Hi all. I plan to buy two Flint 3 routers for an apartment I’m moving to that I’m assuming doesn’t have/won’t allow physical Ethernet wiring between the rooms. It seems like the Flint 3 has been having some reliability issues that are slowly being ironed out with firmware updates.
My questions are:
Is it possible to create multiple VLANs? If yes, it is straightforward through the GUI or do I need to learn CLI operations? Coud you please point me to a guide?
Does the router support WiFi Bridge mode where I can have the main router connected to the gateway for internet and serving WiFi connections in 3 bands, and the second router would wirelessly connect to the main router on the 6 GHz band to access Internet/LAN but only provide wired connectivity to multiple nearby devices, without functioning as an AP because I don’t want it to impact the overall bandwidth like typical wireless mesh does? If yes, can anyone provide a guide on how to do this?
It sounds like you're going to want to adapt the following HOWTO for a couple of different VLANs & AP/SSIDs assigned to different radios. I would suggest looking at the Flint v2 (GL-MT6000) however. The HOWTO will still work & the Flint v2 is fully supported by 'pure'/'vanilla' OpenWrt if/when you find yourself needing to go beyond the limitations of a SOHO-style 'appliance' approach to networking.
Oh, that makes sense. Well, it took ~2 years for the OWRT devs to work around Qualcomm's proprietary SDK in the Slate AX (GL-AXT1800) travel router. The QSDK is also used OOTB on the Flint v3. Maybe one day it'll be supported if/when you need it.
Re: Wi-Fi bridge
Sorry; no, I don't. I have a rather heavy bias against Wi-Fi. I just don't care for it for advanced topologies. I'd rather run Cat 6+. I can tell you the stock GL.iNet firmware supports 'extender' mode. I've never used it but I like the fact we both know that's really a Wi-Fi bridge. How well that'll play with addn'l VLANs I really couldn't tell you but I'd expect some pain points.