Linksys E8450

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100%of verdicts positive

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Recommends itOwned 0.33 years

Depends on your needs of course. If you want something cheap that can handle moderate usage in a house, I had pretty good luck with https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/e8450 recently (the Belkin one was much cheaper than the Linksys brand one, for whatever reason). No problems so far at all after 4 months.

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I have 2 MX4300 and 2 E8450. all run openwrt. Only wifi 6, but that is all I need for my family. Right now only using 1 of each and the other two are backups. I got them all super cheap when they were on sale.

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I have churned through at least 5 routers now all with their own issues. Until I got Linksys E8450, it's a WiFi 6 router and can NAT at 1gb on openwrt.

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I recently picked up a Linksys e8450 (twin sibling of the Belkin RT3200) and flashed it with openWRT and it's been great; WIFI-6 speeds on a router that is actually configurable

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I use one on my full-duplex gigabit connection and it generally sits in the 800-900 Mbps range. This will vary depending on things like if you decide to enable smart queue management (SQM) or other features. There are some recommended tweaks I've applied but so far I like it much better than my old WRT3200ACM unit. https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/e8450?s[]=linksys&s[]=e8450&...

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The Linksys E8450/Belkin RT3200 is a solid and affordable router. UBI firmware support, hardware NAT offloading and DSA support for better VLAN performance. Less than perfect WiFi range.

Recommends itDoesn’t say they own it

The WRT1200AC family is not well supported. The Ethernet part should work fine, but the Wifi is unsupported since some years now, see here the repository: https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi The vendors are not interested in this hardware any more, but they have very good marketing and sales. Linksys and Marvell also did not really support the OpenWrt community, they just had good marketing. If your WRT1200AC device does not work well with OpenWrt do not complain to OpenWrt, but complain to the Linksys support. The WRT1200AC family for example does not support WPA3, because the closed source Wifi firmware does not support it. The 15 years old WRT54G supports WPA3, it is just very slow. ;-) Currently I would suggest the Linksys E8450 / Belkin RT3200 (same hardware) or some other device using the current Mediatek platform with MT7622 + MT7915 + MT7531. (2 X Cortex-A53, Wifi 6) All chips are supported in recent upstream Linux kernel, including Wifi. The Mediatek router team is currently doing pretty good upstream open source work for their chips.