I would stay away from new GL hardware. First they should sort out problems and support promised features with current hardware (i.e. S/B1300) and only then they should work on new hardware.
They promise Zigbee/BLE support on the new Cirrus, but they still haven’t really sorted it out on the Convexa models.
Mesh also doesn’t work as promised…
So for those of you considering this new shiney Cirrus model, please note that the hardware might be amazing, but the software will be buggy and lacking real support and some of the promised features.
I used to love GL.Inet routers, and have owned several successful models. But it seems they grew too fast, without employing enough manpower to support the software.
Newer models are amazing hardware but terrible software.
And the most annoying part is that if you cannot use “vanilla” Openwrt on these new QCA chips, because not all features are supported, and not all changes are merged back to the community.
GL.Inet blames QCA for using an outdated version of Openwrt (called QSDK), but I blame GL for taking a wrong decision in using these chips in new hardware. This kind of beats the idea of open source software… Using a proprietary version of Openwrt is just unacceptable.
Another thing, is that they claim these amazing Wifi speeds, but do not disclaim that its almost impossible to achieve these speeds with common client devices.
Not all mobile phone from past few years support real dual band AC wifi speeds. The same is for laptops, not to mention IP cameras and IOT devices which mainly use older Wifi protocols and only 2Ghz band.
So in theory, maybr these Access points support super speed wifi, in practice you won’t be able to use it and its a waste of money.
I think that they should at least state this somewhere in a clear manner.
In short, buyers beware.