Wifi 7 at the lowest price for Wifi 7 mesh routers, easy installation. Speeds seems totally sufficient, little lag. Relatively long warranty. Unfortunately the 12V input seems somewhat fragile. One of my satellites dropped from 27" onto hardwood floor - everything seemed fine but the inside wall of the 12V input broke, likely because of the force exerted by the 12V plug - rendering the satellite useless. The Velop Pro 7 towers look elegant but their height make them a little more susceptible to tumbles (like when you have them on a window sill). Linksys, maybe understandably, did not think that my issue was covered by their warranty.

Pros: Easy setup Decent range Nice look Cons: Wildly inconsitent speeds Devices default to 2.4GHz far too often Mobile phones and tablets swapping nodes can be slow and annoying App isn't very good! Limited administration My gaming desktop on my old Nighthawk RAX200 got a consistent 1000-1200 Mbps on 5GHz. But on this Linksys Velop WiFi 7 router, it got anywhere from 50 Mbps... yes 50, all the way up to nearly 1400 Mbps. Yes 1387 was my highest! I pay Comcast/XFINITY for 1200 Mbps so somehow it's doing better than what I pay for, but it's not consistent, not even close! Let me explain! I originally set it up using the wizard from the app and it automatically set it up to do a "Smart Connect" where it had one SSID and my endpoints would just get assigned 2.4GHz, or 5GHz. My desktop would randomly get 2.4GHz or 5 depending on some unknown criteria and it drove me bonkers. IPCONFIG /RELEASE /RENEW and I was back to 5, and it'd be a mystery if I would get 1300 Mbps or not. Sometimes I'd get 700, or 500 connected to the EXACT same router that gave me 1300 Mbps. It was very strange. I still don't know why, but it was enough to make me try setting it up to where 2.4GHz and 5GHz had seperate SSIDs. This was fine and dandy, but I was never able to get above 800 Mbps this way. I have no idea why! I ultimately ended up doing a factory reset and the problems remained the same. I don't like how inconsitent this is. I will likely return it to get something else. I was plesantly surprised by the range but I don't think it's a 3000 sq ft system when your house is multi-level! I have three floors and each hop is about 30 feet from each other and I definitely don't think I'm getting the advertised range... well I am just not full blast in every corner of my house the marketing claims. Biggest gripe is the inconsistent speeds.

Perfect for work from home employees, especially those in rural areas. We placed them in separate areas throughout our house, It was easy to connect to Wi-Fi and to link my computer to. small and out of site!

Linksys introduces the latest WiFi 7 protocol with their new VELOP Pro 7 Tri Mesh system. Not only does it have a sleek design, but its set-up process is also impressively straightforward. Given the advanced features, I anticipated a lengthy setup, but the automated steps ensured a smooth transition. In no time, I had replaced my old mesh network and reconnected every device in my home. The package is user-friendly. The Linksys app provides a step-by-step guide, complete with illustrations and lucid instructions. All essential information, including hardware IDs and passwords, are printed on the unit's base (Note: This information was airbrushed from the review photos). The device also sports an on/off toggle switch, reset, and WPS buttons. While some steps in the setup can take a few minutes, there's virtually no guesswork. The process is largely automated, demanding minimal intervention. Just remember that the setup requires creating a Linksys account, so have a notepad ready for credentials. However, I found the customization and control options in the browser client GUI to be limited. While the automatic setup efficiently manages channels for different GHz radios and allows guest account set-ups, both the phone app and the browser interface leave much to be desired in terms of administrative control. They're sparse, almost to a surprising degree. Additionally, generating a device list via the interface often results in failure, though the phone app proves more reliable. But for all its GUI shortcomings, the system's performance is outstanding. Automatic node switching, a challenge with my previous network, is now nearly seamless. Speeds have surged, and my WiFi range now extends halfway down the street, whereas before I couldn’t even get a signal in my garage. Rating this product depends heavily on user perspective. If you seek professional-level configuration options, this might disappoint, considering the current interface. But if you want a hassle-free setup that automatically optimizes performance and offers the newest WiFi protocol, this is your best bet. From a professional standpoint: 3 stars. For everyday users: 5 stars. But either way, it gets my recommendation.

I had to really spend some time with this new Linksys Wi-Fi 7 Velop Mesh Router system before I started to be happy with it. Coming from a very good Wi-Fi 6 Mesh System that I was honestly truly pleased with, this system at first hardly felt like an upgrade, especially given it's 3 times the price. What you have to realize though, is that Wi-Fi 7 is still very new and to take full advantage of it, you'll need devices that use that standard as well, of which there are very few of on the market currently. None of which I have either. That said, regardless of Wi-Fi standard, they're all backward compatible so the devices you have are still going to work with even the latest technology. That all said, with my home network and devices as they are, moving up to this new system didn't provide any jaw-dropping improvements. Overall speeds did improve a little bit, but nothing to really boast about. Before I get to the improvements, let me say my internet service and modem are all identical and the number of nodes and placement of them and the router is exactly the same between systems. With all that in place, I tested the speeds from my home office, which is in a corner of my home furthest away from where the main router and modem sits. The first test I tried was without any extra nodes plugged in to see how well the main router can send out a signal. With this Linksys system I was able to hit 436 Mbps down and 47 Mbps up, versus my prior system where I achieved 379 Mbps down and 39 Mbps up. My next test I kept my laptop in the exact same spot and plugged in my second node, which sits inside my office about 6 feet away. Now going through the extra node I was able to hit 486 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up with this Linksys, versus my prior system which got 410 Mbps down and 41 Mbps up. So faster, but not by as much as I expected. It did take some extra steps to get to those results though, which is partly why I wasn't as happy with this Linksys system at first. Out of the box, the speeds I was getting were a LOT worse. In fact, I was barely able to get 250 Mbps down while in my home office. Working through the app I found a button that simply said, 'Internet slow?', and thought, 'yeah, it is', so I pressed it. First thing it gave an option for was to let the router scan through the channels and see if it can speed things up. This actually worked a little and I sped up about another 30 to 40 Mbps down. The biggest factor though was giving certain devices prioritization through the app. Linksys allows you to add up to 3 devices that will always be prioritized over all the other devices in your network. As soon as I added my laptop to the prioritized list, the speeds instantly jumped up another 100+ Mbps. Finally, it took restarting the entire system before I hit that 486 Mbps down peak number. Throughout all of this, the nodes were another thing I had to deal with, specifically getting my laptop to switch between them. A lot of this is obviously dependent on the device, but for some reason my laptop wouldn't make the switch from the main router to the child node even when it was just a few feet away from the child node. I ended up having to stop and restart the Wi-Fi on my laptop for it to make that switch, whereas I didn't have that issue with my previous system. Besides speed, another important aspect is reliability, because it doesn't matter how fast of a connection you might have if it doesn't stay connected. Here again this Linksys system fell a little short of my previous system, which again is 1/3 the price. While it's been stable most of the time, I've noticed some of my various smart home devices dropping off the network randomly much more often than they were with my previous system. Again though, it's hard to say if this is more of an issue with the Linksys system or the devices using an older Wi-Fi standard. This may be something that hopefully improves as the Linksys system and my devices get firmware updates. As far as set-up goes, it's simple enough and easy to do. This is now my 3rd mesh system in less than 2 years and they've all had pretty much the same setup, even though all 3 were different brands. That is to say, you get their app and follow along the same basic steps of hooking it all up, and setting up some standard settings like network name and password. Adding nodes to the system is just as easy, just go in the app and there's an option to add a node and it'll start the process without you needing to do much more than plugging the added node in. Finally we need to talk about the app. I used to consider the companion app to be just that, a companion to improve convenience and usability, but now it's more of a necessity, and therefore I have to include it within the scope of this review. This is where I think Linksys really falls short. Having had other systems and apps, this Linksys app has been my one true downgrade from my prior system, and has been the source of some of my frustrations. It has some of the basics which work well enough, and that is managing your network and even giving you the option to open up a guest network so that you don't have to share your main set of credentials with other visiting family and friends. My biggest issue with it though is with the device list. There is a significant lag between devices joining the network and it showing up in the app. Sometimes I had to manually hit the refresh button multiple times before it would show a new device, and that was when I was in my home connected to the same Wi-Fi network. As I'm sure most people are, I'm concerned with security. Part of that is knowing when devices connect to the network. Not only is there a delay to showing newly connected devices in the list, there's not even any notification or option to be notified when a device jumps on. Even if you do see an unknown device jump on, I haven't found any way through the app to force that device off the network or block it. On the topic of notifications, those don't seem to work that well either. I set the app to notify me anytime a node went offline, but when I unplugged a node, it failed to send that notification. Hopefully these will all be items that Linksys eventually fixes or adds in their app. Overall, it's a good system utilizing the latest and greatest tech, but unless you need to stay at the forefront, or just be ahead of the curve for when devices begin to start making use of the new Wi-Fi 7 standard, it's not a must-have. If you have a fairly new Wi-Fi 6 system already, the improvements you'll see currently just aren't enough to justify making the leap. Even if you have an older router that you're looking to upgrade, you would be just fine moving up to a more affordable Wi-Fi 6 system like what I previously had, and in some ways wish I still had. But again, if you want to be better prepared for the future, this system will have you ready.