bummer, I cannot find it on alibaba and buying from taobao is too complicated (besides I'd need an agent, they don't ship to Spain, do they?)
Yes, you could buy any in TaoBao, and I think shipping should by AliExpress in the same website, you could ask a friend in your local who bought something on TaoBao.
Hi, could you check your AX3000T in logs for incompatibilites between SMPS and any modern AX cards? Any version of Openwrt is working good, but after some time and device sleeps/resumes there is WIFI performance drop. On stock firmware there is no such behaviour.
I received my AX3000T yesterday, and installed openwrt no problem.
It seems from now on, AX3000T / RAX3000M likes with MT7981 (MTK filogic series) will be the new standard of low-end routers. Cheap but powerful.
MT7628 / MT7621 will be phaseout.
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Wah, wah, I just found my Xiaomi AX3000T is the base set of famous OpenWrt One !!!
It means this model will be the best of openwrt supported devices on such cheap cheap cost, any software problems will be handled perfessionally.
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I checked and, to ship to Spain, I need an agent, so, apart from the complication, the shipping would cost me twice or thrice the cost of the router 
he is looking at this device : RAX3000M 
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it's made by BananaPI
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OpenWrt One - full functions and feature rich.
AX3000T likes - basic functions, beautiful look, and cheap enough.
Got my RAX3000M a few month ago.
Performance wise is great.But their cooling system is ...emmm...Easily reaches 80C.
I ended up adding some heatsinks and a tiny blow-style fan.
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I was looking at a cheap home router to replace my aging Archer C6 v2 (US), which can not achieve my new upstream link of 800+ Mbps, even with software flow offloading.
Is the Xiaomi AX3000T really the best option for its price, despite all the hassle mentioned at https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/xiaomi/ax3000t ?
Some AX3000T devices come with a new NAND flash chip:
Winbond 25n01kvzeir. This chip is incompatible with the official stable OpenWrt 23.05.4 image and uboot! Don´t try to flash it without checking your chip! However SNAPSHOT build is fully compatible and tested with both flash chips since Aug.13
New AX3000T devices with stock firmware version 1.0.84 or newer have received updated hardware that is temporarily incompatible with the OpenWrt image until support is added. There is no possibility to install OpenWrt on RD03 for such devices
And on top of all that, you've to exploit a SSH vulnerability in an older firmware version in order to install OpenWrt.
Cudy WR3000 has nearly the same hardware, but with 16 MB flash instead of 128 and I can only find it for sale in my country at Amazon, for almost double the price of a Xiaomi AX3000T.
A post was split to a new topic: Replacing an Archer C6v2 with Xiaomi AX3000T or a Cudy WR3000?
I have the Xiaomi and it was a pain in the ass to flash with UART and whatnot, although it performs amazingly. Easier to flash and a similar price is the TP-Link AX23.
The AX23 is quite the downgrade from the AX3000T (16 MB flash, 128 MB RAM, significantly slower CPU). In my region, the AX23 is also slightly more expensive than an AX3000T, although still cheaper than a Cudy WR3000.
Hardware-wise, the AX23 seems to beat the AX3000T only in the number of ethernet ports (5 vs 4).
Low RAM and no USB port to mitigate the lack of storage makes the AX23 a pretty bad investment nowadays, if you ask me.
Yeah, but the AX23 is using a MIPS CPU so ARM things don't apply when it comes to memory from my experience.
Tried my luck at purchasing an AX3000T online, since it's so cheap compared to the others. Got lucky with the firmware (1.0.47) and can enable SSH right out of the box, alas, I got unlucky with the NAND chip.
root@XiaoQiang:~# dmesg | grep -i winbond
[ 0.716221] spi-nand spi0.0: Winbond SPI NAND was found.
root@XiaoQiang:~# dmesg | grep -i esmt
root@XiaoQiang:~#
I will probably flash the snapshot build and see how the router performs.
I've been running Snapshots for a week or so. They work exceptionally well!
This u-boot is better though.
ImmortalWrt <> OpenWRT, or is it only their boot loader you use ?
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Just the bootloader. The current Immortal is based on OpenWRT 21 otherwise so some of my apps don't work.