I've bought 2 Xiaomi MIR3G so I will continue producing builds. I can still release DIR-860L builds if people want them but they will be not tested on it. Also, there are always the buildbot builds, which are fine for 99% of people. From what I have read the 20 dBm thing is purely cosmetic. Your antennae could be the problem. Fun weekend project, messing around with those.
When time permits me to do so I have the following plans:
- Provide a stable (18.06.x) and an experimental build (trunk)
- Get the closed source MTK drivers provided by Nossiac working and see how they compare to the mt76 driver
- Self-updating RBL blocklists (however @dibdot has a new project, banIP, which provide those)
Always open to new suggestions/ideas