You like the Velica design?
Yes. It's my wife`s opinion. And I think most women would love router without antennae than a router like spider. Haha
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Guess Marble would be awesome for your wife then. 
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As a long time Asus (Asus Merlin) user, many of the BE units are either stripped down to make them somewhat affordable or they are outrageous in pricing. To me, for GliNet to compete, a flagship model would need to be triband 4x4 2.4Ghz, 5Ghz, and 6Ghz. There would need to be 2 10Gbe WAN/LAN Ethernet ports. If there was an SFP+, I would need an adapter to Ethernet in my use case adding to the cost. Additional 2.5Gbe ports would be nice. I don’t need any fancy RGB lights or anything else to gussy it up. External antennas are fine. A usb-c port for external storage would be nice along with usb-a though an adapter to usb-c may be more cost conscious. A second unit released to be more cost competitive could reduce the 10Gbe to 2.5Gbe (still minimum 2 ports) and 6ghz could be cut. This is what Asus is doing with their BE88U and BE86U though the 86U is substantially more a bargain bin product unfortunately.
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I like the RT-BE88U to from what i have seen on youtube, but i wish they had more space, more something the flint 2 has would be amazing 
But currently wifi 7 nearly exists in OpenWrt, it will take a while for this to be stable i think.
If i compare the timeline between flint 1 (wifi 6) and flint 2 (wifi 6) maybe now it starts becomming fine tuned, flint 1 just got official openwrt support or atleast i saw a pull request for it recently (a few month old).
Considered flint 1 was around when wifi 6 just got out.
4 * 2.5G, 1 * SFP+, 1 * USB 3.1 type C and triband WiFi 7 will be a wet dream come true
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And the end boss for every power saving bill. 
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It would be nice to have a m.2 slot (or 2 for ssd as well) with usb support, for a 4-5g module, then it would be the perfect router, or at least an internal usb 2.0 connection for this purpose, so everything is in the case, maybe an opening for 4g antenna as well?
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A small affordable Wifi 7 router would be amazing. Hoping for it to have one 2.5GbE Wan and 1 2.5GbE LAN port, 6Ghz band, and maybe a 10Gbps USB C port for connecting external storage. The ability to use a VPN and to use it in simple AP mode (since many hotels have login screens). Would be game changing for me! I'm a flight attendant who is very often in Africa where their wifi AP's are using maybe 802.11n or something like that. Some hotels have ethernet ports. Thinking I could have a much better experience with a wifi 7 travel AP for my iPhone 16, wont help the slow speeds they have but at least I will get the full speed without losses due their aged AP's and the 2.4 and 5Ghz band being overwhelmed with AP's.
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Woooo, Is there an appearance like the MT-3000? WIFI 7, 2 * 2.5G
Wifi 7, Tri-Band and USB 3.1 and 2 x 2.5Gb ports would make it perfect and hopefully at a reasonably affordable price.
Of course with full OpenWrt support 
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Unfortunately, we have to wait. At the moment, the market for Wi-Fi 7 routers is really poor...
Let's hope that the work on Flint 3 will go smoothly, and that it will have additions, not shortcomings compared to its predecessors. Starting with Wi-Fi 7 all the way to full support for OpenWrt
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For me i rather stay on flint 2, but if flint 3 has insignificant more cpu power, and may also have extensibility like nvme m.2 support then it's becomming interesting 
For me wifi 7 is not really interesting, since the highest speed my equipment can do with isp is 1gb/s, plus wifi 7 is new this means you automaticly become a tester for something very new, most routers using wifi 7 used all kinds of hacks prior when the wifi 7 standard was not entirely known, and some ppl complained about compatibility problems.
I prefer stability over wifi 7 especially on a main router, as for openwrt im sure it also take some time, if i would go for wifi 7 it's better to have a bit lower expectations for stability open source is often slower and sometimes it's also waiting on linux.
^ also none of my devices support 6ghz, but for future proofing i can wait
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Full OpenWRT support even for next year is a wishful thinking 
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for me, wifi7 is nothing so much interesting. I'd like to have 2x10GE, 4x2.5GE and a stronger CPU and run multiple wireguard instances at the same time. Switching to a USB-C PD power supply would also be cool
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Could be good for WiFi 7 when watching movie 4k or 8k in local media server. 
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Maybe, this depends on the protocol aswell.
If it are those older type streams some isps supply with igmp etcetera then you have still the issue of wifi being half duplex you need udpxy to turn it into unicast.
On the other hand if its just doing a web stream it often just works fine, for this i actually think it can be really good use case especially if you stream only from wifi to wifi exclusively and not over cable which bottlenecks the wifi chip due to the internal switch being lower at capacity.
Both ends must use wifi 7 if you want to use the speed to full potential
Check the product page. GL-BE3600 / Slate 7 Is coming soon.
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Those little x86 boxes often have the troublesome i226 2.5GbE controllers ... lots of bugs in the hardware ... I personally would avoid. If they had less problematic ethernet controllers I would be very interested.
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This is very good news. I hope it will appear on the market soon.
I have all mobile routers from GL.iNet from model MT1300. I'm waiting until I can add this one to my network.
However, I am most looking forward to Flint 7 with support for Wi-Fi 7 and 5 x 5 Gbps Ethernet ports.
@alzhao Is a router with Ethernet 5Gbps ports possible this year? I saw that Realtek is already selling 5Gbps network cards for USB and PCIe.