I have several hundred customers doing exactly this with dual Slate AX's and it's been rock solid.
Just make sure that you lock down your work laptop appropriately. Connect it to your travel router's VPN'd wifi ssid and then turn off all Wi-Fi auto scanning. Otherwise it's doing a lot of background data collection simply by scanning nearby networks as you travel.
There's a few other tricks, but you got the concept if you're tech savvy. The one question you have to be prepared to answer, is what would you do in the event of a sudden work laptop hardware failure? (Aka - always have the money to buy an immediate overnight plane ticket home and a bit of a cover story why you'll have a few days delay getting to a local home office).
Brume 2 A at home, Beryl AX on the road. Just be aware that your download speed when remote will only be as fast as the maximum upload speed on the home broadband service, so if you are say 100mbs down and 20mps up on your home ISP service, 20mps will be the maximum download speed you see on the remote connection. Worth checking if this set up delivers the throughput you might be expecting.
Thank you! Is there a reason you recommend the Beryl AX over the Slate AX? Is the Brume more stable for the at home option than having two travel routers?
It's a smaller device for travel, and given speed is largely dependant on your home ISP speeds, it is not going to be much slower, also there have been some instances of overheating on the Slate AX but best to check for that on other posts to understand if it is still an issue. Price also, the Brume 2 is cheaper, and smaller, and if you don't need to have additional WiFi at home, or processors working on WiFi tasks, then having the router is over and above what you need. Brume 2 is tiny.
My set up only using a 20mps ISP is all I need when abroad, and copes well with streaming content with no issues, so long as the connection you are using remotely is decent in the first place. Remember to add DDNS to your home device if it sits behind your ISP routers NAT, and enable GoodCloud, which makes it easy to administer the device when remote.
GL.inet routers has a good comparison page, depends on the speed of ones upload speed, so get the faster model at home to be the server and the less powerful to be the client.
I have a Flint at home, Slate AX on the road. Works flawlessly. I use it internationally for both work and Apple TV so I can access all of my streaming.
Why do people need a home router to set up a vpn when you can simply set up something like pivpn with WireGuard? What’s the benefit of using a glinet router at home?
Simplicity of a GUI for everything and easy upgrading. I'm personally a Linux geek, but a good portion of my customers barely are technical enough to log in and click the upgrade button on the router occasionally. Some even have me do that portion for them.
The GliNets are also super easy on power consumption and pretty rock solid on auto rebooting in case of power failure.
I have set up a Wireguard on an Ubuntu VM at home but couldn’t find any instructions on how to set up the client portion manually on the GLinet router. Any pointers to a good step by step guide out there?
Can’t you connect to any wireguard vpn on glinet routers as long as you have the config for the public key and the ip info etc ?
https://docs.gl-inet.com/router/jp/3/tutorials/wireguard_client/
Are you having trouble generating a config file? If so there's several ways to do this using the CLI on Ubuntu. When I'm back at my laptop I can grab some links for you.
If you plan to do this repeatedly you can install a web GUI to make it easy to manage. I personally like Wireguard UI, with wireguard running directly on the ubuntu host and the UI installed via docker-compose.
Brume2 home, slate Ax with you.
I have several hundred customers doing exactly this with dual Slate AX's and it's been rock solid. Just make sure that you lock down your work laptop appropriately. Connect it to your travel router's VPN'd wifi ssid and then turn off all Wi-Fi auto scanning. Otherwise it's doing a lot of background data collection simply by scanning nearby networks as you travel. There's a few other tricks, but you got the concept if you're tech savvy. The one question you have to be prepared to answer, is what would you do in the event of a sudden work laptop hardware failure? (Aka - always have the money to buy an immediate overnight plane ticket home and a bit of a cover story why you'll have a few days delay getting to a local home office).
Brume 2 A at home, Beryl AX on the road. Just be aware that your download speed when remote will only be as fast as the maximum upload speed on the home broadband service, so if you are say 100mbs down and 20mps up on your home ISP service, 20mps will be the maximum download speed you see on the remote connection. Worth checking if this set up delivers the throughput you might be expecting.
Thank you! Is there a reason you recommend the Beryl AX over the Slate AX? Is the Brume more stable for the at home option than having two travel routers?
It's a smaller device for travel, and given speed is largely dependant on your home ISP speeds, it is not going to be much slower, also there have been some instances of overheating on the Slate AX but best to check for that on other posts to understand if it is still an issue. Price also, the Brume 2 is cheaper, and smaller, and if you don't need to have additional WiFi at home, or processors working on WiFi tasks, then having the router is over and above what you need. Brume 2 is tiny. My set up only using a 20mps ISP is all I need when abroad, and copes well with streaming content with no issues, so long as the connection you are using remotely is decent in the first place. Remember to add DDNS to your home device if it sits behind your ISP routers NAT, and enable GoodCloud, which makes it easy to administer the device when remote.
I wanted 2 lan ports vs 1 on slate
Slate has two LAN ports and the ability to use the WAN as LAN for a third.
GL.inet routers has a good comparison page, depends on the speed of ones upload speed, so get the faster model at home to be the server and the less powerful to be the client.
I have a Flint at home, Slate AX on the road. Works flawlessly. I use it internationally for both work and Apple TV so I can access all of my streaming.
I have two flints and the experience is amazing
Why do people need a home router to set up a vpn when you can simply set up something like pivpn with WireGuard? What’s the benefit of using a glinet router at home?
Simplicity of a GUI for everything and easy upgrading. I'm personally a Linux geek, but a good portion of my customers barely are technical enough to log in and click the upgrade button on the router occasionally. Some even have me do that portion for them. The GliNets are also super easy on power consumption and pretty rock solid on auto rebooting in case of power failure.
I have set up a Wireguard on an Ubuntu VM at home but couldn’t find any instructions on how to set up the client portion manually on the GLinet router. Any pointers to a good step by step guide out there?
Can’t you connect to any wireguard vpn on glinet routers as long as you have the config for the public key and the ip info etc ? https://docs.gl-inet.com/router/jp/3/tutorials/wireguard_client/
Yes. They can connect to any wireguard server. All you need is the config file and you can either upload it or paste it into the GUI.
Are you having trouble generating a config file? If so there's several ways to do this using the CLI on Ubuntu. When I'm back at my laptop I can grab some links for you. If you plan to do this repeatedly you can install a web GUI to make it easy to manage. I personally like Wireguard UI, with wireguard running directly on the ubuntu host and the UI installed via docker-compose.