I've come across the Cudy M3000 router, which supports WiFi 6 (AX), and I noticed that it's now listed in the OpenWrt Table of Hardware (ToH) as supported. However, I haven't been able to find any guides or documentation on how to flash OpenWrt onto it. Does anyone know if there's a detailed guide available for this model?
Additionally, I've tried searching for reviews online, including Reddit and YouTube, but there seem to be very few comprehensive reviews, especially in English. Most videos are either in another language or too brief, without much discussion on the hardware or performance of the device. It all feels a bit unclear.
Does anyone here have experience with the Cudy M3000? I'm considering purchasing two of these routers to use as dumb Access Points with WiFi 6 support. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the hardware and its performance, especially in an OpenWrt setup.
Yep, tried that and came here asking for some advice. Unfortunately, most of what I found was either for other Cudy models like the AC1200, AX1500 (WR1500), RE3000, etc., or vague advice about removing signature checks that doesn’t really apply to the M3000.
I even came across people trying to flash other models like the WR3000 and running into issues like invalid files or having to use emergency recovery modes. That’s why I’m asking here for anyone with actual experience to the M3000.
Cudy offers 100% accurate instructions along with signed sysupgrade to install clean OpenWRT in place of their firmware. If clear written instructions from OEM are not clear to you, probably do not install anything.
I appreciate the links and instructions, but just to clarify I’m not struggling with the flashing process itself. My main goal is to hear from people who have actually used the Cudy M3000 and successfully flashed OpenWrt on it, to get a sense of the device’s performance and any specific issues they might have faced.
If anyone has firsthand experience with the M3000 especially regarding its use as a dumb access point with OpenWrt. I’d really appreciate your feedback. That’s the kind of insight I’m looking for before deciding to buy.
You upload cudy's file as upgrade to cudy firmware updater
Then on fresh but a bit aged OpenWRT upload 23.05.5 sysupgrade EDIT: dont keep settings.
All done?
There is no specific extra requirements for Dumb AP, normally one would put something overpowered like M3000 to do SQM and full speed NAT next to internet connection, then add coverage area with previous AP.
I have also only recently come across with Cudy brand and I immediately ordered one WR3000 precisely with the purpose to become a "dumb" Wifi 6 AP with multiple SSIDs related to multiple VLANs. On paper these M3000 seem even better for that purpose but I am also struggling a lot to get reviews of these equipments. In youtube I found a few videos but they are not in English or any language that I know (I think they are from Bangladesh?). The other "product reviews" that I found are from distributors from South Africa or similar, so not the most detailed or factual reviews out there.
It would be nice to have a detailed review of Cudy WR3000 or M3000 running vanilla Openwrt so we could have a glance of performance and stability.
On paper these are awesome for populating the house with roaming Wifi 6 "dumb" APs.
Yesterday received the unit (WR3000 V1) and just replaced my AP (Router RT-AC57U, also have a RT-AC58U as well) and even when comparing to the ISP's WIFI 6 router the coverage is impressive! I get full internet speed (500mbps) with 5GHz everywhere in the house! For sure way better than both my Asus routers.
So far I am running stock firmware just to get an idea of its performance/functionalities and stability. Later on I will install vanilla openwrt and run AP with VLANs. I will let you know what I think of it.
thank you for posting. I couldn't find the two kit combo device so I should get a notification when is on stock but I will try to do some testing. On paper looks nice but yeah but using it in a production environment is really different.
let us know when you do the firmware upgrade, double check the comments on their website.
Already did the firmware upgrade, but for now I am still running no VLANs and no multiple SSIDs. Basically having the configuration exactly the same as before, with 1 SSID for 2.4GHz and another one for 5GHz.
The firmware update itself was really smooth, with no issues besides the system detecting a virus inside the zip file the OEM provides (I believe under developer folder).
What I noticed is that the range/bandwidth is not as good as the OEM stock firmware. I don't have any scientific metric to back this statement, but I have tested with my Poco F5 as I had tested with the Stock firmware and I noticed a small difference. One thing that had huge impact in the client connection speed was to activate the "Coverage cell density" to Normal for instance (comes disabled by default). Enabling this option to any of the options (Normal, High, Very High) did increase connection output to my mobile.
So far I am pleased with the performance and had no issues at all, but I will let you know when paring VLANs with different SSIDs (after all that was the main purpose of getting this AP).
There is package that you can install to see if there is any issues or something with the device, mostly people use it to check the stability of the wifi channels and devices.
luci-app-statistics
and maybe do a perf3 speed test. I ordered the kit but still need to wait until there is some stock so I can do test too.
