[PLUG] Router recommendations for pending Ziply Fiber upgrade

[Eldo Varghese]

I disagree, flint 3 is a broadcom based router and will never be 
supported by openwrt (unless hell freezes over and broadcom opens up 
their stuff).
-Eldo

On 1/8/26 15:50, King Beowulf 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
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> GL.iNet GL-BE9300 (Flint 3) Tri-Band WiFi 7 Router
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> 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.
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> -Ed
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