I bought a Beryl AX (GL-MT3000) router in February in anticipation of my upcoming travel. I'm traveling now and the router seems to be crashing consistently.
Initially I thought it was because the firmware needed upgrade but even after upgrading to the latest version I have not been able to get the router to function normally. At times it runs for a few hours whereas at others it crashes and the LED turns off which made me think that it was a power brick issue.
Here's what I have tried:
Upgrade to latest beta version (4.6.3) via UBoot mode
Upgrade to latest stable version (4.6.2) via UI & via UBoot mode
Downgrade to 4.5.16 via UBoot mode & via UI
Used different power bricks, both Anker and Lenovo
Once the router is plugged in it either starts up fine or the power/activity LED remains off and it seems as if the router isn't booting at all. On connecting via UART you can see that the router is stuck in "DDR RESERVE Success 0" loop which it is sometimes able to break out of.
My problems started by being stuck with a solid blue LED, no DHCP, no ping on 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.8.1
I used the Uboot method to load the latest stable version
No change
I used the Uboot method to load 4.5.0
I was able to get it to ping 192.168.8.1 and was able to log into UI, but then it rebooted and has since been stuck in boot loop.
Ping comes up, I'm able to log in (if I'm quick), router reboots
I setup a macro to decrease my login time to try and see if I can get any info out of the UI before it reboots, but I haven't found anything useful.
Nah, after reaching out to support via email I was asked to ship back the router for investigation. But since it is a travel router and I was travelling, shipping costs were cost-prohibitive so I chucked this router in garbage.
Also, something to note here: If you're buying from AliExpress, and if you haven't bought from the official GL.iNet store, you're S.O.L. because support asked me to ship the router back to the vendor and initiate warranty claim through the vendor.
these gl-inet routers never should be on the same lan subnet as upstream (while it theoretical is possible dns rebind protection can also react).
but also a switch could be the cause of such lock up especially when some switches can behave broken and sent mac traffic reversed, then the router locks up because it sees a duplicate mac source address.
Have you tried to directly connect to router?
if you want to do a proper reset if a loop is present:
plug the power cord, place it in and right then press reset you need to time that really fast, as soon you see lights flicker you know you are good, there is a really small time to do that until openwrt boots and reset button does no longer respond cus being hostaged by the loop, and in very very rare situations also before boot openwrt it loops then use u-boot, that only happened once for me.
Often these loops are not common unless there was a misconfiguration or you updated packages/plugins which isn't recommended.
also Windows 11 can be the issue, i have had some minor annoyances lately but last time the only way to get proper connection was reset network on windows and then restart, my ipconfig /renew and ipconfig /release tricks had no effect anymore, litterly thought i bricked my redmi ax6s by just connecting to it, this happened when i multiple times changed networks on the machine, ipconfig /renew did not forced a dhcp renew the port kept disconnected on my machine, the weirdest thing i ever noticed on windows
I had this happen when I tried to power the Beryl AX from my laptop's USB port like I was able to do on my Opal model. When I use a proper 5v 3A wall plug for the power it works perfectly. Your power bricks may not be powerful enough. It took me a while to find some good ones. I got an Anker one. I doubt I would be able to power it from any of my powerbanks because they do not deliver 3A output I think.