Thanks Bruce. I have plenty of time and I won’t ever think of leaving my Flint 2 for anything else, except for an better performing, solid and durable Flint NexGen. I used to have several routers from vendors like, Netgear, ASUS, the flagship FritzBox 7950AX, and many other provider-specific routers. When I came to know about the OpenWRT project, characteristics and features, I tried to install it on the above mentioned routers, none of which was compatible. It was a complete surprise when I discovered that there is a company named Gl-inet that manufactures devices already shipping with OpenWRT. So I made some other research and read tons of reviews until I finally decided to get a Flint 2, and I never regretted my decision! The out-of-the-box features like VPN, AdGuard, and Wi-Fi performance and stability are extraordinary. I retired my Pi-Hole device on a Raspberry and all the custom features I used to have in a all-in-one device (or almost).
My dream router is a Gl-inet router with the same robust features of the current Flint 2 but with a Fiber cable ingress and and telephony support so that I can ditch my provider’s upstream router forever and have one single device.
I have plenty of time and Wi-Fi 7 is not my priority. I already have a 40 euros Tenda BE6L Wi-Fi 7 router that performs quite good that I use as a repeater to reach my garage from my flat in the second floor to my garage below the street level. I do not like the way I am forced to manage this router and cannot wait to have a Flint 4 as my main router and my Flint 2 as a trusted repeater.