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I own one and tried it for a business trip. It's a cool nerd-toy. It's not cheap and not always easy to setup for anyone who is not technically savvy.

I like it, but I wonder if I want to carry it when I go carry-on only in Europe. I guess most people will trade some privacy and inconvience for weight- and cost-savings.

This is my exact use case for my GL.iNET device. Get to a hotel, get connected once, works with all our devices. Easy peasy.

GL.iNET routers can do this, at least the Beryl AX I own does it perfectly.

Unfortunately the US will always have more options than the EU

Why carry yet another device/power source/etc?

If you have a non-artificially-limited android phone (i.e. rooted), you can just open a hotspot with everything going thru your wireguard vpn back to home.

If you have stock android or IOS, then the real owners of your device won't allow you do this, since they get location data from your network on all those devices.