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

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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
What's the difference between $60 vs $200 mesh wifi systems for home use? I'm on 300M internet connection.
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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whodiini
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Quote from Shawndak07 :
Correct but wifi 6 is really the key to this. The handoff on wifi 4/5 is absolutely terrible. Wifi 6 has virtually seamless handoff.
Yup, that is the main reason I got these to replace my 3 solid MX4300 I got for $15 each. Will replace and see if the handoff is better. The other reason is that it took a while to figure out how to set up the MX4300 on linksys factory firmware as AP and wired backhaul, so it should be much faster this second time around. BTW, they have been running rock solid for a while.. There are all sorts of tricks in setup that arent documented anywhere including the threads on SD.
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Quote from whodiini :
Yup, that is the main reason I got these to replace my 3 solid MX4300 I got for $15 each. Will replace and see if the handoff is better. The other reason is that it took a while to figure out how to set up the MX4300 on linksys factory firmware as AP and wired backhaul, so it should be much faster this second time around. BTW, they have been running rock solid for a while.. There are all sorts of tricks in setup that arent documented anywhere including the threads on SD.
MX4300 are wifi 6. Are you getting confused with 6ghz?
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whodiini
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Quote from Shawndak07 :
MX4300 are wifi 6. Are you getting confused with 6ghz?
yes. LN1301/MX4300 are wifi 6 without 6Ghz. These are wifi 6e with 6Ghz. So maybe not much difference in handoff, speed at 6Ghz close by may be faster...
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Quote from whodiini :
yes. LN1301/MX4300 are wifi 6 without 6Ghz. These are wifi 6e with 6Ghz. So maybe not much difference in handoff, speed at 6Ghz close by may be faster...
Yeah wifi 6E adds the 6ghz band. Unless you live in a very crowded network situation, I doubt you'll see a huge difference.
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timta2
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Quote from bobjacob :
Does the NETGEAR CM700-100NAR High Speed Cable Modem

Work with Xfinity?
Yes, I'm certain it is. You can Google around to the store's ads and they all state that it's Xfinitiy (Comcast) compatible.

"Compatible with Xfinity from Comcast, Spectrum, Cox, and more"
https://www.walmart.com/ip/NETGEA.../885325247
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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 understand your question correctly, the answer is that in a wired backhaul setup, the child nodes are connected through their WAN port. At least it does for the Velop LN-1301. A search of the manual should confirm this for you though.
Last edited by chris431 February 20, 2025 at 04:08 AM.
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Quote from deshwasi :
I am also using a ln1301 mesh setup of 4. Wired backhaul. One of my nodes shows (in app) it's connected wirelessly (instead of using wired, generally happens after power trip). Is there a way to limit it to wired backhaul only during mesh setup?
I have 5 of the LN1301's in a mesh all connected via wired backhaul. There is no way to force the wired backhaul, per se. Disabling node steering helps. I recently had 3 of the 4 child nodes switch to wireless (despite them having been connected via wired backhaul previously and node steering disabled). A power down of the parent got all but 1 to switch back to wired. But, sadly, there is no force feature.

Suggestion: (1) Disable node steering. (2) Turn off all child nodes (3) Turn the child nodes back on 1 at a time starting with the unit furthest from the parent.

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Quote from chris431 :
I have 5 of the LN1301's in a mesh all connected via wired backhaul. There is no way to force the wired backhaul, per se. Disabling node steering helps. I recently had 3 of the 4 child nodes switch to wireless (despite them having been connected via wired backhaul previously and node steering disabled). A power down of the parent got all but 1 to switch back to wired. But, sadly, there is no force feature.

Suggestion: (1) Disable node steering. (2) Turn off all child nodes (3) Turn the child nodes back on 1 at a time starting with the unit furthest from the parent.
I found answer in some random reddit thread, which btw, referenced the epic SD threads for the tip. The trick is to use the yellow lan port (not wan) on child nodes for wired backhaul. Ever since I switched i have not seen it happen again.
Since I have all wired backhaul, mx8503 would not make a diff but this deal is pretty close to the ln1301 deals.
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Quote from rczrider :
Of the 6 I got (3 for me, 2 for in-laws, 1 for my parents) I only paid $20 for one of them. The rest were all $15! Happily running DD-WRT on all of them. My parent node has three VLANs in addition to the 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks (the low-band 5GHz radio is the mesh backhaul), always-on OpenVPN, WireGuard, and AdGuard. No reboots and no drops. I cannot imagine a better deal.
Wait... You can add ad blockers similar to uBlock to your router to block ads on your Roku, like YouTube?
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Quote from _lukas :
Wait... You can add ad blockers similar to uBlock to your router to block ads on your Roku, like YouTube?
Do you mean Roku the streamer or a Roku TV? Either way, I can't speak to the YT app for Roku because - and I cannot stress this enough - an Android dongle like the the $20 onn 4K streamer from Walmart [walmart.com] with the Projectivy launcher [google.com] and using SmartTube Next [smarttubenext.com] is absolutely the way people should be streaming media, especially YouTube.

Roku as a system is much more locked down than other options; furthermore, Roku's primary objective is data collection with streaming its method of doing so. AGH will block some ads on some Roku apps, but it can't block everything because ads are embedded in the streams rather than being called from known ad servers. Its biggest impact on Roku specifically is blocking much of that data collection and tracking.

The more meaningful impact of AGH (or Pi-hole) is network-wide blocking of ads, data collection, and telemetry data on all devices. I don't get ads on my phone - even on free apps with obnoxious ad placement - and every browser (including Chrome) gets adblocking nearly as good as uBlock.
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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.
Someone got it to work: https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo.../issues/35

Not really sure what they meant by "Testing revealed that this USB-based network card can achieve the theoretical maximum speed in local network iperf3 tests. However, in public network tests like Speedtest, it shows a maximum download speed of 1 Gbps and an upload speed of 40 Mbps."

I'm assuming that they have a faster internet connection than that.
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Quote from rczrider :
Do you mean Roku the streamer or a Roku TV? Either way, I can't speak to the YT app for Roku because - and I cannot stress this enough - an Android dongle like the the $20 onn 4K streamer from Walmart [walmart.com] with the Projectivy launcher [google.com] and using SmartTube Next [smarttubenext.com] is absolutely the way people should be streaming media, especially YouTube.

Roku as a system is much more locked down than other options; furthermore, Roku's primary objective is data collection with streaming its method of doing so. AGH will block some ads on some Roku apps, but it can't block everything because ads are embedded in the streams rather than being called from known ad servers. Its biggest impact on Roku specifically is blocking much of that data collection and tracking.

The more meaningful impact of AGH (or Pi-hole) is network-wide blocking of ads, data collection, and telemetry data on all devices. I don't get ads on my phone - even on free apps with obnoxious ad placement - and every browser (including Chrome) gets adblocking nearly as good as uBlock.
I do have an onn 4k streamer on my Roku TV so I can use a VPN to my brother's server of pirated movies using Tailscale and Jellyfin lol.

So if I use the 1) onn device and 2) projectivity launcher (app or vpn?) and SmartTube app on the onn device to stream from my phone to YouTube on TV without ads? It gets complicated quickly so I've just been casting my S24 which has pirated YouTube premium screen onto the Roku OS
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Received my MX8503. Interesting the power supply uses a larger connector so they are not interchageable with the LN1301. They are 12V 4A and physically larger than the 3A ones that came with the LN1301.

Set up was almost the same as LN1301 with one major exception. Have not been able to connect via a web page to the child nodes. Whenever I put the IP address in, the web page redirects to the web page of the master. On the LN1301, you can set the child node wifi bands and bandwidth. You cannot do that if you cannot reach the child nodes on the web page. Anyone else have this issue?

Otherwise as people have stated, the MX5803 trades one 5Ghz band for a 6Ghz band, On the 5Ghz band, you can choose on the master, one of the the lower or higher Ghz ones. On the 6Ghz band, interestingly, it defaults to a WPA3 conection and WPA2/WPA3 is not an option like the lower bands,.
Last edited by whodiini February 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM.
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Quote from whodiini :
Received my MX8503. Interesting the power supply uses a larger connector so they are not interchageable with the LN1301. They are 12V 4A and physically larger than the 3A ones that came with the LN1301. Set up was almost the same as LN1301 with one major exception. Have not been able to connect via a web page to the child nodes. Whenever I put the IP address in, the web page redirects to the web page of the master. On the LN1301, you can set the child node wifi bands and bandwidth. You cannot do that if you cannot reach the child nodes on the web page. Anyone else have this issue? Otherwise as people have stated, the MX5803 trades one 5Ghz band for a 6Ghz band, On the 5Ghz band, you can choose on the master, one of the the lower or higher Ghz ones. On the 6Ghz band, interestingly, it defaults to a WPA3 conection and WPA2/WPA3 is not an option like the lower bands,.
Are you sure you have the address correct? I noticed one of mine were shipped configured with different LAN address. Two were shipped with 192.168.x.x addresses configured but one was setup with a 10.16.x.x. address.

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I just bought one of these from Woot and Linksys says it is too old for warranty, or installation tech support.
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Quote from TealLinen2994 :
Are you sure you have the address correct? I noticed one of mine were shipped configured with different LAN address. Two were shipped with 192.168.x.x addresses configured but one was setup with a 10.16.x.x. address.
100% sure. With the child nodes, you dont connect up to them to set up. You turn on and connect them to the master, then when the purple light is on, you link them to the master. That sets them up. Since I am running the master in bridge mode, my router assigns the IP address. It then shows the IP address assigned on the router. I use that IP address and whenever I type it in, it redirects to the IP address of the master. This exact method worked for the child nodes on the LN1301 but does not for these units/

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