Set SALE! Travel router we gave 5-stars gets its price slashed on Amazon
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One of our highest-rated routers is currently on sale on Amazon with a solid 25% off. The GL.iNet GL-AXT1800 Slate AX is top of the pack in our best travel routers, boasting seriously impressive design, functionality and excellent performance making it perfect for digital nomads, people traveling for business, and more.
Down from $149.90 to just $112.90, this could be one of the best times to pick it up and experience it for yourself, for less. Here’s a quick breakdown of what we loved about the router, and why it may just become your favorite travel companion.
GL.iNet GL-AXT1800(Slate AX) Portable Gigabit Travel Router
What stood out to us with this router
- Super compact – coming in at just 125 x 82 x 36mm, this can fit easily into even the smallest travel bags.
- Wifi 6 – gives you access to both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bandwidths
- IPv6 supported – which means you get OpenVPN & WireGuard pre-installed. It’s also compatible with over thirty VPN service providers too
- Low interference – runs on OpenWrt 21.02 with mass device connection capabilities alongside vastly reduced signal interference
- Repeater mode – you can use this to convert a public network to a private network, which means you’ll be able to use the internet with more security
- Budget friendly even at MSRP – we thought it was great value for money all things considering, with excellent build-quality
- Incredible signal strength – we were blown away with signal strength, downloads speeds, and latency
How it performed in our testing
You can see how it performed in our full review, but to summarise, we put it through its paces with signal strength, speed tests, and storage speed tests. The most notable highlights were that it performed much better than expected when it came to signal strength, only failing to connect at 90ft, and that its 5GHz topped out at 960Mbps in our test conditions. Overall, we gave it 5 stars and it earned our coveted ‘Outstanding’ badge.
Is it the best time to go for this deal?
Amazon Spring sales are heading our way, so you it may be worth holding out, however, there’s no guarantee that it’ll drop lower. According to camelcamelcamel, we can see that the all time low price looks to be around $92. That around $20 less than it is now. Based on this, and the general patterns, I think there could be a chance it’ll drop, but with no confirmation just yet of when the Spring Sales are kicking off – it may be worth pulling the trigger now, especially if you’re heading abroad.
GL.iNet GL-AXT1800(Slate AX) Portable Gigabit Travel Router
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