CudyWR3000S AX3000 Dual Band WiFi 6 Mesh Router, 5 Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 Ports, 4 Antennas, MU-MIMO, OpenVPN, Wireguard, Zerotier, Ipsec VPN, Cloud APP

This caught my eye because of the price and it was one of the few wifi6 routers that openwrt supports. Setup was easy, just flash their signed openwrt image and then update it to the newest openwrt. The stock firmware is based off openwrt and they provide the source code which is really nice. I was worried as i had never heard of them before, but im glad i bought it. Wifi speeds have been great and rock solid. The stock firmware is decent, but i felt it lacked some basic things, but enough options for your avg person. With openwrt you get all sorts of stuff you can use. I wish it had a little more storage or a usb port so it could load stuff off of there. Also you cant brick it, theres a built in recovery mode you can trigger and it lets you flash stock back to it.

This router performs very well.. well beyond its price point. It runs a customized OpenWRT firmware, which is a LOT easier to configure than vanilla OpenWRT. It does have an officially signed image of full on OpenWRT from Cudy available if you are so inclined and need the configurability. It also has some cool options that are a one click config like forcing internal DNS(Intercept DNS Port - useful if you are using an adblocking DNS), and Disabling IPv6 on LAN. Of course this is possible with Full OpenWRT, but it is a lot more involved.Hardware wise, I am happy to see that the router is thoroughly ventilated, as this is a big problem for consumer routers - I've had two previous routers die simply from overheating due to poor case design. Good range, good firmware, nice hardware.. You can't really go wrong at this price.

Flashed my Cudy Wifi Router with OpenWRT and it's been a fast, reliable wireless access point ever since. Out of the box this router fires up quickly and flashing with OpenWRT is relatively straight-forward. I cannot speak to the factory software for general use, but I can definitely say this unit runs well with OpenWRT and I've had zero issues.

I got this to replace an aging WRT32X with OpenWrt installed. The WRT32X wasn’t having any big issues, but this came across on Vine and thought I would give it a shot. I’ll relegate the Wrt32X to maybe running Klipper.I don’t use the WiFi on this router bc I have a mesh system acting as an AP behind it. I can’t really attest to the WiFi performance, admittedly. But this router works well for my needs, which is as a router and firewall.The biggest pros to this router for me were:A) the out of the box firmware supports VPN (open vpn and wireguard) in a relatively straightforward manner. When I originally installed OpenWRT on my wrt32X I had to do quite a bit to get those to work. I actually suspect that the stock firmware is a reskinned OpenWrt but I haven’t confirmed:B) semi factory sanctioned OpenWRT. While they say that they won’t support it once flashed to OpenWRT, they have a link on the company website to the openwrt image. I will eventually install OpenWRT on it but I wanted to test the stock firmware first.C) the CPU on this router is quite fast, although the 256MB of RAM isn’t spectacular. The management UI is pretty responsive and I’ve noticed a subjective improvement in performance on my devices on my network.D) The footprint of the device is small. Consumer wifi routers have been getting bigger and bigger with huge antennas and such.E) the stock management UI is… ok. Some quirks here and there (static dhcp address leases, for example) but generally ok even for the non-tech savvy person:I think that for the price this router is pretty good.The only real downsides I can think of is no USB port and I don’t know about the longevity of it. I remember having plenty of cheap routers die fairly quickly (like within 2-3 years) since they’re on 24/7. This one might go that way. But only time will tell.

I have worked with many routers of the past 25 years, I am very impressed with the WIFI speed and how well the add on Mesh unit works, I think the interface is very straight forward and very easy to set up the MAC/IP binding is, Plus the port forwarding is very simple. For the price it works great!

Was able to easily flash with the latest OpenWRT, though I will miss the default interface icons. Able to handle my 400mbps Internet connection, both through wifi and Ethernet.

This is a great router. It supports OpenWRT. It has 128MB ROM, 256MB ram, and 1.3 GHz dual CPU. It's also a WiFi 6 router. Can't beat that for under $60.

Good, I run them with the OpenWRT firmware. But also the original firmware seems to be nice.But the firtware cudi devices come with is often outdated.Update the firmware before using the device.I found it easy to look for Cudi WR3000S V1 on the openwrt instructions.there you can find the cudi google drive and install the newest cudi stock firmware.don't install openwrt if you don't know what you are doing, the cudi firmware is good if it's the newest