[stenius]

How do you use this in practice?

Do you plug your phone in via USB-C and then use the WIFI off of that instead of the hotspot on your device?

Or do you go to hotels and use this to connect to their wifi and then use your own AP?

[theshrike79]

I have a cheapo Android phone I had laying around, used developer mode to make it always select tether instead of mass storage and I've got a (prepaid) data SIM in there.

When we travel the Beryl AX is our own hotspot, all devices can connect to its network. Then I just pick the best way to get the Beryl to the internet. Sometimes it's wired, sometimes it's connected to a WiFi, sometimes I need to plug in the phone and we use that.

And the best thing is that it can do failover, so I can have the hotel WiFi as the primary connection, but it'll fall back to the 4G phone connection if something goes wrong.

[firecall]

I used mine with the same SSID as my home network!

So when I travel I can either tether a phone and all the family devices just connect, or bridge it to the destination network and again let all the devices connect as if at home!

[ace2358]

So could you explain the process by which you ‘tether a phone’? Is that don’t by plugging the phone in via usb? Is it paired via Bluetooth? Do you wifi the phone to it and spread the internet like that? I think some of us are quite curious about the specifics on that point :)

Sounds great!

P.s. I love (and am horrified) at how easy it is to ‘hijack’ a devices wifi just by making a network with the same name (and no password). I’ve done it myself over the years to make it easier for family or friends while travelling. But I always felt a bit ick about it working.

[firecall]

Hi,

I tether via a cable.

Because it's my work (Dev/Tech/Nerd) I have multiple phones with SIM cards.

So I physically tether a phone to the device.

I don't believe the device OP linked can a bridged WiFi network as such.

You can do a similar thing with a Mac:

Plug in your iPhone via a cable, then share the iPhone's tethered data connection over the Macs WiFi or ethernet port.

It's actually a good way to get around restrictions on some mobile SIM plans that don't allow them to be used as Data SIMs!

[ThePowerOfFuet]

It shouldn't work if the security setup is different; if the home network is WPA2 then another open network with the same SSID should be ignored.

[sccxy]

I have small case with this router, ethernet cable and usb cable for phone.

So it really depends where I am, so I can choose between USB, ethernet or wifi.

But I think most use for me have been USB tethering in my home country (unlimited mobile data).

I just like how router does adblocking (Adguard Home DNS) and VPN with wireguard/tailscale.