I saw this device, TripMate Nano and decided to give it a try and the price was great

I intend to do a return on this and order the higher end model, while I don't need the built in battery I do need the ability to extend my wifi range though I feel at a steep price.

Surprised at how compact this is - and these days it's a great price

Well packaged and great price but product was not easy to use as I thought

The price for this thing was a steal!

No good fake it doesn't work

So I stumbled onto this guy and it's working flawlessly.

Oh well, works great as an extender at my house and great for accessing usb devices.

This worked great at a hotel and at home when using it as a primary router (both wired and wifi repeater functions)

I really don't have much to say about this, but that is just works very well

Very slick travel router, the functionality and price are fantastic.

Kind of disappointing as that is why I bought this gadget was for that function

; this was too much work for me).That said, it is a great travel router.

At this price it makes an excellent range extender around the house as well as a travel router for road trips.

Besides being a nice travel router, it makes a nice NAS

Now I have to return it and find a different solution.----------------------------Update: I am changing my feedback to 5 stars because of their excellent customer service

After beating my head against the wall, I contacted customer service desperate for a quick fix before leaving on my trip in the morning.

Because of their excellent customer service I would buy from them again and would recommend them.

the company just contacted me to offer a replacement, Fantastic customer service

so no one even knows it's there and those who use t-mobile but suffer from bad reception(I work in an industrial area) we can now benefit from WiFi calling.

It works as advertised. using a wired or a wireless internet source, it can broadcast it to any and all vehicles connected to it

Kind of disappointing as that is why I bought this gadget was for that function

I needed a product that works as advertised out of the box.

Works as advertised and help me access my usb files from any device too.

If you just want internet access or to communicate with only wireless devices connected to this thing then it works as advertised, but I repeat

My original need was to boost wifi access in hotels with marginal service.

Stupid product sucked all my service from my phone, don't know how smh

SunValleytec, the company that sold this to me on Amazon, provides great customer service, especially on followup.

It functions well and appreciate the customer service that was provided.

I have terrible service with my phone at work, so got this and plugged it in and it works amazing

The app that accompanies the HooToo is pretty easy to work with and the setup was not difficult

A little pricey but in terms of what you can do, this is a very cheap setup.

Use this everyday on my work PC, the setup is a little confusing however the little router is so compact its perfect for travelling or use in a hotel etc

Setup is easy, even for someone who's not a huge expert.

What's bugging me so far?I have the HooToo setup to connect to my wi-fi and offer it's own network (SSID) for privacy

Used it as an Access Point to get wireless service where the only network connection available was a wired Ethernet

This little piece of technology has significantly reduced the stress of connecting to a faulty network!

After troubleshooting, found that the unit does not tolerate a network that has intermittent slow downs

the three stars are for the great price the minus two is for the short range the network works, slow speed, and that it doesn't support all types of file to stream off a connected hard drive.

As a comment, wireless network at the hotel is always slow, this little router gives the option to increase the speed around 5 times!

In my apartment I don't pay for wifi because there is a really strong signal for a Comcast hotspot

Connects fast and easy with the app for Android, and strong signal.

you're still left with pretty weak signal repeating from this

Many places that provide "free WiFi" have a very weak signal, and/or a very slow router.

I've also used the router to boost an otherwise unreliable WiFi signal

Seriously... if you travel and need or want wifi, this thing is sweet

Very very very slow like 56k slow, every thing times out.

The one negative thing I can say about it is that the speed seems to be cut down to about a third as oppossed to connecting directly to my WiFi router; but this was expected.

This thing is great to connect all your devices to wired connection in a hotel

The only thing that did fix the problem was to go through the wizard again.

This items is very critical for me when I stay a hotel with weak wifi.

I got this for the rare occasions when I'm in a hotel that has ethernet but no WiFi (or bad WiFi)

Provides a reliable WiFi when the hotel only has wired or SLOW wireless.

I would recommend this to anyone that would like free WiFi in their hotel rooms.

I would recomended to anyone that travels and as it will help with those weak hotel wifi signals

The Samba and DLNA servers are visible on BOTH the incoming connection as well as on the wifi network the HooToo generates

Another reason for 1 star off is the lack of instructions.

The reason this was needed was because some hotels will limit the amount of devices you can connect to their Wi-Fi (either free or paid)

Kind of disappointing as that is why I bought this gadget was for that function

It does take some configuration via the web interface, but that's painless as long as you remember to set the slide switch for wired or wireless (for the internet connection you want the device to use).

Other than the crappy first party apps and a lack of third party app support, I love this HooToo

This little device, about the size of a saltine cracker, allows us to talk via skype as clear as if he were right here at home.

It does take some configuration via the web interface, but that's painless as long as you remember to set the slide switch for wired or wireless (for the internet connection you want the device to use).

However, and this may be where my lack of knowledge is a problem, I truly don't understand how you can advertise as having LAN features without a single LAN port.

Kind of disappointing as that is why I bought this gadget was for that function

I wasted my one day off this week on this piece of junk, extremely disappointed, returned, I wish you could give negative stars...

Small, portable (runs off usb), and works exactly as they say - and at current price, very affordable!Can use as Access Point (connect directly to it's router), or,as client (connect to your local lan via address, eg

the Android app for accessing the storage system seems very suspicious in regard of the requirements for installation (phone calls, storage and etc.)over all it worth the 5 stars

Loses one star because the interface and instructions are confusing.

It does take some configuration via the web interface, but that's painless as long as you remember to set the slide switch for wired or wireless (for the internet connection you want the device to use).

iUI is clunkiy and the documentation is poor but these are minor irritations if you are fairly technical

The lack of good support and documentation is a killer here.

The documentation is on slick paper, but otherwise not very good

Small, portable (runs off usb), and works exactly as they say - and at current price, very affordable!Can use as Access Point (connect directly to it's router), or,as client (connect to your local lan via address, eg

The initial documentation with the device is inadequate and I find this very hard to connect with when I am in a hotel which is the primary reason I bought it

I expect this to be a great solution for slow wireless in hotels.

The transfer speed may not be great (< 2 MB/s) but should solve the purpose

Transmits the videos on my hard drive to my smart tv via DLNA and recently i moved to a new place where my wireless has not been strong enough for the laptop in my room and its been acting as a great wifi repeater

The wireless is too slow and I was hoping the wired would be faster

I tested this as a "Bridge" - so that I could bridge between unsecure wireless, like a hotel, to this device

It lets me bypass the number of device limit that many hotels have which works great when traveling with my family

The reason this was needed was because some hotels will limit the amount of devices you can connect to their Wi-Fi (either free or paid)

I would recomended to anyone that travels and as it will help with those weak hotel wifi signals

However the huge limitation is that it doesn't support secondary authentication like most hotels seem to run anymore where you must go to a webpage and either login or accept the terms of use.

This thing has been awesome for it, it has also solved the problem of crappy hotel WiFi.

I found the device fairly easy to use although the iPhone app was a bit difficult to operate at times

This is not an issue at home when you're just extending the range of your network, but I was a bit uncomfortable with this in the hotel scenario

This will have some practical applications for me, even though it will throttle my throughput a bit

I'm sure there may be some travel routers out there that are a bit more intuitive or easier to use

Most useful will be extending wifi into areas that a bit harder to reach such as my garage

My external hard drive (1.5TB, 2.5”) works flawlessly with the HooToo, The routing, firewall and port forwarding configuration options are not the most robust I've seen, but the file sharing and wireless bridging functionality make up for this, especially at this price.

It works really well with a 1TB hard drive, I use it with my Galaxy Tab S to transfer large using the hootoo tripmate app

I'm using it as "wired" to connect up to a 2TB drive that I have secured in a 700 lb. safe

At home, i linked it with my 2T portable hard disk

I am abke to hook my 2 TB hard drive to it and use it as a wireless hard drive

But if you are going through manual setup, the check button for "Wired Access" will not response at all if the hard button is at "wireless" (or vice versa)

At home, i linked it with my 2T portable hard disk

Such a notice would give a clue of the real status of the device, and hint the user to switch the hard button on the device in order to receive Internet from an Ethernet cable (or vice versa), instead of trying futilely in the user settings program),Or, at the minimum, they could just grey out the selections which are rendered ineffective by the current hard button switch position, so at least experienced users would have guessed what is going on, and would not be actively misled into struggles of attempting various useless configurations

At home, i linked it with my 2T portable hard disk

so no one even knows it's there and those who use t-mobile but suffer from bad reception(I work in an industrial area) we can now benefit from WiFi calling.

I have tried it with 8GB flash drive, 1TB and 2TB portable hard drives

Has a USB port which can be used to connect a hard drive with OpenWrt

Started up out if the box with external usb hard drive.

I have connected a hard drive to the TripMate Nano, and it works as it should

You can access a portable hard drive connected to the device but the organization of the data could be a little better

Then they blew my mind - They sent another one that they personally tested

The Tripmate blew my mind

When a real person answered within a couple rings without having to go through a bunch of automated nonsense or waiting times, I initially assumed I had called the wrong number and hung up.

We routinely stay places that limit the number of wifi internet connections to 4 or 5.

GREAT for on the road when you want to connect multiple devices to WIFI, but don't want any snoops (or the hotel limits the number of accesses)