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My Problem: On March 26, 2026 I upgraded my two old Linksys MX4200 Wi-Fi 6 mesh nodes to two new Linksys MX6200 Wi-Fi 6E mesh nodes. I had no connection issues up until ~5/28/2026. Since then, my PC (running latest driver 24.40.0.4) now seems to randomly drop all network activity/suffer from huge 1500ms+ lag spikes. My system can go an hour with no issue and then suddenly its losing internet every few minutes. The card never actually disconnects from the network, but I get booted off anything using the internet. The internet connection drop only seems to last about 2 seconds, but its long enough to cause issues. Diagnostics performed by me: I have confirmed that the issue is not my new Linksys MX6200 units. How? I have a home media server (M4 Mac mini) that I am remoted into on my phone while my PC is playing a game. If my issue were network wide, anytime my PC was disconnected, my other devices should be impacted as well. So, I remoted into my M4 Mac mini with my phone (again the remote desktop client is internet based and won't work without internet) with a Blur Busters motion test running (so I can see the instant any frames are lost) while playing a game. When my PC inevitably got disconnected from the game, no frames were dropped from the remote desktop client. This effectively localizes the issue to just my PC. Does anyone have any insight or a solution that does not involve installing a 4 year old driver? Maybe its a Windows update that caused this? I'm running Windows 11 25HS Build 26200.8457.
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For the last few days I have been unable to access my the admin dashboard for my Linksys MX6200 mesh wifi system. The above screenshot is as far as I could get. Web access was broken, but the mobile app still worked fine. I was not using bridge mode and there were no updates available from what I could tell in the mobile app. The solution ultimately came from Reddit. I'm posting it here to spread the word. Solution Credit to Reddit Users: u/Keith15335 & u/Regular_bypasser25 1: Disable any browser privacy protections and ad blockers for 191.168.1.1 and linksyssmartwifi.com. Clear all website data (cookies, cache, etc.) for these two websites from your browser. 1a: Try it now 1b: If that didn't work, try steps 2-4. 2: Unplug the WAN cable from your Linksys Router & shut down your Router/Parent Node and any satellite nodes. 3: Restart the Router/Parent Node, connect to it via LAN, and go to 192.168.1.1 4: The webpage may take a minute to load. You may be prompted to reset your admin password. Once the webpage loads, you may reconnect your WAN cable. You should now be able to access your router via 192.168.1.1 or linksyssmartwifi.com again. You may restart any Satellite nodes. You may also see a new color scheme to the UI: Note: Remote access via linksyssmartwifi.com does not seem to work. Only my mobile app seems to be able to remotely monitor the network even after these steps. When outside of the network, I get a new webpage that says, "Trying to reach Linksys Now?"
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Linksys Smart Wifi has been down for like at least 4 days.
To manage a Linksys router, you either go to 192.168.1.1 if you're within your LAN, or go to https://linksyssmartwifi.com to access your network remotely. Currently none of those work. The only way I can currently monitor my Network is to use the Linksys Mobile app (which kinda sucks).
Additionally, there was a press release where Linksys announced that they are discontinuing remote access support for some products even though they aren't obsolete (I used to have 2x MX4200 Wi-Fi 6 nodes and those routers were awesome and are still totally usable today, so why is Linksys turning off remote access?). My products are not on the list of dropped routers. I have 2x Linksys MX6200 Wi-Fi 6E nodes. Press Release: https://support.linksys.com/kb/article/9634-en/.
I think these two events might be related and someone messed up all the back end assets that make the web ui for these routers work.
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6 minutes ago, asdasdasdasdasdasd said:
That just looks like the CSS didn't load in. Have you tried clearing cache?
It's a confirmed issue with multiple users. I tested on 5 different devices. If you open the console while the webpage is trying to load, you get tons of 503 errors. It's an issue with the backend. Why Linksys products need a web-based backend even for local access is a huge concern for me. I may not buy another Linksys router in the future. The router should be its own web server. With this type of architecture, if both the web UI and the mobile app backend go offline, my Linksys routers can't be managed.
How stupid do you have to be to make a router that can't be accessed even locally if it can't phone home?
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I noticed the year is still 2023 in their footer.
They may need the help of the GetFullYear API
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Have been visiting with my Grandparents who recently just got StarLink internet. I'm extremely impressed with the service. They are located out in Kingman AZ, so there isn't a lot a lot of traffic out there, but still. The service is like ~200mbps down and ~50 up. The stability is pretty incredible. Had no issue playing about 5 or 6 matches of World of Warships and my ping was about 35-50ms which is pretty comparable to my home Fiber internet in California.
Seems like a genuinely great product that is also costs less than half of what Internet did from the only other viable provider in his neighborhood. Despite how much I dislike Elon Musk, I think anyone living in rural areas should heavily consider StarLink.
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4 hours ago, Sauron said:As opposed to "I'm a private interest looking exclusively to milk you for money and I'm here to do just that", lmao
Do you know who said that quote and what he's responsible for?
Alot, FEMA in north carolina after Hurricane Helene didnt do hardly anything, actually national guard and army did more than FEMA from what I heard. thats just one example out of many.
Even more funny part it was more wealthy people and non profits that did the help.
6 hours ago, Sauron said:If it were just a few dozen people it wouldn't be profitable to spend millions on satellites to service them. Yeah, laying down cells for small communities is not worth it to private ISPs, hence why the government should force them to offer that coverage or take over the infrastructure directly. It's also not "thousands of miles", the USA is "only" 2800 miles wide and you can cover large areas with relatively few cells if you do it correctly. There are always going to be exceptions but there's no excuse for coverage to be non existant in so many places.
Gosh thousands didnt mean what you think its a exaggeration.
ISP's SUCK, Comcast is bad, almost all suck, do you think the govermeant wants to do that, no they dont not in there interests if there is companies already putting infrastructure why should they.
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2 minutes ago, sub68 said:Alot, FEMA in north carolina after Hurricane Helene didnt do hardly anything, actually national guard and army did more than FEMA from what I heard.
Heard from whom? Could it be the guy who lied about it to boost his reelection campaign? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd1q9q9gl9o
The national guard is still a government entity, by the way, even if what you said were true. The maga influencers only did publicity stunts and actively argued against financing help during fires in california.
5 minutes ago, sub68 said:Gosh thousands didnt mean what you think its a exaggeration.
And as such it is a meaningless statement.
6 minutes ago, sub68 said:ISP's SUCK, Comcast is bad, almost all suck, do you think the govermeant wants to do that, no they dont not in there interests if there is companies already putting infrastructure why should they.
Because companies are not providing that infrastructure and when they do they're doing so as monopolists, both of which harm national and public interest.
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3 minutes ago, Sauron said:
Heard from whom? Could it be the guy who lied about it to boost his reelection campaign? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd1q9q9gl9o
No, boots on ground.
A friend from West Virginia, is in a independent SAR group and reponded to the area.
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I think the prediction that Apple Silicon was going to suck was not totally unfounded. I don't think anyone anticipated how well tuned Apple Silicon chips were at hardware accelerating x86 instructions and how good Rosetta 2 is.
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People are saying the high end Mac mini and Mac studio configs are out of stock. Looks like either these two are going to be refreshed soon or Apple doesn't have enough chips.
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I mean, I know they were in the news a while ago with some issues that fried CPUs, but I've used them in the past and have one of their boards in my current rig. Surely the concerns are overblown?
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Love a phishing attempt against my work first thing on a Friday morning. Sending an otherwise clean .pdf with a malicious link inside of it to get past the spam filters is too easy. Pretending to be a company via email is too easy. Compromising a small business where a small mistake could cost the company is too easy. The penalty for cyber crime is too lax.
We need something to replace email.
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1 hour ago, DrMacintosh said:We need something to replace email.
Fax!
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Mac mini: "Am I a joke to you?"
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Hey, do you have a Mac? Do you want displays? Well these are your main choices. Hope your eyes don't bleed. a. 1440p @ 27" = ~109ppi b. 4K @ 27" = ~163ppi c. 5K @ 27" = ~218ppi
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I have an irrational desire to archive data onto Blu-ray/M Disk for absolutely no reason. My work is probably like 2-3 years away from where this would even be worth considering. Our Synology NAS still has 2 vacant drive bays so we'll be adding drives before we are forced to start archiving.
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A used office PC with an 8th Gen Core i5 with integrated graphics is gonna be way better than any NAS for Plex. The downside with going this way is power consumption. Personally my Plex Server is an M4 Mac mini with a 4 bay USB drive enclosure.
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UGreen - NAS Kickstarter filled with broken promises
DrMacintosh replied to byte36's topic in LMG Sponsor Discussion
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With the FCC announcement regarding consumer routers, I wonder if it's time to upgrade my home network to Wi-Fi 6E? Currently Linksys has a 2 pack of their Velop Pro 6E mesh system for like $250. My current system is an older Wi-Fi 6 Velop mesh system that's 4.5 years old at this point. I don't have any network performance issues, but I might in the future when nobody can get routers.
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1 hour ago, DrMacintosh said:With the FCC announcement regarding consumer routers, I wonder if it's time to upgrade my home network to Wi-Fi 6E? Currently Linksys has a 2 pack of their Velop Pro 6E mesh system for like $250. My current system is an older Wi-Fi 6 Velop mesh system that's 4.5 years old at this point. I don't have any network performance issues, but I might in the future when nobody can get routers.
Im on a router from 2016, surprisingly still supported (Synology RT2600ac), literally applied a firmware update that was released in February. Went to Best Buy today and they had a few models, though many were over $200. At that price I might consider just going with a Ubiquiti Router/AP combo type of system, I seen they had 2 or 3 options on their site.
1 hour ago, DrMacintosh said:but I might in the future when nobody can get routers.
Companies can apply for exemptions. Its just going to make shit cost more over all, but I think most routers will be fine when and if they get exemption approved.
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My router is an opnsense box running on an industrial ITX motherboard I put in a 1U case. The network switch is an off the shelf 2.5gbit job and the single AP is a unifi U6 pro covering my whole property
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Wondering how it would be until this happened. US electronics manufacturering has been outsourced for so long...
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