GL.iNet Beryl 7 review: This Wi-Fi 7 travel router saved my holiday connecting 5 iPads, a laptop, and a couple of phones

TechRadar Verdict

The GL.iNet Beryl 7 is a great travel router when it comes to portability, weight, features, and price. It’s not the best of the best, not even the best that GL.iNet offers, but it is a great setup for the class that it is in.

Pros

• +VPN with up to 1,100 Mbps speed
• +Dual 2.5GbE
• +Can be powered via your phone charger (USB-C)
• +Only 205g
• +Great price
• +Foldable antennas

Cons

• -No 320MHz channel
• -No display for setting tweaks
• -Plastic can feel cheap
• -USB transfer is only up to 70Mbps

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The GL.iNet Beryl 7 is a travel router that is designed for those on the go who still need control over their networking.

Especially today, it feels like people are more aware of their networking than ever. There's fear over what people are able to see. There's fear of what other people can see of your own data, and there are people trying to take control of their own connections. That's one very real use case for the Beryl 7.

Alternatively, another use case that is possibly more common, or at least more widespread, would be that a lot of people travel with an abundance of gadgets these days. It used to be that people would have their phones, and that would be about the only thing they would connect to Wi-Fi, then maybe a laptop, then maybe an iPad.

Now the average family, to my understanding, travels with several tablets, laptops, phones, and oodles of other internet-connected devices, or perhaps that's just my family when we travel.

Regardless of which camp you're in, having a parallel router can actually prove to be incredibly helpful. Personally, I have seen some people use it as a way to connect to a VPN easily and with whatever device they have with them. I've seen some people use it as a way to be able to only have to connect to a guest Wi-Fi once and then extend that network to all of their devices.

I personally have used it in the sense of, when traveling, not having to disconnect and reconnect our devices at every stop that we make. Instead, I can connect just once and then keep all the kids' iPads and devices, as well as my own, on a known and already saved network, just simply for ease of setup.

I've also seen people use it as a way to turn Wi-Fi networks into a wired network and vice versa. All around, a little device like the Beryl 7 turns into a Swiss Army knife of networking capabilities.

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