GL-MT6000 improvements suggestion

Hi guys!
Using this wonderful router for two days, latest stable firmware (upgraded via standard UI automatically).

What a great device! Thanks for basing this on OpenWRT and adding AdGuard Home to a dedicated section in main router UI.

I have several suggestions to make this beast even better:

  1. It would be good to have a possibility to expose AdGuard Home through another dedicated port as well, bypassing the main UI login routine. A way to enable that would be to ask user to set a user and a password which would go to AGH settings yaml file. So basically you would be still able to go through main UI, or go straight to a dedicated port and use a separate user for that instead. This would be very useful for using separate mobile apps for controlling AGH.
  2. It would be great to setup several WireGuard clients for different clients. For example, one instance can be used to route a Smart TV to a different country, and my main PC could go the other route, simultaneously.

Cheers :slight_smile:

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the beast, Lol :rofl:

Thanks for your suggestion, I will collect your requirements.
Both of them are good advice I think. Thanks.

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That would be an awesome addition to the gl.inet firmware. Multiple VPN clients and VPN policies.

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Make PPPoE for WAN stable!
Add support for fast roaming (both 802.r and 802.s)
Make possibile to forse the speed of an interface

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Can't your #2 item already be accomplished with VPN policies?

Edit: I see what you mean, you want the router to be a client to multiple wireguard providers. You can do this if you configure one VPN client as a wireguard connection and a second as an OpenVPN client, but I do not believe it will support multiple wireguard client instances as you suggest.

I would like my 2.5GB ports to work as they keep dropping off. More of a technical bug that a request though.

However, I would say having the OS running with the latest build of OpenWRT would be ideal.

If we are using a 1GB port as a WAN port, can we have the details of the PPPoE visible on the portal page like what is shown when the 2.5GB ports are used as a WAN port?

Could we also have the option to switch VPN connections periodically or when the router is restarted?

@BigTruck68 @meox Please let me know the 2.5G NIC chip model you are using.
If it is an ISP modem / switch, tell the device model (but better to find its 2.5G port hardware chip model).
If it is a client (like PC/Server), tell the 2.5G adapter chip model.

Like:
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oem44.inf:a9e8526eaa82070d:RTL8156Xx64.ndi.NT:10.61.327.2024:USB\VID_0BDA&PID_8156&REV_3104

Flint 2 has the OP24 firmware.

Currently not supported display the PPPoE info in the GL GUI if the LAN change to work as WAN.

May I know what use scenario or situation require that?

I have this one:
https://www.belkin.com/it/p/adattatore-da-usb-c-a-ethernet-da-25-gb/INC012btBK.html

If possible, please ask the CS of the Belkin to further know especially 2.5G NIC hardware chip model.

Has the OP24 got a preset GUI for easy configuration?

Switching VPN can be useful as some websites (such as reddit and amazon for example) block certain nordvpn servers. Others servers can be fine.

Yes, it does. It's the same "design" like on the MTK firmware.

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Is this on my PC? I have two PCs. I can post the details later. Both are Gigabyte AM4 motherboards.

The issue also happened when I have anything else connected to my router. So games consoles, phones via wifi lost internet when my modem is connected to WAN1. My main PC used to be on WAN2 (as LAN port).

I would say it is a 2.5GB port driver issue on the router as my devices work fine now since LAN2 is my WAN port.

Thanks for that. I will give it a try!

For what it is worth, I also have a 2.5Gbe Belkin adapter and it works without issues (except for one lesser-quality cable). I use the opn24 firmware flavor from the firmware download page, not the regular, which is based on OpenWrt 21.

Hi everyone, I noticed a bug that was also present in the previous version.
By accessing OpenWrt Luci, changing the 5ghz Wifi channel I noticed that by selecting channel 153 or 5765 Mhz, when I save the setting, I find channel 153 at 6715 ghz, look at the attached photo. As a result I do not detect any active wifi from my pixel 8 pro.
Were you aware of this?

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Just to confirm, OP24 now works fine when using my 2.5GB ports.

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Hello, @BigTruck68
could you just confirm on which build you are ?

Can you check the version of banIP package you can get , please ?
Thanks :blush:

I found myself in a similar situation, its indeed a bug on openwrt side, also happen on the latest master without the gl software.

Made a issue on github here. :wink:

Do you per chance have this option active in your configuration or use a exotic option?

list hostapd_options 'enable_background_radar=1'

Though it can be a different issue, currently openwrt is rewriting its code for wifi7 the mt6000 cannot support wifi 7, hopefully they can fix it soon :wink:

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It might take up to 10 minutes to scan for radar activity if DFS channel was chosen. During that period luci will show weird 5 GHz WiFi status.

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