ZyXEL 3 in 1 Travel Router

You're probably going to be saying to yourself: why in the WTH would I want this dinky little router? It can only handle like three connections at a time; dude. I don't get it!?!?!

Well, let me tell you something, this little wunderkind is worth keeping in your travel man-purse, a.k.a. laptop bag. It doesn't matter if you're a consultant, or a demo jockey like me...whatever. If you travel, even if you spend all your time in hotel rooms, this little baby is worth it's weight in gold. (and then some actually, because it's really very light and that's not a lot of gold). Anyhow, I digress. Imagine this scenario:

You get to the hotel, beat, exhausted after a long day and the hotel (classy people that they are) charge you ten-friggen-dollars for internet access! The NERVE, right? Many of those very same hotels have a tiny little ethernet cable right there on the desk, but I'll be darned if I'm going to sit over there at that desk and check my email (or the finishing touch on my Hobgoblin costume, or whatever) when I could be on the bed, watching TV as well like a champ. Bingo! Plug in this little bad-boy and problem solved. No 'ten-smackers' for wireless thank you, I brought my own. Boom. Have that happen twice and it's paid for itself

On the other hand, maybe you are like me, and you're required to be on site places...somewhat regularly. And the people who installed the three inch ethernet line did so in a way that puts it about 10 miles from the actual projector.Neat. I used to have to travel with like 50 extra feet of ethernet, just in case I ran into this issue. Not no more. Bust out the travel router, and BOOM. My laptop, phone, tablet etc already know the network and password. No problemo.

So there you go ladies and gents. You COULD take the risk, or you could just throw this guy into your bag (man-purse or otherwise) and be ready like a boy scout.

Done. Mic drop.

~Brian (a.k.a. the kludgy reviewer)