Brume 3 or Flight for home gateway (and into mesh wifi)

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TLDR; Is the Brume 3 suitable as a main home gateway for a typical residential FTTP 500/60mbps setup OR is a Flint variation better given proper mesh is essential ?

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Im looking at migrating my setup from a 3 x Fritzbox 7530AX and 1 x repeater setup to GL Inet.

Currently i have a central Fritz 7530AX which connects to FTTP via PPPoE/ONT. It also runs analogue phone.

I then have 2 other Fritz and 1 repeater running in a mesh (via ethernet cable) to various signal dead spots in the house.

Im looking at 2 separate ways here:

As far as i understand no GL Inet products yet support EasyMesh or similar. That means if i got rid of the Fritz setup entirely id lose mesh handover/steering so devices are going to hang onto a weak or slower connection and so on. Is it true there is no support for that? Rapid handover is not the same - it wont affect the root cause of sticking on a less optimum router.

I considered a Flint 3e or 2 then using then having the wifi on that turned off and using the Fritzboxes as IPClient and running the mesh. (Also the analogue phone connection without a separate box).

Then decided if i have to disable wifi on the Flint anyway then a Brume 3 might be a better option running those same Fritz clients?

The gateway would run Adguard Home and AmneziaWGv2 servers (this is currently farmed out to a RaPi along with dhcp and various VPNs).

So questions:-

- is it correct no current products support proper mesh protocols other than rapid connect so i would lose steering?

Im trying to avoid the usual issue of devices sticking on 2.4ghz even with a strong 5ghz in range or staying on a weak node instead of jumping to a stronger one for far too long. Hence easymesh or similar.

- Is the better option a Brume or a Flint with WiFi disabled (would need to be disabled due to handover/wifi issues as above as far as i can tell).

I own a Beryl AX so far so familiar with its GUI and the console.

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Hi

Yes, we do not support Mesh functionality at the moment.

There are plans to add it for the BE9300 / BE3600 in the future, but there is currently no specific timeline available yet.

Regarding your questions:

Yes, band steering is also not supported.

Since you do not plan to use the Wi-Fi functionality, I think the main differences are only VPN and other third-party application performance (CPU performance), along with the number of ports.

In this regard:

  • Brume 3 has the best CPU performance, but only 3 × 2.5Gbps ports
  • Flint 2 has slightly lower CPU performance, with 2 × 2.5Gbps + 4 × 1Gbps ports
  • Flint 3e has the weakest CPU among the three, but offers 5 × 2.5Gbps ports

If port count is not a concern, I think the Brume 3 would be the best choice.

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Thanks for that clarification.

Ethernet ports arent an issue as it will go directly into a switch anyway so even 2 is enough.

Brume 3 looks like the best option for the project. I gather its slated to get 4.9 firmware and therefore receive AmneziaWG 4.9 at some point. In which case i can buy it, start rolling over the network and update that part from the Pi when it arrives.

Ill use my existing Fritz setup Mesh for now as it seems to work nicely and look at changing as/when/if required in the future.

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Yes, the Brume 3 will receive the v4.9 firmware update.

It already supports some v4.9 features, such as DPI and AmneziaWG 1.0. If you do not require AmneziaWG 1.5/2.0 at the moment, you can use it directly as is.