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That's fantastic news.

OpenWRT-based cheap travel routers have been a life-saver for me during my trips, specially to countries behind Iron Curtain firewalls.

I'll buy at least one as soon as it comes out.

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How does a travel router help in this case? Preconfigured VPN?

(Asking out of total ignorance)

Sounds like he's using it as a site-to-site VPN

Bring it with you "home network setup" with devices pre shared keys and only authentication to a portal one time or an Ethernet port. Also let's you share one paid-for connection—on an airplane for example.

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