As I have said time and time again: FedEx does not deliver “for free”. The SMS is the invoice (or the link for payment) - the correct one comes either by e-mail or letter.
If you have a FedEx account, you can also see the invoice amount there.
Just because you didn’t have to pay anything on delivery doesn’t mean it was free of charge… 
Just wondering whether the stock firmware is better for performance than the openwrt as it appears to be build specifically for the MT6000 and bugs when identified seem to be addressed.Any thoughts/ tests done to investigate this.
Does the OpenWRT version just look like Luci or does it have an easier to use UI ?
No easier GUI.
OpenWrt uses luci and SSH.
I’m currently using an OpenWrt snapshot and perfomance is the same or in some cases better, since there’s less processes running and more bugs have been fixed. Plus all of the packages are up to date.
If you install an OpenWrt snapshot then it won’t have any UI until you install LuCI. Although you should be able to customise the packages via the firmware selector so that it comes with LuCI, Adguard Home, DDNS and Attended Sysupgrade.
adguardhome bind-host bridger base-files busybox ca-bundle ca-certificates curl dnsmasq dropbear e2fsprogs f2fsck firewall4 fstools kmod-crypto-hw-safexcel kmod-gpio-button-hotplug kmod-leds-gpio kmod-mt7915e kmod-mt7986-firmware kmod-nft-offload kmod-usb3 libc libgcc libustream-mbedtls logd luci luci-app-attendedsysupgrade luci-app-ddns mkf2fs mt7986-wo-firmware mtd netifd nftables odhcp6c odhcpd-ipv6only opkg ppp ppp-mod-pppoe procd procd-seccomp procd-ujail uboot-envtools uci uclient-fetch urandom-seed urngd wpad-basic-mbedtls
You won’t be able to setup the router wirelessly though, since WiFi is disabled by default.
Only ever flash the Sysupgrade image. Flashing anything else can cause issues if you mess something up.
And when setting up Adguard Home be sure to listen on all interfaces, otherwise the service might fail to start and web pages won’t load.
I find the UI is nice and easy to use and if you want to do anything more advanced use LuCi. It is what I have been doing.
Im thinking they are going to fix the 2.4ghz speed problems faster than GL iNet, ive got no issue at all with the 5ghz, I used WiFi analyser and set 160mhz channel 128 (DFS) which is well clear of anything anyone else is using in my area, but the 2.4ghz is kinda very busy, I mean…hell…my 5G mobile data is 5 times faster.
The firmware selector would build a new build rather than sysupgrade build?
Is the first step is to download sysupgrade from snapshot page ans then upgrade via luci of MT6000? or make a bulid and then upgrade
Tested power usage. 7.5w once booted. Old Asus was 2w!
Heat from underside is quite high! I added some additional ‘feet’ to the underside to increase the airflow.
Hopefully continued work on drivers and firmware may reduce the heat and power usage.
After you change the installed packages and click on the request build button it’ll eventually refresh the page with custom links for your image. So then you’d click on the sysupgrade button, which should download your custom image from sysupgrade.openwrt.org.
You can make a custom build and then flash it from LuCi or GL.iNets firmware upgrade page. Both work.
Is it correct that if adguard home is to listen all interfaces including wan then you are exposing it to public wan broadband rather than if only listening on LAN?
No, since it wouldn’t get past the firewall. And it’s also setup to listen on all interfaces in the stock firmware.
There’s an info page that can help, although they instruct you to listen only on the routers IP address (192.168.1.1). But if you do this then it will result in the service sometimes failing to boot due to a race condition.
same experience. im just using basic configurations such as adguard home and tailscale but the temperature is already high especially at the underside. i just used a laptop stand for it to get better air ventilation
41C in my case, no problem from my point of view
Do you use the newest firmware?
Im using 4.5.4 beta. Thats the latest right?
Actually, FW 4.5.4 is now the latest stable release.
My eero Pro 6 gateway would typically use 7.7W and maybe 2x that when it’s under load. And the eero is trash when it comes to functionality, so IMO 7.5W with a lot more functionality is pretty good.
I wouldn’t worry about it too much, since the Flint 2 has plenty of thermal pads and a big heatsink.
To have HW offloading in openwrt - it is needed to choose both sw and hw offloading and when i choose sw offloading hw option disappears?
Yes, you need both enabled for hardware offloading to work. That’s why the hardware offloading option is hidden if you uncheck software offloading.
The only other setting that I’ve found to be beneficial is WED. Everything else doesn’t do anything to improve speeds on my line.
