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Posted 18 July 2023
Xiaomi Mesh System AX3000 - Wi-Fi 6/ Dual band/160MHz high-bandwidth/up to 254 devices/operating system based on OpenWRT (2-pack, EU plug)
£4.75 from Italy ·
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It's £117 in the UK at the moment. As always, pay with a fee free card in Euro and the price should be around £63.84 Direct link
Processor
Qualcomm® IPQ5000 Dual-core A53 1.0GHz CPU
Network processing unit
Single core 1.0GHz NPU
Memory
256MB
2.4G Wi-Fi2×2 (supports up to IEEE 802.11ax protocol, the theoretical maximum rate is 574Mbps)
5GHz Wi-Fi2×2 (supports up to IEEE 802.11ax protocol, the theoretical maximum rate is 2402Mbps)
Antennas
High gain antennas
Heat dissipation
Natural heat dissipation
Total ports
1×10/100/1000Mbps self-adaptive WAN port (Auto MDI/MDIX)
3×10/100/1000Mbps self-adaptive LAN ports (Auto MDI/MDIX)
IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax，IEEE 802.3/3u/3ab
Review
Pros
Processor
Qualcomm® IPQ5000 Dual-core A53 1.0GHz CPU
Network processing unit
Single core 1.0GHz NPU
Memory
256MB
2.4G Wi-Fi2×2 (supports up to IEEE 802.11ax protocol, the theoretical maximum rate is 574Mbps)
5GHz Wi-Fi2×2 (supports up to IEEE 802.11ax protocol, the theoretical maximum rate is 2402Mbps)
Antennas
High gain antennas
Heat dissipation
Natural heat dissipation
Total ports
1×10/100/1000Mbps self-adaptive WAN port (Auto MDI/MDIX)
3×10/100/1000Mbps self-adaptive LAN ports (Auto MDI/MDIX)
IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax，IEEE 802.3/3u/3ab
Review
Pros
- Good range
- Wi-Fi 6 compatible
- Low price
- Not the fastest of mesh systems
- No parental controls
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Edited by sisqoboy, 18 July 2023
98 Comments
sorted byI assume i can buy 4 of these instead of just 2?
forum.openwrt.org/t/a…/49
Issues, IPQ5000 is not yet supported by Openwrt itself so unless you have mad coding skills, you will not be able to run Stock Openwrt on these.
Thanks (edited)
And one of these: argos.co.uk/pro…7:8
aNd it works pretty great. Can get near enough full ISP speeds on the top floor but it can't penetrate the outside walls and no signal in the garden
I don't have experience with the Hub 5 but our Hub 3 is roughly the same. Fine across probably 1 or 2 concrete walls but suffers greatly after that.
To be honest I'd rather invest in an ethernet run up to the top floor and a (cheaper) router there or powerline. Anything else is just trying to make good of a bad situation. You have to go really hard onto enterprise grade stuff like Ubiqiti otherwise and the cost isn't worth it
Would they fit these perhaps? (edited)
amazon.co.uk/gp/…VSH
First impressions of the mesh are good, seems fast enough but I'll switch to a wired back haul.
There's not a lot of configuration options in the web ui or app but they run openwrt so should be room for some DIY improvement. (edited)
Thank you
If it comes back in stock would this be noticeably better than the Vodafone hub router on a 63mb connection? (edited)
Looked a decent deal at the lower price though. Would want to investigate potential backdoors though