TP-Link's Roam 6 travel router is at its lowest tracked prices: $44.99 for the AX1500 and $69.99 for the AX3000, both at Amazon.
The AX1500 fell from $59.99, a $15 cut of 25%. The AX3000 fell from $79.98, a $9.99 cut of about 12.5%. The "up to 25%" billing applies only to the cheaper unit. Price trackers show both at record lows, the deal's author wrote.
Both models take hotel, Airbnb, or other public wifi and turn it into one private network. You connect the router once, then join your phone, laptop, tablet, and streaming stick through it instead of signing each device in separately. Both also support OpenVPN and WireGuard, two common VPN protocols, for routing traffic through a VPN.
The differences are in the specs. The AX3000 offers up to 2,402Mbps on the 5GHz band and 574Mbps on 2.4GHz, against 1,201Mbps and 300Mbps on the AX1500. It handles up to 80 devices instead of 60. It also adds a 2.5Gbps WAN port (the jack that takes the incoming internet connection) and USB 3.0 for tethering, a USB modem, or file sharing. The AX1500 keeps Wi-Fi 6, Gigabit Ethernet, and USB tethering.
Most of that is ceiling, not floor. Those speeds describe the router's wireless link, and the hotel's connection upstream usually sets the real limit. The deal's author concedes that none of the upgrades fix bad hotel internet. Sixty devices is also more than most travelers will ever pair at once.
That makes the AX3000 a niche pick: someone with a fast wired connection, a pile of devices, or a need for file sharing over USB. A solo traveler with a laptop and a phone gets the same core features from the AX1500 at the steeper discount.
The sale also nudges buyers that way. Before it, the two models sat $19.99 apart. Now the gap is $25.00.