GL.iNet - GL-MT6000 (Flint 2)
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Last updated: Dec 25, 2025 Scoring
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"saucony peregrines i like alot ... usually can find good prices ... got a pair on amazon for 50 bucks that was the 13s which r their best year haha"
"Mine has already been making this summer way more bearable than the last. ... It's very worth it for the amount of comfort it affords. I appreciate being able to think about things besides how overheated I am on a warm day. ... Yeah the high summer temps are savage. I cannot operate like that. I'd happily pay hundreds a month to keep my apartment cool when it's 30+ out, at a cost of tens it's not even a question."
"This is exactly what we do too. No point blasting the hvac in the entire house when the only room we want really cold is the bedroom. Has saved us a lot on the energy bill!"
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"I have the Mavic 4 Pro Creator Combo with what’s called Enhanced Transmission which the drone and controller comes with 4G/LTE modules that basically give you unlimited range. ... I’ve tested the range and it gives you full control of the drone anywhere you have cellular service."
"I live in a similarly built house and I’ve got two Flint 2s, one as the main one and one as a repeater. The lowest speed I get is 400 mbps. ... I don’t know how they do it (I had different routers in the past and they couldn’t reach far at all). ... Except for the Nokia (wifi5), none of them even came close to the signal penetration I got from the GLinet flint 2."
"Except for the Nokia (wifi5), none of them even came close to the signal penetration I got from the GLinet flint 2."
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"WiFi 6 and a really nice Firmware. (OpenWrt). ... having openwrt suport it's important."
"Comes with a modified version of OpenWrt out of the box and you can flash the version with open source drivers through the web UI. ... No hassle with ftp servers or workarounds to gain ssh access"
"Importantly you can install cake on them, which is the single biggest difference maker for gaming."
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"does near gigabit speeds over wireguard"
"My open VPN speed on Flint 2 have been a solid 300 Mb using a WindScribe static open VPN configuration on port 443 using TCP"
"It does get close to 1gbit/s using wireguard though. ... I get about 950Mbps throughout on a Gigabit connection with wireguard, and with wireless connection to my laptop, so for some use cases it is basically perfect."
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"It has 2 x 2.5Gbps ports (for NAS), and with some LAN port remapping it works great. That was the crucial feature for me."
"I wanted a router that had 2.5Gbe LAN ports to link my Unraid and Plex machines (because Plex can quickly saturate a Gigabit connection when it scans your library and generate thumbnails, etc.)"
"I use Flint 2 as router for 2 2.5 gbps ports, a 2.5gbps 5 port tplink switch connecting wired back haul to Deco XE75 pros as access points. Works great for me."
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"The WiFi performance on my BE550 is abysmal. ... It’s in the same exact spot where my aged VR2100 was, and that’s a 7 plus years old router that never costed anywhere near £200, on discount. ... The VR2100 has no problems providing solid 5GHz in our master bedroom, whilst the BE550 has no 5GHz at all in the same spot I sleep."
"I literally cant get a signal anywhere outside that room. ... whats the deal with the signal not traveling farther than 15 ft on either band on both the stock firmware and 24.10.0 with power set to the max?"
"As a be550 owner the 6ghz band is a hit or a miss. ... It frequently isn't found by my quest 3. ... It's not a bad router by any means but the 6ghz often just disappears. ... So I end up running things at 5ghz anyway."
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"No roaming settings unless you install native openwrt and cut the speed by half. ... Returned Flint 2 350mbps (vanilla openwrt)"
"For example, a lot of people like Flint 2 by GL.iNet. It's a good device, but not very well suited for OpenVPN. ... But it doesn't, so its OpenVPN throughput is only 190 Mbps."
"Flint 2 can't run OpenVPN faster than 190 Mbps, because it has no active cooling and no AES-NI support."
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"The workaround was, of course, to schedule daily reboots. And then throw manual reboots on top of it."
"Orbi’s pos firmware updates ... years of doggy updates ... bad firmware problems ... bad firmware updates take down my home and some other family homes I supported back then ... Their terrible firmware releases are well documented."
"Avoid Netgear at all costs. They appear to be incapable of getting the firmware right for their WiFi 7 units. ... I got an Orbi 770 and gave up. I went back to Eero with the Pro 7. Back to stable WiFi."
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"I suspect the ram gets full before it can even transmit it through lan/wifi since it almost always fail before reaching 700mb if i pull a huge ass file. ... When I transfer a large file it usually fails at around 500-800mb mark instead of the multi gig file over lan (gigabit) or wifi (ac-ax from 433mbps to 1.2gbps)"
"Gets choked on usb3.0 speeds when i use the nas samba function, but i get a longer cable so it works as usb2.0(480mbps) and it works extremely stable. ... I used the short usb cable so the router can detect the drive as a 5 gigabit speed device. It usually runs at over 500 MB/s on the PC. But on the router only runs at 100 MB per second."
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"so my iphone 16 and macbook air m3 which both support 6ghz would only use 5ghz with this? ... so it doesnt support the 6ghz band that my MacBook and iPhone use? would it just use the normal old 5ghz band? ... No 6ghz... No thanks. My macs and iphones are all wifi 6 ... no 6ghz band which the latest iphone and macs use ... No 6ghz band is whack.. ... so if i have the pro 6E right now which has support for 6ghz for my MacBook and iPhone, the new eero 7 wont support the ghz band? so would my devices just use 5ghz? ... lol hell na ill stay with my pro 6e then, I have wifi 6 devices, not wifi 7 devices"
"so my iphone 16 and macbook air m3 which both support 6ghz would only use 5ghz with this? ... so it doesnt support the 6ghz band that my MacBook and iPhone use? would it just use the normal old 5ghz band? ... No 6ghz... No thanks. My macs and iphones are all wifi 6 ... no 6ghz band which the latest iphone and macs use ... Nope. Especially if you have devices that use the 6ghz band on the 6e. ... No 6ghz band is whack.. ... so if i have the pro 6E right now which has support for 6ghz for my MacBook and iPhone, the new eero 7 wont support the ghz band? so would my devices just use 5ghz? I'm confused ... lol hell na ill stay with my pro 6e then, I have wifi 6 devices, not wifi 7 devices"
"The big issue (for me) with the RT-BE88U is that it has only 2 bands, 2.4GHz. and 5GHz., which limits your MLO opportunities."
Just bought the router and hope it solves my bufferbloat issues I’m using moca for my but still have issues with bufferbloat so I’m holding the router u mention can help out
r/HomeNetworking • SQM Router recommendation for 1Gbps FTTP connection ->Not sure on your budget as that is country based. (Like is it euros, USD, CAD, etc) I recommend the flint 2 - openWRT supports it (vanilla openWRT) - has two 2.5 ports - has 4 gigbit ports - vanilla openWRT support gigbit speeds and should support 2.5 gigbit speeds (more documentation on their page) - has good wifi range. Also it is wifi 6? - has more than enough processing power - 1 GB of RAM - 8 GB of storage (even though I ship logs to my server for log retention) Hope that helps
r/openwrt • [Hardware Question] Looking for recommendations for a Gigabit router ->I’m so glad I didn’t make an impulse purchase. I should just stick to my Flint 2 until Wi-Fi 7 is supported properly in a few years.
r/openwrt • Best Wi-Fi 7 router to install openwrt on ->Stay away for hardware that advertises as gaming anything... A flint 2 would be a cheap and decent upgrade. The rest, well, run cable, it's faster and more stable.
r/HomeNetworking • Router for big family of gamers ->GL inet flint2, or go full Ubiquiti.
r/HomeNetworking • Recommended good routers in 2025 ->Use a good router, with openWRT... For example a Flint 2..
r/HomeNetworking • Should I invest in a decent router or just use OpenWRT? ->GL.iNet Flint series routers run OpenWrt and are very powerful for the price, they are exactly what you're looking for. The 2 has been around long enough that everything is stable and the price has come down a lot, the 3 just got released and will probably have firmware bugs for a while. Importantly you can install cake on them, which is the single biggest difference maker for gaming.
r/HomeNetworking • "Best" consumer router under $200? ->Not for good, look at Gl.inet if you want the most amazing and opensource routers, Flint 2, 3 and it's travel routers as slate 7, (look at them in YouTube) are at own level, better than Synology at each parameters, with extreme software capabilities, and easy to manage but not less powerful neither locked in anyway (os is an skin on too openwrt but also compatible with official openwrt releases), if you need sdwan, vpn-whatever (even tor), bland, multiple segregated networks etc is ts they right stuff, I'm very impressed (I come from Mikrotik).
r/synology • Routers ->Just get a Flint 2 and call it a day, also the I had deco m5 around my home due to bad signal from the ISP router but since getting the Flint I've now got rid as it covers all the house
r/openwrt • [QUESTION] Looking for a cheap OpenWRT router with more flash (no Wi-Fi needed) ->I just picked up the GL.iNet GL-MT6000 (Flint 2) I'm really happy with it so far.
r/HomeNetworking • Best router replacement for home networking use? ->Glinet m6000. Easiest tailscale implementation I've seen.
r/Tailscale • Can someone recommend me a good router that I can install tailscale on and use as an exit node? ->Seconding flint 2 as well. It would have been my go to if I had to just buy a consumer grade router. But I have opnsense on a dedicated box so it was overkill for me and I got a Cudy WR3000H and put openwrt on it and turned into alll in one managed switch with VLAN aware SSIDS
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