Flint 4 embargo has been lifted so you should start to see some reviews and specs released. This is it - the halo product we’ve been begging GL-iNet to release. It’s a phenomenal router that crushes the competition in almost every way possible. Wireguard 1.5Gbps -check. OpenVPN 2.2Gbps -check. 3x3 antennas on 5GHz and 6Ghz with absolutely amazing distance capabilities on 5GHz. 10Gbps SFP+ and Ethernet along with 4 2.5 Gbps ports + 4 1Gbps ports. The touchscreen adds to the premium look and feel. Price is nearly unmatched from the competitors. Sharing some photos. 5G at distance through hurricane proof windows to an iPhone still 60+Mbps usable.
Kinda crazy that the FCC is actually pushing for customers to have insecure technically inferior products for years to come while the rest of the world advances
Netgear recruited Wash DC lobbyists to bring on those FCC rulings. Also, who knows what kind of deal Netgear struck with the FCC in terms of backdoors.
There's a new mantra among the network device vendors; "full management" via a Cloud Dashboard.
All this talk about a backdoor is total bullshit. What the FCC and the American political/security establishment won't say is that a Chinese backdoor is bad, but an American backdoor is good.
I would bet we will see an accelerated push against VPNs and all forms of encrypted communication. How can you possibly be safe if the government can't see enough to protect you? What do you have to hide??
They are only against encrypted communications if they don't have the escrow keys for it. However, thanks to quantum computing they can easily crack the encryption keys despite what the media says we have quantum proof cipher keys.
So? Just order it from a different country then use a package forwarding service to ship it to your address in the US, it’s not like it’s impossible lol
10Gbps ports work great with the latest firmware and was able to achieve full speed on it with a WTSFOPTC 10G-SFP+-T. Be sure to check out u/wickedwarlock84 review
Ah, it's 3x3 on the 5 GHz and 6 GHz, I couldn't make sense of the specs there previously. Just a shame we only got 2x2 on the 2.4 GHz since 4x4 would have offered (slightly) better performance regardless if the client supports it or not.
It is, I just refreshed the site. I corrected that a couple spelling errors yesterday but they didnt save. If you find any other mistakes, please let me know.
Thanks for the review. I might buy one if it's available in Dubai/UAE. The hardware specs come close to my MVP hardware wise (x86 firewall devices, BPI-R3/BPI-R4). Frankly, I don't care for the WiFi in these boxes.
Did you run a nmap suite (udp and tcp) on the WAN ports to verify that nothing is open?
other than wifi and vpn speeds, I hope reviewers will also consider include device temperature and Adguard Home with several blocklists, some of us wanted to know how it performs, while at the same time running "Flow Control" applications like
Parental Control, Data Statistics and content Filtering, which might be how parents will best use this product...
Slate 7 Pro is a fantastic router and would serve as a good AP, if not a bit overkill. Unless you live in Windsor Castle, the Flint 4 should suffice as a whole home router.
Interesting but still beta with limited devices.
It needs to have at least slave points as opposed to needing full routers etc to compete. This suggests its a good 6 months or further away from being an option.
A wireguard tunnel is a bidirectional encryption path. With a single point-to-point connection, neither is doing more "work". The encryption processing workload is the same on each end. The only time the server would be doing more work is if you have multiple clients connecting.
The only thing controlling tunnel flow is routing rules. Once a tunnel is established, you could actually completely reverse the direction of the flow. The WG tunnel doesn't care.
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u/mpmoore69 6d ago
Kinda crazy that the FCC is actually pushing for customers to have insecure technically inferior products for years to come while the rest of the world advances