Cudy WE3000 AX3000 Wireless WiFi 6 PCIe Card for PC, Bluetooth 5.2, AX200, 3000Mbps WiFi 6 Speed, Bluetooth 5.2/5/4.2/4.0, Windows 11/10

It replaced an aging Intel 9260 based card bundled with my ASUS X570 Gaming Wifi motherboard. I disabled the BT and Wifi Controller via BIOS then installed this in a spare PCIe slot. I then used the included cable to connect it to a spare USB2 slot on the motherboard. The previous card and this one uses the same drivers (I used the ones from the Intel website rather than Cudy's own), so compatibility was not an issue. It's now connected to a WIFI6 based mesh system also from Cudy and speeds are much higher as well as being more stable. The card tested well in external reviews and at the price point provides excellent value for money.

This PCIe WiFi 6 card was simple to fit and has significantly improved my PC’s wireless connectivity. The WiFi is fast and stable, and the Bluetooth 5.2 works very well with my bluetooth devices. It’s a huge upgrade over my 10 yearold WiFi adapter. At £29.99 I thinks it’s good value for money too.

As another review stated, it worked out of the box with Linux Mint. It was my first time installing a new part in my desktop pc but the process took me a couple of minutes. There's a significant increase in speed too, but my old network adapter was well, old, so YMMV

The WiFi worked fine in Win10 once I installed the driver. Also worked straight away in Linux Mint 22. It didn't work initially with Zorin 17 (my preferred OS) but it turns out that was a software problem in Zorin. For some reason Zorin had the wifi card turned off by default, and it needed a one line command in Terminal to make it turn it on. After that it worked perfectly.

Install was simple but made the mistake of downloading the wrong drivers (see title) and was getting high latency making gaming a massive pain absolutely no issues with anything else mind. I tried every little fix i could find to solve the issue and one inadvertently bricked the Wi-Fi connection forcing a driver reinstall so went to the intel site this time and the difference is staggering- i was going from latency spikes of upto 1500ms semi frequently to maybe a lag spike of 100ms once in a while. Don't be like me. have buttery smooth Wi-Fi from the start.

I normally avoid using wifi cards and stick to good old ethernet/cat cables. In this case I'm glad I purchased this little gem and added it to my sons gaming pc. The wifi speeds seem to be stable and pretty good speeds. I have 1 gig up/down fibre and currently get around 700ish up/down by using this wifi card on the pc. Obviously you have to have a wifi6 router for this to get optimal speeds (I use the eero 6 pro with the extra mesh). Bonus you also get bluetooth with this little beauty.

I had a very cheap Broadcom before in my old PC. Worked fine for years. 5+ This now seems to have stopped working after a few months. Completely dead. Was going to call and shout at my internet company but my phone and speech tests are completely fine. This bloody thing is just dead, slow as f* and pathetic now. I didn’t want to believe it at first until I looked at the / star reviews. It can happen to you.

Easy to install as long as you have a spare pcie-1 slot and it worked straight out of the box without the need to update drivers etc, even though I did later on. It does have a Bluetooth cable to use but I couldn't find a spare usb slot on the motherboard for it so I left it out. Apart from that does the job. I'm getting a much faster download rate than when I was using the powerline adapter!