A lot of folks just like brand new hardware. I for one prefer used enterprise grade hardware. Just different values. -Eldo
On 1/8/26 16:19, Russell Senior wrote: > I presume you've read this? > > > https://forum.openwrt.org/t/gl-inet-flint-3-gl-be9300-discussions/218440/161 > > particularly toward the bottom (there is a lot of speculative guessing > towards the top). It's apparently based on an IPQ (Qualcomm Atheros) > SoC. Probably less important if you aren't counting on the wifi > working, but MediaTek has been favored in the last few years due to > their more-FOSS-friendly attitude. And, just to temper my enthusiasm > for the W1700K, the OpenWrt forum thread mentioned earlier has some > people reporting some routing speed issues in the last week, so it's > not fully There(tm) yet. > > As a side note, I've been wandering into the niche world of the ONT > bypass community in the last week or two, which I knew vaguely about, > but never encountered directly before. There are people enthusiastic > about replacing the whole ISP provided ONT (optical network > termination) with an SFP or SFP+ module that they've configured to > look like the ISP's ONT, mostly it seems by cloning the Serial Number. > I have not tried it yet, and indeed it would be awkward because my ONT > is currently outside where swapping electronics in the winter is not > so convenient. ;-) >
