Hi,
I have recently bought GL.iNet Flint 2 (GL-MT6000). I know this forum from my previous router Asus AC66U (which by the way died in multiple ways - firstly - power cord socket was damaged, but worked barely - sometimes, "no touching", secondly - overloading of the power supply - when router was turned on, power supply reacted in powering itself off 9 times over 10, thirdly - it started to "lock up" in all ways, eth, wifi being completely unreachable - it could be memory failing inside or overheating, i dont know, but it became completely unreliable). Since AC66U died in so many ways, and also I had TWO top tier motherboards from Asus that also were faulty and Asus did what they could not to admit that (ultimately, seller returned the cash), so I am now not a fanboy of Asus at all. And I strongly advise not to buy Asus to anyone, I had only three Asus products, and two were broken from the start, third died over time (where my other old routers are still alive like WRT54GL or WRT150 etc).
So, to the point...
I was searching for the replacement, but really reliable one. On this forum, I don't really know why, there are only two subforums/groups - Asus WiFi and Netgear WiFi. This is really strange considering how many types of routers are there. It would be nice at least to create subforum/group like "Other WiFi" or something to have subgroups like "GL.iNet routers", "TPLink routers" etc. Just my 3 cents.
Anyways, I am leaving this post for the future buyers of the GL.iNet Flint 2 (GL-MT6000).
Router came with the firmware already old, so I made an upgrade to the official GL.iNet latest but supported (they also provide latest OpenWRT, but they do not support it officially).
The first impression was that something is off. After half a day of perfectly functioning 2.5Gb LAN, something started to slow down sometimes, and after a whlie router started to be inaccessible. After a reset, few minutes ok, then again, lockup. Router was then blinking its led's like it lost WAN connection, but it also was completely unresponsive on LAN (waited 30 minutes to be sure).
After long and painful investigation it occured that faulty 2.5Gb LAN cable/connection could completely lockup the router like that. Strange, but this was the case. After replacing the cable, everything was fine at least a week after which I have flashed latest OpenWRT op24, so I do not know now how's the original firmware performing for a longer period.
But before the upgrade, there was also strange behavior with the speed of LAN. I could saturate 2.5Gbit connection from PC to router no more than 1.3Gbit or even worse (upload direction), where I was sure that cable is ok (tested on different hardware, PC to PC). The other way around was ok, 2.3Gbit, but when iperf was serving on the router, and PC worked as a client, always 1.3 and on router cpu went crazy. Support from the GL.iNet couln't help.
Also there was a problem with wget grabbing packages for opkg (curl did it fine). There is some whisper on the net that its something connected with wget ssl connections faulty on old frimware, but I did not care at that moment, it was GL.iNet fixing both or refund.
But my colleague suggested to flash the latest OpenWRT op24 and showed me, that his GL.iNet was performing well with the 2.5Gbit LAN after that. So i tried that. And I was completely astonished... Not only LAN went working perfectly with 2.3Gbit throughput, but also wget was fixed, WLAN enhanced (new features, less errors, better speed) and so on.
Since then, everything was performing great. For now, I have only one question with my WiFi which is working fine with PC, but not with the Xiaomi 14 phone. Xiaomi 14 goes as much as 800Mbit and no more on the identical wireless parameters as PC (same place also), where PC throughput is around 1.6Gbit. No change helps. And afaik, Asrock Taichi Carrara motherboard has worse WiFi hardware than Xiaomi 14 but I may be wrong.
So for today, I strongly advise for everyone who wants or bought GL.iNet Flint2 to simply drop the official firmware and install the latest OpenWRT provided by GL.iNet (this is a merge of the latest OpenWRT and the GL.iNet GUI, so you will not loose any functionality from GL.iNet, also you can backup all the settings and restore after flash - as far as I remember, it was also done automagically).
I have recently bought GL.iNet Flint 2 (GL-MT6000). I know this forum from my previous router Asus AC66U (which by the way died in multiple ways - firstly - power cord socket was damaged, but worked barely - sometimes, "no touching", secondly - overloading of the power supply - when router was turned on, power supply reacted in powering itself off 9 times over 10, thirdly - it started to "lock up" in all ways, eth, wifi being completely unreachable - it could be memory failing inside or overheating, i dont know, but it became completely unreliable). Since AC66U died in so many ways, and also I had TWO top tier motherboards from Asus that also were faulty and Asus did what they could not to admit that (ultimately, seller returned the cash), so I am now not a fanboy of Asus at all. And I strongly advise not to buy Asus to anyone, I had only three Asus products, and two were broken from the start, third died over time (where my other old routers are still alive like WRT54GL or WRT150 etc).
So, to the point...
I was searching for the replacement, but really reliable one. On this forum, I don't really know why, there are only two subforums/groups - Asus WiFi and Netgear WiFi. This is really strange considering how many types of routers are there. It would be nice at least to create subforum/group like "Other WiFi" or something to have subgroups like "GL.iNet routers", "TPLink routers" etc. Just my 3 cents.
Anyways, I am leaving this post for the future buyers of the GL.iNet Flint 2 (GL-MT6000).
Router came with the firmware already old, so I made an upgrade to the official GL.iNet latest but supported (they also provide latest OpenWRT, but they do not support it officially).
The first impression was that something is off. After half a day of perfectly functioning 2.5Gb LAN, something started to slow down sometimes, and after a whlie router started to be inaccessible. After a reset, few minutes ok, then again, lockup. Router was then blinking its led's like it lost WAN connection, but it also was completely unresponsive on LAN (waited 30 minutes to be sure).
After long and painful investigation it occured that faulty 2.5Gb LAN cable/connection could completely lockup the router like that. Strange, but this was the case. After replacing the cable, everything was fine at least a week after which I have flashed latest OpenWRT op24, so I do not know now how's the original firmware performing for a longer period.
But before the upgrade, there was also strange behavior with the speed of LAN. I could saturate 2.5Gbit connection from PC to router no more than 1.3Gbit or even worse (upload direction), where I was sure that cable is ok (tested on different hardware, PC to PC). The other way around was ok, 2.3Gbit, but when iperf was serving on the router, and PC worked as a client, always 1.3 and on router cpu went crazy. Support from the GL.iNet couln't help.
Also there was a problem with wget grabbing packages for opkg (curl did it fine). There is some whisper on the net that its something connected with wget ssl connections faulty on old frimware, but I did not care at that moment, it was GL.iNet fixing both or refund.
But my colleague suggested to flash the latest OpenWRT op24 and showed me, that his GL.iNet was performing well with the 2.5Gbit LAN after that. So i tried that. And I was completely astonished... Not only LAN went working perfectly with 2.3Gbit throughput, but also wget was fixed, WLAN enhanced (new features, less errors, better speed) and so on.
Since then, everything was performing great. For now, I have only one question with my WiFi which is working fine with PC, but not with the Xiaomi 14 phone. Xiaomi 14 goes as much as 800Mbit and no more on the identical wireless parameters as PC (same place also), where PC throughput is around 1.6Gbit. No change helps. And afaik, Asrock Taichi Carrara motherboard has worse WiFi hardware than Xiaomi 14 but I may be wrong.
So for today, I strongly advise for everyone who wants or bought GL.iNet Flint2 to simply drop the official firmware and install the latest OpenWRT provided by GL.iNet (this is a merge of the latest OpenWRT and the GL.iNet GUI, so you will not loose any functionality from GL.iNet, also you can backup all the settings and restore after flash - as far as I remember, it was also done automagically).
