M3000

Even so, it supports openwrt. Anytime you can flash an opensource firmware

I ordered 2 units of cudy's mesh m3000 ax3000 routers, installation & setup was intuitive. I’m thoroughly impressed with the performance of the Cudy M3000 (V2)—it exceeded my expectations and delivers outstanding results. I highly recommend it as a reliable and cost-effective solution. Attached, you’ll find several pictures illustrating the setup: • The ISP cable connects to a PoE mini UPS. From there, a LAN cable runs to the primary Cudy M3000 unit. • A cable from the main unit's LAN port connects to a Dahua 1 Gbit switch, which distributes the connection in two directions: • One side feeds the second Cudy mesh unit for seamless mesh Ethernet backhaul. • The other side connects to a secondary Tp-Link 1 Gbit switch that powers multiple laptops. Overall Review The performance is phenomenal for the price point. Cudy has significantly improved with the M3000 V2, making it a strong budget-friendly alternative to other brands such as TP-Link.

I live in lebanon🇱🇧, and here 70% of ISPs are switching their customers to cudy systems. Because honestly it offers nearly same performance as high end routers for fraction of the price. And since the economical situation is bad in lebanon and its surroundings. Cudy makes way more sense than tplink, dlink, asus, and other brands.

I’ve been having a weird issue with this device. I have 2 nodes, one main and a secondary one. I usually get speeds anywhere from 200 to 500+ mbps but every now and then I would get 2 o 3 mbps until I reboot it from the app. Any suggestions on how to fix this or what could possibly be wrong?

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.

That is not required. The only interaction is to apply the OpenWrt image provided by Cudy via GUI. Afterwards it is all CLI procedure if you want.

Cudy mesh routers are very good value if you're ok with stuff that just works reliably without bells and whistles or want to install OpenWRT. See their emulators if that level of configuration options is enough for you. If it is, they are really stable and good value.

I use the Cudy ax3000 series (the black and red ones) available on Amazon and there great, have no issues, WiFi 6 and wired backhaul, has a 2.5g wan connection too. WiFi speeds have been excellent as has reliability with no drop outs in 6 months of use. Likely get slated as there Chinese but they serve a purpose.