GL-AR300M16 Mini

I just took a look. Great work. Thank you for doing this! As there are issues with 4.x in some of the older routers like the AR300M, AR750, AR750s, and MT300N-V2, is there any chance of adding in the Legacy 3.x code, at least the versions that GL iNet has on their site, so they are not lost to futur

If you are looking for cheap and reliable, go with a pair of AR300M16. Unlike the Opel, it has great support for OpenWrt, so you will have an option for firmware with security fixes after GL iNet drops their support, and it's a bit faster than the Mango, at around the same price. Set it up with Wire

Don't bother. Building firmware from sources provided by a manufacturer is basically nearly impossible. They never include the full sources, just the GPL'ed components there of. Unless software engineering is your full time job, and this is the sort of hacking you enjoy, and you've got plenty of tim

I travel fulltime and do development work. For years I regularly use a Shadow (AR300M) that pre-dates the Opal, as my VPN server, at a family members house who only has around 35 mbps upload speed over a home 5G internet connection. The Shadow is rated at 50 mbps over Wireguard by GL iNet. As long a

Only buy gl.net devices that you can flash with the real OpenWRT. GL-AR300M is one of the few that does.

GL iNet keeps building and selling bigger, heavier, and more power hungry routers. I no longer consider them true travel routers, and I am currently refusing to buy anything new from them until they release something like a Mango 2. That said, their hardware is usually solid, and I am still using mu

What about GL.iNet GL-AR300M16? Cheap. Micro USB powered. Can run current OpenWRT. You need to install Luci with the factory GUI, then you can just flash the current OpenWRT sysupgrade .bin. Ignore the warning, it works fine. Did 7 of those like that two weeks ago.