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thank you for mentioning this. GL.iNet's mobile router didn't show up in my searches and it instantly blows my top contenders out of the water.
No problem! They’ve got quite a few of them, so hopefully something there works.
i wish they that they were american based or at least european or japanese; the money I've ended up flushing down the toilet on chinese mobile devices taught me the hard way that american carriers eventually ban them using technical excuses so counterfactual that the pretext is obvious to anyone who knows the tech.
still, though, i'm highly tempted considering that it both costs less than the nighthawk m7 and has WAY MORE features/capabilities, so i should still get atleast 3-5 years of use out it before it too gets blocked by at&t or t-mobile.
I've had one of GL.inet's routers for over a year now and I'm really happy with it. I surprisingly did not have my ISP barking at me when I replaced my old one with it, which was a relief. I don't use a mobile carrier for my home internet though, so I don't know if they're more picky about what you use.
no one knows how picky they're going to be 5-ish years from now because the borders of our self-imposed & AI-driven panopticon are going to be in a state of flux for at least another decade.
did your device come with openwrt?
I hear you about the panopticon - I figured getting a Gl.iNet router is some protection, as I know what's running on it and I can keep all my network traffic behind a VPN with a killswitch. Of course, they could try to make those illegal down the road. Who knows.
GL.iNet's devices come with their own fork of OpenWRT pre-installed. The UI is easy to navigate and it does everything I need it to, so I haven't felt any need to install OpenWRT proper, but if you want to, I believe you can easily find instructions to do so online.