Linksys - Velop AX4200 WiFi 6 Mesh System - White

I have a long apartment in an old building with thick plaster walls. The wifi signal was quite inconsistent. I had upgraded the wiring, modem and router. The signal was still inconsistent, and fell off quickly with distance from the base. My wife and I are both working from home now due to the pandemic. Our video meetings were constantly freezing up and losing clarity and sound. We needed to improve this, as our work depended on it. After researching mesh systems, I settled on the Linksys Velop AX4200 Wifi 6 system- 3 pack. My cable is situated in the middle of my long apartment, with my wife working at one end, and my office at the other far end. I was skeptical that the signal would be improved enough for our purposes. I do not have ethernet available to hard wire the three nodes so I was setting up the system wirelessly. I found the set up of the system quick and easy. There are a good number of ethernet ports on the back of the three identical nodes, so things were quickly connected to the central base. I placed the two satellite nodes in the rooms where we are both working, both are at least 50 or more feet from the central node, with thick walls intervening. I downloaded the linksys app to my iPhone, and was able to quickly configure the system. It could not have taken more than 15 minutes to unpack and set up the three nodes. I went to each remote location, and did a speed test. The internet speed was excellent. My internet speed is said to be 400 mbps from my provider. I now consistently clock between more than 300 to 480 mbps in the two remote locations! More importantly, the video conferencing is now great in both locations. We have absolutely no complaints.

I have had 3 nodes in the house, the original Velop system worked overall fairly well with (about 35 devices) but speeds were less than desirable at about 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload (my internet plan is gigabit speeds with 40 Mbps download). I decided to upgrade to this newer WiFi 6 velop system because I thought I should get more use out of my gigabit speed internet plan. Switching the nodes to this newer Velop system was easy, the screen grabbed all the settings from the original velop, manual dns servers, dyndns, port forwarding, all the individual wifi rules, all those little things that you might forget about and proceeded to switch everything over using the same network name (hoping that everything would just work). Started up and configured the main node (it is acting as the router) and the internet was only down for only about 10 minutes while everything was setup to provide the basic wifi. Worked like a charm. I then proceeded to setup the rest of the nodes and they all connected perfectly. I then decided to start testing the wifi speeds and found at my main node I was getting 500 Mbps download and 40 Mbps upload and the farthest away I went in my home I still was receiving 150 Mbps download and 40 Mbps upload, being the lowest speeds I recorded around my house. This Linksys Velop is really great and honestly easier to set up than the original Velop, as those were first gen tech. I am very pleased with how well they work and feel they will last a long time.

Worth every pricey penny. I had been planning for months to buy the Velop AC2200 when I went on Best Buy to make the purchase I saw this new one with extended range. We have a 1.25 acre property with the main house and then two guest houses. One about 100 feet from the modem/router. The other about 150 feet from the modem/router. I like how it would tell you if the child (secondary/third) nodes were placed in a good spot to receive a signal. I thought I could daisy chain the Velops but each one connects to the parent (main) node, but this didn’t even matter because each child node placed 100 feet away and 150 feet away still said “placed correctly” and is working amazing. Easiest set up ever, the app walked through each step one by one. In the photos show my original mediacom issued modem/router speed 46 mbps and the second picture is the velop speed 630 mbps not sure what sort of magic is in three towers but if you need better internet this is 100% worth the money. So happy .

Phenomenal range and speed I have ATT 1GB at 1 point on my Xbox series X was reaching download speeds of 1200mbp and this is at the back of the home with my son using his PS5

The Linksys Velop AX4200 mesh system comes with 3 AX4200 nodes, 3 power bricks, and 1 Cat6 ethernet cable. Setup was pretty quick and took ~4 minutes per node on the LinkSys app to set up to my existing Velop mesh (i currently have 2 AX5300 nodes). Total setup time for all three AX4200 nodes took ~20 minutes which includes wiring the nodes to setup a wired backhaul. The LinkSys app makes setup pretty straightforward. One thing to note is that when your nodes are all setup, in the LinkSys app you can go to the Wi-Fi Settings > Advanced Wi-Fi Settings > then select the Channel Finder to optimize the channels your nodes are on for better Wi-Fi coverage (this particular option is not available in the web interface for the router settings). Additionally, if you're house has ethernet ports in each room, you will most definitely want to connect an ethernet (ideally Cat6 ethernet cable) directly into the "Internet" port of your satellite node. Doing so will allow your satellite nodes to be connected via the wired backhaul and frees up the third band on the node to handle more devices, otherwise the third band will be dedicated to communicating with the master node/router which will be slower. To ensure you've properly setup a wired backhaul, you can go to 192.168.1.1/sysinfo.cgi in your browser (or your default-gateway-ip-address/sysinfo.cgi) then log in with your username/pw, username is "admin" and password is what you chose during setup on LinkSys app. Let the page load (as it typically takes anywhere up to a minute to load) then press "Ctrl + F" to open up the finder in the browser, then type in "bh_report" and you can view your satellite node configuration. Under the "Chan." column (short for channel), if your node is listed as "wired" then you have a wired backhaul! Onto performance, i have to say i am very impressed. At this price point, these AX4200 nodes pretty much perform on par to my AX5300 nodes. Speed tests on my Wifi 6 devices have me anywhere between 350-750Mbps up and down (depending on where i am at in relation to the node). The highest i have seen on speed tests with these AX4200 nodes are around 820Mbps down and 752Mbps up. The other most noticeable difference between this AX4200 node vs the AX5300 node is that the AX4200 node only has 4 gigabit ports vs 5 on the AX5300 (not a big deal for me since i switches to throughout my house to physically hardwire where i can). The radius for coverage is very impressive as i can get WiFi coverage up to 25 feet of outside my house. Overall, i would totally recommend this system to anyone that is looking for a WiFi 6 mesh router setup. At this price point, what you are getting is actually a very good mesh setup!