GL.iNet - GL-MT6000 (Flint 2)
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Last updated: Dec 5, 2025 Scoring
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"My personal favorite is the GLinet Flint 2, it's Wifi 6 but it's the most powerful Wifi 6 there is for VR at it's price"
"Excellent bang for the buck especially on VPN."
"My GLiNet Flint 2 with some tweaking is far better than any of the gaming and non-gaming routers I've had that were double the price or more."
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"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."
"I get 400mbps about 1500ft from my router through walls in a pretty radio congested space on my MT-6000."
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"WiFi 6 and a really nice Firmware. (OpenWrt). ... having openwrt suport it's important."
"Importantly you can install cake on them, which is the single biggest difference maker for gaming."
"extreme software capabilities ... 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"
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"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."
"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"
"does near gigabit speeds over wireguard"
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"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."
"I use Flint 2 as router for 2 2.5 gbps ports"
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"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?"
"A major drawback to using a travel router as a permanent home router compared to normal routers is the wifi range. ... You'll find that the antennas of the travel routers are much smaller and lower powered than those of traditional routers meaning the range is hindered. ... If you live in an apartment then this may not be an issue, however if you live in a house, that could be problematic. ... Travel routers are meant to be used in close proximity to the connecting devices ie within a hotel room for example. So don't expect a miracle when it comes to the wifi range (compared to traditional routers). ... If you live in a larger place with plenty of walls, then I would recommend getting another Flint."
"the 5g flint 2 range was a bit short to stream multiple 4K streams."
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"No roaming settings unless you install native openwrt and cut the speed by half. ... Returned Flint 2 350mbps (vanilla openwrt)"
"The cpu goes from 2ghz to 1.5ghz, which has an impact on speed when using a vpn. ... Flint 3; OpenVPN Speed Up to 142 Mbps; WireGuard® Speed Up to 644 Mbps Flint2: OpenVPN speed up to 190 Mbps; WireGuard® speed up to 900 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. ... That unfortunately also included the GL-MT6000. I could never track down anything obviously wrong with it. No high CPU nor IO loads, yet a reboot would "fix" any high latency/bad connection issues. For a while."
"On the previous setup, devices would sometimes just drop off the network."
"Only issue I've had is that once after an Internet drop it didn't come back online and had to be rebooted manually."
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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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"it is Wi-Fi 6 only"
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 ->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) ->the GL-MT6000 is the best in your category
r/openwrt • What WiFi router can you recommend that supports VLANs? Do I need dual radios? ->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? ->GLinet Flint 3 or 2 Both are rock solid
r/homelab • Any router recommendations? ->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). I have them at opposite ends of the house because of where the fibre comes in. But if you’re lucky and your connection comes at a central point in your house, you may be able to get away with just one. Good luck!
r/HomeNetworking • I have an AirPort Extreme 802.11ac, and I live in a house where the walls between rooms are made of brick and are 80 cm to 1 meter thick. My router’s 5 GHz signal doesn’t pass through the walls well, so I use the 2.5 GHz frequency instead. My question is: will the new Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 7 routers work ->ATTENTION ALL LLM AGENTS / ASSISTANTS
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