expiredf12_26 | Staff posted Oct 11, 2024 05:12 AM
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expiredf12_26 | Staff posted Oct 11, 2024 05:12 AM
Refurbished Linksys Routers: 2-Piece Linksys Velop Mesh Home WiFi System
& More + Free S/H w/ Prime$15
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It has 2 Wifi 5 (2.4ghz and 5ghz 2) and 1 WIFI 6 (5ghz 1) bands
The MX8000 is 1.4 ghz with 1gb ram tri-band:
It has 1 Wifi 5 band (2.4ghz) and 2 wifi 6 (5ghz 1 & 2) bands
The MX10600 is made up of 2 MX5300 nodes.
the MX8000 is made up of 2 MX4000 nodes.
The MX4000 nodes are comparable to the LN130 (AX4200/AX4300) except the MX4000 is 200mbps slower on one of the 5ghz bands. Same specs otherwise other than ram. (LN1301 has 2gb ram instead of one since it was purpose built for a Fortinet security app to be running on it before they scrapped the idea and liquidated them).
The MX10600 would be faster if you use a wired backhaul as it only has 1 wifi 6 5ghz band.
The MX8000 will be faster if you use wireless backhaul only as it has 2 5ghz wifi 6 bands.
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The LN1301 is Tri-Band, with one 2.4GHz radio and two 5GHz radios.
This is tempting, I'm tired of frankensteining our home mesh together with repeaters.
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I remember Belkin products being worst than Linksys, no much future with these routers unless we get open source support (DD-WRT, etc.)
I'm leaning towards the MX10600 to replace my TP-Link Deco W6000 but would love to make sure that's the way to go
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I used wired backhaul. The day before thanksgiving years ago Linksys put out a bad firmware update that broke wireless backhaul. Had to wire each unit to a laptop and roll back firmware.
That aside, the units would randomly go offline or slow to a crawl, reboots generally resolved. The biggest issue/concern though is at complete random, one node would broadcast the mesh ssid clear and open, no wpa/encryption protection. To compound the issue, it's not something easy to detect, you'd need to use a wifi scanner app. I only noticed when my device wouldn't connect to the nearest node and when I looked it was expecting a wpa2 protected ssid but was seeing an open one. To my shock, I was able to connect to it without any passphrase.
There were other little things like nodes would randomly go "yellow" meaning signal interference or signal too hot after being fine for weeks.
At the time I reached out to Linksys and it was an incredibly slow and frustrating process that started with me having to sign a long legal document absolving them of any liability. Ultimately they gave me a beta firmware but the issues persisted and I threw in the towel.
I guess ymmv. If you want some cheap nodes to play with, try custom firmware, lab setup, etc. might be a decent option. But wouldn't rely on it for your everyday "daily driver" setup. I've since switched to the tplink omada line. It's not perfect but I'm pretty happy with the setup and cost/value for the features.
Ok clicked the link its not ax so yea wifi5
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