{
  "id": 17288274,
  "title": "I turned an old router into a travel router, and hotel Wi-Fi finally stopped being annoying",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/i-turned-an-old-router-into-a-travel-router-and-hotel-wi-fi-finally",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-30T21:01:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "XDA Developers",
    "slug": "xda-developers",
    "url": "https://www.xda-developers.com/turned-old-router-into-travel-router-hotel-wi-fi-stopped-being-annoying/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The article from XDA Developers highlights a simple solution to the frustrating experience of using hotel Wi-Fi while traveling. The author shares their experience of taking an old router and repurposing it into a travel router, which effectively consolidates all personal devices behind a single private gateway. This approach eliminates the need for individual authentication on each device and the hassle of navigating through captive portal splash pages. By doing so, travelers can avoid the strict per-room or per-device connection caps imposed by many hotels, preventing issues such as blocked secondary gadgets or constant re-authentications.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}