I know, but it's not a turnkey solution.
Agree the BPI is a kit router not a consumer product
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My UCG fiber take a NVME ssd but it can only be used for storing logs and surveillance videos and nothing else, no other consumer /prosumer grade router offers these functions afaik unless it’s a make it yourself solution.
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I wonder why the max 2.4ghz speed is so slow.
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It's likely a 2x2 design. It's not a big deal as 2.4GHz is sufficient for most use cases. If you need more capacity, move over to 5GHz and 6GHz. You'll also experience less interference.
Yeah, Ubiquiti sort of blew it because the SSD could be used for more purposes.
I don’t like the spread of the artificial segregation in pro and non-pro. The base version of a high(er)-end router should have headroom for a couple of years. My experience over the past 20 years tells me that 1 GB of RAM will severely limit this modern MediaTek CPU in the near future.
If we get more sophisticated DPI features, it will certainly eat additional memory.
GL-inet is clearly reluctant to mention this information in the marketing materials, unlike with the 64GB MMC.
Personally, I’d be willing to pay an extra $20 for 2 GB of RAM or even go for a 2GB RAM / 8GB MMC configuration for the same price. Maybe we could start a poll to see how many people feel the same way. Of course, only if we can still influence this decision.
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I agree with ya!
Since the beta testing has started, did anyone get their hands on the flint 4 yet?
I don't know, I am sorry.
I agree with what you said. Our team will re-evaluate the possibility of using 2GB in terms of supply and cost.
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Please, I've been complaining about this for a long time now with your other 2025 products. 1GB on a Slate 7 Pro felt like a missed opportunity. Calling it a Pro because it has 6GHz is ridiculous. I think most people would be better off with less eMMC and more RAM. I hope it's not too late to reconsider and give it 2GB of RAM. I'll buy the Flint 4 even if it costs a little bit more. I can't imagine an extra 1GB of RAM will cost that much money.
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It won’t cost much but would be very difficult so late in the product development cycle.
I think that's going to be the excuse. 2GB should have been the baseline right from the start. GL.iNet should have took their time since both the Flint 2 & 3 were both very capable routers. Guess we'll probably have to wait for the Flint 5.
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Just relax, the reply we got from @Dipin is the best possible outcome.
I see no reason to believe that these are just empty words. As long as it continues to use single LPDDR4 FBGA, the necessary adjustments to the PCB and firmware should be minimal.
I, for one, am looking forward to the release
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I wish they also added two separate 10Gb ports and not just a combo (use one disable the other).
10Gb Wan + 10Gb LAN was the dream scenario …. or at least a 5Gb LAN …. if we only get 2,5Gb LAN ports there is no gain from what we can already get from the Flint 2 or 3 from the cabled side.
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Check out the new specs and the back of the router, there are two separate 10Gbit ports:
1× 10G SFP+
1× 10G RJ45
There is no reference to a combo port anymore.
Technically, it could still be a combo port, maybe someone from GL-iNet could give us 100% clarity.
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I only hope the nics have proper HFO offloading.
At the moment I'm not so pleased with my Flint 2 even though it is a great piece of hardware, only the microcode is not working in my favor, but when I read the AI awnsers it seem that it is very common there are just alot of quircks in Realtek nics especially on heavy load, some of these features these nics posses can break the full network when the 2.5g is fully saturated until the delayed crash happen and no recovery is possible on wan and routing, only wifi remains untouched, a hard reboot is needed to fix it.
So the solution is to turn off HFO which goes against the whole potential the router has.
But this is on vanilla, but I think the same is possible on the Mediatek SDK, I ruled out bad STP switch priorities, port flapping, flow control but doing a multi cpu download like with steam breaks my network 
, but with moonlight (which I easily get 4tb in a week) never does that, the problem is the cause is not reported in the log.
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Have you tried with stock OpenWrt 25.12? it could be a problem with the driver used in the proprietary SDK
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I follow the master branch directly 
, but it seems the issue I'm having is one of those corner cases when you run a setup with 40+ devices on a single 2.5G port and then start creating high volume traffic with large packets, I have been looking to this but Realtek nics both on my pc but also the Flint 2 have something with Large Receive Offloading, I think truly it is one of these things which isn't working properly.
Though the expected behaviour should be that the router recovers back even when the download stopped, but it fails to get a ip from wan dhcp and basically all wired connections broke, I only manage to replicate it when downloading on steam other traffic will not break it.
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