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I've had very good experience with Gl-iNet products. They have good hardware, very good openWRT support (the official firmware is based on openWRT) and are beefy enough to be used as home routers even if they are marketed as travel routers.

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Do all GL-iNet products support mainline OpenWRT? or is there exceptions?

By comparing https://www.gl-inet.com/products/ with https://openwrt.org/toh/start?dataflt%5BBrand*%7E%5D=inet the OpenWRT support doesn't seem to be 100% but almost all of them are. I personally own an AR750S and a MT300.

Thanks! In your experience, are they reliable with OpenWRT? My experience with commercial routers and access points (consumer grade) is that they need rebooting about every month because they start failing silently (eg. lights still on but wifi cannot be detected by clients).

Yes very! I use the AR750S as my home router and I never had to reboot it manually in any situation.

Though the updating process can be more streamlined, I had to redo all my configuration when updating from openWRT 19 to latest 21 (could have been my own mistake during flashing, at least I have firmware updates).

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