What's your favourite cheap LEDE/OpenWrt device?

Xiaomi ax3000t is currently 44€ on aliexpress. Interestin device to test. Mediatek filogic 820 soc and wifi ax for both radios. Currently only snapshot builds

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Cudy WR3000, rather nice price-performance ratio.

Some of my tests here Support for Cudy WR3000 - #141 by notgood

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Cudy WR3000 is currently on some flash offer on amazon IT for 44.90€
Not bad price for EU amazon.

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Just got the Xiaomi AX3000T from AliExpress for $40 and have been pretty impressed so far. Getting gig speeds on 5ghz and supports hardware offloading on WAN and WED for wireless. Easy flash with XMiR patcher and the same SoC and WLAN as the OpenWrt One so hopefully it gets a bit better continued support.

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Can you give a link to which one you purchased?

I am not sure about the forums policy on posting store links but I bought it from “TookFun Life Tech Store”. You can find it by searching for “Xiaomi AX3000T”

EDIT: Xiaomi AX3000T and the Cudy WR3000 v1 look interesting and nicely priced. Which would you pick? How is the TX power?

I just borked my e8450... What is reasonably priced out there? Is WiFi 6E worth considering?

Cheapest "alternative" is reviving the router itself. Personally I would not bother with 6e and go to 7 when reasonably priced routers (€100-€150) with decent specifications are available

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I picked Cudy WR3000 for my friend, since not many packages required so the small flash is still usable, and Cudy one is much easier to flash, just flash the OpenWrt variant from Cudy, then directly flashing official OpenWrt, you don't need to worry about bricking it.

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Do you remember the Banana Pi BPI-Wifi 6 OpenWRT Router + Case TR6560 + TR5220 Wifi SOC Dual Core?
They are already selling it complete with case.

I think you missed the timing, would there be any reason to buy it and not the AX3000T?

Xiaomi brand is my favourite!!! Always lowest cost on the high quality.

Now days, Xiaomi AX3000T, less than us$24/set in China market, brand new.
(I bought 3sets on the way)

Assuming you manage to get a supported version, probably not a problem in CN, but it might be, in other countries.

https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/xiaomi/ax3000t

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I'll use Xiaomi AX3000T for the replacement of my MT7621 low-end routers.

This model, already sold more than 10 million sets in the past near 1 year!

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I know what you mean.
AX3000T RD23 problem, already solved:

and AX3000T cost us$24/set in CN, plus shipping cost, how much?

not expansive for 3sets or more.

Buying from China, there are also RAX3000M and JCG Q30Pro, which might be even cheaper.

I don't really like that I have to use UART to flash it.

Yes, RAX3000M with USB3.0 port and 512MB RAM, us$15/set, very good.
Maybe this model is in my next order. Thanks.

Where one can buy it? Fully functional with openwrt (especially the usb port)?

RAX3000M is China Mobile (CMCC) OEM's from factory, not for retail, some 2nd hands (not used) selling in china TaoBao / Alibaba. us$15-20 + shipping.

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