Customer Ratings & Reviews

Relatively easy set up; however, disappointed in that we purchased a product that was advertised as appropriate for a 1500 square foot larger home and set up of the routers throughout the house still required 2 to be placed closer to each other than we had hoped in order to be set up and receive signal.

Purchased for multi level home. Simple installation.

I haven't seen where this router works any better than the one I replaced it with. I'm finding that anything new, tv, clock, etc, are having either a hard time connecting or won't connect to it.

I just wanted to put this out there in case anyone else is having issues with wifi speed and reliability. I have Comcast's 400Mbs internet plan, and for quite a while now have been having huge issues with the wifi provided by my nearly new, highly advanced Linksys mesh network devices. Speed tests would consistently show no more than 150Mbs and would drop precipitously as the test went on. After some research I discovered others have had the same issue. The solution is to downgrade the firmware on your new devices - from 1.1.16 in my case - to 1.1.9. Magic! I now get consistent, reliable and fast speed tests from all devices on the network. Ugh. Really, Linksys?

It really worked well for me and my family . Easy set up

I was very excited to receive the Velop wi-fi mesh system from Linksys. When announced this was the first true mesh tri-band AC-2200 MU-MIMO offering. Other mesh solutions offer the same 5 Ghz backhaul but Velop was the first to offer MU-MIMO support. (If you client devices support this. Many recent iPhones and Macbooks do) As far as packaging goes. When you open the box, you feel you have a very well built quality item here. The wifi nodes themselves are a little larger than the competition but take up a very small footprint. The routing of the power and ethernet cables is all done very cleanly underneath the unit. The included wall wart plug is larger than most other routers. I found it a little tight in my media center. Most likely this won't be something you feel you need to hide in your living room. Setup is relatively easy. Install an app on your smartphone and add nodes one by one and all the magic happens in the background. I did find that setup takes a little longer than other mesh solutions offered, but hopefully you are just doing this once and really what is the difference between 2 minutes vs 5 minutes per node. Each Velop node has the ability to add additional wired devices. Two per node except the main Velop which has one uplink for your ISP and one to any wired switch you might have. Unlike other Linksys Smart Wi-Fi solutions, the Velop can only be managed by your smart phone. There is no desktop browser management. A little trick I like to employ is using the same SSID and password for my new wi-fi routers. Once setup, all my wireless devices automatically join my network and my family doesn’t know that I’ve changed the hardware on them. When presented with the Linksys Smart wifi management dashboard, I did notice the Velop reported many of my wifi devices were connected via ethernet when in fact they were devices that have only wifi such as an iPad, etc. There doesn’t appear to be a way to test the connection quality of your Velop nodes after the initial setup. You are presented with a “All good” when you set up, but then you can never go back and see how well you have positioned your Velops. Linksys is way behind vs their competitors in this feature. Competitors will even show you which wifi device is connected to which mesh node, but Linksys does not offer such information with the Velop. Looking around the management dashboard, I didn’t see a way to change Velop to use anything but the 192.168.1.x network range. Testing the Velop, I was able to get a strong signal all around my home. I’m on three levels and over 2,600 square feet. Unfortunately like I mentioned, I was not able to try different placements because there is no way with the smart app to know what is optimal. During use I almost felt like three Velop’s were too many for my home. I frequently would be in the basement of my house and find that my phone didn’t drop the Velop in my office on the top floor. I would be left with a weak signal trying to connect up two flights of stairs. I believe this is actually a function of the client and not the Velop. The Velop has such a strong signal that I never end up dropping from one to the one closest to me. I ran several test with 2 phones, 3 iPads, and two laptops streaming Netflix at the same time. Velop had no issues. I tried just about all the features. Looks like you can give up to three devices priority on your network. There is also some very limited parental controls. You can block up to ten websites per device. Velop also lets you pause internet for devices on your network. The Velop system from Linksys is a very powerful mesh solution. It should be able to handle almost any bandwidth you throw at it. Hopefully as the product matures, Linksys will expand on the capabilities of the Velop. Would also like to see a couple small bugs worked out. I've used the Velop for two weeks now and everything has been stable. Really would love to see a placement tool in the near future. If you've had trouble getting wifi to all corners of your home, take a look at the Velop system.

This thing works great covers my house completely !

Easy setup, great range, very happy with performance

WiFi speed and range have improved. Well worth it.

The Velop was easy to setup however it lacks some common functionality. Most would allow separation of 5Ghz and 2.4 Ghz however the Velop currently does not have this support. If your a non-technical person this product is right for you ... for technical people definite limits which give a bit of disappointment.

This system fixed my lag and latency issues. Family of 5 with online gamers and YouTube and movie streamers, streaming HD and music. Lots of smart home devices connected. Previously had lag and latency issues and download of speeds of around 60 mbs and after installing the Velop system download speed tests went up to 300 mbs.

I needed something to extend wifi signal in my 3000 sqft. house. The fios wireless router just couldn't reach upstairs or the basement. I went to my local Best Buy and the salesman recommended the Linksys Velop. It worked just like he said that it would. I can now stream movies without buffering all over the house.

The setup of the system was not easy due to the configuration of the house, but the technical support was wonderful and had me up and running in half an hour. Since then we have had no problems and the wifi provides 5 bars throughout the house and to the backyard covering about a 1/4 acre of land. Was not expecting that kind of coverage.

We have a 4200 square ft home and this is perfect!

I personally use this mesh system and it has very good attributes: - tri-band with great 5ghz performance - ethernet backhaul - very good wireless handoff - good reliability I've been using it for over a year now and recommend and install this for all of my clients. It's expensive, but worth it.

this is the best router you can buy very easy to set up

We had really bad internet signal and we could barely be able to view our emails. Forget about watching a YOUTUBE video loading would take 20 minutes for a 5 min video. Now with this WiFi system we can stream movies from anywhere in the house, even the deck! This is one purchase my family and I will Never regret.

We had been having trouble with streaming our tv service. After purchasing this system everthing has been working without a hiccup. I like this visibility available with the app. Its nice to know if you are online and what devices are online

Forty-five minutes to set up, another forty-five minute phone call to Linksys when the second node stopped working. I had to unplug my modem to reset it and the nodes wouldn't reconnect. I purchased another Netgear system, and I have no problems.

Very easy to set up and configure. Works great no issues.