Hi guys. I have 3 of Linksys mx 4300 . It was all working great till a day they decided to change colour to red . I did all the tricks possible . Even factory reset it to install it as new router . After much googling i found that the trouble lies with jio isp . It has something to do with ipv6 setting in jio . When in connectivity option ( in mx 4300) i change the ipv6 to bypass . It works , ie internet works , though the light colour remains red . But few websites like techenclave do not open . Youtube works but netflix doesnt . Can someone help me with this .
Regards
Amit
I had a similar issue on my unit with an Airtel connection when using the stock firmware.
I’m using my own ONU so I entered my Airtel credentials and established a PPPoE connection on the MX4300. But none of my devices got IPv6 assigned (even though the router itself got one). I went back to the stock router and tried using IPv6 passthrough on the Linksys. Still made no difference. In both cases IPv6 connectivity tests failed and there was a lag when opening websites. But speed tests were fine. I think websites tried connecting over IPv6 first and waited till the attempt timed out before switching to IPv4.
My guess is the stock firmware is very barebones and has a lot of unfixed issues like broken IPv6 etc. There were no updates released for the MX4300 after initial release. Models like MX4200/MX5300/MX5500 received many patches. The USB port on MX4300 does not work with stock firmware either.
After flashing OpenWrt, everything works perfectly. My suggestion is to stick to MX4200 if you want to use stock firmware. Get MX4300 only if you want to run OpenWrt. I am using the latest NSS accelerated builds by AgustinLorenzo. So there is no extra CPU usage or degradation in throughput compared to stock firmware and is very stable.
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On some research I found that this is the bug of linksys os. It works very patchy with ipv6. As @LordSyphr suggest you to flash openwrt on it. That has been the coherent suggestion given by users on the internet.
Keep in mind if you flash OpenWRT, you will lose 160Mhz band and also some stability.
MX4300/4200 don’t support 160MHz channels, even in the native firmware afaik.
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Yes, my bad. I was assuming it had. Must be a different router, i got confused with.
Edit-their atlas 6 series.
The chipset in the MX4200/MX4300 does not support 160MHz. Stability wise I haven’t noticed any issues. At least not with the NSS build I’m running. Stock OpenWrt felt a bit less snappy when browsing sometimes but the NSS build is as good or better than stock.
I had an MX5500 before this. So I’d say the experience (stability-wise) is similar. However the MX5500 had better range through obstacles. MX4300 is a bit worse in that regard on both stock and OpenWrt.
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Thank you everyone for so many inputs . I shall flash it today with OPENWrt. If someone may please send me any youtube link/online tutorial link . If its available .
And i ll really like to thank everyone once again , for all the inputs
Only the MX5500 has 160Mhz
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https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/1fgta78/guide_to_installing_openwrt_on_the_20_linksys/
https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/1fr5y2a/linksys_ln1301_mx4300_how_to_restore_stock_oem/
I found these links to be very useful.
IMPORTANT: This router has dual boot partitions. Remember to make sure that regardless of whether you flash OpenWrt or stock, do it on both the partitions. If you flash a firmware update, it flashes it to the other partition and boots from that next time. OpenWrt and factory firmware have different partition structures. Many people assume that they can have stock and OpenWrt in a dual boot config for convenience and end up bricking it when they try to flash an OpenWrt sysupgrade image. It’s often blamed on a bad firmware update when it’s usually because they didn’t flash the second partition after installing OpenWrt for the first time. Same goes if you revert to stock.
Also, factory reset the router before switching firmware. It’s a good practice to avoid weird issues.
Just wanted to add that, even I saw the same issue with Jio and MX4300 stock firmware. It goes to Red randomly and stops working. Ended up flashing OpenWRT like suggested here and has been stable, although I use it only as an AP. Uptime is well over 100 days.
However, another installation is stable on stock firmware. Here too only as an AP, with the primary router being Mikrotik (Airtel / ACT ISP).
I think somewhere i added my experience, if this model used purely as AP/bridge mode, then connect the ethernet cable to one of the LAN port, not in the WAN port. It will show red LED, but internet working perfectly fine. Earlier when i connected to WAN port, sometimes it does give connectivity issue till i restart multiple times or go back to DHCP mode and then enable bridge mode again. After i moved the cable to LAN port, never had any issues!
Thanks everyone . For all the inputs. Trying it now . Will definitely share the experience .
Guys done that. Flashed open wrt on all of them . Both the partitions . Seems my touble doesnt end there . Still cant run airtel/jio fiber internet through that . Something to do with vlan . Need aome help with it . Any insights as to how i can get a jio setting on OpenWrt is very welcome .
Thanks
Could you share some more details? Like how things are connected, whether you are using your own ONU, how you have set up WAN and other related settings in OpenWrt etc.
And it would be easier to help if you explain the current issue more clearly.