I think your expectations might be a bit high for the product. I used to use one and my experience is broadly the same, but I only needed to peel off a 100MB network - so fine for me.

Finding a router less than $100 that will “route” at 1GB wired substained is actually quite hard, finding one with openwrt features, more so.

The Beryl is a travel router, so raw routing power is not its aim, simple VPN, ability to move WAN between remember Wifi, Mobile and Ethernet is more the aim. Very few hotels will give you a Gigabit Internet access, even if the room has a Gigabit interface.

Having said that prices are falling all the time, one might have come along or be coming along soon.

Simon