Experience with GL.iNet routers ?

[alex3137]

Hello

I am considering buying a GL.iNet router (AR300M). I am moving to an island were electricity is expensive and internet is slow (between 1 to 4 Mbits). Hencewhy I think a combination of GL.iNet routers (low consumption) and Gargoyle (bandwidth management) will work well for me.

It comes with Openwrt pre-loaded so I assume installing Gargoyle should not be a problem. Anybody managed to run it successfully ?

Thanks

[Lantis]

Hard to find any specs on this device, but it looks relatively new.
In such a case, it probably runs a trunk snapshot of openwrt.

This would make it incompatible with Gargoyle (for now).

Are you in a position to find out what version of Openwrt it runs?

[alex3137]

I contacted GL.iNet support and they told me their firmware is based on CC 15.05.1. They confirmed it is a stable release, not a trunk snapshot.

They also added:

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Yes, it is based on stable release. But I am not sure this can install gargoyle firmware. As we need to patch the code to add support for AR300M, so existing firmware may not be supported. 

So, what do you think ?

[Lantis]

As suspected, they're doing their own inhouse mods to add support for the device.
Unless they shared that with you, no chance.

[alex3137]

Is it not possible to install Gargoyle packages on top of a standard Openwrt installation ?

[Lantis]

Gargoyle is not a set of packages (it was in the beginning).
It has too many kernel modifications.

It is a full firmware or nothing.

[alex3137]

They said it's all opensource and available here: https://github.com/domino-team/openwrt-cc

Do you think we can do something with it ?

Thanks for your support

[Lantis]

I'm sure it could be done. But I do not have the time or inclination to do so, sorry.
It would be easier to recommend you buy a different router with better support.

[alex3137]

Ok thanks for looking into it.

Do you have a model to recommend in the same price range (around $50, less if possible) ?

I don't need 802.11ac (n is good), 5 Ghz is not mandatory. External antennas would be great.

[Lantis]

wndr3800
wndr3700 (some versions)
wdr3600
wr1043nd (not v4, v3 is also a little difficult but doable)