AX3000 Gigabit Mesh Wi-Fi 6 Router, WR3000 1.0

It's a great router tbh. Lots of flash storage, flashing OpenWrt is very easy and everything works without a hitch. I can highly recommend Cudy to anyone.

Flashed my WR3000 with Openwrt without that.

Yeah cudy wr3000 are great with OpenWrt

Cudy wr3000 series runs pretty good with OpenWrt

Get a Cudy and install OpenWrt

WR3000 series has good support

Yep a Cudy wr3000 can handle that

something that uses the mediatek chips is your best bet. if you are going to use wireguard and require decent speed on that probably the flint 2 (avoid the flint 3). alternatively if you dont use a vpn, you have the cudy wr3000 which is cheaper and works great too, can offload most of the heavy lifting to the soc, once you enable WED. these topics are covered in the openwrt wiki page.

Theres also the unfortunate issue that lots of wifi 7 providers, including gl.inet make claims that it works how you'd expect but in reality when tested it doesn't a bunch of independent testing has been done on this, [one of the best videos on this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5o_Qu3XToQ) honestly i'd just steer clear in buying decisions. go with a flint 2 / cudy wr3000 and job done.

go with the flint 2, its reasonably priced and performance is comparable to what you'd get with others. I get 900mbps over wifi with it to my phone. Some of the best wifi 7 ones get double that, but none of the wifi 7 routers properly implement the spec for MLO, its not real MLO its just connection fallback and the fallback is really really bad. you'll sometimes end up on the 2.4ghz band doing 150mbit when you could have just stayed on the 5ghz band doing 900mbit. even on the 6ghz band, phones, laptops are seeing top speeds of 2gbit. its not worth it in the grand scheme of things. get a flint 2, reevaluate in 3-5 years when MLO might then work and we might see a variety of devices that suport it. pricing will be reasonable then too. the whole thing is a chicken and egg situation and almost all the router manufacturers unfortunately including gl.inet are snakeoil salesmen. no consumer should be purchasing wifi 7 routers because it just straight up doesn't work. MLO doesn't function on any of them how the spec should work.

not really, most of that is just snakeoil too - they aren't going to be able to defy the laws of physics and blast gigabits of throughput through 2-3 brick walls. if you need mesh, then the only real solution is multiple access points and running cat 5e/6 ethernet. thats the top tier and recognised solution to all of this. you can also do the 5ghz backhaul style method but i dont rate it, and most of the time it ends up acting as a shitty repeater anyway. the cudy wr3000 is a super cheap access point, you could have the flint as the main wifi router and a cudy at the back. thats pretty much how i have mine set up.

You don't need an expensive router. I use something called a cudy WR3000 for £40 (around $50-55). Works an absolute treat.

Cudy wr3000, realy decent router.

I second this. A router only supporting 2.4 GHz might be your bottleneck. My recommendation would be Cudy as their Cudy Mesh is the only mesh they use and is supported by all their wireless devices (also supports Easymesh). I personally run Cudy M3000 in both wired and wireless configuration (depending on location) with its 2.5G ethernet backhaul. Another benefit to using Cudy is that you can run them in either AP or mesh mode. Some other alternatives are WR1500 or WR3000 as they are a very cost effective way to get some APs. If you can run ethernet and can buy WR1500, that would be my go to as it can basically be a \~$30 AP. You can run them as wireless mesh units as well. Like others have mentioned, Cudy makes it super easy to flash OpenWRT on their supported models as well. Simple firmware flash that doesn't involve taking the unit apart, just simply upload the firmware.