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I like GL.inet -- although, the fact that they're a Chinese company could be a bit of a concern. They lean heavily on Open WRT for software, but apparently some of the drivers used are "mostly opensource" ... whatever that means.

https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/gl-inet-can-we-trust-them-becaus...

Curious to see HN folks take on them.

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They make decent hardware which comes with with modified end-of-life versions of OpenWRT. And their customizations are quite questionable and smell fishy. And no, can't install newer versions of OpenWRT.

At least that's my experience with GL.iNet MT2500A (Brume 2). I happily use their older travel routers though.

I had picked up their GL-MT3000 "Baryl" travel router -- which is a really great little device. I was pretty impressed, so when my home router (Ubiquity EdgeRouter X ) died a few weeks back, I replaced it with the GL.iNet GL-MT6000 "Flint 2" (https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt6000/). So far the Flint 2 has been pretty solid and nice to know that it's built on top of Open WRT -- and I assume it's fairly easy to convert it fully to an Open WRT device if so wanted.

> And no, can't install newer versions of OpenWRT.

That depends on the model.

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