Is it possible to make R6700v3 and GL-B3000 (Marble) compatible?

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Hi there, I'm new here and excited to see the discussions :slight_smile:

I recently moved to a larger place so will need two devices for the wifi coverage. I have an old Netgear R6700v3 router, and I recently bought a GL.iNet GL-B3000 (Marble) router. I originally hope that I can put OpenWRT on both devices and connect them together. I can't do wired connections between the routers so I have to find wireless solutions.

But it turns out that I can't find information on whether R6700v3 is supported or not on the OpenWRT website. v2 is supported, and v1 seems not supported. Marble is quite new so I guess there aren't much support either, although it comes with OpenWRT. I bought it mainly because I like the design.

R6700v3 is DD-WRT compatible (mine is currently just stock system). I'm looking at WDS but the two routers are different chips (Broadcom vs Qualcomm). Looks like I need to set them up as repeater bridges?

In addition to a joint Wifi network,

Features nice to have: Adblock.

Features I don't need (currently): Storage, VPN, etc.

Any suggestions on how to make them work together? I still have some time to return the Marble router if it won't work out...

Thank you!

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It appears to be Broadcom based, so chances are just about zero.

…not that GL-B3000 would be supported at this point either (but there is at least some hope for this one, albeit still months away).

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Well R7000 is supported and it looks like it's a very similar Broadcom chip.
Anyways thanks for the reply! Let me see what I can do.

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you did notice the big warning on top of the R7000 page, right ?

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Oh I didn't! Actually I didn't know it is so restricted even for a 5G network... Thank you for the reminder!

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