Flint 3... when?

Technical Support for Routers
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Any news about a new Flint 3 with Wi-Fi 7 and all of its features?

What do you think could be its release date?

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Easy! Let me look into my crystal ball for a moment. :crystal_ball:

Oh, bad signal - sorry. :no_entry_sign:

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lmao If your ball had Wi-Fi 7 it could have received the information despite network congestion

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Brume 3 next year… :wink:

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10G ports

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Hopefully not. 10 Gbit ports use way to much power.

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It might be based on the Filogic 860 SoC :thinking:

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Dang. I don't even have my Flint 2 in its semi-permanent place yet.

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but look how pretty it could be:

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Lol that's a good one :sweat_smile::rofl::sweat_smile:

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I like that it doesn't have any holes on the top, unlike the Flint 2. But I think the USB port on the side is a misstep, since people have been asking for that to be on the back of the router since the original Flint was released.

The power cable that come with the Flint 2 was way too short, so hopefully the Flint 3's is longer or it's using USB-C.

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I like its design. Very clean router.

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Three things

  1. Powered through USB-C port
  2. Support USB-C for external drive
  3. Change that side port to USB-C for phone modem
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no, it's not.
and qualcomm ipq53xx

and it looks like it will come with kernel 5.4.213

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USB 3.x ports must be placed far away from the antennas.

I'm using this adaptor and the Flash Drive can be positioned fantastically well.

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that is sad. no vanilla openwrt means we will rely on the closed source patches which may only come if qualcomm wants to

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knowing how qualcomm are responsible for the lack of long term support for so many android phones and how much waste that causes i am not happy about this decision

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not until they release the blobs for open source development, this won't be a good device. next gen Flint after this might be the better choice

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I would wait a year before even thinking of buying a Flint 3, because you'll be dealing with very buggy firmwares for the first year. Flint 2 has been out for two years and it still has bugs.

Furthermore, most people won't need Wifi 7 for at least 5 years. Wifi 5 came out over a decade ago and many business and people still use AC Wifi 5 routers.

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