Retired my Synology RT6600AX routers, and went for a pair of Asus BT8, the firmware was terrible but luckily they were openwrt compatible, so flashed stock openwrt on them which has been rock stable and with much improved wifi range, however openwrt has proved too technical for me and I've ended up with a completely no frills router set up.
So I've ordered a flint 4, but will need something else to use as an AP upstairs… with the RT6600AX I had the same upstairs and downstairs, with the Asus BT8 both units are the same… do I need to get another Flint 4 for upstairs or would something like a Flint 3 do? Whatever I use upstairs will be hardwired to the flint 4 and just used as an AP for the phones, TV's and games console via wifi in my daughter's room.
From reading your post, I think you want a all in one solution?
Then I think you can look into this page:
On the other hand... since you already have Asus BT8, maybe wait and first check if the flint 4 can cover the house fully, I see that both routers are tri-band but my suspicion is that the BT8 may has more interference due to how the antennas are enclosed in the casing, but what also counts is how isolated the house is, a very isolated house may not penetrate walls that good, I readed on the internet that for 6ghz it is known to suffer from really bad wall penetration often restricted to a single room, but it seem to perform very well under MLO.
I'm also not sure if more devices are going to get Astromesh
Thanks for that reply, astromesh looks similar to what the Asus had with its stock firmware, since moving to openwrt on them upstairs became a simple dumb AP and it worked fine, nothing really needs to roam, it's all tvs and my daughter's in there rooms on phones doing video calls etc.
I thought another Flint 4 would be overkill when I would only be using one Ethernet port, and all the VPN functions, DHCP etc will be turned off as the main router downstairs will be doing all that kind of work…
I thought the flint 3 would probably do the job better than a pocket travel router?
Honestly I have mixed feelings for that, most travel routers by GL-iNet are very over powered and can do just the same as the Flint 3.
Since it is more for extending (extender mode) or self made dumbap, there is not much routing involved that what I would think of, which mean those features for hardware accerelation are less utilised if not at all.
So what I think where the Flint 3 shines is because it is a tri band router it has just a little bit better wall penetration than maybe travel routers do some of them can still be tri-band though, and it probably also have a bit of stronger antennas.
So in this situation if you compare a tri band travel router to a tri band flint 3 it comes very close to the same, so maybe only the antennas bring the difference.
