Flint 4 release date?

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I watched the FLint 4 on CES 2026 video, it looks badass. specially with that nice screen,

Any guess when would be the release date?

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I think it will need some more time — hopefully before Q3 or Q4 this year.

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thanks. I’m not sure why GL.iNet released the Flint 3, as it’s noticeably weaker than the Flint 2. Most users don’t really care whether they can fully utilize the maximum capabilities; they simply want an upgrade that is objectively better and more powerful, regardless of whether they actually need it.

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True.

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It mainly depends on the Wi‑Fi speed upgrade.

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Apparently Flint 4 will come with 10 Gbps port shared with SPF+ and WIFI 7, so NOW we are talking, after years of requests for a more premium device.

I just hope they keep wifi 7 MLO, and VPN Speeds at 1.1 Gbps (like Beryl 7 at least). That would make the device perfect for EU markets.

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for me only the ethernet ports are interesting as a true upgrade to Flint 2 since I bottleneck my full network on this single 2.5gb port :slight_smile:

wifi is a fun gimmick on top but not neccessary for me, I think MLO will be still problematic due the nature how clients still have their own invidual implementations which can be off spec or not working at all, not all clients support MLO nor wifi 7 either, plus I use fast roaming and numberous reads learned me that fast roaming is one of the things which becomes incompatible with MLO, so it depends on MTK SDK or OpenWrt how they implement this :stuck_out_tongue:

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That is true, but MLO is still important. Even if buggy, it can be sorted later with firmware updates.
If I can get maybe up to 3 Gbps over Wifi 7 that’s still better than the 1.8 Gbps I get with Wifi 6 on Flint 2. Of course client has to support it, but we are discussing the router here.

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MLO is mandatory WPA3 and WPA3 already includes faster roaming as standard without 802.11r being required. WPA3 roaming should be pretty much the same roaming speeds as WPA2 with fast roaming enabled, so probably not a reason not to upgrade. :slight_smile:

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True, but I still like 802.11r because it is old, many devices even older ones still have a higher chance to support it, there is much more adoption to it if I look to my devices.

Problem with WPA3 is that it is not standardized, there is a much higher chance devices don't speak the roaming protocol from WPA3, and only support WPA3.

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Is there any news about which SoC it will use?
If it’s something already supported by Vanilla OpenWrt, will be amazing.

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I believe it’s there is talk of it being Mediatek which would mean it would (eventually) support vanilla OpenWRT, but anything could change as it’ still so far away.

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It seems not that far…

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I think the beta testing phase hasn't started yet

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I wouldn’t read too much into that

Exactly.

To have one physicaly in your hand I would expect Q4 at the earliest, but even 2027 seems more realistic to me personally.

Even once the beta starts, you could be months for pre-orders to start, and even when you pre-order could be months to actually receive one.

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Well, the beta test is not a pointer anymore.

I relate this to the Beryl 7, first of they had a much earlier release in china only and also the beta test was not known or on the list I know that because I had looked only now it shows, also there was no early bird either.

I guess it shows as example they trail also with testing, and to me it is not known if they do the same, I hope not :grinning_face:

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