Can I do this with the Flint 2? Use case for the internal storage?

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I'm just wondering if this use case is possible to set up as I think Flint 2 can do. I want to set it up as a repeater. I think at least half the bandwidth is gone? The home is connected with a gigabit fiber optic plan. If I have about 500Mbps to play with, it'll be perfect. Then I want to connect a 5G cellular modem or Starlink to the first WAN port as a backup solution. If the repeater fails for what reason, it'll then default to the next WAN connection. Since there is a second WAN, can I plug in a Starlink? So if the repeater from the gigabit fiber and 5G cellular connections fail, it'll then fall to Starlink. How do I set this up?

Can any of the LAN ports be reassigned as a WAN with GL.iNet's GUI?

Thank you!

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It should be no problem at all; you can reassign LAN ports to WAN. See:

You can choose the order of the links to be used: Multi-WAN - GL.iNet Router Docs 4

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Sorry, I'm still a little confused. So if I have a repeater, 5G cellular modem, and Starlink, I set the priority as such. A repeater is a repeater, and a 5G modem is cellular. What would the interface for Starlink be called?

So if I'm reading your post correctly, you're telling me I can have 6 WANs since you said the 4 LANs can be reassigned as WANs? Of course, I know the 4 LANs/WANs can only operate at up to GbE speed.

If I have 6 WANs, then I'll be able to assign the priority for all 6 of them? Can the Flint 2 easily handle that?

The marketing mentions plenty of storage and I know there are 8GB. However, what are the use cases such as the plugins that were referenced in the marketing?

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WAN 1 / WAN 2 - because it will be Ethernet.
Only 1 LAN port can be flipped to WAN by UI. You can flip all of them if you go plain OpenWrt without GL adjustments.

So the maximum with stock GL firmware would be:

  • Repeater
  • WAN 1
  • WAN 2
  • Tethering
  • Cellular (5G Modem mostly, depends on brand)
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When you say go plain OpenWRT, then I guess that means I'll have to flash the router and eliminate the GL.iNet GUI?

The document's screenshot looks slightly different since there are 5 interfaces. So I'll see Ethernet 1 and Ethernet 2 in the GUI? So Starlink will use one of those slots and then use the 5G modem with cellular or should that also be Ethernet?

The marketing mentions plenty of storage and I know there are 8GB. However, what are the use cases such as the plugins that were referenced in the marketing?

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Someone can correct me but IIRC Starlink uses Etherenet.

That seems like something that'd have to be done with pure OWRT.

Your questions are growing more sophisticated. It'd be best to keep ea. thread to one topic at a time otherwise things will meander quite badly.

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