them a little. We have a USB 3.0 port for storage sharing, which means you can plug an external hard drive into this thing and use it to stream as an SMB share if you have a ton of photos. or let's say you're traveling and editing videos in your hotel room, you can connect your external drive to this thing and then edit over Ethernet or Wi-Fi if you want, what else do we have?

That's it, there's not much. I don't

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if I'm supposed to open it, that looks like a place you could open it. I think we will see it later, on the sides are the Wi-Fi antennas, it is compatible with Wi-Fi 6, so it is dual. 2.4 and 5 gigahertz band, supports DFS channels if you are in a congested area or even if I mean you could buy one of these small ones for an apartment if you want, you have DFS channels in a small apartment that use channels that are normally populated by radar and stuff like that, you can use those channels to have less congestion, but man, it's so small I can see the little fan there, you can see it.

I was looking at the manual because I wanted to know what the switch is. The switch does it and I realized, look at this, they have full board jacks, who does this, like it's really cool, they have it laid out with all the different antennas, they have the USB, it looks like there are some terminals in here that you can label . On Power it's not something you normally see if you buy a Wi-Fi router, they won't show you photos of the circuit board inside it, so that's cool. I guess at this point we should plug it in and give it a try. okay, oh the little dot on the front has a little light on it, look at that status indicator, cool, it's nice that it comes with an ethernet cable, especially as a travel product, a very small ethernet cable flat pack like this one.

Kind of perfect, it would be great if there was a way to store this Ethernet cable inside the thing, but I guess you could just wrap it up or throw it in your bag. Whatever. I don't have an external hard drive, but I do have this little flash drive, so That's going to be our stance, yeah, and now we're pretty much completely connected. I just have to get a USBC to Ethernet because I have a Macbook and we all know how that goes before Hardware. I want to connect to Wi. -Fi and see how it works, oh, interesting, by default there is a 5G network and, well, it doesn't say which one this is.

I don't know if this is a combo and then there's a separate 5G network or if it's 2.4 and 5. I'm going to assume it's a 2.4 and 5 gig network, which I normally prefer. Yes, there is the SSID and there is a key. It's good, the default password is not like a password. I mean, companies haven't done that in a long time. time, but the password is printed on the bottom, okay, we're connected, oh boy, the Upstream on this little travel router is a one gig full fiber connection and I'm on my phone, I haven't set anything up, um , I do not do it.

I don't know what the default settings are. I haven't even opened the admin page, but let's do a little speed test for fun, damn boy, to get down that crunchy 800. I expected a little router like this to struggle a little, but it dropped 750. 650 up over Wi -Fi in something so small is great. I mean, maybe I'll go here. Can you still see me? I'll have to shout, so I'm probably 13 feet away, let's say 600 down. 650. Well, now I'm probably 30 feet away, we have a bunch of quilts and clothes and metal and since I'm going to stand, I'm going to stand behind the wall here, this is a much more complicated circumstance.

Not bad, still going up 500 down, load is a little lower, we're looking like high 300 pretty good, now we can get into a little more fun stuff. I want to show you the web dashboard for this because it may not. whatever you expect, it's not what you know, like a well known gaming router where they have a fancy web panel, it just opens which is actually very good for the uninitiated. open wrt is an open source network routing operating system based on linux so i mean. In theory this should be supported for a long time even if GLI net stopped producing firmware for it.

I'm sure you could get the open source wrt version and just install it, it looks like they've made some customizations. to that, um, we have this cool diagram up here, does this have multi-wan? Let's look at the multi-wan repeater, oh cool, how can you, oh interesting, actually, can you use this as a Wi-Fi repeater and be connected to Ethernet at the same time? time and connection oh wow, you can totally, okay, cellular, you can plug in a USB cellular modem and use it as your Wi-Fi, that's cool. I want to try the repeater, hey, look at that, okay, let's try it, look at that, it's pretty.

Great, we are connected to lmg5 and Ethernet. Let's try failover because that's how I'm set up right now. My laptop is just connected to this ethernet cable. Wi-Fi is off. This little guy is connected to that gigabytes of fiber. link and then our office Wi-Fi, so if I disconnected the one gig fiber box it detected right away, I

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't even give out a single ping, that's pretty good. I mean sometimes a failover like this can take a while while my pain increases a bit but that's what I mean, I'm on Wi-Fi so that makes sense right now and if I I reconnect to Ethernet, the ping should remain fairly constant.

Okay, I missed a ping when switching back to Ethernet, but that's totally reasonable. I don't know if I would need this, but I'm sure there are people who would. I mean I can definitely see this failover being used with a cellular Puck, maybe if you had like Starlink because you're in the desert and then you had a second satellite connection or if you had a starlink and cellular or if you had you're in a convention and they have Wi-Fi but it kind of sucks and then you also have cell phone but it kind of sucks because there are so many people, well why not use both?

It's great that the web interface updates almost immediately. I mean, it realized that Ethernet had been connected and it's requesting a DHCP address, immediately, let's see if I turn on Wi-Fi. -Fi off, okay, I disabled Wi-Fi, I

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't drop any packets either, very good, oh, we also have our cable now, so let's try to connect too, why not? When was the last time someone connected with a cable? I forgot it was like that. even a connect option oh look that showed up in E2 iOS no way that's cool disconnect the ethernet okay, I lost a ping and now we're using The Cellular Connection from my phone over USB.

I'm sure all the open people on wrt the comments are like that, it sounds normal and easy again, open sense, it takes so long, it takes like 10 seconds for you to realize it. I guess by default it's because we have it configured, it wants to lose 100 packets and there's a period where it tests. and that's probably part of why, but it works surprisingly well on Wi-Fi settings, it's pretty standard. Subject, you can change the name, you can change the security type, it supports wpa3 which is great, you can change your SS ID if it is as shown, you can change the modes that are available, you can change the channel with the channel, you can enable a guest Wi-Fi name if you want, we have a list of clients here, we can see that network acceleration is enabled, client speed or abnormal client speed.

Limit does not work Network acceleration reduces CPU load and speeds up forwarding of traffic packets, but it may conflict with some functions, this is hardware acceleration, yes, it says right there. Hardware acceleration, that makes sense. Okay, these speeds and traffics may not be accurate because when you enable hardware Speed ​​things like that become a little harder to have, but I can see all the devices. I can see their IP addresses and, in theory, speed. What else do we have here? Application Plugins. Plugins appear to be the standard open WRT package manager. We have dynamic DNS which can be useful.

Good cloud verification through real-time statistics. Router configuration. that are traveling, take them with them and then you can monitor and manage them remotely with a service hosted by them, which is great, we have network storage, okay, this one we can try. I have a USB stick. File Services, let's activate Samba, which is like the Linux version of SMB. Oh, this is a Windows installation disk, so it might be a little complicated, but let's say boot is going to be the folder you need to set up a user in if you go. to have network storage available on your network, I'm doing it like this to make it easier for me to connect as a guest, hey look, on Guard Home there is software for network-wide ad blocking, yeah, okay, I can enable it , and? now i have ad blocking it's really that easy obviously as content creators we would love for you to not use ad blocking as it pays the bills but in theory now i'm blocking ads look at that blocked by 144 filters .Great, it's working. it was easy if you like that there you go I could forgive you for using Adblock on LTT if you were subscribed to flowplane we have parental controls you can add profiles for each device it seems like oh yeah I don't have any kids with me at the moment apart from me oh it has zero tier built in this wasn't in the notes and queue scale Zero tier and queue scale are peer to peer VPNs that are great so you can attach this to your zero tier or queue network like this, it's great firewall, it's pretty standard, you can forward if you want, we have the multi-wan we talked about before on the ground side, we can edit the IP address of the router, it's a little strange that it's just the medium. digits, and okay, you click on Advanced, you can change this to whatever you want, you can configure your DNS servers, create your own private network, you can put it in hotspot mode, where this is literally just a Wi-Fi box and the WAN would be like an input from a router, I imagine that's a pretty common use case, you can configure it to be a Wi-Fi extender or a Wi-Fi extender in WDS mode.

Hey, there's a nice little stats page, we're almost all using it. of our half a gigabyte of RAM, although most of it is effective at the moment, you can see our storage, we have 154 megabytes left in internal storage, there is a firmware updater, oh, you can turn off the LED if you don't want it. You can turn off the Wi-Fi on a schedule if you don't want, you can change your time zone, let's sync it, yeah, I don't want UTC, I want America Vancouver, perfect the toggle button, ah, it's configurable, that's why they don't do it. say what it does, you can set it to turn on and off home ad protection, you can set it to turn on and off your openvpn, Tor or wireguard, which actually brings me to a very good point about who it's made for and one of the use cases I could definitely see is this being a VPN client, so let's say you're traveling with a coworker or even alone, you can set this up as an open VPN or cable protection client for your VPN Worx and then when you connect to it, it's like you're in the office, it takes you to that VPN network and you can access anything that you would normally access on your VPN without having to run it on your laptop or on your phone or if If you have some other device that is not easily configurable, you can put it there and you don't have to do any configuration, it just turns on immediately and you saywell, now I want to log out of my work network, I press my switch and Bam.

I'm off the work network and it's not even just a work VPN that you can use, let's say, as a kind of more privacy VPN, like, you know, like nordvpn or Pia, where you're just using that to obfuscate your address IP. we can run it for you over and over again, so you don't have to configure it on the individual devices, so why don't we try connecting to one of these? Now we are connected to a remote Wireguard server, this IP that you are not going to be able to see is correct for that server if we run a speed test, obviously this is going to be much slower than the maximum speed of this gain because we run a VPN and handling that encryption requires a lot of processing power to do that right now we are getting a download speed of 150 megabits and We will see our upload around 150 and they also qualify on their website for Wireger they can do a max of 300 and open DP to a maximum of 150.

I haven't tested that Wireguard VPN with any other clients so I don't know if that's the limitation here on their website, they say they can do around 300 through Wireguard. We're getting about half of that, but they say it's a maximum rated speed, so it really depends on the setup and your mileage definitely. vary man, there are actually a lot of settings here, you can set it to only use the VPN for certain domains, you can set it to use the VPN only on certain devices or on certain VLANs, it's cool, I don't know what else is there What I want to say This is because it's cute and small, it fits in your pocket, it has a lot of cool features like multi-wan and failover and it seems to work pretty well and it's not very expensive, right now it has 119 on its website and if you use our code of coupon, which will be here and also in the description, you can get a discount if you choose one of these things that I could put in my pocket and go, but not before telling you to subscribe and like this video and see more. short circuit