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If you don’t want to wait I recommend GL.iNet Flint 2 - based on newer Filogic 830 - works great - supported by openwrt

I have had good results with the GL.iNet routers too, but the "supported by openwrt" just means that GL.iNet pulled an old version of OpenWRT and hacked it up until it worked on their board instead of making their own OEM firmware. They're not upstreaming their patches or collaborating with OpenWRT, just kind of leeching off them.

I'm not even sure you can install vanilla OpenWRT on the Flint 2 yet.

In contrast, this is made by and with the OpenWRT dev team!

I think it is officially supported, but honestly I use firmware from GL.Inet web interface is great

Afaik it hasn’t reached OpenWrt stable yet

It looks like the patch was committed in late September [0] and the press release for the device is dated mid November [1]. So unless I'm reading things wrong they added support upstream before they released the product?

0: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=fe...

1: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/kn38opoklmwx22am6b1fm/h/Press...

using Qualcomm for wifi6 is mainly the reason why, their SDK is very picky, and kept out of tree on purpose

Is [0] not a patch adding support to OpenWRT?

It looks like the developer has committed previously to the Linux kernel as well, so they seem to be upstreaming at least some of their patches?

[0] https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=fe...

Was looking at this recently, but couldn't find any sort of range information. I have the Beryl (wifi 5 version) and it's good for a hotel sweet and that's about it. I would hope the Flint 2 would be better, but I can't find anything.

Typical range for a flagship single-access point solution I would say, previously I had portalwifi (from kickstarter) and flint 2 has better range

If you have 2+ story house you need a mesh.

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