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4G LTE Industrial Wireless Gateway
Collie is a compact and cost-effective industrial 4G router. Equipped with the external full-band 4G antennas, the aluminum alloy shell and the hardware watchdog, the mobile router ensures stable LTE connectivity in harsh and hazardous environments. Collie can also serve as a smart industrial Internet gateway with the functions of RS485 interface for a range of IoT applications including vending machines, charging piles, smart agriculture, metering, and more.
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4.8 out of 5
96.67% of customers are satisfied
5.0 out of 5 stars Solid 4G router
Well, it's early days, but it seems pretty solid and functional. It even looks nice on my desk. So many consumer routers, etc are designed to stand upright, and of course then want to fall over, but this thing sits stable on the desk with the aerials sicking up. I like it.I've just been using it as a straightforward 4G wifi router to provide internet access, and it does the job. I have not explored any of the fancy functions.I was using another GL-iNet product, a tiny yellow 'Mango' mini-router with an iPhone tethered to it via USB. That worked, mostly, but the 'Collie' router gets a better 4G signal and doesn't need frequent re-setting or re-initialising as the iPhone/Mango combo did.So anyway, I confess that I went for this 4G router over others because I was already familiar with the GL-iNet web-based control interface, so I thought I'd have less new stuff to learn to get it working. So I can't say if it performs any better than any other 4G router, but it seems fine to me.I was considering dropping a star because the wifi range did not seem as good as most home internet routers I have come across, but I think that would be, ...well, I would have given it 4.7 stars if I could, but 4 stars would be too low, so I gave it 5. it's fine: I just had to be careful where I put it to get both a good 4G signal and deliver a good wifi signal where I needed it. But having found a good location, it now just works, so all is good.
Very nice, functional and using OpenWRT.
Update: Looks like this thing, on GPS-enabled models, phones home GPS data. This COULD be for a cloud offering/service related to Goodcloud - gps-telemetry.goodcloud.xyz is the destination domain for the phonehome. They also use an MQTT provider for some other telemetry data from the device.I'm inclined to think it's basic telemetry you opt into, and a service they provide, but... Just something to be aware of.Rest of review pre-update follows:The shipped firmware is:OpenWrt 19.07.8, r11364-ef56c85848I like that it's OpenWRT - That gives it a ton of possible features, and known reliability. Unfortunately that shipped version is pretty old, released August 7th, 2021. There's a pending update that bumps it up to... Well... 19.07.8. It looks like the firmware update fixes an internal regression with SMTP services. I haven't applied it yet as I write this.The SSH daemon is Dropbear v2019.78. There's a couple not-great CVEs for this, but no 9.8s or anything.SSH is enabled by default. You define the root password on first login to the webui, and you use root and that password to login. Not idea, but... OK.There's a single default password for the wireless network (goodlife), this is pretty bad. There's also no prompt to change it on first UI login.The cellular side of this seems to work as advertised. I'm using a 5G/4G prepaid data SIM that I'm also reviewing. Upload and download performance is what I'd categorize as "pretty much not the worst" - It does what it's supposed to.There's an option for forwarding SMSes, which is also nice.The UI exposes the serial connection to the cellular modem, so you can send your own AT commands if you want to. There's some predefined ones, and an input field. I've tested a few cellular bridges and routers, and none that I know of have exposed this. Very nice to see.The CPU is:system type : Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533 ver 2 rev 0cpu model : MIPS 24Kc V7.4It has 128MB RAM:root@GL-X300B:/tmp# cat /proc/meminfoMemTotal: 123584 kBMemFree: 62808 kBMemAvailable: 57664 kBIf this thing had a USB port, it looks like the firmware still has USB modem tethering enabled./www/cgi-bin/api is a fun looking binary, looks like there's additional API calls you can make that aren't exposed in the UI. I'm not too interested in digging too deep though.The above was captured on the shipping firmware. I then upgraded to the latest. This was compiled a couple years ago still... Well. OK. I THOUGHT I was upgrading to the latest, because I just followed the prompt to upgrade from within the UI. If you look up Collie on the vendor's website (that's the codeword-type name for the device) you'll see a series 4 firmware is now out, and 4.5.17 was released 2024-06-06. This is much better than the impressions I was getting that this was another device that received a token fw update or two...You can go download the image from their site and open it up in 7zip, or a loopback mount, or whatever you'd like.Overall I'm pretty impressed with this thing, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to dig into it. The fixed Wifi password is a bit of a letdown, but times are changing and I don't know for sure when this was manufactured. Hopefully newer releases or newer product lines ship with random passwords per device.I expect that nothing of what I wrote above about the software stands if you move to the 4.x firmware line.
Installationsprobleme
Bei der Installation gibt es Probleme, sodass man den Router permanent resetten muss. Wenn er dann läuft ist er ganz gut. Praktisch ist die Klemme für die Spannung, dann muss man das Netzteil nicht benutzen, gerade im Wowa sehr praktisch.
High Quality, Industrial Grade Cellular Gateway, WRT, Excellent Options
I was looking for a dependable backup system to supplement my fiber connection and I chose this GL-X300B. The "Collie" is a really solid, and I would say industrial grade wireless router/gateway. It is built in on a solid frame that can be configured for all different methods of install. It can be wall mounted, it can be attached to a DIN rail, or you can just find a cozy place for it where it will be able to get it's best signal.It came with OpenWRT firmware, which I was extremely happy about since this was my first one of these and didn't know what to expect as in operation. It comes with some quality 4G Antennas, but I am sure you can play with this later on to customize your signal coverage. It has two Ethernet ports, however I am still unsure if they can exceed 10/100, I was hoping for 100/1000, but that seems more like a dream.It's VPN supported and comes pre-installed with OpenVPN and WireGuard, you can configure a slew of other VPNs if you know what you are doing. One of the best features is a built-in hardware watchdog, which is excellent for a backup system. If you have ever had a backup system waiting to save the day from an outage only to find out that it's in a boot loop or had crashed days ago and needs a reboot, then you will like this feature that automatically watches for these issues and can reboot on its own and notify you of issues.It does only work in the 2.4ghz band, but that should be ample for a backup. However, it does have AT command support, and RS485 interface. It's a rugged, aluminum allow shell, provides great options and flexibility. It may require a bit of a learning curve for those who have never used OpenWRT, however there are so many tutorials and help sites online that can have you up and running fast. I was getting varied speeds but most were at the high-end limit, and it never dropped below about 10 to12mb/s. Awesome value for the price point, and a real quality piece of hardware, 5 Stars.
Easy setup, missing one feature
Setup was super easy, really just put in my SIM, plug in the power, and answer some questions. Going through the different menu options was pretty intuitive.It doesn't have the fall back function I was looking for. I wanted this to be on my home network, and only switch to LTE if my cable went down. It only has that function if you hook it up between your cable modem and the rest of your network. For some cases that might be fine, but I don't want to replace my high end router with this less expensive lower powered option.Also, the hardware watchdog appears to only be for the device itself. I was hoping I could connect it to another device and have the watchdog
OpenWRT!
I have this installed backing up my Spectrum business connection and it solved my every 11:59 disconnect as Spectrum likes to reset the internet connections in my neighborhood for 1 minute everyday. The most exciting it uses OpenWRT which is just future proofing it as I love modifying and fine tuning settings according to how I'm using it. As a backup gateway this is excellent! I tested this as a cheap site to site vpn style connection with some friends hundreds of miles away and it works perfectly.Highly recommend this!
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GL-X300B (Collie) 4G LTE VPN Industrial Wireless Gateway, External Full-Band 4G Antennas, Hardware Watchdog, at Command, DNS Encryption, 2.4GHz ONLY (RS485)
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