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.

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!

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.

good value for the money.

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.

Purchased this device as a VPN router and it works superbly using just the default firmware. Performance is exceptional (will be server dependent). The router accepts .ovpn files so can be configured to function with a multitude of VPN providers. As an example it functions well with Kaspersky ONE using the .ovpn file generated by the base package thus a very cost effective solution. You can turn ON/OFF individual device VPN streams on the fly using just the mobile app.

Well built streaming great 2.4Ghz and 5GhzEasy to connect easy follow set up guide, good range and quite small. Quick speed value for money. I needed it to connect my printer to hp as you can only down load program using 2.4Ghz so they told me.( still can't connect) but my old tablet did!

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.