GL.iNet Beryl AX for home use?

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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Hi,

I’m going to give up on converting my Ubiquiti AP AC LR to OpenWRT (I think I bricked it, and accessing its serial port will require some soldering, which I don’t have the equipment or skills to do).

So I’m looking for a replacement WiFi access point to put in my home’s roof.

Answering the questions on the instructions page:

  1. My upstream is currently the Australian NBN HFC at 500 Mbps down/50 Mbps up, hopefully it will be upgraded in the future.
  2. The WiFI AP will be connected to the main router (a Luxul ABR 4500 running OpenWRT) over a Cat 6 ethernet cable and 1Gb ethernet port
  3. Need 5GHz Wifi, a separate 2.4Ghz would be nice to have, WiFi 6e sounds like a good investment.
  4. No need for USB
  5. About 15-20 client WiFi devices
  6. Price range up to 200 Australian dollars

I like the GL.iNet products because they come with OpenWRT built in, but this will be the first of their devices that I buy.

The Beryl AX appears to tick all the boxes, except that it’s marketed as a travel router, not something intended for continuous use inside the roof cavity and covering an entire floor.

Would it work well under such use case?

Thanks.

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  1. anything from last 5 years could do that (including mips 7621 running at all its brain)
  2. ditto
  3. dual band routers are like mainstream, 6e and 7 are usually overpriced
  4. your router fails on this. You can use one for mobile modem for spare connection
  5. Thats about what minimal 8/64 device could do

6/ Look at Cudy WR3000? - they are like 50 European dollars a pop, same spec as this

What about glinet flint 2 (not 3) , any filogic will do https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128_ax-wifi …7621 not filogic - just barely … qualcomm ipq will need proprietary drivers to make steady gigabit.

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half of your budget, https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/cudy/cudy_m3000_v1

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I think that even the GL-AX1800 Flint (not 2) would do it. Alas, you’d have to use a snapshot (start with factory.bin for the initial installation; see also my notes on debricking). I’ve understood that a new release of OpenWrt that would include this device should be out within half a year.

The main reason why I’d choose the Flint over the Flint 2 is the lower power consumption, if the specifications can be trusted. That should mean fewer heat related issues and also lower operating expenses over the entire life cycle.

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Flint 2 (not weaker flint , not unsupported flint 3)

https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/ → search u-boot for routers with openwrt bootloader where recovery is separate system from the default installation.

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Thanks everyone for your thoughts.

I could get the Cuddy M3000 AX3000 for $100 Australian on Amazon so I went with that. That’s just about $10 Australian above the WR3000 so why not.

The Flint 2 was also highly recommended when I searched even before asking here but its ~2X the price of the Cuddy.

Cheers.

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I use BerylAX as main router and its running well no problems. Idk if you put it inside the roof it would be tormented with the heat.