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That looks extremely similar to some TP-Link MR3020's I got on Amazon for about $15/each. I can't imagine the software is worth that much extra, especially since it's just some open-source slapped together (probably running on OpenWRT -- that's what I put on mine). That said, I wonder where I can download the source.

The lack of 5 GHz is because, IIRC, these little routers are 2.4 GHz only.

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It is the MR3020. The marketing image has the mode switch photoshopped out in an obvious way. The videos actually show the switch in place.

This one supports 5Ghz : https://www.gl-inet.com/ar300m/

but : Dual firmware is installed. Nor firmware is v2.25 without 5G driver. Nand firmware is built with LEDE and have 5G driver. Due to a unknown Bug, the 5G AP is disabled by default and you can enable it in the web UI. (according to https://gl-inet.com/product/gl-ar300md/ )

The MR-3020 is $30/each on Amazon and software is worth a lot more than the hardware :-) Hardware is commodity, Software is eating the world https://a16z.com/2016/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world...

I bought their device after I saw it at DEFCON and there is some good value addition in there with custom sniffer programs, channel hoppers etc. You could set some of it up yourself but I think getting it to work stably will be an issue. They've tied everything in pretty well.

Personally - it rids me of the pain of having to install Vmware, Kali and and have na external Wi-Fi card. I manage Wi-Fi deployments and this is easy to use with Wireshark.

I remember them mentioning at their DEFCON booth that a 11ac version (5GHz) is launching sometime soon. Waiting for it!

In User Manual video they connect to the device and it shows some info about it. The core is certainly what you guessed.

Model: TP-Link TL-MR3020 v1 Firmware: OpenWrt Barrier Breaker 14.07 / LuCI (0.12+svn-r10530) Kernel: 3.10.49

A lot of newer products use existing hardware platforms (esp. from startups) to get around FCC requirements. I had a look at the more detailed technical demo and it clearly looks like it adds a lot of value.

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