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Re: [LUG] Portable routers
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- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:27:11 +0000
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- Thread-topic: [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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