Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router (gl-inet.com)

Strange to see this device here. I have one and use it extensively, but this isn't even the current generation.

It does work well as a travel router, and can pull north of 400Mbps over WireGuard.

Runs openwrt, but not upstream, so installing some packages can be a pain.

Cute but without sim capabilities. As a professional remote nomad, Starlink is king. The router is decent but not for hard wired things. You could put this in between and be double NAT’ed but why? If you need to transfer files on the go, AirDrop or hotspot on your device and connect from the other. I’m not exactly sure what niche this product is filling without supporting SIM cards for being a true travel router.

If you want OpenWRT you don't want this, you want one of the Mediatek based routers (GL-MT*).

How did this make FP???

How likely is it that this router manufacturer is putting in software and hardware backdoors?

> OpenVPN speed up to 560 Mbps (with DCO support); WireGuard speed up to 550 Mbps

Is the CPU missing AES headers? (curious why OpenVPN is faster)

I've been using 2 of these as APs for a few years.

They've worked well, except for one time when it seems as though they magically turned on IPv6: https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/incident-involving-ipv6-and-glin...

I wish I had dug deeper on that incident to determine how the configuration changed on those devices.

Eventually I'd like to try the upcoming Wifi 7 capable Mikrotik router, recently announced in this teaser video: https://youtu.be/05SAcDT8xLw?si=5Ys0MA_6r3ruW93-

I feel as though the support situation is better for Mikrotik's RouterOS because there is not a situation where the vendor can point to the software and shrug their shoulders. GL.iNet can still blame a problem on an OpenWRT quirk, and GL.iNet devices flashed with pure OpenWRT only receive best-effort / volunteer support.