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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Does this have any of the nice features and is mesh handoff better? Thanks!
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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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Now I have Google WiFi ac-1304. The mesh is much better with handoffs happening when one signal is slightly weaker than the other, but it still takes like 4-5 seconds. Is this smoother? Trying to see if it's worth upgrading. Also, I don't like the fact that it's Google (privacy nightmare) and it's only accessible via their app with limited functionality. I do like that they have monitoring like data usage per device per month, and I get notifications when a new device is connected.
Does this have any of the nice features and is mesh handoff better? Thanks!
Putting the node in the furthest edges of the home, with closed doors I was getting 50 down 25 up 7 ping.
A child node setup in that spot now gave me 280 down, 170 up, 9 ping. I had a dead zone due to building materials with 50 down, 25up that brought it up to 320up, 120 down, 14 ping.
The nodes weren't placed in the optimal spots, I put them in the worst spots and conditions I could find and they dramatically improved the coverage and moving around between and away from the nodes kept me at 5ghz with speeds near 300 down or better.
The transition between nodes happened about 2/3 of the way to the other with no loss in connection or speed. However when connected to a child node, and powering it off it did take 4 seconds to switch to a working node, this is likely the phone's fault as it was reporting a strong signal until it switched over. It took about 2 minutes to reconnect including booting up and acquiring mesh connection.
The speed tests were an average across multiple tests done on mobile phone and I see similar results using newer and older devices. Out of the box I think these work great for mesh. If there's anything you'd like me to test let me know.
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