Processor | 400 MHz |
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RAM | 64 MB |
Wireless Type | 802.11bgn |
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GL.iNet GL-AR150 (White) Mini VPN Travel Router, Wi-Fi Converter, OpenWrt Pre-Installed, Repeater Bridge,Mobile Hotspot in Pocket,150Mbps Wireless High Performance, OpenVPN, WireGuard
Brand | GL.iNet |
Model Name | GL-AR150 |
Special Feature | WPS |
Wireless Communication Standard | 802.11bgn |
Compatible Devices | Laptop |
Frequency | 2.4 GHz |
Recommended Uses For Product | Home |
Connectivity Technology | Ethernet |
Color | White |
Item Weight | 40 Grams |
About this item
- 【WIRELESS MOBILE MINI TRAVEL ROUTER】 Convert a public network (wired/wireless) to a private Wi-Fi for secure surfing. Create a secure Wi-Fi hotspot quickly. Tethering, 3G/4G USB Modem Compatible. Powered by any laptop USB, power banks or 5V DC adapters (sold separately). 39g (1.41 Oz) only, portable and pocket-sized.
- 【OPEN SOURCE & PROGRAMMABLE】 OpenWrt/LEDE pre-installed, backed by software repository. DDWrt supported. USB disk extendable.
- 【VPN CLIENT & SERVER】 OpenVPN and WireGuard pre-installed, compatible with 30+ VPN service providers.
- 【LARGER STORAGE & EXTENSIBILITY】 64MB RAM, 16MB Flash ROM, dual Ethernet ports, UART and 2.54mm standard GPIOs available for hardware DIY.
- 【PACKAGE CONTENTS】 GL-AR150 (White) mini router (1-year Warranty), USB cable, Ethernet cable, User Manual.
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Founded in 2010, GL.iNet is a leading developer of OpenWrt Wi-Fi and IoT Network Solutions. We build Wi-Fi routers, IoT gateways and remote device management platforms for a wide range of scenarios.
We bring powerful but affordable Wi-Fi networks to families across the globe. Our devices are highly customizable for creating a personalized Internet experience, and a remote device management platform for monitoring, analytics, and configuration.
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How to setup the Router?
All of GL.iNet’s devices have a simple and almost identical setup process, click here to learn about the first time setup.
Please check the instruction from our Official Docs.
How does this vpn replace a vpn service? Is the pre-installed as secure as a paid vpn service?
The router can NOT replace the VPN service. You still need to pay the VPN service providers to get the VPN service.
Can it in repeater mode connect with a hotel wifi that uses a web page for access to it’s network?
Yes, you could connect to the public or hotels' WiFi.
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Value for money | 3.9 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 4.3 |
Easy to use | 3.8 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 4.5 |
WiFi signal | 3.8 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 2.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
For traveling | — | 4.4 | 4.3 | — | 4.5 | 4.4 |
Tech Support | 3.8 | — | — | — | 3.7 | 3.4 |
Sold By | — | GL Technologies | GL Technologies | GL Technologies | GL Technologies | GL Technologies |
connectivity tech | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet | Wi Fi | Wi-Fi, Ethernet, USB |
number of ports | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
data transfer rate | 150 GHz | 3000 megabits per second | 1300 megabits per second | 150 megabits per second | 1800 megabits per second | 1200 megabits per second |
wireless standard | 802 11 BGN | 802 11 AX | 802 11 AC, 802 11 B, 802 11 G, 802 11 N, 802 11 A | — | 802 11 AX | 802 11 AC |
frequency band class | — | dual band | dual band | single band | dual band | dual band |
lan port bandwidth | 10/100 (Fast Ethernet) | 10/100/1000 Mbps | — | 10/100/1000 Mbps | — | 10/100/1000 megabits per second |
Product Description
GL-AR150 by GL.iNet is your best choice for commercial IoT applications
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Technical Details
Brand | GL.iNet |
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Series | GL-AR150 |
Item model number | GL-AR150 |
Hardware Platform | OpenWrt Linux |
Operating System | OpenWrt |
Item Weight | 1.41 ounces |
Product Dimensions | 2.2 x 2.2 x 0.94 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 2.2 x 2.2 x 0.94 inches |
Color | White |
Processor Brand | Atheros |
Computer Memory Type | DDR2 SDRAM |
Flash Memory Size | 64 |
Power Source | AC Power Adapter |
Voltage | 5 Volts |
Manufacturer | GL Tech |
ASIN | B015CYDVG8 |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | September 1, 2015 |
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4.2 out of 5 stars |
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Best Sellers Rank | #42,009 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories) #1,398 in Computer Routers |
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Customers like the performance, quality and ease of use of the router. For example, they mention that it works fantastic, is easy to set up and use, and is good value for money. That said, some are satisfied with size, and power. That being said, opinions are mixed on connectivity.
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Customers like the performance of the networking router. For example, they say it works fantastic, is functional out of the box, and is able to perform most tasks. Customers also mention that it's a remarkable useful device in a tiny portable package.
"...Seems to be very functional out of the box for what it advertised...." Read more
"...The GUI interface is clean, the directions simple and the performance is very good...." Read more
"...to it but even loading the admin interface most of the time fails half way through. Tried three different computers...." Read more
"...Actually works great! I tether my iphone to it and get a great access point that has far more range than the iphone...." Read more
Customers like the ease of use of the networking router. For example, they mention it's easy to set up and use, works well as a developer, and has a web interface that makes it easy to connect. That said, some appreciate the breadth of options and the decent technical support. That being said, they say it'll connect all your devices easily.
"...it to connect a computer to NordVPN for streaming and the setup was extremely easy...." Read more
"...The GUI interface is clean, the directions simple and the performance is very good...." Read more
"...It does exactly as it says with minimal fuss. It is very easy to setup and setting up the VPN is easy as well...." Read more
"...The current manual has a long list of providers, but it does not provide a general explanation what to do if your provider is not on the list..." Read more
Customers like the quality of the router. They say it's a great device, and they like that it has VPN options. Customers also mention that it'll be a good product for DIY projects and portable hotspot functionality. Overall, customers are satisfied with the quality and functionality of the product.
"...floating point (which you don't need for this) and so it's tiny and lean. It only uses about 1 to 1.5 watts!..." Read more
"...do what was advertised - your all set... this appears to be a great travel router...." Read more
"...Still, this WiFi is VERY stable, and I was able to easily upgrade the software onboard...." Read more
"...I had so many issues at the Hotel, but I'm starting to think the unit is defective...." Read more
Customers like the value of the router. They mention it's a good inexpensive customized router, and a little travel router for the price. It's also good for playing with the openwrt features inexpensively, and can connect into a hotel wifi or ethernet and provide secure wifi connection.
"...Thank you Gli for such a powerful and inexpensive little router!" Read more
"...This tiny, inexpensive device can connect into a hotel wifi or ethernet and provide secure wifi connection to multiple devices...." Read more
"Remarkably useful device in a tiny portable package. Price is great for something this versatile...." Read more
"...It’s cheap for reason, not worth the risk." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the size of the networking router. Some mention it's very compact, easy to set up, and has great features. They say it fits the bill perfectly and is remarkably useful in a tiny portable package. Some say it'll fit in s shirt pocket.
"...hardware floating point (which you don't need for this) and so it's tiny and lean. It only uses about 1 to 1.5 watts!..." Read more
"...This tiny, inexpensive device can connect into a hotel wifi or ethernet and provide secure wifi connection to multiple devices...." Read more
"...Extremely small size and light weight easily fits in a laptop bag or backpack. I will never travel without one of these again." Read more
"Remarkably useful device in a tiny portable package. Price is great for something this versatile...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the power of the networking router. They mention that it is pretty powerful, uses minimal power, and is efficient. Some say that it's perfect for their needs and packs a punch.
"...This thing is pretty powerful, it's like what you might have had as your main computer in 2000 or so...." Read more
"...Thank you Gli for such a powerful and inexpensive little router!" Read more
"...Pretty efficient." Read more
"...This little unit is fantastic...very compact, very low power, runs dd-wrt..." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the software support provided by the OpenWRT community. They mention that the included software is very good, completely usable with the OEM software, and easy to upgrade onboard. The OpenWrt software is brilliant and free. They also say that updating the firmware is painless and excellent for open source development.
"...The GL.iNet team have done a fantastic job and the included software is excellent if that's what you're looking for...." Read more
"...It's completely usable with the OEM software, still has the package manager and the OpenWRT OS." Read more
"...Web browser access is clean and simple to use. Updating the firmware is painless, and because it uses OpenWRT, you have several thousand Linux apps..." Read more
"...The OpenWRT software is also brilliant - and FREE! ... which is part of the reason this highly capable wifi router is so inexpensive." Read more
Customers are mixed about the connectivity of the router. Some mention it's a great way to work around a network that prevents devices from talking to each other, and provides secure WiFi connection to multiple devices. However, others say that it makes it very difficult to connect reliably. They mention that it would connect, then drop the connection seconds later, and that it wouldn't connect to the iPhone via tethered connection.
"...It has a 400MHz, 32bit MIPS processor that is purpose built for routing network traffic...." Read more
"...Now I'm trying to use it for some testing and I can barely get connected with my computer...." Read more
"...It can repeat the open hotel network, even ones with a splash page that you have to "log into", and broadcast a private network for you to hook into...." Read more
"...Even though this was on campus, they were having a ton of difficulty getting the cameras connected to the school's public wifi...." Read more
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It's a $25 router/firewall and although it's only 100Mb, if your internet connection is less than that, (like most people) it's all you'll every need!
It's as fast as the network will let it go, see below for detailed test results. This thing keeps up with whatever you throw at it.
Now, if you're not a hacker and you just want an amazing travel router, you should buy this. The included software is very good. You'll be very pleased. There are slightly more expensive models, but there is no reason to get one if you're not planning to expand it. This one does it all.
The GL.iNet team have done a fantastic job and the included software is excellent if that's what you're looking for. They even answer the questions on the forums.
Now, HACKERS! Ok, this one will run the latest version of OpenWRT/LEDE with no special anything. Just load the firmware from the web interface and reboot and you're up in a clean, official install of openwrt / LEDE. There is another model with twice the ram, but you have to do some special hacking to get that one to load the main distro. (I bought four of those, so I'll be learning how!) This one just plain works. Once you flash it, it will default to 192.168.1.1, NOT 192.168.8.1, so the instructions on the label on the device will be wrong, so update them.
Note that you can use GL.iNet's included OpenWRT, and it's just fine. Might be a little out of date, and you can upgrade it from their site and it will do pretty much everything I'm going to describe below. WIth the main distro though, you have access to more packages and stuff. (If you're not a hacker, stick with GL.iNet's software! It's good!)
This device has TWO network interfaces, and they are both native hardware interfaces. Not vlans to switch ports like many routers, not USB devices like the Raspberry Pi (which I love, but it ain't quick) These two ports let this thing work as a fantastic router/gateway/firewall. It has a 400MHz, 32bit MIPS processor that is purpose built for routing network traffic. This thing is pretty powerful, it's like what you might have had as your main computer in 2000 or so. But, it doesn't have the graphics stuff, and it doesn't have hardware floating point (which you don't need for this) and so it's tiny and lean. It only uses about 1 to 1.5 watts!
I ran some tests with this thing. The built-in wireless access point is good. It's intended to work with only a few computers that are in the same room with it. It get's the job done. For what I'm doing, I'm using this as a firewall for an entire office. Yes that's right. I've done this kind of thing before so I know it's up to to it. For this purpose, I'm going to use a few access points for the wireless, so I'll be turning off the built-in wireless and just using this device as my firewall /router.
For the test, I installed the latest LEDE 17.04.1. The box rebooted and I was up. I connected the WAN port to my network switch with an IP on the main network. Then I plugged the LAN port into a small portable gigabit switch. I turned off the built-in wireless. I set the address of the LAN port, and enabled the DHCP server. I opened up a port on the WAN interface so I could get into the device from the WAN port, which you leave off by default, when you're not doing a test like this.
Now, I put a netbook with a 100Mb network port on the main network. The netbook is running Debian Stretch. This is going straight through a wire, the little box is NOT part of this test. I ran iPerf several times between the netbook and a server, in both directions. 94.3 to 94.5 Mb/sec was typical. This is JUST a wire, remember. So this is our baseline.
I plugged in two netbooks, each with a 100Mb interface, into the small switch. They're running Debian Stretch. I booted them, and now they're DHCP clients to the little GL.iNet box. They have a different subnet address than the main network. They're being IP Masqueraded by the little box now. That means it has to process every packet with network address translation, and maintain a conntrack table.
I run iperf from the netbooks to the servers, one by one. 93.6Mb/sec! Holy crap! I do some repeated iPerfs and I get 94.1 in the best test. That means this little sucker is doing pretty much wire speed.
Now, for the real test I run to iPerfs at once, one on each netbook to a different server. The total Mb/sec is the same as in a single test. And that is fantastic. Wow.
So now I set up some port forwards on my little router, so that the iPerf port on the netbooks is visible to the main network, where the servers are. I run iPerf in the other direction. This has to NAT in each direction. No difference.
Now, I have set up OpenWRT in the past to use two ISPs and do balancing and failover, which is something you have to pay a lot of money to get in a firewall router. To do this I will need another network interface. I would make it a second WAN interface in that case. So, I want to test a USB network dongle as my interface. I'll make it a second LAN interface for this test. (I know this sounds weak, but I have used a USB network dongle with openwrt in production in the past and it was rock solid for years.) I loaded the loaded the kmod-usb-net-asix package. Then, I plugged in a Belkin 100Mb USB 2.0 dongle. I went into network interfaces for LAN, and looked in the 'physical settings' tab. 'eth2' now is available. I didn't reboot or anything! I check the box to add it to the br-lan bridge along with the LAN interface. I unplug the little switch from the LAN interface and plug it into the USB dongle.
I didn't even lose the SSH connections into the netbooks! So now, on this interface, I run iPerf. Now, you see, this has to do a lot more processing on each packet, because it's a software driver that is running over the USB subsystem. So there is more overhead. Also, it's running over a software bridge. So this should be slower. I run the same test. 88.1 Mb/sec!!! That's amazing. This thing is amazing.
So, now I can have this unit be my internet gateway and router. I can use a USB dongle to be my second interface for WAN, and use the mwan3 package to do automatic failover so if my ISP goes down, my office just stays up.
If you install the package luci-app-qos it also installs the QoS subsystem with a nice interface. Tune this right and all your VOIP, Skype, and similar things can be given priority so they're nice and solid even on a busy network. No more dropouts and hanging connections.
There is even an internal serial port but I won't get into that.
Anyway, if you're looking for a great OpenWRT/LEDE box that will run it right out of the box flawlessly, this thing is what you want!
If you want a router and firewall, for 25 bucks you get something that does what other do that cost thousands. And it's only 1 watt and SILENT!
A note on Memory: This thing has 64Megs of memory. That is actually a lot for openwrt. It is actually using its ram as the root filesystem. It unzips everything into memory when it boots. So more RAM is really more space. But, I loaded all these packages and I still have 50% left. The memory needs of the networking are pretty constant, so it's not a problem at all in everyday use. If you want to do a lot of crazy hacker stuff, you might want more. But I'm fine with 64MB. (If you need more storage space you can plug a USB thumb drive in and move the root filesystem to it giving you tons of space and freeing up RAM, but that's a very advanced topic. See the OpenWRT pages for more info)
Biggest complaint is that sometimes when initially setting up the router to repeat a network it bugs out and you have to reset and restart the entire setup process. Sometimes you have to do it 2-3 times before it starts repeating properly and broadcasting the private network you set up.
There are two separate interfaces on the Router... a basic setup that will be fine for most users and an Advanced interface (you have to log in to it from the Basic interface) which lets you configure pretty much everything. The router runs LuCi on top of OpenWRT. It also includes OpenVPN which is why I bought it. I am using it to connect a computer to NordVPN for streaming and the setup was extremely easy. After looking at the OpenVPN documentation I was a little worried that the setup would be difficult but the router's basic interface took care of that. I simply Dragged and Dropped the zip file from NordVPN onto the box in the router interface (under the OpenVPN setup tab)... it loaded all the server configurations (over 1000 of them) and it asked for my VPN user/passwd. After it edited the files (about 2 min) I clicked Enable and it worked fine. Very pleased. Eventually I will SSH into the box and play around but there are so many advanced features in the UI most people will never need to get that far under the hood. I also expect to try the wireless but that isn't really what I bought it for. I think it would make a great little unobtrusive access point.
Thank you Gli for such a powerful and inexpensive little router!
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GL-AR150 is robust and haven't had any issues with it. Never had to power up/down to reset the router even though it's running a 3rd party firmware.
E se magari volete sapere se potete collegarci finalmente la vostra Smart tv Samsung che non è in grado di collegarsi autonomamente alle reti WOW-FI, anche in questo caso la risposta è SÌ.
Detto questo dovete sapere che la sua configurazione come extender di base è facile, ma dovete avere un minimo di conoscenze informatiche (potete usare l’interfaccia di configurazione base semplicemente seguendo le istruzioni). Se poi siete smanettoni vi potete divertire a modificare la configurazione utilizzando il sistema Linux OpenWrt tramite interfaccia LUCI o terminale. Io ad esempio mi sono scritto uno script per monitorare e ovviare alle disconnessioni cicliche che si verificano quando vi collegate ad una rete WOW-Fi dovute al lease-time dell’ip di 15 minuti imposto dal DHCP (chi usa la WOW-FI sa a cosa mi riferisco). Mi piacerebbe aiutarvi ulteriormente ma non è questo il canale adatto, trovate comunque molte guide e molti forum che parlano dell’argomento cercando su internet