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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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Aug 27, 2024
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selvaspk
Aug 27, 2024
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Quote from aabbccbbaa :
You can setup a mesh with wired backhaul to the second node. I believe you will get better handoff this way vs using the other node as a non-mesh AP, at least with the stock firmware.
I have ATT router+Modem combo in basement. From the modem/router, 3 ethernet cales wired to living room, upstairs and office room ports.

Right now I connected NETGEAR RAX20-100NAS 4-Stream AX1800 WiFi 6 Router in living room.

Ordered one Linksys1301 from this deal. I have old Netgear N router apart from these.

I am not sure how I should do to create mesh (order one more linksys or are these enough).

Modem->linksys1301 (main wifi router)
Modem->second one/netgear?
Modem->thrid (order another linksys or use old netgear)

Any thoughts
Aug 27, 2024
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UnniNair
Aug 27, 2024
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Does it work with Linksys Velop mesh? My main router is WHW03V2, meshed with another WHW03V2 and VLP01v1
Aug 27, 2024
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charlien
Aug 27, 2024
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I am having trouble. I want to simply set up 2 as wired access points. First couple times I set them to bridge mode and each one will come up working with a blue light. That's as long as the other one is unplugged. When I configure two, one will be blue, one purple and both work. If I power cycle either, they both stop working and I have to hard reset them and start again.

So I tried to set one up as a router with no internet or dhcp. I've done other routers this way as access points. I can't change the router lan subnet of 192.168.1.0. I need it to be 192.168.50.99.

I'm frustrated beyond belief. Anyone have any tips?
Aug 27, 2024
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jamesdsmac
Aug 27, 2024
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How many of these can you have in satellite mode?
Aug 27, 2024
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Kakletos
Aug 27, 2024
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How voltage this ?
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cola1016
Aug 27, 2024
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There's too many pages of comments and too much verbiage I don't understand so plz have patience with my dumb question.

I have xfinity and their XB6. I have an issue with my kids not getting good enough coverage on the 2nd floor.

Can this be used upstairs for them to get better signal strength? They're all gamers so they're all constantly playing PC games online.
Aug 27, 2024
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RevPizzaguy
Aug 27, 2024
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Quote from flipsidegq :
Apologies in advance if this was already answered but I read through all the comments and didn't see it addressed--does this router support link aggregation?
Nope Frown
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Aug 27, 2024
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RevPizzaguy
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Quote from UnniNair :
Does it work with Linksys Velop mesh? My main router is WHW03V2, meshed with another WHW03V2 and VLP01v1
Not sure about Velop mesh with existing AC units, but mine was able to be added to existing dissimilar AX units (MR7340).
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RevPizzaguy
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Quote from cola1016 :
There's too many pages of comments and too much verbiage I don't understand so plz have patience with my dumb question. I have xfinity and their XB6. I have an issue with my kids not getting good enough coverage on the 2nd floor. Can this be used upstairs for them to get better signal strength? They're all gamers so they're all constantly playing PC games online.
You would have to run a cable to supply it, and it would have to be run in AP mode (DHCP disabled) with separate SSIDs than your existing. Totally possible, it's just not going to do seamless handoff with the same SSID as your existing router.
Aug 27, 2024
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mackleee
Aug 27, 2024
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Any reason that MX4300 firmware can't be run on these?
Aug 27, 2024
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jamesjr55
Aug 27, 2024
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I'm getting fiber in the near future it's only 50mbps but better than 6 what I have now. I don't need anything fancy so would this be plenty for my needs. Small house so range isn't an issue. This would save me from paying $5 a month for a router.
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poohbie
Aug 27, 2024
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Specs say one of the 5Ghz radios is 4x4? Doesn't that make it more than AC4200?
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bazza36
Aug 27, 2024
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Quote from RevPizzaguy :
You would have to run a cable to supply it, and it would have to be run in AP mode (DHCP disabled) with separate SSIDs than your existing. Totally possible, it's just not going to do seamless handoff with the same SSID as your existing router.
Wouldn't getting 2 work, 1 wired to existing, set up new ssid, and mesh the 2nd node upstairs?
I'm no expert, we just use a similar setup.
Eta: rereading what you wrote, it's similar point. Question is if 2nd node upstairs would help, which we don't know.
Last edited by bazza36 August 27, 2024 at 01:27 PM.
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RevPizzaguy
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Quote from bazza36 :
Wouldn't getting 2 work, 1 wired to existing, set up new ssid, and mesh the 2nd node upstairs?I'm no expert, we just use a similar setup.Eta: rereading what you wrote, it's similar point. Question is if 2nd node upstairs would help, which we don't know.
Yeah totally could do that, just turn off DHCP on both Linksys units, have your existing router hand out IP's. Turn off wifi on your existing router if you want to keep things simple with the new units handling all the wifi. If you don't want to run a cable upstairs, having the second unit do wireless mesh off the main downstairs should work, just might have to really play around with placement so you get a good signal between them.

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I have a mess (instead of a mesh) here and I was wondering if this router could help to address: my house has over 3500 sq ft on one floor. So, wifi coverage is a challenge. I have Frontier FIOS 500/500. The main router is an Arris NVG468MQ connected via COAX. I have active on it a 2.4 GHz network (lets call it network A) and a 5.0 GHz network (lets call it network B), plus 4 cabled connections. It has a Netgear switch connected to it, for additional wired ports. I also have an old Actiontec MI424WR connected directly to the Frontier ONT box via ethernet cable. That router is far from the main one, so it gives me the advantage of having additional wired connections, plus wireless coverage to the rooms near to it. It also has two active wifi networks: a 2.4 GHz network that is also called A, and a 5.0 GHz network (lets call it C). I also have in another room, far from the other 2, an Actiontec WCB3000 Network Extender that extends the network A and network C. Of course, there is no handshaking between these several points, so switching from one to another when moving between areas of the house has to be done manually, what is a pain.
None of those devices are rented.
To complete the mess, when I upgraded to 500, Frontier have me an Eero 6e Pro which is connected to the main router. I was supposed to have disabled the wifi on the main router and use them on the Eero, but that did not work well, so I had to re-enable them. The Eero gave me higher wifi speeds near to it, but did not help with the coverage, so I was unable to remove those extra devices I have.
Of course, this "architecture" does not make any sense and I was hoping perhaps I could just simplify it and improve the coverage across the house. Not sure if this Linksys router could help. Suggestions?

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