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If you are not interested in using custom firmware yet, these routers support mesh with the stock firmware, but the USB port is disabled.
The stock firmware is relatively new, but is speculated to not receive many, if any, updates, so it may be best to wait until custom firmware support is merged and more mature before messing with installing custom firmware.
How to enable mesh:
- Setup your Main router completely.
- 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.
- 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.
- Click Done adding Child Nodes and then Apply.
- Now the child node light should start flashing purple and turn into a mesh mode when it turns blue.
- Disconnect Ethernet and wait for blue light again.
- Move node to desired location.
How to set up as access point:
- Disable DHCP (optional).
- Set the device to Bridge Mode under Connectivity tab.
- Connect cable from your router to a LAN port.
- Get some nail polish and a round sticker to cover the annoying flashing right light.
- Click the 'CA' at the bottom of the page to see the detailed configurations of wifi.
to unbrick and flash new firmware
run flashimg
run flashimg2
rename stock firmware to tortuga.img
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Mind you that I only have 100Mbps Spectrum internet but I do stream/direct play 4k videos from a Plex media server to several Amazon Firestick 4k devices without issue. Overall IMO you would be hard pressed to find such relatively decent hardware for so cheap; especially a Mesh network.
It wasn't all smooth at first mind you. I kept getting disconnects; especially with the streaming IP cameras. But I discovered by disabling Express Forwarding all my streaming issues went away. (CA>Connectivity>Administration>Express Forwarding)
I'm guessing that Cisco's/Linksys' proprietary Express Forwarding routing protocol was causing havoc with the IP cams streaming capabilities. Also, disabling Node Steering seemed to make things more stable as well; mesh nodes no longer disconnect from the router when Node Steering is disabled. (CA>Wi-Fi Settings>Advanced>Node Steering)
Of course, user experience can vary so feel free to experiment. if the routers are giving you problems, try turning these features off and see if it works
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Btw, you can even set which band to use for the wireless backhaul + setup secure DNS (DoH), save/restore configs, build NSS branch code, etc. So far, I am getting solid performance, a bit better than stock, imo. And, it's ONLY snapshot build and the devs started working on it only a few days ago and it's already rock solid as I haven't experienced any wifi dropouts or hangs so far.
FWIW, I like to tinker with routers, phones, etc. so I am okay with playing and fine tuning them as I am sure, you and others, may not like it until something is very stable!
In any case, my last post on this topic as I don't gain anything by constantly posting about OpenWRT! Enjoy stock!
This was after I had fully installed the new linksys router/ parent unit..... I went to my chrome browser, typed in 192.168.1.1 and it went to my linksys page, I logged in and at the very bottom (I mean very very bottom) in small letters it had it listed at the very last after the end user agreement, terms of service and privacy agreement the very last thing had CA, I clicked on that and it sent me to the exact page I had been on and after that I was able to add a mesh but that was after switching from my old router to this new one, connected it and fully set up my 1st one. CA is hard to find for a bit as I expected it to be out by itself but it's as far down the page as you can go in small letters.
In addition, is there a way that I can delete my Linksys cloud account?
The background to this is that I created a Linksys cloud account when I setup my first LN1301, this was before I knew any better. I now want to erase all knowledge of my nodes from Linksys. I can remove the child nodes as mentioned above, but I haven't figured out how to remove the parent node. I'm thinking I should reset all nodes and start over with the network/mesh setup, but this time not use the Linksys cloud account and also choose a different node as the parent node.
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One thing to note, though, the mesh doesn't propagate mDNS though, so you'll need to SSH into the mesh nodes and run the following:
https://filetransfer.io/data-pack...02IZY#li
https://filetransfer.io/data-pack...02IZY#li
https://github.com/arix00/openwrt...0/releases
Also since this is a dual partition router, you can flip the power switch on and off 3 or 4 times and it should boot into the second partition with the stock firmware. Assuming you didn't flash both partitions.
One, offhand comment from someone about using the yellow lan port doesn't seem reliable to me. Since that isn't officially support I don't know that we will get anything from the MFG so it's just what people have done and seems to work. The app should be able to tell you if it's working in wired backhaul mode or not.
I do wonder what the Yellow Lan port is for.
I didn't see an answer to this. My assumption is the yellow LAN port is being identified for Link Aggregation on some version of this chassis. You would use the two yellow ports for the LAG configuration.
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Static IP same as the lan IP 192.168.1.3
Gateway: 192.168.1.1 (main router's IP)
DNS: 192.168.1.1
So far I have not experienced any issues.
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