– Cudy WR3000 AX3000 Dual Band Wi-Fi 6 Mesh Router, 160MHz, MU-MIMO, OFDMA, WireGuard, OpenVPN, WPA3

Bought this router after my previous one that’d lasted for a fair few years, decided to conk out. What I’ve bought with this one is actually a superior replacement. Fully featured and fast to set up, it’s been a good experience. It didn’t take long to get to the same stage as my previous setup - a mix of wired and wireless connections. I was also looking for a router that enabled me to put alternative firmware on it. It’s possible to put OpenWRT on it, but to be fair the GUI is that good and fully functional, I’ve just not bothered. Signal quality and connection overall has been sound. Overall, a great router, and given its price, superb value for money.

The Cudy WR3000 delivers premium performance at a budget-friendly price. It’s reliable, fast, and incredibly easy to use. If you want a solid network upgrade without spending hundreds of pounds, look no further. Highly recommended!

Excellent little router for the price. Compact, lightweight and very easy to set up. One small concern initially was that it feels very light and plasticky compared to more expensive routers, so it does not give that premium heavy-duty feel out of the box. However, once connected and running, it performs surprisingly well and that concern quickly disappeared. I bought it for my office in a 4x4 metre garage conversion and the signal strength has been excellent throughout. The four antennas clearly do their job properly because coverage and stability have both been much better than expected for a router in this price range. Setup was straightforward and it creates its own secure Wi-Fi network and password without any issues. I have been using both the standard connection and the 5GHz band, and speeds have been consistently fast and reliable. Browsing, streaming and video calls have all worked smoothly with no noticeable lag or signal drops. Overall, this router performs far above what I expected considering the cost. It may not feel particularly premium physically, but in terms of actual performance it works perfectly fine and delivers excellent value for money. Great option for home offices, garage conversions or smaller properties needing strong reliable Wi-Fi.

Excellent router, easy to set up, strong WiFi signal throughout a large 4 bed home. I do need another one to make a mesh network as signal is so good from this single one. Getting near max speeds on WiFi throughout the home! Great upgrade from a tplink ac1200 WiFi mesh network. Did not use openwrt but this is capable of installing the firmware onto it. The existing firmware is reliable and have no issues so no need to flash openwrt unless you really need extra features. Definitely recommend to all who want strong WiFi connection throughout their home!

Decent quality router for a value price. Easy set up in a few minutes, connect to the router enter it's IP, create admin password and then config as you want with standard GUI, or just connect to a modem, select router, enter supplied password and away you go. I renamed mine to have the same SSID as my current router (and same password), this makes for easy connection of IOT devices should one router fail - TCP smart electric radiators are a real pain to connect to a new router router but using this method the devices are none the wiser. Only minor gripe is the power lead isn't very long, but then again no shorter than any other router I've had.

These a very poor, brought 4 so I could mesh them all together and they aren't too far away from each other but they perform well below expectation. Connection is slow, and I mean really slow, never had a router slow my fibre down that much and drops out a lot. Steer well clear, I would return them all but I'm using them as a hub at the moment. If you looking to extend your WiFi, buy something else and save on the disappointment

I rarely give a 5 star review, because it takes a lot to earn it, but these are good, they feel light and cheap but they do what they are designed to do, WiFi 6 is great and working either as APs or MESH mode they seem to handle everything thrown at it, the only down side I have found is you can't reset the local admin password even if they are bound to a cudy account, this is a little bit of an oversight and needed me to reset both of them to sort out.

Some time ago my broadband was upgraded toTalktalk's fast fibre. My 6 year old RT-AX92U could not connect directly and I was forced to use the router (poor description but that's what they call it) supplied by the ISP. I double natted this to my existing router so that I could have basic router functionality - beyond just connecting to the internet, and continue to use my 3 device mesh. I was happy with the performance of my system but decided to get rid of some of the minor annoyances, the most significant being the lack of support for split tunnel VPN by policy. Most high end consumer routers do not offer this out of the box and I have no need for gaming level performance, flashing LEDs or a device a comparable size to a desktop fridge. So at the price I bought 3 of these as a "no regrets" trial. I always planned to Install OpenWRT and this was fairly painless. Its a 2 step flashing process and initially I struggled to find the correct image to use. So I posted a message on Cudy's website late at night and was pleasantly surprised to find the correct image in my inbox when I woke up. Kudos for support. After flashing I plugged it into my ONT and as if by magic I had a full speed, stable connnection with zero config required. Perhaps this will work after all. After setting up my routing needs (complete with isolated VLANs for IOT devices and guests) I flashed the other 2 boxes and set up the mesh. Caution this does require a little bit of technical stuff - once you install OpenWRT you don't get the fancy wizards that will just auto configure everything for you, but its not rocket science. Now I have a stable network with comparable performance to my old system that does everything I want and more. If you are after pure performance in a mesh system you should be aware that this device only has 2 radios and 1Gb ethernet ports. But if you are a gamer I guess you won't be looking at sub £30 routers - or using a wireless backhaul. Its probably worth mentioning that I could not maintain a stable mesh using 160 Mhz for the backhaul but at 80 its just fine for office work, video conferencing, browsing and streaming anywhere in the house or garden. All at a fraction of the price of the big brand equivalents.

Ho comprato questo Cudy WR3000 principalmente per usarlo come access point aggiuntivo nella mia rete di casa. Il router principale è un Fritz! e il segnale non arrivava bene in garage e in giardino, così l’ho collegato via cavo Ethernet e l’ho messo in modalità AP. Configurazione fatta in 5 minuti dall’interfaccia web, tutto in italiano e senza manuali strani. Da allora è una bomba: sul 5 GHz prendo 850-900 Mbps stabili anche a 8 metri di distanza con due muri in mezzo, e il 2.4 GHz tiene senza problemi tutte le lampadine, telecamere e sensori. Con 25-30 dispositivi connessi contemporaneamente non fa una piega, zero lag nemmeno quando scarico file grossi o guardo Netflix in 4K. Il beamforming e l’OFDMA si sentono davvero, il segnale è pulito e potente. Niente surriscaldamento, niente riavvii random, funziona e basta. Per 39 euro è un affare pazzesco, meglio di tanti extender o repeater di marche più blasonate che ho provato prima. Se vi serve espandere la rete senza spendere 100-150 euro, prendetelo a occhi chiusi. Io l’ho già consigliato a due amici. 5 stelle meritate al 100%! 👍

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El router es compratíble con easymesh, no fui capaz de conectarlo al router de digi. He configurado el router con un repetetidor de la misma marca, lo he configurado con wifi mesh. He configurado el servidor dns en el router sin problemas. Tanto el router como el repetidor funcionan bien, no como el router de digi, que a veces se cortaban las descargas constantemente o no cargaban las imágenes. En un telefono, cuando cambias de ubicacion no cambia el wifi, lo que hace que puedas tener poca cobertura hasta que pierdes la señal. En otros telefonos, la tablet, la computadora, el mesh funciona perfecto. El router es muy configurable, se le puede instalar openwrt, hay actualizaciones, soporte easymesh que no me ha funcionado. Me parece buena compra.

Roteador perfeito pra quem quer usar o OpenWRT com compatibilidade 100%. Pontos positivos: Muita estabilidade no firmware original e no openwrt Compatível com OpenWRT Alto alcance no 2.4 e 5Ghz Processador mediatek filogic muito rápido Únicos pontos negativos: Memória flash muito pequena: 6mb apenas Sem porta USB para expansão

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