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Prime Members: Linksys LN1301 Tri-Band AX4200 WiFi 6 Wireless Router

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Woot via Amazon has for Prime Members: Linksys LN1301 Tri-Band AX4200 WiFi 6 Wireless Router on sale for $24.99. Shipping is free.

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About this Item:
  • Covers up to 2700 sq. ft.
  • Handles 40+ devices
  • Speed up to 4.2 Gbps (AX4200)
  • WiFi 6 Tri-Band
  • Quad-Core Processor
  • MU-MIMO and OFDMA

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Woot! also has Linksys LN1301 Tri-Band AX4200 WiFi 6 Wireless Router on sale for $24.99. Shipping is free for Amazon Prime Members (must login with your Amazon account and select a shipping address in order for Woot to apply free shipping) or is otherwise $6 per order.

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Update: This popular deal is still available.

Woot via Amazon has for Prime Members: Linksys LN1301 Tri-Band AX4200 WiFi 6 Wireless Router on sale for $24.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Members SaveMeMoney4 & MadPup for sharing this deal.

About this Item:
  • Covers up to 2700 sq. ft.
  • Handles 40+ devices
  • Speed up to 4.2 Gbps (AX4200)
  • WiFi 6 Tri-Band
  • Quad-Core Processor
  • MU-MIMO and OFDMA

Editor's Notes

Written by SubZero5 | Staff
No Longer Available:

Woot! also has Linksys LN1301 Tri-Band AX4200 WiFi 6 Wireless Router on sale for $24.99. Shipping is free for Amazon Prime Members (must login with your Amazon account and select a shipping address in order for Woot to apply free shipping) or is otherwise $6 per order.

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Does it support Linksys Velop Mesh technology?
No. This model does not support Linksys Mesh; it is a standalone router only.

Can I use the Linksys app with the Linksys MX4300 (LN1301)?
No. This router does not support Linksys cloud services; therefore, the Linksys app is not supported.
Looks like someone was able to get OpenWRT [openwrt.org] working on this router model.
Ok, so I got mine and fiddled with it. First, this is a very easy router to unbrick so go ahead and fiddle with the firmware all you want. Unfortunately I was unsuccessful in installing the linksys mx4200v1 firmware as well as installing openwrt for mx4200v1. On openwrt the light turned purple but I couldn't ssh into the router. I guess it can't be hacked into a mesh. Went ahead and purchased the slickdeal mx8000 refurbished that was just posted and will be returning these. Good luck to all and please do post on any different outcomes. Obviously $25 a node for a 4.2gbps Wi-Fi 6 mesh would be a spectacular bargain.

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http://amazon.com/Linksys-LN1301-...B0D742T4LW

The only way I'd buy a Linksys router is if it could run open source firmware.
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Is this any good? Like if you bought 3?
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Velop? Mesh?
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Quote from mach4 :
Velop? Mesh?
Nope.
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Quote from mach4 :
Velop? Mesh?
Does it support Linksys Velop Mesh technology?
No. This model does not support Linksys Mesh; it is a standalone router only.

Can I use the Linksys app with the Linksys MX4300 (LN1301)?
No. This router does not support Linksys cloud services; therefore, the Linksys app is not supported.
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Also available via Amazon and Walmart for same price.

This seems to be a binned single unit router from the MX12600/AX4200 line. Likely a business focused model similar to the Netgear WAX202, though this seems newer. No mesh support and is purely standalone router.

Bought one to check it out and will update here. Looking at 160Mhz support(probably not looking at its siblings) and what router options exist if any. Support page seems to indicate that this doesn't have VPN features nor basic security features which is worrying. No indication of a basic firewall or DFS support either.
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There is no official OpenWRT support for this device per it's model name, but it appears to be identical to the MX4200, which is recently supported. I suspect this needs minimal changes to be supported, if it doesn't work already.

https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/mx4200_v1_and_v2

You can also buy on Walmart (see above) and Amazon directly

https://www.amazon.com/Linksys-LN...0D742T4LW/

Here's the OpenWRT thread

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openw...200/86477/

This seems like a good OpenWRT device.

Note that I DO NOT recommend casual normies buy this unless they plan on using OpenWRT. This device is being dumped by Linksys because it's End of Life/End of Support.
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Quote from BigBG :
There is no official OpenWRT support for this device per it's model name, but it appears to be identical to the MX4200, which is recently supported. I suspect this needs minimal changes to be supported, if it doesn't work already.

https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/mx4200_v1_and_v2

You can also buy on Walmart (see above) and Amazon directly

https://www.amazon.com/Linksys-LN...0D742T4LW/

Here's the OpenWRT thread

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openw...200/86477/
HW should be identical to the MX4200. Linksys re-used the data from the MX4200 for the FCC certification.
So it's likely OpenWRT would work.

Linksys FW is no longer updated and pretty limited. So OpenWRT is pretty much a must.

This is even cheaper than the 3 pack of MX4200 for $100 deal.

$25 for a tri-band AX router with OpenWRT support is a really good deal.

I'm running OpenWRT on the similar MX5300 without any issue.
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Quote from MadPup :
http://amazon.com/Linksys-LN1301-...B0D742T4LW

The only way I'd buy a Linksys router is if it could run open source firmware.
OpenWRT should work on it. HW is identical to the MX4200 which is supported.
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OpenWRT should work on it. HW is identical to the MX4200 which is supported.
That's good to know, but I would need to have it confirmed. Even known good router models have different versions that have different levels of compatibility. "Oh, you have version 1.2 with the 1GB of flash rom... but this only works with version 1.0 that has 2GB". Stick Out Tongue
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Quote from MadPup :
That's good to know, but I would need to have it confirmed. Even known good router models have different versions that have different levels of compatibility. "Oh, you have version 1.2 with the 1GB of flash rom... but this only works with version 1.0 that has 2GB". Stick Out Tongue
Someone will need to buy one and look to confirm. It's only $25 so not that much risk.

However, since FCC certification is a legal requirement, if they made a different version, there would be another FCC certification for the new version. When I searched the FCC database, the only FCC certification that I found for LN1301 / MX4300 just points to the MX4200 data.
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Quote from poorgrad :
Someone will need to buy one and look to confirm. It's only $25 so not that much risk.

However, since FCC certification is a legal requirement, if they made a different version, there would be another FCC certification for the new version. When I searched the FCC database, the only FCC certification that I found for LN1301 / MX4300 just points to the MX4200 data.
The intentional radiator portion of the 4200 maybe the same and the digital portion could be completely different. FCC compliance is compulsory but registration with FCC for unintentional radiators is not required. It is possible Linksys used the exact radio design for the intentional radiator portion per the flinging and they self declared compliance for the digital portion which might be different.

purely speculation on my part.
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Quote from MadPup :
http://amazon.com/Linksys-LN1301-...B0D742T4LW

The only way I'd buy a Linksys router is if it could run open source firmware.
Thanks for sharing the Amazon link. I was going to buy from woot until i saw your link. Bought one to upgrade since it seem like a food deal for a tri-band wifi 6.
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If I have a velop mesh system with mx4200s can I just change the firmware and have it work on my mesh system?

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Quote from xlongx :
Does it support Linksys Velop Mesh technology?
No. This model does not support Linksys Mesh; it is a standalone router only.

Can I use the Linksys app with the Linksys MX4300 (LN1301)?
No. This router does not support Linksys cloud services; therefore, the Linksys app is not supported.
I ordered this a few months ago for $60 🫣 and after the initial set up it forced me to use the app 🤷🏼 ♂️
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