Set-up Travel Router

[Essence_of_War]

I'm going to be doing a bunch of travel in the next few months, and I thought that a not-too-expensive travel router might be nice for use in those dodgy hotel wi-fi scenarios.

I mostly have a smartphone (htc 8x) and an ipad2 with my when I travel.

If I picked up the:
http://www.microcenter.com/product/379215/TL-WR700N_Wireless_N_Mini_Pocket_Router
would I be able to set it up with my home desktop, and then just pop it in and use it in hotels with ethernet?

I was thinking about an apple airport express because I know those can be configured with my ipad if need be, but even the refurbished ones are about 3x more expensive. :hmm:

 

[kevnich2]

Here's what I'd say to go with: http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Porta...=travel+router

 

[JoeMcJoe]

I have this one.
http://www.zyxel.com/us/en/products_services/mwr102.shtml?t=p

 

[avos]

As someone that has had to deal with setting up hotel wifi solutions I'd request that you make sure to find a device that works on the 5ghz range. There is hardly enough bandwidth spectrum in the 2.4ghz range to go around and I usually set up a monitor AP to ban rogue AP's in scenarios such as hotels when I notice interference getting out of control from too many personal AP points.

 

[JoeMcJoe]

Most hotels I stay in have very poor wifi, their APs poorly setup, they don't stick to the 1-6-11 channels.
They have them overlapping everywhere, it very clear that most aren't installed correctly.

A lot have multiple SSIDs, overlapping everywhere.

So when a hotel has an Ethernet port in the room, it makes internet access usable.
I haven't seen one of these small travel routers having 5Ghz..?

 

[Essence_of_War]

Hmmm...good thoughts. The combined criteria of 5 GHz support and smallness/portability makes me think that an Airport Express might be optimal.

Thanks for the feedback!