Gl.inet Mudi Review in Spanish (complete analysis)

We tested today the 4G LTE G.inet Mudi router, a simple portable router that has a CAT6 module to deliver a bandwidth of up to 300 Mbps. But it is much more than this, since, its complete firmware allows us to implement servicesVPN and network encryption, and we even have a Tor (The Onion Router) function to navigate anonymously and encrypted.

This little wonder supports Nano Sim and micro SD cards up to 128 GB to take the most important data with us shared.As well as Dual Band coverage in 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz and thanks to an adapter included an Ethernet port for LAN or WAN.Its portable design with OLED screen and 7000 mAh battery will give us an impressive autonomy to navigate with guarantees.Will you fulfill our expectations in everything we have commented?Well, we'll see it so, let's start!

But first, we are going to thank the boys of Gl.inet for trusting us and giving this 4G router for analysis.

Gl.inet mudi technical characteristics

Unboxing

Well, we start as usual by the unboxing of the GL.inet mudi, since it will not have waste for everything that is included in the purchase package.For this, the manufacturer has used a small hard cardboard box with traditional case opening.In turn, this has an outer cover type box of matches to prevent the box from opening and to show us photos and much information about the product we have bought.

We open the box, and we found in the first instance the perfectly involved router inside a protective plastic bag and in a second pomp plastic bag.Below we have the rest of the elements perfectly arranged in different sections and independent boxes.

The bundle contains the following elements:

Of course we cannot complain, since the router brings us absolutely everything necessary to use as a 4G router, access point, repeater or even normal router with WAN wiring connectivity.We are very satisfied to have so much versatility, and nothing is done.

It is a good detail to have a transport bag, although they could have gone a little further in this regard and provide a somewhat safer and padded case.But it is asking for asking, for this we are.

Exterior design

We will continue the analysis seeing in detail the exterior design of the GL.inet Mudi, which certainly does not have too many secrets.

It is then a completely portable 4G router when integrating a battery of no less than 7000 mAh inside.The manufacturer has opted for the most common design rectangular with the rounded edges to improve the grip and aesthetics of the set.The measures we have are 145 mm long, 77.5 mm wide and 23.5 mm thick, with a negligible weight of 285 g, mainly due to the battery.

The router is very compact wherever you touch it, demonstrating a perfect internal hardware packaging and an entirely constructed housing of hard plastic quite thick according to the touch.The chosen color is a dark gray with matte finish, with a slight roughness on the surface to improve grip.

In the front we have a completely smooth face where the device's mark is shyly seen.More interesting is the upper area, since it is occupied by a polished black plastic housing whose central zone is occupied by an OLED screen of 0.96 ”monochrome.Later we will see what this screen will show us and its usefulness for the user.We would have liked that this coverage out of glass, or with some more forceful anti -scratch treatment, although thinking well, better plastic for possible falls.

We turn the GL.inet Mudi to better see the back, which continues to be completely hard plastic, although in it we see the product code and other data of this, such as the battery capacity.In the area we do not have any type of support for the ground or anything like that.What we do have is the removable lid to access the slots or slots where we will place the Nano Sim and the micro SD.

This lid is demonately hard, and we must start extracting from the right area, through a small slot it has.Unless you have very hard nails, you will have to use some flat and sharp element to make lever up.Once extracted, we see the slots placed horizontally with the indication to correctly enter the cards.Also in this area we see a hole with the Reset button, without a doubt put to good collection so as not to see it accidentally.

Continuing with the lateral edges of the GL.inet Mudi, we see a fairly rounded and sober style that undoubtedly improves the grip of the equipment.In the first instance we have the lower port panel, in which we simply find a USB 2.0 port and a USB Type-C port that is responsible for the network and load connection extension.

In the left side zone a switch with two configurable positions from the firmware as well as for example the GL.inet Slate that we analyzed a while ago.If we continue upwards we will only find an opening in the corner that serves to pass a fastening rope and thus improve the router transport.And if we go to the right side zone, we find the button that allows you to turn off and turn on the router, in addition to navigating its different information screens with a touch.

In this sense it is a very simple equipment, simple to use and very portable.The manufacturer has done a very good miniaturization work.It would only be to be seen the bean that is included to extend the connectivity of the GL.inet mudi a little more.

This connects to the router using the short USB-C cable that is included and through the area where we only have one connector such as logical.The truth is that the benefits of the USB interface are not detailed, but by providing a 5V/2a feeding input, we imagine that it will be 2.0 as well as the USB we have next to it.The truth matters little in this case, since the required bandwidth is 100 Mbps for the Ethernet port that we have on the other side of the Hub.Let's keep in mind that the USB 2.0 version works at 480 MBPs theoretical and 280 Mbps, so we have plenty of bandwidth.

This expansion element does not require any configuration by the user in the firmware.But one of the most important functions of the same is that it works as a LAN port and as Puerto Wan, so with it we can configure the GL.inet mudi as if it were a Wi -Fi router, or as a more access point.

4G bandwidth and benefits

We leave behind the design section to focus a little more on the benefits of the GL.inet Mudi, which in this case are quite complete to be such a small team.

Inside we have a hardware composed of a QCAcomm QCA9531 processor working at 650 MHz with 128 MB of RAM DDR2 and a double flash memory of 16 MB + 128 MB for the firmware.To this is added its external storage capacity by micro SD up to 128 GB.

As for the modules for 3G/4G connectivity we have one of CAT4, which supports a 150 Mbps discharge speed and 50 Mbps rise. The second module is CAT6, so it raises the 4G LTE benefits at 300 Mbpsof descent and 50 Mbps of climb.It is a fairly popular capacity among 4G routers, although in the market we can find routers up to 1 Gbps.We believe that routers like the one we analyze today make more sense in terms of benefits and price.

After seeing the input bandwidth, it is time to know the theoretical bandwidth that the router can give us in the wireless internal network.And a rather positive aspect is that we have dual Band connectivity, that is, a double connection point with the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. These are their theoretical benefits:

This makes a total ac750 bandwidth to which we unite the 100 Mbps of the Ethernet link via RJ45.It is clearly a router that will give us fair benefits to connect without problems to the Internet while traveling, and if you share WLAN with some more customers or colleagues.

As for the 7000 mAh battery charge, the truth is that the 10W load power falls somewhat short if we rush.A complete load cycle requires about 4 hours or so, even something else for what we have been able to check.

Firmware and configuration

Now we will try to see all the most important functions that the GL.inet Mudi brings us, which in this sense is one of the most complete and at the same time simple to manage what we have.

Its operating system is based on OpenWRT, with an extremely simple interface of understanding and also in many available languages.The configuration and management of the same can be performed from any web browser, either PC or portable devices.In principle, Android or iOS application is not available for specific management, nor is it necessary to do.

Nano SIM installation and initial configuration

We are going to make the GL.inet Mudi configuration to connect it to the 3G/4G network through a Yoigo SIM Nano card, which as it does not use Orange's coverage.If you choose to use it as a normal router, you will have to add the beef with Ethernet to make Puerto Wan.

The process in our case will be simple, it is only about entering the SIM card into the team with him completely off.It does not support hot installation, so we will need to restart it to detect the card.

The most important thing will be the configuration of this from the graphical interface of the firmware, especially if we have a PIN SIM.The process is simple, we must place ourselves on the main screen and click on the “Manual configuration” option and the router has not performed the automatic configuration (if the green indicator is not you need a manual configuration).

We have to basically fill 4 sections, in which two of them are already predefined by the router itself.In the APN we must place the Internet option, while in the PIN code, because obviously the pin of our SIM card.The rest of the sections will not be required unless the connection of our card needs a user or password and other parameters that our telephone company must supply.

Something that we did not like too much is the fact of having completely visible and in flat text the pin of our card and the IMEI, since anyone who access the router with or without permission, can see this information.To do this, place a strong password on the user.

In any case, when it has been successfully connected, we will have to see an assigned IP address and the upload and decrease data in real time.

In addition to the 4G LTE router function, other connection and operation modes are also available:

0.96 -inch OLED screen

Regarding the OLED screen of the GL.inet Mudi, it consists of a small panel of rectangular and blank monochrome inches with an acceptable shine.In it we can see a total of 5 screens that will be the following:

This screen is not tactile nor can we interact with it.And we have not seen interaction options in the firmware to omit certain information.

Openwrt system installed

The system is based on OpenWRT open source firmware, whose main quality is interface cleaning and its fluid operation and quantity of options without needing powerful hardware.In fact, this is practically the same as that of the rest of the routers that the manufacturer has, and does not give up virtually no function.

From the main interface we can manage enough options about the connection, although the most important we have already seen, but from here we can reconfigure the mode of operation of the equipment.

The same can be done in the second section with the two available Wi -Fi bands, one in this case it seems that we do not have an automatic selection of the data channel nor the possibility of joining the two networks so that the router decides to connect the customers.In this sense it is a bit basic, but equally useful and with interaction by the user.We can also select the available bandwidth of each one, as well as the power of coverage to adjust it to our needs.Input, we already know that it will be a reduced range.

The clientele section does not have much to explain, although we have a useful option such as blocking the connected equipment.From the next section we can update the Firmware of the GL.inet Mudi, which we can do directly from the network or manually.And of course, we have a firewall section with NAT for quite powerful hardware and that allows Port Triggering, Port Forwarding and DMZ function for servers.

An interesting function for a 4G router such as implementing VPN services both in customer mode and server mode.We can establish configurations through OpenVPN and the Wireguard function with which to set up a VPN in an incredibly simple way.To this is added the navigation in an encrypted and anonymous way through the Tor Network (The Onion Router) thanks to its direct implementation in the team.

In the following sections we also have quite interesting options such as shared file mode if we have a micro SD card installed, DDNS server, remote access, mac cloning to navigate anonymously and other typical services of a router.The truth is that the GL.inet Mudi is incredibly complete and above all it has quite options to navigate from WiFi public without it is spied or compromise our data.

Test of performance

It is the turn of seeing the benefits of this router in terms of wireless bandwidth.In this case we have not done the typical tests that we carry out with the normal routers, since the bandwidth and coverage will not be comparable to it because it is a equipment oriented to a nearby, laptop and LTE connection.

We have therefore opted for a total of 4 bandwidth tests with two clients connected in 5GHz, these in 2.4 GHz, and with customers connected in 5 GHz - LAN and 2.4 GHz - LAN.For this we have used the following equipment:

These are the results we have obtained:

As normal we see that transfer speeds are not reaching the theoretical, this never occurs due to signal losses and communication protocols.We believe that 120 Mbps for WLAN transfer in 5 GHz is more than enough, and at least allows us to reproduce 4K content on our devices, as well as rapid data transfers.The 2.4 GHz residential yield decreases considerably to about 20 Mbps, which would be about 2.5 Mb/s.

If we focus on transfers between WLAN and Ethernet we find a performance limit at the wired point, which will go to 100 Mbps, which with the losses reach 95 Mbps. As for the 2.4 GHz - LAN network we have the same the samespeed that before, about 20 Mbps.

Final words and conclusion about the gl.inet mudi

With these small tests we reach the end of this analysis, in which we have thoroughly tested a 4G LTE router that offers us a maximum speed of 300 Mbps with 4G Cat6, although in practice it is reduced to about 150-180 Mbps in the bestOf the cases, it is something that always happens regardless of the manufacturer.

We loved its design, compact, perfect for its grip with one hand and with a fairly reduced weight.It is based on plastic materials, which ensures its integrity against falls, and has a small 0.96 -inch OLED screen where enough information is shown, we would say more than necessary.

It is compatible with Nano SIM cards and includes micro SD slot with network sharing capacity.The lower USB-C also gives us great versatility that, together with the Hub, offers an Ethernet port at 100 Mbps for LAN or WAN, since it can be configured as a normal Wi-Fi router, access point or repeater.

We also recommend our guide on the best 4G routers on the market

The 7000 mAh battery has offered us an autonomy of approximately 8-9 hours that is very well compared to the competition.Of course, the 10W load is rather slow, and requires at least 4 hours for a complete load cycle.

One of the best advantages of the GL.inet Mudi is its versatility in terms of functions, including VPN connection both in customer mode and server, VPN by Wireguard, encryption and anonymity through the function of Network Tor, DDNS, cloningFrom Mac, all oriented to navigate safely from anywhere.We did not like the fact of not hiding the SIM pin in the firmware.

We finish the analysis as always going through a box, and the GL.inet Mudi is available for a price of 236.90 euros in Amazon Spain and $ 199 in the official store of the manufacturer.If we compare it with other similar routers, it certainly has a higher price than for example the Netgear AC790 or the TP-Link 7450. To its benefit we can say that it has incredible autonomy and many functions of safe navigation and versatility in the operating modes, but we expected a somewhat lower cost.

The Review Professional Team We award the gold medal:

Last update on 2022-01-23

Gl.inet Mudi

DISEÑO - 90%

RENDIMIENTO 5 GHZ - 74%

ALCANCE - 72%

FIRMWARE Y EXTRAS - 92%

PRECIO - 85%

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