H3C Magic NX30 Pro

[zhanhuju]

Online hardware review here you can google translate it.

Things that are not listed in the reviews especially with regards to usage experience will be discussed here.

Likes:
- Value for money
- Great for modding openwrt and stuff telnet port 99 with root access is opened by default, you can overwrite the UI configuration if you understand openwrt configuration syntax
- A recovery bootloader has been created (you can find it in chinese forums) so you will never brick this router
- High performance routing, high wireless signal strength coverage since it is based on the same MT7981B Arm-A53 filogic 820 platform as the Xiaomi AX3000T/WR30U router
- It is a standing design which means it takes up less space
- Looks cool

Dislikes
- Web UI DNS issues
Basically this issue is more complex for power users.
Normally Home Gateway Routers allow for manual configuration of upstream DNS (because we all know ISP DNS servers sucks) so for this router it does not allow you to specify upstream DNS for ipv6 so you have to configure it in the LAN setting to distribute your own ipv6 DNS ip but this setup is bad because you cannot use this router to be a caching ipv6 dns, but you can login via telnet and configure it.

 

[xiaofan]

I remove H3C and ZTE models in the following post as they are not popular in Singapore -- Xiaomi, Huawei and TP-Link Chinese models have some users mentioning them in this forum but not really H3C/ZTE. Xiaomi Chinese models are the more popular here.

But indeed H3C has quite some good options as well. So does ZTE.
1) Low cost -- H3C NX30 Pro, comparable to Xiaomi 3000T.
2) Low cost -- H3C NX54, comparable to Redmi AX5400.

https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/...-redmi-ax3000t.6438353/page-21#post-150134528

Original recommendations by acwifi.net.
https://www.acwifi.net/25941.html
1) very low cost (<RMB 200)
Xiaomi AX3000T -- RMB 179
H3C NX30 Pro -- RMB 149 promotion price
ZTE 中兴巡天AX3000 -- RMB 179
腾达AX12 Pro V2 -- RMB 179

2) low cost (RMB 200 - 299)
TP-Link XDR5410 -- RMB 279
Redmi AX5400 -- RMB 279
H3C NX54 -- RMB 279
ZTE 中兴巡天AX3000 Pro+ -- RMB 299

3) Mid-range: RMB 300- 399
TP-Link XDR5410 -- RMB 399
Redmi AX6000 -- RMB 399
TP-LInk XDR6010 -- RMB 399

4) Mid-range with 2.5G port, RMB 400 - 499
Xiaomi AX6000, RMB 429
ZTE AX5400 Pro, RMB 489
Ruijie 锐捷X60 Pro, RMB 489

5) Higher mid-range, RMB 600-799, dual 2.5G ports or more
TP-Link XDR6088, RMB 679
Xiaomi 6500 Pro, RMB 699
Xiaomi 7000, RMB 799
ZTE AX5400 Pro+, RMB 628
GL.iNet MT6000, RMB 659 (11.11 promotion pricing).

 

[xiaofan]

But the following reviewer does not recommend H3C models. He does recommend a few ZTE models.

Low end -- MTK Filogic 820 chipset is recommended.
Mid end -- MTK Filogic 830 chipset is recommended.

11.11: Chinese Youtuber Recomemndation:

 

[zhanhuju]

Don't trust reviews too much. There are such things as paid reviewers.
Anyway Xiaomi 3000T is not that great.
The first filogic 820 platform is actually Xiaomi WR30U, that was the game changer which all subsequent filogic 820 platform appears, that has better hardware although it does not have the dual wan port capability in Xiaomi 3000T
Anyway I have Xiaomi WR30U, H3C Magic NX30 Pro, Huawei AX6, ZTE巡天AX3000 Pro+

I can tell you the plus and minus of each router.

 

[xiaofan]

Don't trust reviews too much. There are such things as paid reviewers.
Anyway Xiaomi 3000T is not that great.
The first filogic 820 platform is actually Xiaomi WR30U, that was the game changer which all subsequent filogic 820 platform appears, that has better hardware although it does not have the dual wan port capability in Xiaomi 3000T
Anyway I have Xiaomi WR30U, H3C Magic NX30 Pro, Huawei AX6, ZTE巡天AX3000 Pro+

I can tell you the plus and minus of each router.

That will be nice. Thanks.

Personally I am more interested in those with 2.5G ports or even dual 2.5G ports (like Xiaomi 7000, Asus TX-6000 and GL.iNet MT6000). But I guess there will be many users here in this fourm will be interested in low cost Filogic 820 chipsets based low cost routers.

I will also be quite interested in your experiences of loading alternative OpenWRT FW or at least unleash more features out of stock FW.