Beryl: The Next Generation of Travel Router

Ruby Lo
GL.iNet: Wi-Fi for Things
4 min readOct 21, 2020

Tuesday, Oct 20, 2020 by Ruby Lo

Beryl: The Next Generation of Travel Router

We’re happy to introduce Beryl (GL-MT1300), our new high-performance pocket-sized wireless router is “small enough for travel and powerful enough for home”. We designed and built Beryl with powerful hardware, modern design, and customizable features that can easily satisfy our users. If you’re looking for an all-round secure wireless router, you’ll want to add the Beryl to your travel bag.

Powerful Hardware with Impressive WiFi Speeds

GL.iNet Beryl Small and Powerful Travel Router

As the next generation of travel router, Beryl comes with a powerful CPU (MT7621A @880MHz) and 3 Gigabit Ethernet ports, providing you a faster and more stable WiFi & VPN connections. It also comes with a universal Type-C power supply, easy to use, and superior performance. USB-A 3.0 port offers you a faster transmission speed, which is 10 times faster than USB 2.0. You can also connect up to 40 WiFi clients with it simultaneously.

Beryl is a dual-band WiFi which offers fast WiFi speeds with up to 867Mbps(5GHz) + 400Mbps(2.4GHz), impressive for a pocket-sized WiFi router. Perfect for frequent travelers, students, home users, and technology enthusiasts.

Top-Notch Security Features

GL.iNet Beryl Security

We know our users value their online security and privacy, that’s why we designed Beryl with excellent security features in mind. Beryl is our first router that supports IPv6, the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IP), which was built from the ground up to be capable of end-to-end encryption, helping you to add an extra layer to your cybersecurity. It also supports WPA3 encryption, which is the next generation of WiFi security.

In addition, we collaborate with different software like Tor to conceal your online identity and browsing data. Software like Cloudflare helps to prevent eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS data via man-in-the-middle attacks. Your Internet security can also be strengthened by getting support on the latest DNS technologies from NextDNS.

Same as our other GL.iNet products, Beryl supports 30+ OpenVPN and WireGuard VPN services and offers impressive VPN speeds with 91Mbps on WireGuard and 21Mbps on OpenVPN respectively.

Pre-installed the Latest OpenWrt

Beryl is designed not only for travelers but also for technophiles that would love to have a router that is customizable for DIY IoT projects. Lucky for tech-lovers, Beryl uses the latest stable OpenWrt (19.07.4), an open-sourced operating system based on Linux. The root access is granted for users to fully customize and optimize the device. In this way, you can install different applications within Beryl to satisfy all your needs!

Modern & Unique Design

GL.iNet Beryl Small and Powerful Travel Router

Beryl comes in a sleek, trendy design with a distinctive dual-color LED light indicating the on/off device status. It also includes a switch button for VPN/Tor, very handy for you to switch between the two services. Beryl is also extremely pocket-friendly and lightweight (184g), perfect for travelers and small apartments.

We designed Beryl as a pocket-sized travel router with top-notch security features, however, Beryl is not only applicable for frequent travelers, its unique and distinctive features are also useful for small apartment users, students, and tech-lovers. So what’re you waiting for? Beryl is now available for pre-order! Just a few more clicks, and Beryl will be yours!

About GL.iNet

We are a leading developer of OpenWRT pre-installed wireless routers and world-class solution providers, offering quality services of smart cities, data privacy protection, and enterprise IoT. We partner with like-minded companies around the globe to provide phenomenal products and services. We aim to build a smarter lifestyle. For more information, visit gl-inet.com, or connect with GL.iNet on Facebook, Twitter, and GL.iNet’s Blog.

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