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
Top Comments
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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That sounds awesome, I have a x86 laptop running Home Assistant now and it gets super hot.
My major concern is the Nortek zWave + Zigbee USB - would this router's USB slot and OpenWRT be compatible with the USB dongle? Hoping someone would have an idea.
Just curious if you already have HA running on the rpi4, what is the benefit to running it on Linksys/OpenWRT? My understanding is that the rpi4 has a better CPU and possibly more RAM. Plus there is more support for running HA on it.
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.
crap. bad deal then.
lack of external antennas really sucks ass
So think outside the box here.
I found through some informal testing that a single LN1301 cannot penetrate floors as well as my 6yr old Arris modem/router from AT&T. However with 2 or 3 of them in a mesh the coverage is vastly better.
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True. But I was testing with the Speedtest app running on iPhone.
I am somewhat techsavvy. Can someone share link/video to use this as a wifi repeater for my main router "TP-Link Archer AX10"? (and something that doesn't take hours to do) Thanks
My major concern is the Nortek zWave + Zigbee USB - would this router's USB slot and OpenWRT be compatible with the USB dongle? Hoping someone would have an idea.
No issues with usb on openwrt..
HomeAssistant runs good on arm and usually everything runs less hot than x86. I am personally averse to running long running stuff on x86 unless there is no solution. Raspi is a great option these days. I run ha with many add-ons on raspi 4 with 2 gb with ho issues
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