Customer Ratings & Reviews

I needed to expand my wi-fi at home and thought I would try this one out and really has been a great one for my house. Just using this router by itself has really helped my Wifi coverage a lot. I have not started to use mesh networking yet but I plan on buying other mesh routers to connect, very soon. I can’t wait. Great router for the price!!!

Easy hookup and so far reaching all areas of the house with no dead zones.

This is by far the best router I have purchased. I rarely have wireless connection issues now. All my smart lights connect and work with no issues now. And no more buffering on my Apple tv while trying to watch live tv through PS Vue. I highly recommend this router if you are sick of stop and go streaming.

Easy to use and has a good range for connection ..

this was the third wifi router and it has worked flawlessly

The best thing about this device is the best thing about where I purchased, customer support. I had an issue at 1:45AM, I called the product 1800 number and was helped beyond what I expected. The Linksys representative helped me optimize my wifi and answered a few questions I had.

Works great easy to use and manage I installed the app also

Very easy setup. Works very well. WiFi feed not so well!

Easy to install the router. Seems to work fine. App is awkward.

Good range and expandable to cover more rooms and various floors

Router covers my entire home, about 2,300 sq ft with little or no degradation with distance. The key to this router is the monopole antennas which have superior performance vs embedded antennas that look nice but don’t have the performance. Recommended it to my daughter and she has similar great results.

A solid, and inexpensive Wi-Fi router for your small home or apartment. Follow the directions when installing, if you plug your network cable and other devices in and try to set this up in the old school method, you could confuse the system and brick it. It's been functioning in a 900 SQFT condo without issue.

My family needed and extra boost of WIFI Signal throughout the house. The Linksys did not disappoint. This definitely proved to be an excellent choice in expanding our network throughout the house with much faster network speeds!!!! Excellent!!!!! Product!!!!!

This router is very fast and easily handles more than a dozen devices with stable connections. I had two "max-stream" extenders set up on my last router and this one took care of those without any additional steps.

It was super easy to set up with the app on any smart phone.

Very pleased works better than the older one that I had.

I bought it on black friday on discount. We use it for our 2 story house approximately1800 sq feet. It does require wifi extender for a good signal on the second floor. Have trouble pairing with netgear wifi extender. But overall quality of tge signal on the first floor is decent, so far didnt drop the signal have been using 2 weeks.

I will review the MR8300 Max-Stream AC2200 Tri Band Router with one Velop Wi-Fi extender and with 3 Velop Tri Band Nodes (Model WHW0303). I had previously installed the Velop Tri Band system, but had discontinued it's used (but still had it). It had improved my coverage but it's speed was not as fast as my existing router. So I'd opted to install 2 separate Routers and a separate extender to get the speed and coverage I desired. Well it's been well over a year since I'd used the Velop tri-band nodes. I was hoping that the new Linksys MR8300 with mesh networking was the answer to my desired high speed coverage. To start with I have Cox-Gigablast, I just moved from their 600mb service to their 1gb service just after Christmas (I can't tell you that I've seen that much difference). I have a smart house (50+ blubs, 10 switches from various vendors). I have several Google voice and Amazon Alexa products, several stereo systems all with BT and Google Audio casting (7 chrome cast devices) and 6 smart 4K televisions + 2 projectors. At last check I think I has just over 100 devices on my home network about 30 hard wired, the rest using wi-fi. I consume about 1.2gb/mo, and I don't think I stream, and I don't crypto mine. Don't know where it all goes, but I want to keep it fast. With my previous configuration I could get between 120-150mb wi-fi service in all but the far corners of my approx. 3000sq ft mid-80's house. As I'm familiar Linksys products, having used various versions for years, and having previously set up a Velop network, I didn't expect any difficulties is getting the MR8300 set up. I had not used their updated iPhone app for some time, it much better than what I recalled from last use. The app used both BT and Wi-Fi for setup and configuration. This combination makes setup much easier to accomplish. Their installation wizard is so much better now that it was last time I used it, I was very impressed. I basic installation was a breeze, when I got to registering my new router with the other equipment I had registered with Linksys, I found difficulties, I don't think they expected 4 complete systems. I found no easy way to register, turns out after completing the install from my phone everything was done automatically, that I did not need to go to their web site (as I previous registered a Velop network with them). So in under 10 min the base network installed and operational. I then installed a Velop Wi-Fi extender, in my down stairs guest bedroom, which was downstairs about 50' from the base station. The installation app asks is you want to add another Velop node to your primary network, The app explains how the multi-color LED on the top should be blinking or be on solid, which makes set up very easy. Getting this set up took about 5 minutes, most of time waiting for the status lights to change. So I was now in an area that I previously could not get 50mb Wi-Fi speed with speed test on my iPhone. My first test: 145down 30up, the 145 number being double what I'd seen before. Can you see the smile in my face, I'm ecstatic. Well having three faster tri-band nodes it's was time to space them out for optimal coverage. Give I can easily connect at least one ot them to hard wired 1Gb Ethernet connection, but to get started thought I'd just connect them all wirelessly and then hardwire after testing. Just using the app failed to set up the node properly, it found it but the setup failed. But it thoughtfully walked me through the "resetting" of a node, which solved the problem, this was probably because they were previously connected to a different wi-fi name. With the reset it took a little longer, but I had the other 3 nodes set up in under 30 minutes. Now my app could see each of my nodes and tell me what node it was communicating directly with. Now I have 5 bars throughout my house, no (known) dropout areas, and the coverage in my back yard is far better than it's ever been. So my next speed test, in the corner that was previously the worst (where my wife frequently sits and complains about lost network connections). Well: 201down and 40up. Awesome! But I know it can be better, I've done nothing with the 4 antennas, just point straight up and sitting on my desktop, I know if I move it toward my ceiling, away from other electronics (and other routers it will get better. Which brings me to feature of their app to scan vicinity to find the best channels to use. this took almost 10 minutes to runs, and it doesn’t not tell you what it found, but it does say it's optimized the network. I know that I can see more than a dozen networks from my phone (neighbors, and a FBIvan, always wonderd about that one). After getting all 5 nodes installed, I noticed that there were 3 different firmware upgrades available, their app made the upgrades easy, and all were up-to-date in about 5 minutes A couple of other notes, unlike older 2.4G & 5G routers that needed to have different wi-fi names, the Max-Stream only have a single name for both networks, it automatically combines how how it uses the the separate networks and hides this complexity from you, this is a good thing. And the linksys web app is so much better than it was previously. It supports VPN connectivity, NAT and Dynamic Routing (RIP) as well as Static routing, MAC Filtering, IPv4 & IPv6, SPI firewall protection, DMZ support, DDNS supports as well as port forwarding (single & range) and Port Range triggering. The only thing I could not figure out how to do was to give the Velop nodes a fixed IP address. Other than that the app and the web interface is brilliantly easy to use. They’ve made a lot of progress. I streamed a 2hr 4K movie and saw no buffering, no break ups. That what I was hoping for. Direct connects to the modem are over 300mb down and close to 50 up. Very good, color me impressed. If you have a fairly large area to cover or if you just have too many wi-fi black holes, it certainly appears to me that LinkSys Max-Stream AC2200 might be a great solution to explore, but keep in mind that you may need to buy additional Velop nodes to get adequate coverage.

I bought this to replace a five year old wireless router that wasn't cooperating with a new Mac Mini. This is the first time that I have set up a router with the aid of an app, and it was far easier and faster than any setup I've done before. Performance and reception have been flawless so far.

Great pick it definently extended my wifi raised my speed