Hello Team, as a very excited Gl iNet fan i was thinking if we can make a list for the Team what we need or what we would buy. Lets collect here so maybe we get them
My devices so far 3x Spitz GL-X3000 & 1x Spitz (GL-X750) & 1x Puli (GL-XE300) so i am very much on cellular stuf
What would make me buy more Gl-X3000 is:
Wifi 7
eSim - these days in europe we use nearly 90% esim when we travel. so if the router has eSim functionality it would be very cool (real esim not with a Hardware Sim that simulate eSim)
2.5gbps ports on all coming devices
a Switch (aktiv/passiv) with 6-8 2.5gbps ports with USB c as charger
Please share what else you would love to have in this Topic
To be honest, what is wrong with getting a GL-inet eSim and placing that inside the router? I see very little disadvantages to that. A major advantage is being able to still swap the (e-)sims to another unit in case once were to break.
I am a very lazzy customer... i would use hardware esim only as emergency solution and in normal case i would just wait till the manufacturer drop a device with esim integrated
I would like gl-inet to make a small form factor managed switch with at least one 2.5gbps port and preferably 4 x 2.5gbps ports. USB C powered.
Something to compete with this awesome little guy.
What exactly would you want to see that would make it compete with the Ubiquity switch? It wouldn’t make much sense to just create a copy without any improvement. So far you have suggested 4x2.5G ports (Flex Mini as 5x ports) and USB-C powered (Flex Mini has this).
personally as a Unifi switch user myself, my biggest hate love relation is their controller software
on one hand it is simple for a centralized place, but on the other hand if server gives up you set yourself up to a single point of failure.
when I first bought a few of these switches I would have thought these switches keep untouched when the controller is offline, nope all switches automaticly roll back to factory until the controller is up again and the adoption process happens (sometimes it doesn't lol).
I think if this could be smarter designed with the same cost ratio like the flex it would be a really nice competer
I've never had this issue with my unifi 8 port. My controller is hosted on my VPS, and sometimes my wire guard connection between the home and VPS server fails for long periods and it's never reset.
It only happens with the vlans for me, and then I'm via the Android app.
I think on the web ui it may work better, I had a few times this going bad, today I restarted my PVE server which allong runs also the controller no issue so far.
Actually same! Really think TP-Link TL-SG105E with 2,5Gbps poorts and perhaps the ability to be powered with PoE otherwise USB-C.
Netgear MS305E-100EUS is pretty big. D-link DMS-105 is nearly there, but not managed or such.
Unifi made their Flex Mini 2.5G pretty much in a nice sweet spot... Tiny, easy to power, all the wanted features... But to be honest, I dunno if GL-inet is going to be the manufacture making such a switch...
I'm currently exploring these devices for garden house + camera, but from my own experience either the product has to less flash and discontinued in OpenWrt.
The best I could find are the Devolo Magic 2 wifi next, but the drivers are completely locked behind a license, so no way to original obtain them in OpenWrt.
However there is a script which extracts the necessary data ipk packages via binwalk out of the firmware binarys, but yea.... with opkg to apk it will be a nightmare to automate such thing.
a complete solution would be a much better thing imo.
