The XE75 has 3 access points, but the features are lacking and I feel like the lack of speed on firmware updates is slow and concerning. I’m looking at the GL.iNet GL-MT6000 (Flint 2), and it’s $136. Can anyone with more tech experience comment or give their thoughts/suggestions about this? TIA!
I got the gl-mt6000/flint2 about 6 months ago. I’m definitely not a network expert but I unboxed it, powered it up, and immediately flashed OpenWRT. No problems.
The only slightly technical things I’ve done with it are to install a router level ad/tracking blocker when my RPi2 pihole stopped being reliable and install the tailscale client on it with exit node enabled. Everything works fine.
I use tailscale to get to my LAN (even though the desktop is also running tailscale) for many reasons (self hosting) but the main reason is my home server is disk level LUKS encrypted. The router restarts autonomously after a power outage so I use it to get to the server via tailscale+Dropbear to remote unlock the server disk after a power outage.
I’ve had zero complaints and would recommend.
Thanks for the detailed response! And the RPi3 Pihole is one of the reasons I’m considering this. 👍 Was installing tailscale and everything simple enough?
The ad blocker was from the package manager built into OpenWRT. I think tailscale was too but I’m not 100% sure since it’s been awhile.
Though, I just did a search and the first result from the OpenWRT docs shows the install from the package manager so that’s most likely how I did it : https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/tailscale/start
So, yes, very simple.
Thanks a ton, really appreciate you checking it out. With family members who aren’t tech savvy it’s really helpful to preempt all potential ad’s ahead of time. 😣