Guanglian Zhitong launches Flint 2 router: dual 2.5 Gbps ports, using OpenWrt-based proprietary firmware

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Daniel Wu and Dayou Ikejiu for their clue delivery! CTOnews.com October 6, GL.iNet released its Wi-Fi 6 AX6000 home router Flint 2 (GL-MT6000). It is reported that the router is designed to meet scenarios such as big data transmission, multi-device connection and low-latency game environment, and claims to be "a router product for modern home and office", but the official price of the router has not been announced yet.

According to ▲, the Flint 2 router is suitable for users who need high speed, capacity and stability. The router supports Wi-Fi 6, up to 160 MHz bandwidth, 4x4 MU-MIMO and eight high-power FEM (CTOnews.com note: Front-End Modules, RF front-end module). It also has dual 2.5Gbps ports, which is known as "easy access to 2.5G high-speed broadband to achieve 2.5G internal network transmission".

According to ▲, the 2.4GHz band of the Flint 2 router can provide network speed of up to 1148 Mbps and the 5 GHz band can provide network speed of up to 4804 Mbps.

At the system level, Flint 2 uses proprietary firmware based on OpenWrt (v23.05 kernel version 5.15), which claims to "provide users with more than 5000 off-the-shelf customized plug-ins" to personalize the router setup process.

At the performance level, the Flint 2 router is equipped with 1 GB RAM, 8 GB eMMC storage, and quad core 2 GHz processors.

The details of the router attached to CTOnews.com are as follows:

Ethernet Port 2 x 2.5G Ports (10/100/1000/2500Mbps)

4 x 1G Ports (10/100/1000Mbps)

Support protocol IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax

Wi-Fi rate 1148Mbps (2.4GHz); 4804Mbps (5GHz)

Antenna 4 x 2.4GHz + 5GHz two-in-one Wi-Fi antenna

CPUMediaTek Quad-core, @ 2.0 GHz

RAMDDR4 1GB

ROMeMMC 8GB

Power consumption