Meet Flint 4

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The Flint 4 finally has a product page:

Apparently it features even faster wifi than the Flint 3.

Based on the BE14000 I expect:
2.4GHz: 802.11 b/g/n/ax/be, 2x2 @ 688Mbps,
5GHz: 802.11 a/n/ac/ax/be, 3x3 @ 4,323Gbps,
6GHz: 802.11 ax/be, 3×3 @ 8,643Gbps

So compared to the Flint 3, 2 more antennas allowing for 3x3 on 5GHz and 6GHz bands.

The backside features an SFP/10Gbps combo WAN-port, a 2.5Gbps WAN2 port, 3 2.5Gbps LAN ports and 4 more 1 Gbps LAN ports. Sadly no 10Gbps LAN port...

Apparently Flint 4 will get a fancy touch screen on it and there appear to be 2 ports on the side. My guess is USB-C and USB 3 based on the available images.

And it is powered by a MediaTek CPU. The precise type is yet unknown yet.

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Hmm I only see the subscribe page, is that what you ment? :face_savoring_food:

I expected a product page :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Here is some more info:

And I believe there was also a video

To me it looks like a really good upgrade :slight_smile:

Edit:

Updated the first link to properly navigate to Flint 4 part.

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This would be perfect for small home lab usage standalone.

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Sadly that's all there is for now. Over time it will start mentioning more and more. I did update my post to reflect all those things you mentioned, so it is all in one nice place.

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The ports do it for me for this :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:, as for now my Flint 2 has a single port for my full 2.5g network which can be a little tricky, I rather have my areas on their own ports.

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I was so hoping it would get a 10Gbps Wan AND a 10Gbps LAN so that I could keep the 10Gbps in my internal network switch or directly connecting to another Flint 4 … sadly it appears it’s not the case, and if so, it’s a huge miss by Gl.Inet team.

I see a WAN combo SFP or Ethernet witch is a great option, but for people wishing to get a full 10Gbps internal network, this will sadly not work, since LAN ports are at maximum 2,5Gbps and that is what I already get from my FLint 3.

Yeah, we can saturate the 10Gbps with several 2,5Gbps connections, but that’s not what I would expect from the Flint 4, my video edition desktop pc would not be able to get the 10Gbps that I want :frowning:

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I think if I would go for this, you can also have sfp ethernet copper module to keep this for wan, and then for this single rj45 wan port I would configure it as lan, it's not the best choice but still something.

I'm not sure if GL-iNet has plans in their ui to change it like that.

But another problem is is that these 2 ports seem to share the speed between, if I look to that youtube video.

I don't like such designs tbh, it will complicate vlans with this aswell because they are wired together as a single port, but they can still be seperated into invidual ports with vlan, but at the compromise you don't get the full 10gb speed but a little lower.

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