I want to upgrade it to use in a three storey home with concrete floors.
I am currently using the Beryl for this.
It is set up as a repeater that gets the upstream internet from another external AP, then it serves its own networks.
It is all good and well: except I want more range and speed.
Would a Flint be an improvement over it (by providing the same basic capabilities of being a repeater and an AP at the same time?)
Or what would you recommend otherwise?
Unless you have wifi 7 clients, I'd recommend the Flint 2. Love that router! Great range, more reach than the Byrel MT-3000 (which, imho, is the best travel router!)The interface of the Flint 2 is almost a copy and paste of the Byrel.
The home routers are almost certainly going to have better range than their travel counterparts. Just be sure to check the antenna's positioning.
Anything device can be wall mountable if you've got access to a 3D printer. Eg:
I'd heavily consider the Flint v2 (GL-MT6000). It already has native/'vanilla'/'pure' OpenWrt builds optionally available of the latest OWRT (24.10) directly from GL.iNet so you don't have to worry about firmware/OS longevity or should you find yourself limited by GL.iNet's firmware, customizations & need to get into some advanced networking some unforeseen time in the future. That was a helluva run-on sentence, wasn't it?
Most, if not all of the, home routers can be wall mounted. There should be a couple of '<=O' drywall screw/nail slots on ea. side of the base. See below, this is the Flint v2:
The antenna's fixed right angle might be bothersome when wall mounted. If that's the case the Beryl AX's antennas have more rotation if used as a AP/Extender. Just find a nice wall mount to print for it. It also has native builds of OWRT available from OWRT themselves.
Downloads of Native OpenWrt 24 Firmware (Flint v2, GL-MT6000)
Due to certain performance and compatibility issues with the open-source drivers for the model, firmware version 4.6.0 will utilize the MTK SDK to ensure a better user experience. If these issues are resolved in the future, we will revert to the Native OpenWrt version with the open-source driver. For customers preferring the open-source driver, we will provide a synchronized Native OpenWrt version labeled 4.x.x-opxx, based on the OpenWrt main branch with kernel version 6.6.x. The MTK SDK will be used for their 4.x version. We will continue to address bugs in the open-source version and will make it the main line if it eventually outperforms the closed-source
