GL.iNet GL-BE9300 (Flint 3)
| abgn+ac+ax+be (BE9300) | |
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| Tri-band Wi-Fi 7 Home Router | |
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| Homepage | Product page |
| WikiDevi.wi-cat.ru | GL.iNet GL-BE9300 |
| 3rd Party Firmware | |
| dd-wrt | Status Unknown |
| OpenWrt | Work in Progress |
| Tomato any flavor | Incompatible |
| Platform | |
| Brand • Model • Rev | GL.iNet GL-BE9300 (Flint 3) |
| FCC ID | 2AFIW-BE9300 |
| Type | wireless router |
| CPU1 | Qualcomm IPQ5332 |
| CPU1 Type | ARMv8 Cortex-A53 |
| CPU1 Speed | 1.5 GHz ( 4 cores ) |
| Flash1 Chip | Brand? Model? |
| Flash1 Size | 8 GiB 8,192 MiB <br />8,589,934,592 B <br />67,108,864 Kib <br />8,388,608 KiB <br />65,536 Mib <br /> (eMMC 5.1) |
| RAM1 Size | 1 GiB 1,024 MiB <br />1,073,741,824 B <br />8,388,608 Kib <br />1,048,576 KiB <br />8,192 Mib <br /> (DDR4) |
| RAM1 Chip | Brand? Model? |
| ETH chip1 | Qualcomm IPQ5332 |
| ETH chip2 | Qualcomm Atheros QCA8081 |
| ETH chip3 | Qualcomm Atheros QCA8386 |
| Switch | Realtek RTL8372N |
| Ethernet Port Count |
1-2.5GbE-WAN 4-2.5GbE-LAN |
| Wired Standard | IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab/3bz |
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802dot11 OUI: none specified | |
| Stock bootloader | U-Boot |
| Stock FW OS | Linux 5.4.213 OpenWrt |
| Expansion IF types | USB 3.0 |
| USB ports | 1 |
| USB Hub Compatible | Untested |
| Power | 12 VDC, 4 A |
| Connector type |
barrel 5.5 mm (OD) 2.1 mm (ID) 9.5 mm (LEN) |
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Default SSID: on label | |
| Retail | |
| FCC approval date | 19 June 2025 |
| (Est.) release date | 08 August 2025 |
| (Est.) initial retail price (in USD): | $190 |
| UPC |
6971131384892 (UPC DB, On eBay) |
| ASIN |
B0FB8X43KJ |
| Radio 1 | |
| Chip1 | Qualcomm IPQ5332 |
| Wireless interface OUI | none specified |
| Antenna Connector Type | none specified |
| MIMO status | 2x2:2 |
| Wireless Standard | IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ax/be |
| 802.11be | up to 688 Mbps |
| 802.11ax | up to 574 Mbps |
| 802.11n | up to 300 Mbps |
| 802.11g | up to 54 Mbps |
| 802.11b | up to 11 Mbps |
| WiFi Operating Frequency | 2.4 GHz |
| Radio 2 | |
| Chip1 | Qualcomm IPQ5332 |
| Wireless interface OUI | none specified |
| Antenna Connector Type | none specified |
| MIMO status | 2x2:2 |
| Wireless Standard | IEEE 802.11a/n/ac/ax/be |
| 802.11be | up to 2882 Mbps |
| 802.11ax | up to 1201 Mbps |
| 802.11ac | up to 867 Mbps |
| 802.11n | up to 300 Mbps |
| 802.11a | up to 54 Mbps |
| WiFi Operating Frequency | 5 GHz |
| Radio 3 | |
| Chip1 | Qualcomm QCN6274 |
| Wireless interface OUI | none specified |
| Antenna Connector Type | none specified |
| MIMO status | 2x2:2 |
| Wireless Standard | IEEE 802.11ax/be |
| BE-QAM | up to 5765 Mbps |
| 802.11be | up to 2882 Mbps |
| 802.11ax | up to 2404 Mbps |
| WiFi Operating Frequency | 6 GHz |
For a list of all currently documented Qualcomm chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm.
For a list of all currently documented Qualcomm Atheros (QCA) chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm Atheros.
For a list of all currently documented Realtek chipsets with specifications, see Realtek.
For a list of all currently documented GL.iNet devices with specifications, see GL.iNet.
Overview
Hardware specifications
- CPU: Qualcomm IPQ5322 Miami
- Quad-core ARM (Cortex-A53) @1.5GHz
- Storage: 8GB (eMMC 5.1) Flash
- Memory: 1GB (DDR4 3200MHz) SDRAM
- USB: 1x USB 3.0 port
- Network: 5x 2.5GbE; 1x 2.5GbE (WAN/LAN),
- 1x 2.5GbE (WAN), 3x 2.5GbE (LAN) ports
- Power Source: 12V/4A barrel connector
- Linux kernel: 5.4.213
Links of Interest
- Official US Retail Channel
- Official User Guide
- on device.report
- GL.iNet Community Forum
- On the OpenWrt Forum
Reviews
- GL-iNet Flint 3 Wi-Fi 7 router review: Affordable Wi-Fi 7 for the masses on TechRadar
- GL.iNet Flint 3 – Wifi 7 Router Review. Bringing powerful OpenWRT firmware on EnosTech
- GL.iNet Flint 3 (GL-BE9300) is an tri-band Wi-Fi 7 router with 5 2.5GbE ports on CNX-Software
Flashing
| NOTE: During configuration or flashing a device, the only things that should be hooked to the device is the computer and power. |
Flashing OpenWrt
| Status: work in progress — not yet supported by OpenWrt.
Support currently lives out of tree at perceival/openwrt-flint3, branch flint3-be9300, based on JiaY-shi/openwrt, branch gl-be6500, which carries the IPQ5332 platform work. The qualcommbe/ipq53xx subtarget is not in OpenWrt yet, so there are no official images and nothing in the firmware selector. Installing replaces the vendor firmware. Take a full eMMC backup first — the ART partition holds per-device radio calibration and MAC addresses that exist nowhere else. |
Subtarget: ipq53xx
Package architecture: aarch64_cortex-a53
Support started version: unknown
Current supported version: unknown
ridge VLAN filtering on the switch, hardware NAT offload
LAN Hardware: Realtek RTL8372N
LAN Comment: 1x 2.5G WAN (RTL8221B-VB-CG), 4x 2.5G LAN behind the RTL8372N switch, 10G SoC-to-switch link. VLAN via 802.1q on the CPU port
WLAN Hardware: Qualcomm IPQ5332, Qualcomm QCN9274
WLAN Comment: Wi-Fi 7 tri-band: IPQ5332 for 2.4 GHz, dual-mac QCN9274 for 5 and 6 GHz. MLO works — one AP MLD across all three bands
Install Comment:
Stock platform_check_image demands a QSDK FIT, so sysupgrade from vendor firmware cannot work; write kernel and rootfs partitions directly. See device page
Recovery method(s):
U-Boot web recovery
Recovery Comment:
Hold reset while powering on, browse to 192.168.1.1, upload stock GL.iNet firmware
Comment:
Work in progress — not yet supported by OpenWrt; support currently lives out of tree
Please insert instructions here
Pictures
See also
This article's use of red links may need cleanup. |
Models
- GL.iNet • Products • Compare • FCC ID - 2AFIW
- GL.iNet
- Embedded system/wireless router
- Embedded System Qualcomm
- Embedded System IPQ5332
- Qualcomm
- Embedded System ARMv8
- Embedded System Cortex-A53
- Embedded System QCA8081
- Embedded System Qualcomm Atheros
- Qualcomm Atheros
- Embedded System QCA8386
- Embedded System Realtek
- Embedded System RTL8372N
- Realtek
- Has Mimo Status
- Embedded System IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ax/be
- Embedded System IEEE 802.11a/n/ac/ax/be
- Embedded System QCN6274
- Embedded System IEEE 802.11ax/be
- Triple-Radio Wireless Embedded System
- Wireless Embedded System
- Tri-Band
- Embedded System
- English Documentation