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GL.iNet Flint 3 (GL-BE9300) Tri-band Wi-Fi 7 Home Router US$161.41 (~A$248.60) Delivered @ GL.iNet US

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GL.iNet Flint 3 (GL-BE9300) Tri-band Wi-Fi 7 Home Router US$161.41 (~A$248.60) Delivered @ GL.iNet USAffiliate
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Lpc007 on 15/10/2025 - 11:39 store.gl-inet.com (299 clicks)
Last edited 15/10/2025 - 15:41 by 1 other user
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First time posting. Hope it helps.

GL.iNet Flint 3 (GL-BE9300 Tri-band Wi-Fi 7 Home Router on their own website with free shipping. Currently 15% off offer going on. Final cost is USD161.40.

If you create a new account, another 10% off on final price using the code you receive in email.

I paid USD147.39 including USD2.35 for insurance.
Total in AUD 228.94

Last Amazon prime deal was for $259, I guess.

Update 1: Asia pacific link updated
Update 2: Added my referral link (if anyone wants to use). Just noticed that people using referral link can get $20 off

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Comments

  • theQuinn on 15/10/2025 - 12:03
    +4

    Seen a few suggestions that if you don't have a need for WiFi 7, that the Flint 2 is the superior option?

    • mitt on 15/10/2025 - 13:44
      +1

      Its the far better value option, though at this price the difference is smaller so it may be worth just paying extra for the 3.

      • pc007 on 15/10/2025 - 15:35

        That’s what I thought and went ahead with Flint 3.

  • Hinee on 15/10/2025 - 12:04

    This is as good of a place as any to ask - i've been looking to upgrade my 5yo ISP router and I had pretty much decided on the Flint 2 based on the seemingly overwhelming recommendations to that over the Flint 3. I don't think I own anything wifi 7 and have no major home networking throughput requirements. Should I keep hodling for a ripper Flint 2 deal? Or just go straight for the future proofing route.

    • mattman on 15/10/2025 - 12:42
      +4

      Yeah I replaced my ancient Asus rt68 recently with a flint 2. I do have a handful of wifi 7 devices (new phones etc) but not anything that's going to be fixed at close range where wifi 7 actually works.

      Huge improvement in wifi, 5ghz has full coverage over out medium size house. Speeds and stability is great.

      I got it for $208 or something off Amazon recently. Has been better but that was enough.

      Edit - small firmware bug on current stable release. Don't update or there's a small setting to change. Don't let it stop you buying but also worth being aware lol.

      • Dauphin3 on 15/10/2025 - 13:23

        I've got an ancient RT68 also. But I use 2 x ubiquiti WAP's for home wifi. Most other points - TV's, desktops etc are hardwired with CAT6. I'm not sure whether I should upgrade either. I mean, the new flint should have a much better CPU etc than my ~10 year old Asus. Just wondering if I'll notice much of a difference…?

        • mattman on 15/10/2025 - 14:10
          +1

          I guess see if CPU load is constantly high? My biggest issues with the old Asus was wifi coverage (which you seem to have solved) and also just starting to get random times it needed a reboot, moreso than in the past.

          If you have no issues with it freezing up/needing reboots, cpu isn't high etc then it's probably just fine as-is.

          • solpiry on 15/10/2025 - 16:13

            @mattman: I have same problem with you for 5ghz wifi coverage with RT68. Is flint2 5ghz coverage much much better than old one? Not sure flint2 can reach to 3 bedrooms wall away.

            • mattman on 15/10/2025 - 16:23
              +2

              @solpiry: Yes it's significant.

              2.5 rooms away (timber walls) with my phone on my bed (aka kinda Faraday cage lol) it would be dropping in and out constantly with the Asus.

              With the flint 2 in the same spot I pull 300mb/a 🤣

              • Pashka on 15/10/2025 - 20:16
                +1

                @mattman: I tested my Flint 2 WiFi 5 coverage with my laptop. My router is in the dining room in the front of the house. I took my laptop out into my large back yard. The signal had to travel through 3 solid brick walls (The walls had door ways) and reach out into the back yard I reckon I had signal about 20 -25 metres out into my back yard. Glad I went with the Flint 2.

      • paaj on 15/10/2025 - 15:03

        How did you set up the WiFi bands? (sorry if that's a silly question). Do you have separate ssid for the different bands? Or the same name for all the bands?

        I got this because my phone has WiFi 7 but I'm assuming I can use the same ssid for all bands and let the devices work out what they are connecting to?

        • mattman on 15/10/2025 - 16:25
          +1

          Idk about wifi 7 but my flint 2 broadcasts separate ssid for 2.4ghz and 5ghz, you choose what to connect to.

          I put phones, TV's etc on 5ghz and left all the more passive stuff on 2.4ghz.

          In terms of channel selection I just leave it all alone 🤣

      • Pashka on 15/10/2025 - 15:56

        What is the small setting to change? Some people have had issues, others have not.

        • mattman on 15/10/2025 - 16:24
          +1

          Change network acceleration to software or off. It's been fine for me since (on software option).

    • pc007 on 15/10/2025 - 15:36

      I haven’t check the difference between the two. But I think difference is small. So, why not future proof it.

    • dd6 on 17/10/2025 - 14:03

      Just an fyi that you can use education emails for a discount on the Flint 2. I got one last month for $111.92 USD which I thought was a decent deal

  • veetor on 15/10/2025 - 12:08

    How did you get the new user discount code to work? It's saying not applicable to the items in the cart.

    • veetor on 15/10/2025 - 12:15

      Nevermind, they sent me two codes for some reason. Maybe newsletter and sign up?

      • pc007 on 15/10/2025 - 15:37

        Right. I also got 2 codes. 1 worked. Not sure why they sent 2.

  • kkeith22 on 15/10/2025 - 12:11

    Very hot.

  • smiles on 15/10/2025 - 12:15
    +1

    Doesn't look like this is openwrt compatible. I have GL.iNet GL-MT6000 - Extremely great router !

    • veetor on 15/10/2025 - 12:18
      +2

      Says OpenWRT is pre-installed on the product page.

      • Goof on 15/10/2025 - 12:35
        +5

        GL.iNet take OpenWRT and add their own proprietry stuff to it.

        In the case of the Flint 3, this proprierty stuff (ie WiFi drivers) is needed for it to run well. Flint 2 doesn't have that issue, it runs well on stock OpenWRT.

        • fvos on 15/10/2025 - 15:57

          I brought the flint2 and running 4.8.3 beta2 and no issues. Very happy with the wifi coverage.

        • mishy02 on 15/10/2025 - 19:49

          I just bought this, but now I am having some regrets of it vs Flint 2. AFAIK the Qualcomm SDK is closed sourced and therefore so are the drivers. Does this mean I have to download some specially patched/blobbed OpenWRT from GL.iNet? Thanks

          • Goof on 16/10/2025 - 10:51
            +1

            @mishy02: Yes, exactly that.

            In my experience, you can still get to the OpenWRT GUI (Luci) & the command line and do all the same things. As far as I know GL.iNet mainly add the proprietary drivers and a very simplified GUI wrapper interface (which other family members can understand).

            I think the main disadvantage is having to rely on GL.iNet to push out updates

            • mishy02 on 16/10/2025 - 21:30

              @Goof: Great, thanks for the info! I think I will keep it then, I don't plan to tinker with it (too much).

    • Pashka on 15/10/2025 - 15:53

      +1 Have the same router, very happy with it. Looked at the Flint 3, but don't have any WiFi 7 devices and not in a hurry to get some either. Waiting for WiFi 7 to mature a bit more before jumping in.

  • bond008 on 15/10/2025 - 12:27
    -2

    Is it illegal to use US wifi 7 devices?
    GPT tells me: using a Wi-Fi 7 device purchased in the US in Australia can be illegal or non-compliant, depending on how it operates—especially regarding the 6 GHz frequency band.

    • Emutypewriter on 15/10/2025 - 12:51
      +3

      It’s true, they have WiFi police walking around with WiFi detectors and smash your door down then body slam your router if you use a US WiFi 7 router

      • Sammyboy on 15/10/2025 - 20:58
        +1

        In Vic, Jacinta can get those kids who break and enter to check your router before they make of with your car. That way the police can fine you at the same time as they do the report.

    • acrilorn on 15/10/2025 - 13:08
      +3

      Not sure what modifications GL.iNet have made on top of OpenWRT, but in OpenWRT, there's simply a drop down list of countries where you can select Australia which will limit it to the legal Australian channels.

  • KirKoloft on 15/10/2025 - 12:41

    On their US webpage the only shipping option is to US.

    https://ibb.co/d347DrM

    • veetor on 15/10/2025 - 13:17

      Switch to Asia Pacific.

  • seniordoc on 15/10/2025 - 13:03

    I see US$ 189.90. Had I missed a code?
    Thank you.

  • matt-ozb on 16/10/2025 - 08:15
    +1

    Bought a flint 3 was amazon AU .. super quick shipping and the flint 3 is flawless .. perfect.

  • OmNomNomagon on 16/10/2025 - 09:53

    This or a UDR7? Wifi speeds seem comparable, just a less capable CPU and memory?

  • USER DC on 16/10/2025 - 13:04

    I found issues with adguard home in FLINT 3 it will often crash, GL inet support is not that helpful in solving it either.

    So just saying buy it without adguard home feature in mind, as it will keep crashing if you have a decent sized blocklist, custom rules, filters. in that case will just eventually have to use a seperate mini pc as adguard home server.

  • bearkarma on 17/10/2025 - 20:32

    Has anyone been able to get the $20 off code working from the referral link?

    Validation code emails dont seem to go through. Wonder if it's worth the trouble?

  • ev3nfl0w on 18/10/2025 - 10:46
    +1

    FYI - still working (as of 10:45am 18th of Oct AEST). Showing expiry as the deal states its up to the 17th of October PST

    I signed up an account also to get the 10% off to bring it down to $145.27 USD

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