Travel-Router

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. The hotel that let me connect “two devices per room” Lisbon, a month of working remotely, and the front desk slid me a Wi-Fi card with the catch printed in small type: two devices per room. I had four — laptop, phone, tablet, a streaming stick for the evenings — and a video call in forty minutes. The “obvious” fix was paying for a premium tier I didn’t want, per device, for a month. Instead I pulled a box the size of a deck of cards out of my bag, logged it into the hotel Wi-Fi once, and let everything I owned hide behind it as a single device. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. The gadget I almost left at home — and used in the first hour My phone hit 6% somewhere over Siberia, fourteen hours into the longest day of my year, with a boarding pass, a hotel address and a Doha layout I hadn’t memorized all living behind that dying screen. I’d packed the power bank as an afterthought — do I really need this? — and shoved it in the seat pocket. By the time we taxied to the gate in Tokyo it had already saved the trip once, and it hadn’t even been a full day. ...