Grandstream GWN7003 | 11-Port Wired Gigabit VPN Router | Dual PoE Output Ports

Stay away from those consumer (all in one's), or your getting skrewed in so many ways ! Management is a breeze, Defaults are set in a way that you don't have to do much. It took less than a second to connect to our provider & I didn't even have to call those Mo&ons ! The Access points are simple as well. (Unless you have to update firmware, that wasn't as easy) Now that the AP's are updated, they connected to this router Easily & Flawlessly. I purchased 4 AP's but found I only needed 2 as the signal reaches far and wide :) Way better than any consumer grade routers With over 1000 wifi routers surrounding us, These AP's get 100% quality/signal to the edge & beyond of our yard. (sorry neighbors :). Update: 4 months later running 24/7... Still perfect ! Absolutely No Issues, at all, Even after 3 firmware updates, It just keeps getting better :) I have 2x of their 24 port switches as well (7803 & 7813), This router now lets you manage their Switches & the AP's from the router itself. I am extremely hippy with this purchase.

Highly recommended. Integrates well with Grandstream access points. PROS: 1. Value for the money. 2. Easy setup and integration. 3. American company. No worries about foreign country security mandates. 4. Small footprint. CONS: 1. User manual is very sparse. Not helpful for setup and integration with access points. 2. Unfortunately, it's not for general consumers. It's my impression that if the customer buys this product, then the customer should already have sufficient networking knowledge. However, it's learnable.

Been a very good router in my GrandStream setup. So far very stable and easy setup using the gdms cloud control.

I like these routers a lot. Great feature set for the cost, not as flashy as Unifi or Omada, but they work very well, built in POE, etc.

Using this with GWN7665 AP's and a TP-link network switch Works great. Automatically chose different channels for the AP's.

Replaced an aging Google WiFi system with this and two 7660 APs. Happy with the overall result and Grandstream is a good value compared to Unifi so far. Great piece of kit.

I've been having trouble with my ISP's 30-minute IP lease (ISP modem/router was configured as bridge mode), as in some days it triggers the PBR failover unnecessarily for failing to instantly acquire the IP lease from ISP and Omada ER605 router is not very good at handling this matter causing a 3-5 minute internet outage. Pretty awful for internet cafes. GWN7003 solved the issue by triggering the PBR failover caused by the same instance, and importantly, waiting for preferred WAN to reconnect "completely" before passing the devices/LAN back to preferred WAN. It's much more responsive and real-time. Was using ER605 for over a year and initially looking an upgrade to ER707-M2 for faster processor thinking it might solve my problem. Well I'm glad I found Grandstream, bought this router at half the budget instead, shorter boot time, better UI, more ports and still get 2.5gps. I love it, I no longer have to monitor and intervene manually. Also happy their products gets delivered here to Philippines. Hoping tho Grandstream will add DNS Proxy for DoH, it's one of the critical feature I liked with Omada router being able to use my custom cloudflare zerotrust DNS.

I really wanted to like this router. For $90 a 2.5GbE port, 2 PoE out ports, and a rack-mountable metal casing seemed like a great deal. Given I already use Grandstream access points and SIP phones, this seemed like the perfect choice for a small setup. The first time I set this up, the configuration got corrupted which meant the configuration web interface wouldn't load until a several minute long timeout. I had to reset and start from scratch. Traffic identification and QoS are half-baked at best, they also require you to disable hardware acceleration which in my experience limits the throughput to around 350mbps. The device has no 6to4 tunnel capabilities. No problem, this software is based loosely on OpenWRT, I'll just ssh in and configure one in the terminal. Nope! The terminal is not a normal shell but rather duplicates the web configuration options, just in text-only form. One of the main reasons I wanted to use this was WAP management with my GWN7670, however it does not seem to detect the access point at all. For being advertised as a "VPN Router", the capabilities as a client here are very limited. I was unable to setup a tunnel with my provider of choice, as it is apparently not capable of using the cipher Proton uses. I have my own local CA to allow internal devices to authenticate against without ssl warnings. No matter what I did, I was not able to get this to accept a certificate for it, when every other device on my network will. If there was an option to install OpenWRT on this thing, it would perhaps be solid hardware but I find Grandstream's software to be absolutely atrocious. If you need something low-power but capable, I recommend Mikrotik instead.