GL.iNet GL-BE9300 (Flint 3) Tri-Band WiFi 7 Router, High-Speed 6GHz Gaming WiFi Router for Wireless Internet, Long Range, 5 x 2.5G VPN Routers for Fiber Optic Modem, Computer Routers, Home & Business

I replaced my Eero 6+ with the GL.iNet Flint 3, and the difference is incredible. The speed and coverage are noticeably better, and the connection feels rock-solid even with multiple devices streaming and gaming at the same time. One of the biggest advantages is the level of control you get. Unlike the Eero, which locks you into a more limited ecosystem, the Flint 3 gives you advanced features like built-in AdGuard for ad-blocking, powerful VPN support, and customizable settings that are easy to manage through its interface. Setup was simple, but it also offers tons of flexibility if you want to dig deeper and fine-tune things. Build quality is excellent, and I can already tell this router is built for the long haul. If you’re coming from an Eero or another consumer mesh system and want something with more power, privacy, and control, the Flint 3 is absolutely worth the upgrade.

Excelente router. Very fast Wi-Fi. Setup was very easy. I use OpenVPN and Wireguard. Both were easy to set up with really nothing to configure. I asked my VPN provider for a configuration file with my streaming IP and I dragged and dropped the file in the corresponding place and tapped on start, easypeasy. They have an app to monitor and make changes to the settings. The MLO is very nice. My Samsung Galaxy 25 Ultra supports this and it's super fast and because it supports 3 bands, it's has very good range. Even though it's kind of pricey, it packs a lot of bang for the buck, especially with the OpenVPN and Wireguard throughput. I have 500 up and down and I'm getting Wireguard speeds of 350 up and down, OpenVPN speeds of 250 up and down. So I'm pretty happy.

First time buying GL.Inet. Most recently used a Netgear RS100 which suffered from random connection drops and has an extremely slow UI/app. In comparison, Flint 3 has an extremely responsive UI, no setup app required, just login to the router IP address. No phone app to setup was key for me as the Netgear app was terrible. Essentially works right out of the box. On my 1Gbps service, 5ghz gets to 750mpbs, 6ghz gets to 950mbps. Also has built in AdGuard which seems to work well. Other apps as well such as VPN. Haven't had any dropped connections, and range through wood/drywall is good.

Best router I have ever had. Setup very easy, all 2.5gbe and wireless 7 makes me feel generations ahead of my old router with openWRT. The interface is familiar but it’s easy to use. I think given the performance and range it’s a fantastic value compared to a closed source router which will have an end to firmware updates. It was cheaper than the closest openWRT quad core which didn’t have the wireless 7 chip, I sent back a wireless 7 access point that was almost as much. I’m in a small apartment but there are different transmit settings for range, but in a small apartment I get excellent coverage. It’s arm so it uses little power, either open source at the core, it’ll have a long lifespan as it’s a next generation platform with connectivity or 4x lan 2.5gbe, 1 wan 2.5… I have gig wireless, so I’d be at the edge of a 1 gig connection, but the time I need a new router this one will do all I need. The usb port has a 6tb external drive for blu rays to stream over Ethernet and WiFi, it’s also a local cloud, I might get a usb raid drive and use desktop backup software. So a lot of connectivity.

Get this is you want a super reliable 2.5G router with WiFi 7, 6Ghz, adguard, vpns, and about every feature that any home or small business user would want. Do not get this if you want really good WiFi range. It is usable but not great. The WiFi will cover my 2000ish sqft house with the router in the very center of the house, but just barely. If the router was nearer one end of the house it would not come anywhere near covering it. This router has about half of the wifi range of my ISP provided TMobile modem/router. Also if you want to use the USB 3 port to setup an external hard drive or thumb drive as a basic NAS the speeds are not great. Transfers can spike to like 100mb/s, but after a second they drop to about 30mb/s. I have tried several different drives, even ones that have speeds of 200mb/s+ when connected directly to my PC, all do about 30mb/s connected to this router. I tested this with drives formatted in NTSF, EXT4, and exFAT, it did not seems to effect the speeds. Perhaps this is something they they can improve through a firmware update at some point. Overall I am pretty happy with the router. It has been a very solid 2.5G router, I have had zero issues with long 260MB/s transfers to and from my home nas. I think that it restarted itself once in the month that I have been using it. The interface is excellent and it can do basally anything that you would want. Very easy to use adguard and vpns, I have been using it with PIA, it has been working very well, I have not really even noticed any decrease in speed or increase in latency, although I am sure there was some impact. Other then the limited range wifi is pretty solid, 6GHz works well and is certainly faster then 5Ghz, but you have to be pretty close to the router to get all that high of speeds due to the weak Wifi. WiFI 7 is pretty cool, it works with most old devices they just run on the bands that they support. The only device that I have that does not work with it is a 7+ year old Amazon Kindle paperwhite, and I can just connect it to the straight 2.4ghz band. Also I like that this company seems committed to very long term firmware support Overall a good router, but falling short of being great mostly from the poor wifi range. If they could improve their antennas or something and get like 50% more range it would be pretty great. Also this is a fairly minor complaint but I really feel like the USB 3 port is too slow at 30MB/s to be all that usable for a NAS storage device, it really needs to be able to handle something like 100MB/s sustained speeds. The main reason why the poor range on this router really bothers me is because my old router, the one provided to me with my TMobile Home internet has really exceptional range. It can be at one end of the house and easily reach though the whole house 50ft through like 5 walls to the other end of the house. It also reaches like 100-150ft out into the yard. It was made by Nokia so I guess it makes since that they would really know how to make some exceptional antennas. While this router placed in the very center of the house just barely covers the whole house, and does not really reach out into the yard at all, so it has less then half of the range of the old router. I live out of town so this is not from interference. So I think that the antennas on this router are just not very good. Overall a decent router and recommended if you do not mind the mid WiFi range.

I absolutely love this router. I bought the Slate 7 for a travel router and was so impressed, I had to have Flint 3 for my main router. I used to have a Firewalla Gold I loved, but when I switched to 5G home internet instead of cable, the cellular router could no longer be installed in the he middle of our hose, so we lost the ability to use the Firewalla and my centrally managed WiFi access points. It was a tough puzzle to solve if I wanted any controls over the ISPs router and limited capability. Here’s where the Flint 3 just rocks. I could either ride the existing WiFi signal, and add the GLiNET router as a drop in gateway or create a separate WiFi network, Addis security, as blocking and a host of other capabilities, while still tunneling through the AISPs router and WiFi. Absolutely genius. I can now do 95% of what I lived about the Firewalla again over WiFi. What a great product!!! Our home is a 2800 sqft single story and zero connectivity issues. I had to mount the Flint 3 high on a bookshelf to avoid dips in coverage at the outer edges of our home, but that was an easy one to resolve. Too bad these are going to be banned in the US, because both this and the Slate 7 are awesome.

Update on Nov/2/2025 Everything working as it should be, for a week im using MLO and getting full 1gbps speed from the router even far from it, behind walls, its insane! Previously i did not know how to setup the router now i do and ge my full speeds PLUS penetrating wall and getting same low latency as if im standing next to flint3, freaking insane. —- End of transmission Nov/2/2025 No! I’m being honest and not venting anything on this router, the admin ui and features are decent, however, in a very small apartment signal is ofc will be good but significant connection quality decrease if you are far away from the router, I’m using MLO option for connecting and testing with my 16 pro max and IPad M4 pro 13 inch and neither of them reaching 1Gb internet speed from this router, I tried resetting no improvement, overall it’s good router and not something I’d recommend. Signal strength is good but latency and delays doubles if you step backward one step or getting far from router will only increase more latency and I’m talking about not condo, just 44m square apartment.

Suuuuuuper fast. But horribly buggy. The firmware is beta testing level firmware. Literally. I plugged a picture of the firmware into ChatGPT and it was like “Oh this is SNAPSHOT firmware, that explains it. This is not a stable release.” This is still a good router. It’s OpenWRT based and has great hardware. Buuuuuuut. Don’t run WiFi 7 features yet. (Unless you enjoy dropped internet and constantly power cycling the router.) You can improve stability on this router by: - Turning off MLO - Turning off 6 GHz - Turning off Randomized BSSID This router is basically all the newest Qualcomm chipsets, a powerful CPU, great hardware, and the most cutting edge WiFi 7 beta software. I set it up months ago for maximum speed. MLO enabled, 6 GHz / 5 GHz / 2.4 GHz all on. It was FAST! 1,000 down and 1,000 up on my iPhone in the same room or one room over (1 interior wall between me and the router). But after a few weeks I noticed it would have stability issues. Wifi symbol on my iPhone would disappear and reappear rapidly. Network connections would drop. The only fix was physically unplugging the router, waiting 30 seconds, and plugging it back in. Yippee! It’s like computers of the ‘90s all over again. The router was like a finicky race car. Fast… when it wasn’t totally broken. So I turned it into a boring Toyota Corolla. Turned off MLO, turned off 6 GHz, and turned off randomized BSSID. Now I get 400-600 down and 300-400 up. It’s fast enough that I don’t care. I will never notice the speed difference on this tiny screen in my pocket. What I will notice is that THE FREAKING INTERNET WORKS AGAIN?!? I use Ethernet for my laptop because I’m an adult and treat my work as an adult should. Ethernet is the no nonsense fast option. No packet loss. No added ping. Fastest possible speeds. No WiFi troubleshooting. If you have a laptop, plug it into Ethernet. You’re a good person. You work hard. You deserve Ethernet. For everything else (you can’t plug your phone into Ethernet and walk around he house tethered to a cable) I recommend turning off all the fancy new WiFi 7 features on this router. Unless you like being a beta tester. Then yea keep those features on. …and thank you for your service. In 3-5 years when this WiFi 7 stuff is stable thanks to your years of dropped connections and bug reports, I will salute you and turn on MLO / 6GHz / etc… For now I prefer the Toyota Camry of internet. So I turned off all the fancy stuff and run this router like a Toyota Camry. Boring and reliable.