Small AP for travel?

RumorConsumer
Head in the Cloud

Small AP for travel?

I am in a period where I’m traveling quite a bit with a small group of people. We find ourselves in circumstances and properties where our hosts have hired somebody to do the WiFi and sometimes it’s decent and sometimes it’s god awful. I am curious to know if there is a lightweight relatively compact product you’d all recommend if i just wanted to plug in my own AP to a LAN port on the hosts router and never have to even screw with their cheap WiFi implantation/chipset. I was thinking a last gen Apple Airport Express might do but then thought to ask you guys what you’d use. Does not have to be a router, just an AP.

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Hi Rumor.

I think you are looking for a MR30h; it seems to be ok for your purpose (https://meraki.cisco.com/product/wi-fi/indoor-access-points/mr30h/)

One time I have used a mx64w with SIM to be indipendent.

Regards,

 

Nash
Kind of a big deal

Hey @Uberseehandel do you still travel with that Z3? I know you were doing it more to avoid an issue between a non-Meraki security appliance and the client VPN, but that's got wifi and a few ethernet ports.

 

Won't fix problems with your host's uplink, @RumorConsumer, but it might be another consideration.

Ideally this doesn't go into a Meraki organization. So was thinking "off the stack" might also include other solutions from other vendors...

Networking geek since high school where I got half of a CCNA. Played Marathon II and Infinity over localtalk.
Made many a network over the years, now de facto admin of a retreat center with some of this fine Meraki hardware.
Fortune 100 Tech veteran/refugee.
Uberseehandel
Kind of a big deal

@Nash 

 

As I am about to go on my travels again, with a new 5G smartphone, I reviewed whether the Z3C would retain a place in my bag - see here - Z3C - Tetherable???? & How is uplinking to an open WLAN coming along? 

 

In that discussion, I post a picture of 

USB 3.1 Type C Gigabit Ethernet Converter with Power DeliveryUSB 3.1 Type C Gigabit Ethernet Converter with Power Delivery

which should let me connect the new phone to the Z3C internet port.

 

Robin St.Clair | Principal, Caithness Analytics | @uberseehandel
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Network-dad
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For just an small non Meraki in room AP I travel with one of these https://amzn.to/3glwRuC

For a Meraki solution I travel with a Z3  https://meraki.cisco.com/product/security-sd-wan/teleworker/z3/

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@Network-dad wrote:

For just an small non Meraki in room AP I travel with one of these https://amzn.to/3glwRuC

For a Meraki solution I travel with a Z3  https://meraki.cisco.com/product/security-sd-wan/teleworker/z3/


Pretty much my exact recommendation, also my preferred device is Z3C for travel since I use the T-Mobile SIM in it all the time. Screw Marriott Wifi! I usually bring a chromecast device and then I can stream pretty much anything I want and not be on the hotel wifi and I get wired access if needed. Only downside is TSA looks at you kind of funny.


@SoCalRacer wrote:

@Network-dad wrote:

For just an small non Meraki in room AP I travel with one of these https://amzn.to/3glwRuC

For a Meraki solution I travel with a Z3  https://meraki.cisco.com/product/security-sd-wan/teleworker/z3/


Pretty much my exact recommendation, also my preferred device is Z3C for travel since I use the T-Mobile SIM in it all the time. Screw Marriott Wifi! I usually bring a chromecast device and then I can stream pretty much anything I want and not be on the hotel wifi and I get wired access if needed. Only downside is TSA looks at you kind of funny.


(#Small Flex) Flying corporate don't have to deal with TSA... 😁

 

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Dakota Snow | Network-dad Linkdedin
CMNO | A+ | ECMS2
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Nash
Kind of a big deal


@Network-dad wrote:

@SoCalRacer wrote:

@Network-dad wrote:

For just an small non Meraki in room AP I travel with one of these https://amzn.to/3glwRuC

For a Meraki solution I travel with a Z3  https://meraki.cisco.com/product/security-sd-wan/teleworker/z3/


Pretty much my exact recommendation, also my preferred device is Z3C for travel since I use the T-Mobile SIM in it all the time. Screw Marriott Wifi! I usually bring a chromecast device and then I can stream pretty much anything I want and not be on the hotel wifi and I get wired access if needed. Only downside is TSA looks at you kind of funny.


(#Small Flex) Flying corporate don't have to deal with TSA... 😁

 

 


 Yeah but how much time do you spend on that plane... 🤣

right now not too much but I was practically living on it... I was flying 3 day a week

Dakota Snow | Network-dad Linkdedin
CMNO | A+ | ECMS2
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