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New & Refurbished Routers: Refurbished: Linksys Hydra Pro 6 Mesh WiFi 6 Router

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Atachi
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https://computers.woot.com/offers...-fi-system

In the box:
(1) Linksys MX8503 Atlas Max 6E Tri-Band Mesh Wi-Fi 6E System (3-Pack)

Tri-band MX8500 (AXE8400) - 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6 GHz

One 5 Gbps (10/100/1000/2500/5000 Mbps) WAN port
Four gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbps) LAN ports

openwrt supported
https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/li...sys_mx8500

dd-wrt supported
https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/v...p?t=338146

user guide with specs
https://downloads.linksys.com/sup...IDE_EN.pdf
MacBJ
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What's the difference between $60 vs $200 mesh wifi systems for home use? I'm on 300M internet connection.
michael7278
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It depends, What's your use case ? Service speed? Wired nodes or wireless?

CPU and Ram is the same, the only difference is MX10600 has 2 x 5ghz bands (one ac one ax) and the MX8500 has 1x 5ghz ax and the third band is 6ghz.
If you have no 6ghz clients you won't see any difference. Also the 6ghz band has a ~50% shorter range than 5ghz.

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Feb 15, 2025
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KiraOfTheSky
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I have AT&T Fiber with Deco M9 Plus. Will this be a better upgrade? Some of my Wyze Camera loses connection.
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walk2rem
Feb 15, 2025
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Quote from KiraOfTheSky :
I have AT&T Fiber with Deco M9 Plus. Will this be a better upgrade? Some of my Wyze Camera loses connection.
Linksys MX8503 would definitely be an upgrade
Last edited by walk2rem February 15, 2025 at 03:51 PM.
Feb 16, 2025
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belmundc
Feb 16, 2025
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I have the TP-Link Deco AXE4900 (Deco XE70 Pro) currently which has been very stable but still not achieving up to 1 gb speed that I have on AT&T Fiber. I know achieving the theoretical speeds provider by the ISP is based on multiple factors but I just wondering if anyone had actual experience with this router (Linksys MX8503) in terms of speed and stability. Just trying to see if worth giving the Linksys a shot.
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seier
Feb 16, 2025
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This hydra doesn't have very many heads.
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Zescion
Feb 16, 2025
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Quote from masif :
I recently purchased two 2-packs of Linksys Velop MX10600 Tri-Band AX5300 Mesh WiFi 6 Systems (4 units total) from a Woot deal and flashed them with OpenWRT. I'm wondering if the MX8503 would perform any better than the MX10600.
Does OpenWRT supports the mesh system?
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yhchan
Feb 16, 2025
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Quote from whodiini :
I also saw that the MX8503 has one 5GB WAN port. Since I use a wired backhaul, its a shame that the LAN ports are only 1 GB. However, I noticed that it has a USB 3.0 port which is rated up to 5Gbps. Would any of the openwrt installs support connecting a 2.5Gb ethernet adapter to the USB 3.0 port for wired backhaul? That would indeed make this a smoking deal.
I think in openwrt you can swap the wan and lan port...
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whodiini
Feb 16, 2025
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Quote from yhchan :
I think in openwrt you can swap the wan and lan port...
Not helpful. The master unit is the issue. The WAN port gets connected to the internet, which is running at 2.5Gbps. The satellites/child nodes get connected to the LAN port of the master unit, which is running at 1 Gbps.Thus the satellites at best run at 1 Gbps, not 2.5Gbps because the LAN port throttles the speed. One could not run the mesh and have instead 3 different nodes but then any connection will not jump from one node to the other. The master needs to have two 2.5Gbps wired connections, one for WAN and one for LAN. Bad design choice. At the original price of over $1000, its unforgivable since 2.5Gbs ports are a few dollars now.

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Quote from TealLinen2994 :
AFAIK, no. Even if you could somehow backhaul on the USB, I wouldn't do it. There are good reasons why nobody uses USB 3.0 that way.

MX8500 doesn't do link aggregation as far as I can tell either, so I think you're stuck with gigabit on wired.
Here's an idea - would this work? Since the master unit has one 5 Gbps and my wired ethernet is 2.5Gbps, connect the 5Gbps WAN port to a managed switch with a 10Gbps input. One of the switch outputs goes to my firewall/internet. That will run at 2.5Gbps. Another switch output goes to a 2.5Gbps backhaul, connected to the other child/satellites 2.5Gbps WAN port. Set traffic on the managed switch so that the satellites are not connected to the internet on the switch but only to the master unit. The 5Gbps connection on the master should have enough throughput to manage two 2.5Gbs data streams, one from the satellites and one to the internet. The only thing I dont know is whether the master unit software will connect to the satellites/child nodes thru the WAN port and not the LAN port.
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R@VEN
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Quote from belmundc :
I have the TP-Link Deco AXE4900 (Deco XE70 Pro) currently which has been very stable but still not achieving up to 1 gb speed that I have on AT&T Fiber. I know achieving the theoretical speeds provider by the ISP is based on multiple factors but I just wondering if anyone had actual experience with this router (Linksys MX8503) in terms of speed and stability. Just trying to see if worth giving the Linksys a shot.
I recently bought a 2 pack of these routers from eBay to replace my 2 Asus ax86u pros. I tested them on my network but, I have since went back to using my Asus routers. These Linksys routers are technically faster but only with 6e devices within 15 to 20 feet from a node. The 6e band is only good at short distance. Maybe if I had a node in every room it would be better. With my Asus routers I get higher speeds on the 5ghz band all over my home average about 7-800Mbps. Also the Linksys routers don't support DFS channels or 160mhz channels on the 5ghz band.
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TealLinen2994
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Quote from whodiini :
Here's an idea - would this work? Since the master unit has one 5 Gbps and my wired ethernet is 2.5Gbps, connect the 5Gbps WAN port to a managed switch with a 10Gbps input. One of the switch outputs goes to my firewall/internet. That will run at 2.5Gbps. Another switch output goes to a 2.5Gbps backhaul, connected to the other child/satellites 2.5Gbps WAN port. Set traffic on the managed switch so that the satellites are not connected to the internet on the switch but only to the master unit. The 5Gbps connection on the master should have enough throughput to manage two 2.5Gbs data streams, one from the satellites and one to the internet. The only thing I dont know is whether the master unit software will connect to the satellites/child nodes thru the WAN port and not the LAN port.
If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to do a router on a stick configuration? In theory yes. You already pointed out the issue, does the MX8500 play nicely with the WAN port being used as a LAN port. That I don't know.
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Timless
Feb 16, 2025
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Quote from whodiini :
Not helpful. The master unit is the issue. The WAN port gets connected to the internet, which is running at 2.5Gbps. The satellites/child nodes get connected to the LAN port of the master unit, which is running at 1 Gbps.Thus the satellites at best run at 1 Gbps, not 2.5Gbps because the LAN port throttles the speed. One could not run the mesh and have instead 3 different nodes but then any connection will not jump from one node to the other. The master needs to have two 2.5Gbps wired connections, one for WAN and one for LAN. Bad design choice. At the original price of over $1000, its unforgivable since 2.5Gbs ports are a few dollars now.
I feel like anybody with a multigig wan would be running multigig switches and other hardware.
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Timless
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Quote from whodiini :
Here's an idea - would this work? Since the master unit has one 5 Gbps and my wired ethernet is 2.5Gbps, connect the 5Gbps WAN port to a managed switch with a 10Gbps input. One of the switch outputs goes to my firewall/internet. That will run at 2.5Gbps. Another switch output goes to a 2.5Gbps backhaul, connected to the other child/satellites 2.5Gbps WAN port. Set traffic on the managed switch so that the satellites are not connected to the internet on the switch but only to the master unit. The 5Gbps connection on the master should have enough throughput to manage two 2.5Gbs data streams, one from the satellites and one to the internet. The only thing I dont know is whether the master unit software will connect to the satellites/child nodes thru the WAN port and not the LAN port.
Why not get a multi port multi gig router and connect the switch to that, and all the APs to the switch?
Much cleaner.
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Quote from chivas :
I know! Wish I picked more up. Waiting when I have time to install home assistant on it.

which set was this? by any chance was it the one that arrived rebranded in a white box? because if so I bought like 4 and haven't configured yet. Also are any of the custom firware fully stable now for it?
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Are the differences between this 6e 3 pack and the wifi6 3 pack from last week significant enough for local game streaming that I should return those and get these instead?

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whodiini
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Quote from Timless :
Why not get a multi port multi gig router and connect the switch to that, and all the APs to the switch?
Much cleaner.
That was one of the options I mentioned, but then you have 3 APs instead of one mesh system. so your computers/phones will get confused switching from one AP to another. Vendors do sell devices to manage that but its no longer a mesh system and you need to buy a device that manages multiple APs. I was trying to figure out a way to use this mesh system as is and get a 2.5Gbps wired backhaul as well. Doesnt seem it can be done because the master unit only has one 5 Gbps WAN port.

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