D-Link Mobile Companion – The travel WiFi router for iPad
Ever feel frustrated when your hotel rooms have only LAN socket for wired internet connection but your iPad or iPhone requires wireless connection? Not any more. Those of you iPad, iPhone and other tablet users can now surf net, update your Facebook and Twitter status, Facetime with your family, uploading your photos and more, by simply plugging in one of these compact WiFi router with the LAN cable provided by hotels.
D-Link Mobile Companion DIR-505 is the perfect travel companion for tablets that require Wireless connection.
A size of a double plug, D-Link Mobile Companion is just compact enough to be easily brought along your travel without taking up much luggage space.
There is also a pairing button to let it acts as a WiFi repeater that extend the WiFi coverage range of any wireless network.
Totally 3 different modes can be selected: Router, Repeater and WiFi hotspot.
What D-Link DIR-505 does? As D-Link says, “Get the best of all worlds with the handy little Mobile Companion. Imagine being able to share your videos, music and photos from any external hard drive or thumb drive to any iPad or iPhone mobile devices in your home. What’s more, you can back up your videos, musics and photos easily. And, the Mobile Companion isn’t just for home. If you want to take the Mobile companion on the road with you, it works as a great travel router/access point, so you can get instant wireless from any hotel or conference room where a network already exists. While your’re out and about, the Mobile Companion can also charge your iPhone“.
On top of the internet cable socket, DIR-505 also provides a USD port where you can plug your thumb drive in to backup your travel photos wirelessly to your iPad.
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If you are planning a holiday to either China or Japan, and to bring along your tablets but not netbook, you will need one of these gadgets; Many of the star-rated hotels in China and Japan have WiFi available in lobby but only wired internet available in the hotel rooms. This is one of the reasons why I brought along my Acer netbook when I traveled to Beijing and Japan. With its built in LAN port, netbook can act as a WiFi hotspot for my iPhone.
I’m going to bring along my iPad to my upcoming Japan travel next month, and of course, this D-Link Mobile Companion… 🙂 – Travel Feeder, your ultimate travel photo blog
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Cecil Lee
The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.
I think this is a handy tool for any traveller. Something like would be ideal for those carrying devices that require wireless. Wonderful device and thank you for mentioning it.
- October 8, 2012How do you set up a password for it so that only I can access the wifi and not the others? I’m planning a holiday in Japan too, and thank goodness for your article that I know now I can have access to the internet in my hotel room.
- October 12, 2012@ Modo,
You just need to connect it to your PC for one time to access to the router via http address stated in the quick setup guide with its default username and password. Then set your wifi passcode and it’s done! This is a one-off thing so you just need to plug it with the LAN cable provided by your hotel room in future, choose the wifi network appeared in your iphone or ipad, key in the wifi password you just set and you are ready to surf net!!
Hope that helps.
- October 12, 2012