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Who knows but if that's the case even more perplexing they'd just throw away all that hard work, the Brume 1 is getting quite old after all and they'll stop supporting it fairly soon I guess.

At the very least can we please have a non crippled firmware from gl.inet that's capable of actually working with wifi? As glinoob has proven even when the wifi device is recognised there's missing pages and other odd behaviour, they seem to have removed things for wifi that work with the other routers and was better left alone.

@alzhao -> There's an op24 version being worked on for the MT3000 which is basically an identical device to the MT2500 +wifi (and that massive outer case of course which is the main problem but chipwise etc it's very close), when the MT2500 gets a turn for op24 can we PLEASE get the uncrippled version with the wifi support left intact?! Since this involves LESS effort than screwing around with it to take things out no one at gl.inet can complain that's extra work, far from it, it saves you time and reduces support complexity since both devices would have basically the same code. That still leaves us with no official wifi chipset support but at least things wouldn't be broken for the wifi chipset already proven by glinoob to work and without missing wifi pages - or better yet tell us what wifi chipset the MT3000 is using and we can try and find devices using that which would work fine.

I remember when the AR300M got released (was it NINE? years ago?) and I was very impressed, bought one immediately, never thought I'd be waiting what's fast approaching a decade from them to release their second travel sized router. The AR300M is still a current product even after all this time because it still sells well - it does so because there is absolutely nothing gl.inet sell that's even remotely close to that true travel size, only thing vaguely close is the Brume 2 which has been sadly neglected (and given some of the deals I've seen recently it probably isn't selling that well?). Who would have thought releasing their smallest travel sized product in many many years and then NOT giving it wifi would have caused sales to be far lower than they would have been? Oh hang on, actually...

I'd genuinely love to be in the room when gl.inet come up with their new product ideas to see where everything goes wrong, someone needs to speak up and put forward the 'shocking' idea that every new product doesn't have to be even larger than the last, is well out of hand now.

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