Gargoyle Forum

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

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?

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: So, what do you think ?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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