Flint 3 (GL-BE9300) Firmware

Not really, I just wanted to know what improvements I can expect in the next firmware version. Thank you.

config_swap is disabled so no swap

thats very annoying

Using the router’s firmware for swap could cause a damaging amount of reads and writes for storage that is not intended for that. I suspect this is a design decision to prevent long-term failures.

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I agree but disabling it in ther kernel config isn’t t he way

anybody that can get here should be-allowed todo as they please

also you can/should swap using a reasonably fast usb storage device

You can - flash the device with OpenWRT. Just don’t expect warranty or support if you do something dumb.

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I agree with @packetmonkey

Using swap is generally not a useful thing on IoT devices. Please keep in mind that the biggest group of buyers are just consumers. So if you have special wishes about the firmware, you can use vanilla OpenWRT, or you need to stick with what you got.

Another way you can go: Replace AGH with some other DNS server (like a Pi-hole, for example) or by an DNS service that blocks requests.

You can not use vanilla openwrt- on the BE9300

it is not supported due to QUALCOMM proprietary sdk,and openwrt-ipq does not have support for the miami platform (yet)

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True, it is still in development.

I tried Astrowarp in my Flint 3.
It works but also cut my internetspeed by 30% (up and down).
After disabeling this cloud service my speed is still cut by 30% so obvious a firmware problem.
After restoring (via Luci) my previous settings it is back to normal.