Travel Routers

Hotel Wi-Fi is a gamble. I’ve been on business trips where the “premium internet” barely loaded email, and cruises where one login token worked on my laptop but locked out my Chromecast entirely. After testing 12 travel routers for hotels over the past three months across 23 hotel stays, two cruise ships, and a handful […]

I learned this the hard way at a hotel in Lisbon two years ago. I fired up my laptop at the lobby Wi-Fi to wire some money home before realizing the captive portal was logging every site I visited. That’s when I started carrying a portable VPN router everywhere, and the difference has been night