GL.iNet Beryl AX Review: Your Own Network Behind Hotel Wi-Fi, With a Plug Caveat

GL.iNet's pale blue-grey Beryl AX travel router at a three-quarter rear angle with both folding antennas upright, WiFi 6 printed on the left antenna, the rear panel showing the 5V 3A USB-C power input, 2.5G WAN and LAN ports and a blue USB 3.0 socket, on a transparent background

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In this guide

THE SHORT VERSION

GL.iNet's setup guide uses hotel and cafe Wi-Fi as the example for Repeater mode: the router joins that network, builds its own subnet behind it and acts as a firewall between your devices and the public network. The Beryl AX (GL-MT3000) is a 196-gram Wi-Fi 6 router for that job. Amazon Australia listed it at A$138.99 on 5 November 2026, shipped by Amazon and sold by GL Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Two local details sit beside the specs. The Amazon AU listing describes the kit as coming with US, UK and EU plugs, so you plug the supplied adapter in through a travel adapter or power the router from any USB-C source rated 5V/3A. And GL.iNet's own Beryl 7, which it calls a fully upgraded Beryl AX, sells from the same seller at A$195.99.

Our verdict

Buy the A$138.99 Beryl AX to put your own network behind hotel Wi-Fi when WireGuard rated near 300 Mbps is enough; pay A$195.99 for the Beryl 7 for Wi-Fi 7, two 2.5G ports and WireGuard rated at 1,100 Mbps.

A good fit for: Travellers who take a laptop, a console and a streaming stick to hotels, on connections where GL.iNet's 300 Mbps WireGuard figure is not the limit.
We would skip it if: Skip it if one phone is your whole travel internet, if you want an Australian plug in the box, or if you tunnel a line faster than 300 Mbps.

Reasons to consider it

Repeater mode runs as WISP by default, with a public-hotspot login mode since firmware 4.6 and MAC camouflage or cloning, plus a 2.5G WAN for wired desk jacks
USB-C power at 5V/3A, so a phone charger or power bank that supplies 5V/3A can run it; 196 g with folding antennas
OpenWrt 21.02 with router-wide OpenVPN and WireGuard, and a two-year GL.iNet warranty on Amazon purchases

The compromises

The Amazon AU kit's adapter has US, UK and EU plugs; GL.iNet's own store sells an AU-plug variant, priced in US dollars
The 150/300 Mbps VPN figures are GL.iNet local-network, client-mode results; the A$195.99 Beryl 7 is rated 1,000/1,100 Mbps
GL.iNet's DFS claim and certification list name the US, UK, Europe and Japan, not Australia

What we have not verified: No independent throughput test was consulted; the AX3000, VPN and Beryl 7 figures are GL.iNet's own. Captive-portal behaviour was not tried against any hotel chain, and GL.iNet does not say which 5 GHz channels the router offers on an Australian setting.

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A closer look at the products, who they may suit, and what to check before buying.

Your own network behind hotel Wi-Fi, A$57 under the Beryl 7

Beryl AX (GL-MT3000)

A$138.99 buys Repeater mode with a public-hotspot login mode and MAC cloning, a 2.5G WAN for wired hotel desks, USB-C power at 5V/3A and router-wide OpenVPN and WireGuard, sold by GL.iNet's own Hong Kong company and shipped by Amazon AU.

Before you buy: The supplied adapter has US, UK and EU plugs rather than an Australian one; the VPN speeds are GL.iNet's client-mode lab figures, topping out at 300 Mbps; and a hotel login page can still refuse the router.

$138.99 at Amazon Australia (GL Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd)

Price checked 5 November 2026. Retailer prices can change.

Hotel Wi-Fi, with your own network behind it

Repeater mode joins an existing Wi-Fi network, hidden ones included, and by default runs as WISP: the Beryl AX builds its own subnet, so the laptop, the console and the streaming stick sit behind the router rather than on the hotel network. For sign-in pages, firmware 4.6 added a login mode for public hotspots that switches on when the router reaches a hotspot but not the internet. GL.iNet warns that in this mode some services pause and DNS goes to automatic, which may expose your activity to the hotspot provider.

Next to it sit two MAC settings. Camouflage makes the router present the MAC address of the device you use to open the admin panel, and MAC mode can clone another address or generate a random one. A hotel desk with an Ethernet jack feeds the 2.5G WAN port instead, and the box includes an Ethernet cable.

No Australian plug in the Amazon kit

Amazon AU's listing describes the kit as coming with US, UK and EU plugs, and GL.iNet's datasheet lists one power adapter in the box. In Australia that means a travel adapter for the supplied unit, or skipping it: the router takes USB-C at 5V/3A, so a wall charger or power bank that can supply 5 volts at 3 amps runs it.

GL.iNet's own store does sell an AU-plug variant, but at US$98.99 from its China warehouse, so it is a different purchase from the Amazon AU listing, with its own delivery and returns.

Wi-Fi 6 numbers, and the radio claims that stop short of Australia

AX3000 here means 574 Mbps on 2.4 GHz plus 2402 Mbps on 5 GHz. Those are link rates, not throughput through a hotel room, and GL.iNet rates the box for 70-plus simultaneous devices.

GL.iNet advertises DFS certification for the US, UK, Europe and Japan, which lets the 5 GHz radio use extra channels shared with radar. Australia is not on that list, and the datasheet's certification line (CE, FCC, MIC, IC, UKCA, RoHS, WEEE) names no Australian mark. Amazon AU sells the router regardless; what GL.iNet does not document is which 5 GHz channels it opens on an Australian setting.

A VPN for every device, at lab speeds

OpenVPN and WireGuard run on the router, so the console and the streaming stick use the tunnel without an app of their own. GL.iNet quotes 150 Mbps for OpenVPN and 300 for WireGuard, from local-network tests in client mode, and says real-world speeds may differ.

The box supports more than 30 VPN providers, and VPN Cascading can pass traffic from a server on the router straight into its client. Underneath the admin panel sits OpenWrt 21.02 with more than 5,000 installable packages.

The Beryl 7 for A$57 more

Amazon AU listed the Beryl 7 at A$195.99 against an RRP of A$208.99, from the same seller. It keeps the 120 x 83 x 34 mm body at 205 g, moves to Wi-Fi 7 at 688 plus 2,882 Mbps, uses a quad-core 2.0 GHz chip GL.iNet credits with triple the Beryl AX's processing power, and has two 2.5G ports where the Beryl AX pairs one 2.5G WAN with a gigabit LAN.

The VPN ratings differ most: 1,100 Mbps on WireGuard and 1,000 Mbps on OpenVPN-DCO, against 300 and 150. The Beryl 7 also accepts 9V/3A and 12V/2.5A over USB-C. On a hotel line slower than 300 Mbps the Beryl AX's WireGuard rating is not the bottleneck; on a fast NBN connection you tunnel everything through, it is.

What A$138.99 buys, and when to leave it home

The price covers the router, the multi-plug adapter and an Ethernet cable, a 2.5G WAN, a gigabit LAN and a USB 3.0 port for shared storage. GL.iNet's two-year warranty applies to routers bought on Amazon, and Amazon AU adds 30-day change-of-mind returns and your Australian Consumer Law rights.

Leave it home if your travel internet is one phone, or your hotels already let every device sign in separately. GL.iNet's docs say the login mode and MAC settings 'can help improve the connection success rate', which is not a promise that a given hotel page will accept the router.

How we put this together

Built from the product pages and listings below, without test scores or results we have not measured. Specifications and prices change, so check the original page for the exact model, current price, delivery, and returns.

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