I presume you've read this? https://forum.openwrt.org/t/gl-inet-flint-3-gl-be9300-discussions/218440/161
particularly toward the bottom (there is a lot of speculative guessing towards the top). It's apparently based on an IPQ (Qualcomm Atheros) SoC. Probably less important if you aren't counting on the wifi working, but MediaTek has been favored in the last few years due to their more-FOSS-friendly attitude. And, just to temper my enthusiasm for the W1700K, the OpenWrt forum thread mentioned earlier has some people reporting some routing speed issues in the last week, so it's not fully There(tm) yet. As a side note, I've been wandering into the niche world of the ONT bypass community in the last week or two, which I knew vaguely about, but never encountered directly before. There are people enthusiastic about replacing the whole ISP provided ONT (optical network termination) with an SFP or SFP+ module that they've configured to look like the ISP's ONT, mostly it seems by cloning the Serial Number. I have not tried it yet, and indeed it would be awkward because my ONT is currently outside where swapping electronics in the winter is not so convenient. ;-) -- Ruussell Senior [email protected] On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 3:50 PM King Beowulf <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/6/26 11:36, King Beowulf wrote: > > I'm dumping Comcast/Xfinity (1Gbs/40Mps) for fiber 2 Gbps. Ziply > > finally got around to pulling fiber in my neighborhood for the last few > > months (everything here is buried). > > > > I am soliciting recommendations for 2.5Gbe gateway/routers - I am not > > "renting" the Ziply wifi router. > > Thanks for all the suggestions. I've decided the > > GL.iNet GL-BE9300 (Flint 3) Tri-Band WiFi 7 Router > > due to familiarity with OpenWRT and risk of proprietary software losing > support after a few years. The Flint 1 and 2 are listed in general mainline > Openwrt, so I expect that the Flint 3 will follow soon enough. > > -Ed > > >
