Hey guys, I think you can continue your discussion on PM.
Let’s talk about the Slate 7 Pro here.
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I guess if we want tri-band WiFi 7 and no screen on a travel router, we’ll have to wait for the Beryl 7 Pro 
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Looks like mostly the same specs (except for the screen on top, 6G and 1GB of flash vs 512MB on the base model)? Would be worth it to me if they increased memory and/or finally enabled swap in the OS.
When is this Slate 7 Pro going on Super Early Bird sale?
I assume there will be a beta test before 
Would be great if gl.inet would provide rough timelines
I hope they do, it is strange because for the Mudi they did, but for the Beryl 7 they did not, I litterly was waiting for the countdown 
, but Beryl 7 seem to be also earlier released for china only, it does follow a different marketing path for some reason.
I hope marketing keeps the early bird stuff 
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Hopefully someone from gl.inet can chime in and provide assistance on Slate 7 PRO
Hi
The beta testing for the Slate 7 Pro has already started, and pre-orders are expected to begin in early Q2.
There isn’t much more to share regarding the timeline at the moment, so please stay tuned for updates via email or other channels.
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Thanks Will
Does the Slate 7 Pro support 320MHz?
I think you could probably infer it from the Wi-Fi speeds, so the answer is yes — Slate 7 Pro supports 320 MHz.
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The specifications for the Slate 7 Pro have been released; when can we pre-order it?
I would suggest to sign up for the mailing list as the best way to get notifications for when pre-orders will start in your region.
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Rant Warning
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Everything looked great until the sudden screeching sound tires comning to a sudden halting stop brought me back to the following sad reality:
Am I on candid camera? You have got to be effing kidding me… The one redeeming quality GL.iNet has over their competitors stems from having OpenWRT readily available from factory in their router lineup. And while I completely understand the favorite “justification” use as a way for us to accept the mutilation of what otherwise would’ve been a fantastic device by using your always so frequent excuse as a reasonable excuse:
All GL.iNet router firmware is based on OpenWrt while featuring additional proprietary features and software. Please note that certain router models run on an older OpenWrt version due to restrictions with the SDK provided by our chipset manufacturer.
NOT ACCEPTABLE and shame onl GL.iNet.
Slate’s 7 sanopshott of openwrt (23.05) already feels outdated and tired, and that’s not even considering the current version is 25.12, The mere idea of trying to convince us that the Slate 7 Pro being shipped with the even older 21.02 is something we can just shrug off as nothing tells us how ridiculous things are. Chipsets by Mediatek don’t wanna play nice with OpernWrT Too bad, that’s their problem, and you should go with other manufacturers with better components, i.e.,. Qualcom’s 2 GHz offerings, instead of the crappy cheap stuff the Pro will be shipped with.
The “one good thing” coming out of this:
(1) If you have the Slate 7, TRUST me, the Pro’s novelty will wear out pretty quickly and you will probably decide to return it and ask for a refund, or regret keeping it. You will not feel very “pro” by using a 5+ year old outdated version of OpenWRT (hey, why not use Android 11 too?) and all the implications of using such and old core system will carry., In that sense, no incentive here to upgrade from the slate 7, so THANKS BUT NO THANKS; and
(2) If the time for upgrading an old router to one of the newer model is coming soon, my advice to you is avoiding the Pro like the plague, Do your wallet and yourself a favor and go for the way more affordable Slate 7 featuring and more current core system, which is not really that new. There’s clearly zero incentive whatsoever for spending more money to end up witht a cheaper quality processor and a painfully outdated version at its core. I don’t care how shiny and fake the photoshopped renders look, nor how deceiving the marketing copy is being used in their page description (been through that before).
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PS: GL.iNet team here, please don’t take the frustration expressed in this message as a personal attack targeted directly at you (not at all!). Most here are aware, you probably had little to do when making such poor choices with the components being chosen, a direct hit of looking to get more revenue by decreasing costs. Please know that I still regard GL.iNet’s devices as one of the better choices in the market at their price range, confirmed by the fact of being a fan and loyal customer of your products for years (I’m in my 3rd router!). Nonetheless, please understand my disappointment and frustrations are genuine and they still persist, and as such, this ought to be taken ias customer feedback for the company’s sake, as I’m positive that I am not alone in the sentiment, for whatever that’s worth. Other than that, you’re still great 
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Qualcom support for OpenWRT is even worse. You get no hardware acceleration as the drivers are closed source using vanilla OpenWRT is limited to CPU forwarding only. As such Qualcom devices are even more limited to the Qualcom SDK OpenWRT version that Qualcomm supply.
The Mediatek devices will eventually get upstream vanilla OpenWRT support WITH hardware acceleation, but this takes time. If you want to be mad, be mad at Mediatek, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Rockchip, Realtek, NXP etc for not pushing code upstream into the open source drivers, firmware and Linux kernel, and only providing tools, code and drivers to their chip customers that work with such old versions. None of them do any better than any other with this.
PRE-ORDERS are LIVE for SLATE 7 PROOOOOOO! 
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Got my order in! 
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Also, just a request but it would be nice for a option to turn of the screen to minimize power use. Maybe also give a option to link it to the switch
Asking a question. What form of MLO is the 7 pro capable of? I assume it is STR-MLMR as that is what the slate 7 is capable of. But it would be nice to have confirmation.