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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.
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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:
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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
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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selvaspk
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Quote from buy_now_think_later :
Exactly... In my openwrt based onhub I run Adguard home and wireguard server.. then use an Omada AP which covers 90% of my 3 storied home.. only the edges are a trouble so I got two of them. I am thinking of moving my home assistant from rpi4 to this once openwrt support is stable
What's not stable on openwrt on this router?
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Quote from deshwasi :
if i do wired backhaul mesh, will the third radio be used in any firmware (stock or openwrt)?
You can just keep it disable it in openwrt if you want. All radios start off disabled anyway.
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nightanole
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Quote from vochong :
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.
So a half watt night light cost you $7 a year. Daum...
I miss the old days when 1 watt 24/7 was $1 a year.
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Quote from aabbccbbaa :
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.

No advantage but i can free up my raspi for some other project... In HomeAssistant i mainly run Teslamate duckdns let's encrypt and allow something's to be controlled by Alexa or Google assistant which I have linked to my HomeAssistant. What I basically want to do is get docker running in openwrt to make it a general purpose computer but I had some issues on my Asus OnHub. But in general openwrt for new comers may be challenging but it's worth it.... You get a full Linux installation with complete flexibility. I have separate vlans - lan/guests/iot/streaming and all Chromecast in streaming but lan and guests can still cast to them... Initially I planned on openwrt as main router and bought Omada Ap wifi 7 but then this was tempting so got 2. Once openwrt works on these from mainline build i will repurpose my main OnHub for something else or sell it on fb
Last edited by buy_now_think_later August 26, 2024 at 01:46 PM.
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Quote from johndoe35 :
Think for 1 sec. The line is capped at 1Gbps physical limit with a physical connection of cat5e.And using 80Mhz channel and you expect me to believe anyone can get 900Mbps? Get real.
I think that guy was using the 3rd 4x4 radios as the backhaul. At 80Mhz, that's a 2.4Gbps max link rate, so actual results of above gigabit between AP's are definitely possible.
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I'll clear the mesh up for everyone.

If you use this as a parent node, you can use other velop nodes as children with no issues. Add in app and everything. But if you want to use this LN1301 as a child, you must follow these steps from Rbtcordell on Slickdeals:

1-Setup your Main router completely.

2-Plug your child node using the wan port to the main router lan port.

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.
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Quote from selvaspk :
What's not stable on openwrt on this router?

I think it's stable but there is no release build for it. You have to use dev builds or compile one. There is a pr there which is looking for reviewers so it could be merged to mainline. My guess is it would take sometime but not a lot since things seems mostly stable. Once the mainline build is there you will out of box support for wireguard etc. I use wireguard on main server so it's important for me.

Here is the pr link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16070

Link to dev build if you don't want to compile one: https://github.com/testuser7/openwrt/releases
Last edited by buy_now_think_later August 26, 2024 at 01:49 PM.
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Good replacement for netgear nighthawk ac1750? I've had for 5 yrs. Main issue is wifi signal weak for tv about 50 feet away with bedrooms in between. And when spoofing IP, change address it had trouble reconnecting back to xfinity router so I'm forced to do factory reset
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Quote from RainGater :
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!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."
I followed these instructions exactly and have 3 nodes in mesh up and running on stock firmware. I would make one edit "Plug your child router using the wan port to the main router lan port, wait for a solid purple light on the child node before proceeding"

It didn't work for me the first time and I'm 90% sure it's because I went through the steps while the child node was still flashing (I think purple but it's been a week, maybe it was blue.)

I would only do this as a mesh, I found one by itself was pretty unimpressive as far as coverage.
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I am thinking to replace my deco x60 with these. Went ahead and bought a couple. Any thoughts on this? I believe x60 is the same as the deco ax5000 and I have not been very happy with the performance. Would 2 units be enough to replace the deco's three hubs or would I need 3 units? Appreciate the thoughts
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Quote from johndoe35 :
Wait, now you're saying you can go faster than a physical 1Gbps cat5e line on this router?
The fabric that carries the data between radios can support much faster speeds than a physical 1Gbps cat5e link. The NSS offload hardware on the SoC can forward the data between radios.
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Quote from johndoe35 :
Wait, now you're saying you can go faster than a physical 1Gbps cat5e line on this router?
Between is the key word here. Not that hard to understand. Yes, you can only feed it a single gigabit in, so that becomes the bottleneck. The 4x4 backhaul would not be the weak link in the chain.
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I got these at the 2 for 50 deal and am using them as APs and they are really great. There is a 3d printed wall mount on thingiverse that is fantastic as well

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First one ($20) has taken two weeks to get here.
We sure amazon owns them... LOL
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First one ($20) has taken two weeks to get here. We sure amazon owns them... LOL
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