Customer Ratings & Reviews

Product looks good, specs are above average, overall a good router

My 11 year old set this up with a little help. Very easy to use.

This router is great! It even makes its way through stone walls!

Took a minute to figure it out but it been working very well.

Just received this router to replace an 8 year old linksys hoping to increase the device service at the house. Now after i connected it the service is horrible . Video’s always stop for loading and Netflix speed is worse too! Dont waste your money on this router . Back to old router . PS the modem connection is DOCS 3.0 and worked way better with old router as i indicated .

I love it so far. Major difference from my old router.

This was a great upgrade from the very old router.

Happy with purchase, works well. Would definitely recommend it over other similar products.

Purchased in store on sales person recommendation; very easy to set up and start up

I've had Linksys routers in the past with great success. Foolishly, I bought this router about 7 months ago because the Linksys website advertised "Two features that will soon be added to the EA8300 are an OpenVPN Server and Advanced Band Steering". At that point, people had already been asking about that feature for a couple of months. I realize that "Coming Soon" is a relative term...but 9 months?? Now I feel like it was a marketing ploy by the manufacturer to grab customers that would have bought other units. If you need VPN Server functions, I would suggest that you look elsewhere. I guess we can always hope that 3rd party developers will release firmware that supports VPN on this model..but there are none that I know of so far. BTW..The manufacturer "moderated" this review by deleting it. Nice.

This router now works, but only after calling support. Had to turn off 5GHz band steering to make it work. Seems like we paid for that, but have to disable it to make it work. Seems to work mostly ok now. Hoping a firmware update will be delivered sometime so I can turn back on what I paid for.

I purchased this router from Best Buy just over a year ago after reading reviews from multiple sources. Seemed like a great router. As of 2/4/2019 I have a useless brick. Monday evening lights suddenly started flashing on the back. Tuesday night when I returned from home I noticed I had no wi-fi. After checking with my internet provider, confirming I had no modem issues, but even still replacing the modem I kept getting the same issue. Lights would flash on the top of a cable and then an earth. I have tried to reset several different ways and nothing has worked. After contacting Linksys today I was told that the warranty was up on 2/1/2019 and that I have a hardware/memory issue. If I want extra help to try and resolve it I need to pay either $29,95 or $39.95 for additional help, but still no guarantee that even paying that cost would fix the issue. The women who spoke with me via chat was very helpful, but overall I'm very disappointed with this router. It was not a cheap router, and after just one year of use should still be functional. I guess its time to research a brand other then Linksys to purchase for a new wifi modem.

I bought this router during Black Friday 2017. Lynksys was already advertising "Two features that will soon be added to the EA8300 are an OpenVPN Server and Advanced Band Steering" for several months. I bought this router thinking that the OpenVPN would be a reality within a "few months". Here it is, well over a year later and Lynksys (still advertising the same claim) has not delivered, and they also have not updated the firmware. At this point, if you are thinking of using a router as an OpenVPN Server to gain remote access to your network, this router will currently not work and there are newer and better choices. To my knowledge, there also is not any 3rd party firmware available for this model to expand the "possibilities". Lastly, Lynksys "moderated" this review from their website by deleting it. I hope Best Buy won't shy away from publishing this.

Terrible router. If you are not cautious you will get stuck in a loop that always takes you to the page that says your router is not properly set up. WoW. Then after you manage to get properly working it will continue to lose wan connection to your ISP. Bought on black friday and it has lasted until January 20th so I give it credit for working good for 2 months. But the sudden dropping of ISP is crazy. So far I have updated firmware, rolled back firmware, changed many settings that are suggested in the linksys forums. I have a very good knowledge working with routers in my current Job but I have never seen anything like this. I would not recommend especially for someone who is not knowledgeable with router settings as this unit is not user friendly. So after 2 months of perfect performance then suddenly a nightmare I would not Recommend.

I purchased this router to replace a linksys router that was struck by lightning. After setting it up the router would need reset every 12 hrs because it kept on losing connection. I tried changing settings on it but nothing helped. I checked with my ISP and the problem wasn't on their end. So I contacted linksys tech support and they determined the router was defective because it would not accept the latest firmware. They sent me a new one, I downloaded the newest firmware and it didn't fix the problem it still did the same thing. So I returned the router to Best Buy, and exchanged it for a Netgear Nighthawk R8000. Since the replacement I have had no hiccups in my service, it's been flawless.

The summary says it all. I love the speed and performance of the WiFi Router however non of my devices enjoyed reconnecting coming out of sleep. I even worked with Linksys and had a support ticket. but their solution was to hard reset router to no vail. This was not limited just to a single machine. My Surface, Macbook and two android devices had the issue. We had to disable and renable wireless for it to reconnect.

So far I have spent 6+ hours trying to connect the Amazon Echo to this router. I contacted Linksys Tech Support, over an hour spent and I am back to square 1. No resolved. I mean, sure, if you want to spend all day connecting your devices, then sure, go for it! I never receive a pop-up screen that allows me to enter the password, so of course, there is no internet. It says "Amazon. Connected. No Internet" and it's been saying this message for over 6+ hours. Oh, the joy I have experienced with this piece of garbage. I am using the Alexa app. I hold the button, the top goes orange, I go into settings, click on the Amazon WiFi settings, connect Amazon Echo (Hilarious) then I am to return back to the same Alexa app page. Nope, impossible. Once, I go back my phone refreshes the Amazon App and guess what? I get to start all over again, over and over and over and over again. Back to Best-Buy it goes!

I have owned this router for less than 3 months and up until now it has worked excellent. However now it is CONSTANTLY dropping internet and wifi, I go to look at it and the Linksys logo on the screen is ether flashing or not there at all and I spent over an hour on the phone with a barely English speaking specialist to try and fix it. Ended up changing a few things under the 5GHz2 band and updating the firmware and the EA8300 was stable again for about an hour and a half until it started dropping wifi again constantly every 5 minutes. I can't return this router at this point so now I spent $200 on a piece of garbage.

Bought this item because of the positive reviews I had seen and could not have been more disappointed. Spent an hour on the phone with customer service trying to get it connected and after going through countless steps they finally decided that my box was defective. If you are are wanting a good router, do not buy this.

Very disappointed with this router I had super high hopes but when you have to keep searching for signal because of router failure is very frustrating.