• Bubs@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    I ordered the Flint 2 a few days ago. I can report back how it is once it arrives. Sucks that I have to buy a second router, but the Asus one I originally got has been a real pain.

    • Bob Smith@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      I’ve been using a Flint 2 for the better part of a year. No complaints. I was used to a decent Asus router and replaced it when it went end-of-life because the OpenWRT firmware for the ASUS device wasn’t feature-complete.

      I installed vanilla OpenWRT as soon as I took the Flint 2 of the box and I ran into no major issues. I only need to focus on home use with wired and wireless clients, plus a network printer. The web interface works as advertised, as has the command line interface to the extent that I’ve played around with it. Once I dealt with the basic setup, I’ve been able to forget that it’s there other than to install new updates when they become available. Whenever I feel like it, I’ll see about installing some services like router-level vpn or network adblocking. Not a priority yet, plus I like doing clean installs when I update the router firmware.

      • Bubs@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        What’s your thoughts on the provided OpenWRT vs vanilla?

        • Bob Smith@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          No thoughts available. My plan was to get a newish router compatible with standard OpenWRT so I flashed the latest release within five minutes of opening the box.

          I appreciated the custom skin that glinet provided for the web interface in passing.

    • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I bought a Flint 1 a couple of weeks ago. Didn’t realy have a use-case for the Flint 2 and the 1 was heavily discounted. It’s been pretty good so far. It’s giving me my ISPs advertised speeds and I use it to assign specific devices to go through VPN.

      • Bubs@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        I’m glad to hear that. The Flint series isn’t the most popular out there, but most everyone has good things to say about them.

  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    I haven’t used it but have been reading around various devices for the best part of a year and I really like the Banana Pi BPi-R4. It’s not perfect, but it’s a decent device. I would use it with a seperate AP though.

    • speculate7383English
      3·
      5 days ago

      I just did this. I installed a banana pi r4 as my main router with no wifi, and a couple of separate APs. I bought some Extreme Networks APs on ebay for USD$15 each, already flashed with openwrt.

      I used the YouTube tutorials by OneMarcFifty to set up vlans for alternate SSIDs. Works great!

      • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Thank you so much. Honestly you don’t know how much this post means to me. Thank you for confirming my plan works!