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Re: [LUG] Portable routers

 

On 21/03/18 10:00, Simon Avery wrote:

> They had a very short lived niche. Then smart phones started including
> functionality to act as a portable hotspot which does everything these
> do and you're already carrying it.
> 
> There may still be some very specific use cases where they are desirable
> without a smart phone attached, but for most folk, not so much.
> Certainly my phone works just fine to hotspot for my laptop when I'm
> away from home.

Weirdly they're still really popular in Japan for some reason and
tourists can rent them everywhere:

https://www.japan-rail-pass.co.uk/services/pocket-wifi

Like everyone else I just use my phone of course - has the added
advantage of letting me run the adhoc hotspot network through a VPN as well.

Cheers
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