Nowhere near the all time low but still a very good price for 2 routers with openwrt support and its specs
ax wifi (2400mbps over 5ghz)
Dual core 1300mhz cortex a53 cpu
512mb of ram
128mb of storage
Edit: if you sign up to the vip program from mobileciti they give you a $10 coupon and free shipping
It’s not. Only usable when flashed with OpenWRT. Excellent once done.
What are the changes/improvements you noticed specifically after upgrading?
Rock solid reliability, rather than it needing to be rebooted multiple times a day
They plainly do not work without doing so. Mine would drop out constantly, sometimes without resuming function. As Puffinfresh said, OpenWRT makes them excellent routers.
Bought the 3 pack in the last sale. Apparently the stock firmware isn't great but I only bought them with the intention of loading OpenWRT anyway.
Been absolutely rock solid no matter what I throw at them. Fantastic value.
Did you end up putting OpenWRT on them, or have they been rock solid with stock?
Can these uses as 2 separate wireless APs on separate property?
Usually no reason why you can't. Sometimes mesh routers are pre linked together/auto join together but each individually is a full router.
Yep these are 2 identical full routers, not like the google or eero units which have a main unit and the little satellites that are useless on their own.
missed a small detail there….
that is for three
($149 for those without ebay+)
Also from allphones at $189 for 4, with delivery
https://www.allphones.com.au/d-link-m32-eagle-pro-ai-ax3200-…
The 4pack is the same price at mobileciti, tangentially I think mobileciti owns allphones now
If I sold one what should I expect to sell it for?
I only need one but keep seeing these deals for 2 or 3?
an alternative question you could ask is if someone who wants only 2 or 3 would buy 3 or 4, and you will offer them…. fill in your offer here….
$50? Anyone who you sell it to will google it and see they can buy a 2 pack new for 99.
What performance could you expect with wireguard?
The Flint 2 advertises 900mbps wireguard speed and it’s got 4 2ghz a53 cores and that’s approximately 3 times faster than this so this should get like 300mbps?
I think these only do AX on the 5GHz channel, and wireless N on the 2.4.
I have 3 of them at home with openWRT 23.02.5 2 are wireless APs the one is a wireless bridge.
That said, they work well with openWRT, but are difficult/impossible to get back to stock if you ever need to.
https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/d-link/d-link_eagle_pro_ai_m3…
Yep you’re right, the openwrt page shows it as only supporting b/g/n on 2.4ghz
I thought you can restore stock firmware using the recovery mode, the same way openwrt is installed. Did it fail for you?
In haven't had a reason to go back to stock, I just remember at the time it sounded difficult at the time requiring decryption of the stock firmware.
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997…
Interested in these. In openwrt Can these NAT route at 1gbps?
Do you need hardware offloading to reach those speeds???
I have no idea on this, however I checked that in the UI, I can enable software and hardware NAT offloading in the firewall config.
My internet is only 100/20 so that is my bottleneck.
Anyhow I also have a nanopi R4S which I seem to recall could route almost 1Gbps, so I thought I would get the cpuinfo from both as a comparison.
rom M32, and then a nanopi R4S for comparison:
root@OpenWrt:~# uname -na
Linux OpenWrt 5.15.150 #0 SMP Fri Mar 22 22:09:42 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 25.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU revision : 4
processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 25.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU revision : 4
root@OpenWrt:~# uci show | grep 'offloading'
firewall.@defaults[0].flow_offloading='1'
firewall.@defaults[0].flow_offloading_hw='1'
root@OpenWrt:~# uname -na
Linux OpenWrt 5.15.162 #0 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 15 22:14:18 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linu
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 48.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU revision : 4
processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 48.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU revision : 4
processor : 2
BogoMIPS : 48.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU revision : 4
processor : 3
BogoMIPS : 48.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU revision : 4
processor : 4
BogoMIPS : 48.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd08
CPU revision : 2
processor : 5
BogoMIPS : 48.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd08
CPU revision : 2
root@OpenWrt:~# uci show | grep 'offloading'
firewall.@defaults[0].flow_offloading='1'
firewall.@defaults[0].flow_offloading_hw='1'
it looks like the nano pi thing is alot faster than the m32 pro.
either way, thanks for investigating.
the slow cores on nano NanoPi R4S will be similar. but the 2 fast cores will be much faster.
https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/tp-link/tp-link_archer_d7_v1
I have one of these as my router and the m32s as APs
With the archer my speed test is like 8-900mbps using cloudflare or Netflix so I think these should be able to handle it because they’re much beefier
I don’t have like SQM or any of the fancy openwrt features turned on though
Genuine question. In what use case this would matter?
for people with 1000/50, also in sept everyone is getting speed boost.
so 100/20 will become 500/50
I had tplink c7, with hardware offloading it can route 1gbps. But openwrt did not have hardward offloading for this model, so topped at 300mbps.
Sorry, I asked half the question in my head.
I was referring to only having AX on 5ghz. I'll try edit the above if not too late.
Do you have to hardwire these things? My current system is a bit of a hack. My main Telstra router sits on the front of the house. Then I have a second router on bridge mode on the back of the house (hard wired). I have a tiny house outside. I want to increase the coverage and the bandwidth.
Wireless backhall with stock firmware (probably wired too). Either with OpenWRT. Some set up required with OpenWRT, but there are tutorials on YouTube.
Originally, I used openWRT with wireless backhaul, 802.11s and batman, put the backhaul on 5GHz and main network on 2.4GHz, it worked okay, but from time to time would have some issues I suspect from routing loops.
Currently, I now have wired backhaul to 3 AP (2x M32 and 1x AX3600) and a wireless bridge (M32).
I'm not technical. Just want to run a mesh setup so the room at the end has a chance of some wifi love. Currently running a beater AC 1600 stockie since my old router blew up.
Will this do?
I'd avoid it. Without OpenWRT, it's not reliable. OpenWRT needs some technical ability.
Not reliable? What does that mean?
reliable
adjective
consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted.
@puffinfresh: What do you mean by the router isn't reliable? It restarts? Connection drops? Genuine question. I'm looking at getting this to put wifi into the granny flat
@Mums Poop Sock: Your wifi connection will keep dropping out. I used the stock firmware for few days and I was working from home.
When I am on video calls, the quality would suffer or you would just drop out.
The connection to work VPN would keep resetting (due to packet loss, and connection drop to access point).
Just to give you some examples.
I then put OpenWRT on it and set mesh via dawn. It has been rock solid since.
Looks like hardware it has is great, but the software it comes with is terrible.
I thought I would try these despite all the negative feedback. Turns out everything wrong about them is correct. Dropouts, inconsistent signal strengths and bad coverage. I'm not that technical but will now attempt a flash of OpenWRT as cant see any sense in returning them and may as well take a punt. Buyer beware!
Flashed to OpenWRT, stuffed around with the settings, made one an AP and both work like a charm now. It ended up cheaper than a brand name range extender with better coverage. Will see how it goes….
it has AI it might be good