Update: This very popular deal is still available.
Woot! has
Linksys LN1301 Tri-Band AX4200 WiFi 6 Wireless Router on sale for
$14.99 when you apply coupon code
GEARUP4FALL at checkout.
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.
Thanks to community member
achhu26 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
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With wireless mesh (instructions below), it's one heck of a deal and blows DECO AX5000 deal out of the water, imho.
EDIT: UPDATED instructions for enabling MESH (thanks to @rbtcordell for the original source):
1-Setup your Main router completely.
2-Plug your child node using the wan port to the main router lan port, wait for a solid purple light on the child node before proceeding
3-Log into your main router web admin.
4-Click on CA at the bottom right.
5-Click on Connectivity and CA Router setup.
6-Click on both Add Wired and Add Wireless nodes buttons. Wait for the Add wireless button to re-enable.
7-Click Done adding Child Nodes and then Apply.
8-Now the child node light should start flashing purple and turn into a mesh mode when it turns blue.
9-Disconnect Ethernet and wait for blue light again.
10-Move node to desired location.
https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/v...?p=1304991
openwrt release notes
https://github.com/asd333111/open...ax-fd13d50
disassembly photos for the curious
https://imgur.com/a/linksys-ln130...ly-YJM1qfw
qualcommax: ipq807x: add support for Linksys MX4300 (LN1301)
Hardware specification:
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SoC: Qualcomm IPQ8174
Flash: 1GB (Micron MT29F8G08ABBCAH4 or AMD/Spansion S34MS08G2)
RAM: 2GB (2x Kingston B5116ECMDXGJD or ESMT M15T2G16128A DDR3L)
Ethernet: 4x 10/100/1000Mbps (Qualcomm QCA8075)
WiFi1: 5GHz ax 2x2 (Qualcomm QCN5054 + Skyworks SKY85755-11) - channels 36-64 (low band)
WiFi2: 2.4GHz ax 2x2 (Qualcomm QCN5024 + Skyworks SKY85340-11)
WiFi3: 5GHz ax 4x4 (Qualcomm QCN5054 + Skyworks SKY85755-11) - channels 100-177 (high band)
LED: 1x RGB status (NXP PCA9633)
USB: 1x USB 3.0
Button: WPS, Reset
1. Disable DHCP (optional)
2. Set the device to Bridge Mode under Connectivity tab
3. Connect cable from your router to a LAN port.
4. Get some nail polished and a round sticker to cover the annoying flashing right light.
5. Click the 'AC' at the bottom of the page to see the detail configurations of wifi.
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Do you know whether we can enable WIRELESS MESH on Linksys LN1301? If that is the case, it's one heck of a deal and blows this DECO AX5000 deal out of the water, imho.
EDIT: These are the instructions that was posted on another SD thread about enabling MESH:
"Setup your Main router completely.
Plug your child router using the wan port to the main router lan port.
Log into your main router web admin. Click on CA at the bottom right.
Click on Connectivity and CA Router setup. Click on both Add Wired and Add Wireless nodes buttons. Wait for the Add wireless button to re-enable then click Done adding Child Nodes. And then Apply.
Now the child node light should start flashing purple and turn into a mesh node when it urns blue.
This is really finicky but mines up and running again after a full reset."
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Does Woot charge for returns for Amazon prime members? If yes, how much?
What are you measuring? LAN to WAN? LAN to LAN? Wired? Wireless? With a VPN? And where are you measuring it? A common mistake is to measure performance from the router itself (as a client), when you need to be ON THE LAN. Many router's make very poor clients for measurement purposes, which is counter-intuitive. My own TM-AC1900 (converted to RT-AC68U) only gets about 320Mbp when using router-based measurement tools, despite my ISP providing 640Mbps. Even then, most routers need to have NAT acceleration enabled to see the full bandwidth available from their ISP, esp. anything above ~300Mbps. And depending on how the router is configured, NAT acceleration may be be DISABLED because certain configuration settings will *silently* turn if OFF (QoS is a classic example, but there are others as well). And when it comes to wireless, having access to AX on the router is *useless* if all your clients are stuck on AC!
ALL these factors come into play when making such an analysis. The RT-AC68U is 800-1000MHz Dual Core, while the LN1301 is 1.4GHz and Quad Core. Not an enormous difference (we do see routers in the 1.8GHz and up these days), but certainly an all around significant improvement that there has to be a logical explanation regarding any performance anomalies.
I just don't think anyone should be choosing NOT to buy on such limited information.
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Netgear R7800 uses about 7 W at idle and has better range.
Netgear R7800 uses about 7 W at idle and has better range.
What are you measuring? LAN to WAN? LAN to LAN? Wired? Wireless? With a VPN? And where are you measuring it? A common mistake is to measure performance from the router itself (as a client), when you need to be ON THE LAN. Many router's make very poor clients for measurement purposes, which is counter-intuitive. My own TM-AC1900 (converted to RT-AC68U) only gets about 320Mbp when using router-based measurement tools, despite my ISP providing 640Mbps. Even then, most routers need to have NAT acceleration enabled to see the full bandwidth available from their ISP, esp. anything above ~300Mbps. And depending on how the router is configured, NAT acceleration may be be DISABLED because certain configuration settings will *silently* turn if OFF (QoS is a classic example, but there are others as well). And when it comes to wireless, having access to AX on the router is *useless* if all your clients are stuck on AC!
ALL these factors come into play when making such an analysis. The RT-AC68U is 800-1000MHz Dual Core, while the LN1301 is 1.4GHz and Quad Core. Not an enormous difference (we do see routers in the 1.8GHz and up these days), but certainly an all around significant improvement that there has to be a logical explanation regarding any performance anomalies.
I just don't think anyone should be choosing NOT to buy on such limited information.
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Excellent deal if you can wait for stable builds from your preferred firmware vendor(OpenWRT, DD-Wrt, Gargoyle, etc), or are comfortable tinkering with snapshots or custom builds.
Looking for a reason to employ more of these 😁
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