Linksys MR8300 Mesh Wi-Fi Router (Tri-Band Router speeds up to 2.2GHz, Wireless Mesh Router for Home AC2200, 716Mhz Quad-core Processor, 2,000 sq. ft Coverage) MU-MIMO Fast Wireless Router (Renewed)

Better than Cable company’s
The router that my alleged cable company rented me… stinks. Constant drops, connection issues, etc. My Steam Deck never connected properly to the 5g. So I got this.Setup was a bit complicated. I admit I don’t know routers and networking that well, but I have some experience. The smartphone app seemed limited at first but it’s just because I wasn’t familiar with it. I was eventually able to connect the old fashioned way, through a browser, but only from my pc. Once I was in, I was able to split the bands properly and tweak the experience. That was day 1. I haven’t had a single connection issue since that day. Even my beloved Deck stays reliably connected to 5g and I’m finally able to stream from my pc properly, without any lag, over wifi.Price was good and it performs beautifully for my needs. My only complaint is that there’s no way to alter the radio frequency of the 5g bands, to fully eliminate interference from my many neighbors. But my router puts out a strong enough signal that this hasn’t been an issue. I very much recommend this router.

Worked great and only took about 5 minutes to configure
I did not use this as a mesh router but rather a secondary router attached to my home router.I need wifi in my detached shop and ran cat 6 to this. Installed very easily with the app downloaded. This replaced a cheaper router I had originally installed and a VERY noticeable difference in range and strength!

Supports Traditional Setup without the “Official” App
This is a refurbished product – and so far so good. I ended up configuring the router by using the traditional “ethernet” approach. The official LinkSys “app” didn’t seem to be getting anywhere although I gave it 3 chances. So I just connected a network cable between a spare Ethernet port on my PC and one of the LAN ports on the new router. I discovered that the router had established itself as 192.168.1.1 so I was able to point my browser at that. I did eventually find the setting that puts the router into “bridge” mode. And I was able to discover its MAC address and assign it a proper IP in my main router. WiFi setup was pretty easy however I don’t have the option to choose what channels it uses and it’s not willing to tell me what channels it has picked. So I had to “sniff” that out using “WiFi Man” and a few other techniques. This is important if you have several routers across your “campus” and you’d also like to show some consideration to your neighbors. My goal in purchasing this router was to better sever my 2.4ghz WiFi devices. The product arrived in the mail in an OEM cardboard box. It included a power adapter and a basic RJ45 cable. Hopefully this device will serve faithfully for many years. I would definitely consider purchasing a second one in the future.

Got refurb’ed, it works, didn’t cost a lot, and strong signal 3/5
Found this searching for an update to my old Apple Airport routers. Ordered it, got it in one day, took a long time to understand and set up and to get to where I wanted it to be.There’s no real instruction booklet, at least with the refurb, and I don’t know how but they keep making these things with such clunky interfaces it’s really annoying.I’m not sure the bluetooth setup from the phone app and having to create a Linksys account, which by the way can monitor your network and who knows what else?Why does Linksys pretend to care so much about security with so many passwords, and such a restrictive rules for what you can use. That should be up to the use to decide if they want to have a simple or complex password.And, there are a lot of options and systems that are complicated and have no help screens or explanations.So, while it works and was inexpensive, I don’t really know what it is I have here in terms or security or safety. I will say that it can transmit through my plaster and lath walls very well where my old routers did not.So, the good and the bad, for me, are kind of a wash, and I would rate this 3/5, and in my mind a bit lower for the sheer inconsiderateness of this product for the end user. It was a cheap improvement in my life so I appreciate that, but I am sure I missed some things in the complicated setup.

He comprado diversos productos Linksys, tenia mis dudas con este ya que fue reacondicionado, pero me trague esas dudas, el producto funciona de maravilla, tengo con mi proveedor de internet 300 Mbps y son los mismos que reparte a mis aparatos (claro, segun el dispositivo), tiene excelente estabilidad, su aplicacion es muy intuitiva y si no tienes alguna configuracion especial como por ejemplo un DVR o algun acceso especial no tendras problema, solo conectas la linea de internet, abres tu aplicacion y sigues las instrucciones. Muy recomendable

Compré este Router como respaldo del que tenía funcionando, cuando empezó a dar más problemas desempaqué mi “flamante casi nuevo” router y mi sorpresa es que no funcionó, desafortunadamente ya se había cerrado la ventana de devolución