Hellos,
Is the Mi Router AX9000 the most powerful (Flash, CPU, RAM, and ports) off-the-shelf consumer WiFi router that is supported by OpenWrt?
PS: I am aware I could build something more powerful using a PC or SBC).
There are newer ones with multiple 2.5gbe interfaces, over time superexpensive advantage fades away.
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For example, which ones are those?
Looking at the Mi Router AX9000, it fits what I want - run it in an open-space office to support 50+ devices.
It has almost the same CPU and RAM as my Dynalink-WRX36, except for that dual-core NPU.
PS: Does anyone know a reliable source where I can get the Mi Router AX9000 or better?
Thanks
define "better", and provide info on where you are located.
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Just go this route.
Off the shelf options are not going to make you happy and that will.
You can design it, mod it, improve it; all endlessly.
Change the title to "Help me build my dream router for ~$X.00".
I have not seen that thread in years.
It's about time.
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@brada4 mentioned that there are newer ones (not necessarily better!) with multiple 2.5GbE interfaces. So, for me, better would mean something with more resources than the Xiaomi AX9000 (competing!).
I am in Kenya, but easily reachable from the US (Wilmington, DE) and China (if the package can ship to an address in Guangdong, China). Aliexpress ships to KE easily, but I am currently unable to find this router on Aliexpress.
TIA
Thanks, but no, thank you. I know what I am doing, so my subject stays put! 
I want to do this using an off-the-shelf consumer WiFi router.
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GL-MT6000 have dual 2.5GbE's, so does the T-56.
the 1st one can be found "everywhere", the second on is 60% cheaper than the 1st one, but only available in EU.
The T-56's twin, the EX5601-T1 or -T0 (SFP+) might be easier to find, but will most likely cost more than the T-56.
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@frollic has the best suggestions; given you are not, really, answering what your 'needs' are.
How many clients?
How much bandwidth?
How much 'shaping'?
6?
6E/6G?
WiFi7?
??
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If you read the thread well, I have mentioned the minimum number of devices up there.
This thread is about whether the Mi Router AX9000 is the most powerful, highly-spec'd off-the-shelf consumer WiFi router supported by OpenWrt. It's about comparing the off-the-shelf consumer routers. The rest of the details are rather moot.
Having 2x2.5GbE ports would be great for doing WAN failover, but again, that failover can be done upstream of the WiFi router.
Ultimately, I'll be able to decide on my choice for a project I have at hand, whose most important need would be VPN throughput. No shaping as it will just be browsing. No need for WiFi7 as client devices that can use it are still not as widely spread.
Thank you.
AX9000 is QCA based, it might have the fastest wifi, but probably not the best routing speed, but then again, if it's used as an AP, i doesn't really matter.
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Whatever device I settle on must work as a router, with Wireguard VPN (with killswitch). Running a router upstream doesn't look attractive to me.
Is the T-56 a Zyxel or GL.iNet? Google takes me to Zyxel for it, as well as for EX5601.
If the routing throughput for the GL-MT6000 is great, then I will most likely go with it.
Thank you.
Is there a very compelling reason to flash OpenWrt onto the GL-MT6000?
Seeing as it already does everything an ordinary person would need, and I suspect it might be having a component of PBR, looks like it's just an acquire, configure, and sleep
I wonder what their factory firmware is.
To get OpenWRT?
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Depending on how you defined supported its probably the Banana pi R4 with the BE14000 wifi card. Still very much in snapshot but its got 2x SFP+ for 10gbit/s, wifi 7, 4GB RAM, 8GB eMMC flash, quad-core Arm Corex-A731.8GHz processor and M/2. Quite a bit more hardware than the AX9000. Very close to that on the same hardware but not the SFP ports is the Asus BT8 which is also very much in snapshot but the same processor and platform without the hackability just a normal consumer router.
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After watching some reviews, I realized it runs a customized version of OpenWrt. For the project I have at hand, it should be enough even as it is.
as long as you don't ask questions here, while running their firmware
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