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Linksys LN1301 Tri-Band AX4200 WiFi 6 Wireless Router

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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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  • This price is $5 less than our popular +58 Frontpage Deal from earlier in the month.
  • Includes 1-Year Linksys Warranty.
  • Coupon Code: Limit one use per customer. Valid through 9/1/2024 or while supplies last.
  • Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
  • If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.

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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

Editor's Notes

Written by qwikwit | Staff
  • This price is $5 less than our popular +58 Frontpage Deal from earlier in the month.
  • Includes 1-Year Linksys Warranty.
  • Coupon Code: Limit one use per customer. Valid through 9/1/2024 or while supplies last.
  • Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
  • If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.

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Yes, Linksys LN1301 is a terrific router with 2 GB RAM and 1 GB of flash. Insane! I thought my Netgear R7800 with 512 MB RAM is pretty good until the specs on LN301 blows the R7800 out of the water and is a tri-band router as well!

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.
LN1301 now has dd-wrt beta support by BrainSlayer

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:
========
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
set it as an Access Point.
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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porygon
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To buy or not to buy...

Edit: Ended up buying 3...
Last edited by porygon August 26, 2024 at 12:02 PM.
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Quote from djessence :
nope you're renting theirs for 10 bucks a month. you're better off getting this and returning theirs.
Nu , I don't , mine came free and non returnable from Comcast .
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Quote from nightanole :
What did you do back in the day when cable dvrs idled at 150-200 watts?
The electricity cost was 1/5 of what it is nowadays. And unlike these routers/AP's., you did not run these cable DVR's 24/7.
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Quote from CnC_Citizen :
I got this router last week. In my home where previously I had wifi issues with my old router (RaX20) I don't have issues with this guy. One thing to note is that they're only 4 Ethernet ports on the back (including the modem source) that means you can only connect 3 devices physically.
Yes but this can easily be solved by getting a cheap gigabit switch.
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BeigeWinter369
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Has anyone flashed with openwrt and unlocked the USB 3.0 port and run some speed tests? I'd be interested to use this as a cheap NAS option with an attached hard drive.
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Does it support WPA3 with stocking firmware?
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Quote from Guy767 :
You can add a separate adult account to your Prime Membership for free. (AKA "Prime Hack" [amazon.com])

This free/bonus account has all the benefits of Prime; including using coupons/promo codes that were already employed on your primary Prime account. Just log into Woot via the free additional account to reuse the promo code and to get free shipping as well.
It just occurred to me that I don't have to use a real identity for the additional account(s)

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Quote from glanwin :
Does it support WPA3 with stocking firmware?
Yes, IIRC you can select WPA2/WPA3 mixed mode or just WPA3.
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Quote from porygon :
To buy or not to buy...
Don't get fixated on this router only for the purposes of routing. Like any router, at its core, it's just a computer. And like most computers, given the right firmware, can prove useful for other purposes. If we can get openwrt working on it, then it has potential to serve as a client/repeater bridge, standalone AP, OpenVPN/WireGuard client/server, pihole, Unbound DNS server, Transmission client, ad-blocker, home assistant, etc. Things you might typically delegate to an RPi. But you can't get an RPi for $15!

So think outside the box here.
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Interesting result comparing signal on my MR7340 to the MX4300. In the screenshot with the two C4:41 AP's, these are using both MR7340's. I was connected to the second MR7340 (-55dBm), which is approximately 15 feet through 2 exterior siding walls (back patio).

I swapped out the MR7340 for the MX4300, so exact same location and positioning. Client was located in exact same position as well. In the second screenshot, you can see the two 5GHz radios (80:69) from the MX4300 with -68dBm.

With my 500/500 fiber with AP using wired backhaul, on the MR7340, I could get 509Mbps down (284ms active ping), 284Mbps up (94ms active ping) with 0% packet loss. On the MX4300, I was getting 67Mbps down (4018ms active ping), 27Mbps down (213ms active ping) and 1.5% packet loss.
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Quote from RevPizzaguy :
Interesting result comparing signal on my MR7340 to the MX4300. In the screenshot with the two C4:41 AP's, these are using both MR7340's. I was connected to the second MR7340 (-55dBm), which is approximately 15 feet through 2 exterior siding walls (back patio).

I swapped out the MR7340 for the MX4300, so exact same location and positioning. Client was located in exact same position as well. In the second screenshot, you can see the two 5GHz radios (80:69) from the MX4300 with -68dBm.

With my 500/500 fiber with AP using wired backhaul, on the MR7340, I could get 509Mbps down (284ms active ping), 284Mbps up (94ms active ping) with 0% packet loss. On the MX4300, I was getting 67Mbps down (4018ms active ping), 27Mbps down (213ms active ping) and 1.5% packet loss.
I suspect having external antennas helps quite a bit (although 67/27 is like 802.11g-era speed, something doesn't seem right).
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Quote from eibgrad :
Don't get fixated on this router only for the purposes of routing. Like any router, at its core, it's just a computer. And like most computers, given the right firmware, can prove useful for other purposes. If we can get openwrt working on it, then it has potential to serve as a client/repeater bridge, standalone AP, OpenVPN/WireGuard client/server, pihole, Unbound DNS server, Transmission client, ad-blocker, home assistant, etc. Things you might typically delegate to an RPi. But you can't get an RPi for $15!

So think outside the box here.
I appreciate this! Ended up grabbing three...
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Quote from avalon :
LN1301 now has dd-wrt beta support by BrainSlayer

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

Code:
qualcommax: ipq807x: add support for Linksys MX4300 (LN1301)

Hardware specification:
========
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
Thanks for this, I was trying to find out more info about the CPU. This is what I found:

https://www.qualcomm.com/products...0-platform

CPU
Name: quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A53 Processor
Clock Speed: Up to 1.4 GHz
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Well, hopefully this will help the performance of my mesh network. I have 7 Velop AX4200 nodes and just bought 3 of these.

My house is a single story with a width about 5x its average depth, and it's been surprisingly difficult to get complete and consistent WiFi coverage, even with 7 nodes. I'm hoping the improved flexibility in arranging the nodes that this will give me will do some good.

It's a cheap upgrade, anyway, considering I paid an average of over $100/node for the others back in 2020/2021.

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Can't resist at $15, I bought one at $20, at $15 whatever lol
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