Customer Ratings & Reviews

I'm very disappointed with my recent purchase of the Linksys-Max-Stream's AX6000.. Asus needs to rebrand this router's name to Weak-Stream AX6000. Wifi coverage is horrible and home is not large.

I bought this router but believe me, this is not working for my cox internet. Is getting worse everyday and i am always having issue connecting to my security camera to monitor my house. Not a good deal for me and i will have to return it back.

This is the worst router I have ever purchased. It's unreliable. Linksys Tech Support could not diagnose. Unless You manage an IT department, I would not even consider buying this router.

Very poor product. Logs off by itself, multiple times my wifi has gone down due to this product. Should have never replaced my nighthawk. Definitely going back!

Ben a fan of Linksys routers, had last one for years. Upgraded and spent almost 6 hours trying to get this Router to work paired with Netgear modem. No luck, frustrating. Returned unit.

Less than 1 star if I could. Since purchasing it has constantly been dropping devices and failing all together. Save the headache and buy something else.

I installed this unit about a month ago. It fails at least once a day. I don't recommend this item.

Disappointing. Constantly had to reboot and not at all an easy setup. Tech support was good but the product constantly failed. Returned.

Cuts out every day. Expensive garbage. Wish I could return it, but I bought it at the end of September.

I may have received a bad router. It drops the signal constantly on my sons PS4. Hearing him constantly complain is driving me to return this today...

No use of this. Just time waste. I was not getting signal in master bedroom so I purchased this. However after adding this it’s still same.

UI is so simple it is insulting. Constant dropping all connections, but comes right back on.

Worst thing I have ever bought loses connection at least once a day then all the products have to be reset with it do not buy this.

This thing is garbage. I got way better Wi-Fi from previous generations of Wi-Fi routers.

This router only lasted one year before giving out.

I have been running a Linksys mesh system for about 2 years with my 1GB internet in our 2,000 sq ft house. I have experienced dropped nodes sometimes daily and for sure weekly... NOT ANYMORE! This Max-Stream X6000 has taken over to run my mesh flawlessly. I have not had a single node drop since I've set it up! The linsys app is the same as my old mesh network, but this time the app loads quickly to the router which allows me to run the parent controls effectively. Gone are my days waiting for the app to connect to my mesh network. Setup to take over as the lead node was also easy and effortless and adding or replacing nodes is easy and unchanged from my original mesh. I could not be happier that my old nodes are compatible and work perfectly with this router. The router is pulling over 900mb from my modem and uploading 20mb just likes its supposed to. I have over 60 devices pulling from my mesh network from lights, echos, garage door openers, sprinkler system, security cameras, to TVs and it has worked perfectly with this new router allowing me to fully utilize the bandwidth I'm paying for. For anyone with a previous Linksys mesh with any frustrations, I would highly recommend upgrading to this router to run it, you will not be disappointed.

Didn’t work for me I don’t think it’s strong enough

It’s been a while since I had a modem to attach a router to. The modem I received from the cable company is also a router. Chatted with Linksys support on what would be the best way to configure the router with the equipment I had. After contacting the cable company to make some changes - installed the new router. The transition was really smooth. The results are outstanding. One of the issues I had was that the connectivity in the house I live was not the greatest. After installing this router, I asked my son to take his phone, continue to monitor the connection and note when he lost connection. He said he lost connection at the end of the block about 200 feet away. There are some helpful parental controls built in and the router can be managed from a cell phone or tablet - even remotely. I don’t have extravagant needs but I do live in a household with 6 users, multiple devices and 2 streaming TV's and everything connects so much better.

Linksys has this easy setup where it sets up both 2.4 and 5.0 frequencies under same ssid and combines channels so all existing devices connected at a faster speed easily. This also connects to linksys mesh systems so its easy to expand range for multi floor. I have set up netgear routers but this seemed much easier and is a solid performer no dropouts so far.

Great speeds with room to grow in the future Overall I think this is a solid router, but I write that with a few caveats. It has been reliable so far, the wireless speeds are very good, and initial setup is fairly easy. However, I don't believe that this router is for the "power-user" who wants good control over their network. This router is meant for those that want to plug and play and get back to streaming. This review may seem like I have more negative to say than positive, but to me the basic functions of a router should be pretty easy to get right; provide quality wireless service to multiple connected devices. The MR9600 does that very well. So overall it is good at being a router. The downsides for my use and preferences mean I couldn't recommend this to a tech savvy person. Your elderly parents who constantly call you with issues? Yep, right up their alley. Initial setup CANNOT be done via a web browser at all, even if you navigate to the internal device ID, it forces you to download the app and set it up that way. I don't want another app. When I'm at my home, I don't need a user friendly app to access my router, I have a computer available and with that said I want to access the router directly from the IP address, not through an app. Once setup is done you can get into the router via a web browser, but only after you tell Linksys you're really sure you meant to navigate there by clicking a link, after they remind you again that the app is available. This happens every single time. If you like to tinker around and adjust settings on your router, the app is pretty terrible. If you pick the wrong menu to dive into (which is pretty easy because they don't follow the semi-standard menu convention of LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, etc), you have to tap three times to try again; back arrow > reopen the side bar > tap the next menu and try again. I've never experienced a router that selectively prevents a single device from having internet access until now. I reused my old SSID so all of my devices could reconnect without issue, except my smart thermostat. It connected to the network, was given an IP address, but no internet connection. Every other device on that SSID was fine and rebooting the router didn't fix it. I had to reset the thermostat completely before it would connect to the internet. I'm bothered by the omission of certain options that can't be adjusted. You are not able to select the wireless mode (AX, AC, N, etc) that the channels use. I would imagine the router adjusts on the fly, but I don't know for sure (the connected devices module doesn't mention it), this can sometimes cause connectivity issues on older devices that may only be N compatible. You can't pick which wi-fi channel the SSIDs are broadcast on, which if you're someone who knows this sort of thing, knows that using anything other than 1, 6, or 11 on the 2.4GHz band is bad, Linksys uses whichever one it wants and there is not a way to override it. There is not an option for bandwidth monitoring. Since my internet is a 100/100 fibre line, any modern router should be able to handle that. I like to test local traffic, since I do a lot of streaming from local devices and internet speeds don't matter for that. I have no idea what the bandwidth activity from my plex server to an apple tv is. The only thing I know is my normal test file which would stutter and buffer on a direct stream with my previous router is now able to play fully without transcoding. I'm genuinely impressed by that. Final thoughts: Performance is A+, future proofing is a B+ but that's only due to WiFi 6 not actually being certified yet. It's possible that once WiFi 6 is finalized, this won't meet the qualifications to be "certified" so that's why it's a B+. Customization is a D. I really like setting my routers up a certain way; port forwarding, address reservation; wireless broadcast channels, and this doesn't allow for some of those options. That's really frustrating to me. However, with all of that said, if all you want is a modern router with solid bandwidth, that is also more or less set it and forget it, then yes I can recommend this to you.