CNX Software Reviews Beryl AX OpenWrt Router

GL.iNet Beryl AX OpenWrt router review – WiFi 6 performance, repeater, NAS, and 4G hotspot modes

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In the first part of the review of GL.iNet GL-MT3000 “Beryl AX” pocket-size WiFi 6 OpenWrt router we had a look at the specifications, the package content, and the hardware design with a teardown of the little.

I’ve now had more time to play with the router focusing the review on WiFi 6 performance, and some of its functions such as repeater, NAS, and 4G hotspot. The router also supports VPN client and server modes, the Tor network, and Adguard Home, but I’ll invite readers to check out the GL.iNet Brume 2 security gateway review since I went through all these, and the hardware is very similar minus wireless connectivity.

Initial setup of the Beryl AX router

If you connect an Ethernet cable to the router you can switch to step two. If you only rely on WiFi for the setup that works too as the Beryl AX router will be as GL-MT3000-XXX and GL-MT3000-462-5G.

Simply use the password located at the bottom of the router, and type “admin” user to login to the dashboard while after 192.168.8.1 address in your favorite web browser..

GL.iNet Admin Panel is the same for all routers from the company. I went to set the timezone, and change the SSIDs (5GHz and 2.4 GHz) and password to something I’d prefer…

Review testbed

If order to test the GL.iNet Beryl AX router, I connected the Rock 5B SBC with WiFi 6 and 2.5GbE networking plus an RTL8156BG 2.5GbE USB 3.0 adapter connected to my laptop running Ubuntu. A Xiaomi AX6000 higher-end router was also used as a reference against the AX3000 router from GL.iNet.

After upgrading all packages on the Rock 5B and rebooting the single computer board, I started testing by checking all SSIDs in the terminal running in the Rock 5B board: