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Your household is busy streaming media, working online, and playing games every day. This Linksys Wi-Fi Router will expand your network coverage, send signals directly to your devices, and deliver a lag-free connection, even when you’re all online at the same time.
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Warning for Gamers - Avoid this Router
on November 11, 2016
Posted by: TexBuck
This router will not allow you to run 2 XB1 on the same network. In short, running >1 or more XB1 on the same network results in setting NAT to closed on one or both consoles making it impossible to host a multiplayer game such as lead a Destiny fire team. More details if interested.
There is no easy way to provide wireless access to my 2 XB1s, so invested $600+ on this router and 2 RE7000 Range Extenders over the summer and it has been a long source of frustration and waste of money. Unfortunately it took me a while to identify the problem and troubleshoot the cause until it was too late to return.
When both XB1 were online at some points my son and I could not could not lead a fireteam in Destiny but could join a fire team lead by people outside of the house. It turned out to be NAT was reverting to closed on at least one XB1 and eventually both XB1s. Restarting the network & XB1 will set NAT to open briefly and allow functioning if you start a game quickly.
Talked to Linksys, they advised it is not possible to run >1 XB1 on a network. After I explained I had been doing that for 1yr+ they said more than likely internet provider or MS changed something. They did say setting up one in a DMZ and one out may fix; it didn't.
Talked to the MS Answer Bar and they assured me I can run multiple XB1 on a network, they do it at the store and several employees had them at home. Told me it was most likely how the router was designed.
Got home set up my old router, problem solved. Tried using the new router in bridge mode as the worlds most expensive range extender, and I cannot establish a connection to XBLive over the Linksys wifi in Bridge mode.
Hope this saves someone some frustration and money.
My Best Buy number: 0058421789
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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