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I haven't used it but have been reading around various devices for the best part of a year and I really like the Banana Pi BPi-R4. It's not perfect, but it's a decent device. I would use it with a seperate AP though.
I just did this. I installed a banana pi r4 as my main router with no wifi, and a couple of separate APs. I bought some Extreme Networks APs on ebay for USD$15 each, already flashed with openwrt.
I used the YouTube tutorials by OneMarcFifty to set up vlans for alternate SSIDs. Works great!
Thank you so much. Honestly you don't know how much this post means to me. Thank you for confirming my plan works!
I ordered the Flint 2 a few days ago. I can report back how it is once it arrives. Sucks that I have to buy a second router, but the Asus one I originally got has been a real pain.
I bought a Flint 1 a couple of weeks ago. Didn’t realy have a use-case for the Flint 2 and the 1 was heavily discounted. It’s been pretty good so far. It’s giving me my ISPs advertised speeds and I use it to assign specific devices to go through VPN.
You are using the provided openwrt or did you reimage with the standard install?
I'm glad to hear that. The Flint series isn't the most popular out there, but most everyone has good things to say about them.
I've been using a Flint 2 for the better part of a year. No complaints. I was used to a decent Asus router and replaced it when it went end-of-life because the OpenWRT firmware for the ASUS device wasn't feature-complete.
I installed vanilla OpenWRT as soon as I took the Flint 2 of the box and I ran into no major issues. I only need to focus on home use with wired and wireless clients, plus a network printer. The web interface works as advertised, as has the command line interface to the extent that I've played around with it. Once I dealt with the basic setup, I've been able to forget that it's there other than to install new updates when they become available. Whenever I feel like it, I'll see about installing some services like router-level vpn or network adblocking. Not a priority yet, plus I like doing clean installs when I update the router firmware.
What's your thoughts on the provided OpenWRT vs vanilla?
No thoughts available. My plan was to get a newish router compatible with standard OpenWRT so I flashed the latest release within five minutes of opening the box.
I appreciated the custom skin that glinet provided for the web interface in passing.