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Was curious about this router as I hate the locked-down Huawei CPE Pro 2 and liked the idea of moving onto something based on OpenWRT.  It had also been refusing to let me login to the WebUI from Firefox which was frustrating as I have to login to get the 2FA SMS every time I want to login to SMARTY.

Seen a few reviews saying its good, and some people saying it plain didn't work.  Figured I would give it a go anyway.  Initial impressions are promising.

Upload is oddly low, as if the Huawei was using 5G and this one is using 4G.  But I primarily use 5G as a little extra download bandwidth for Steam downloads and here its quite the score.

The 2.5G WAN port can be switched into being the LAN port (I'd certainly hope so being based on OpenWRT), which of course I did to get the most out of it.



The Huawei had lately been struggling to get over 600Mbit for some reason, though it used to hit about 930Mbit (limited by its Gigabit port).  So this is quite a nice improvement if it pans out over time.

Very confused about the dl_bandwidth / ul_bandwidth values as they clearly are not accurate, but the fact it gives a clear rating on the signals is a huge improvement over the Huawei.

Now I just need to figure out if I can add custom scripts (doesn't seem to be shown on the WebUI but I'd expect the functionality from the core OpenWRT to still be present, SSH is active and functional) and what commands I need to extract information.  Would like to be able to forward SMS to my home server and view the signal information from my central monitoring page.

Lots of storage:

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Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                54.5M     54.5M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                   240.2M    468.0K    239.7M   0% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p8            7.2G    414.9M      6.8G   6% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay        7.2G    414.9M      6.8G   6% /
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev

It seems opkg is present and configured - interesting.

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Downloading https://fw.gl-inet.com/releases/v21.02.3/kmod-4.4/aarch64_cortex-a53/mediatek/x3000/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/glinet_core
Downloading https://fw.gl-inet.com/releases/v21.02.3/packages-4.4/aarch64_cortex-a53/glinet/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/glinet_gli_pub
Downloading https://fw.gl-inet.com/releases/v21.02.3/packages-4.0/aarch64_cortex-a53/packages/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/glinet_gli_packages

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Installing iperf3 (3.10.1-1) to root...
Downloading https://fw.gl-inet.com/releases/v21.02.3/packages-4.0/aarch64_cortex-a53/packages/iperf3_3.10.1-1_aarch64_cortex-a53.ipk
Configuring iperf3.
Updating database.
Database update completed.
Just beat my fastest ever load-balanced speed (5G + FTTP):