I hear about people using travel routers to connect devices to hotel wifi or in dorm rooms. What is a travel router and what does it do differently than just connecting to the provided wifi? TIA!
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I think the thing with a travel router is that built to be more portable and maybe provide easier access than a regular router. Like maybe if you tap your phone in it, it will connect automatically with NFC. Maybe it had USB ports so it can help charge your devices.
The most important feature though is that you get an ethernet cable, plug it into your travel router, and now you have a wifi connection that only you know the password to. No one has touched settings or gotten through your security in the wifi because it’s yours and it’s new.
An example of how this is more secure is if some bad guy made a hotel-guest wifi connection, might be able to send you to a fake banking website when you’re trying to pay for things.
The only way you can be compromised is if the hotel wiring ethernet has been compromised.
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