![]() It had a range of 95-feet, showing it to be a mesh router that works in big houses, although it’s really only good for emails at the extremes. It was still online at our terminal distance of 90 feet but could only transfer 6.5 Mbps at that range. That’s about half of the 93.4Mbps that the Orbi RBRE960 router delivered and well behind the Deco X20’s 112.7 Mbps. That’s just about double the 190.5 Mbps that the Orbi RBRE960 router was capable of and better than the TP-Link Deco X20’s 255.4 Mbps.Īt a distance of 75 feet, the Atlas Max 6E’s throughput dropped dramatically to 50.6 Mbps. With 50-feet separating the router and the test notebook, the Atlas Max 6E kept its lead with the ability to move 382.2 Mbps. Impressive, yes, but the Atlas Max 6E provides less than half the throughput of the Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 router, which was able to deliver a maximum of 2.396 Gbps of data at the same distance. It also blew away Wi-Fi 6 mesh kits, like the Orbi RBK852 (at 883.6 Mbps), Arris Surfboard Max Pro (820.3 Mbps) and TP-Link Deco X20 (622.1 Mbps). That’s about a 15 percent performance premium over the 1.009 Gbps that the Netgear Orbi RBRE960 router was capable of. Using Ixia’s IxChariot networking benchmark to simulate 10 data-hungry users and a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro to measure performance, the Atlas Max 6E blasted past the Orbi RBKE963 at close range.Īt 15 feet, the Atlas 6e router performed exceptionally well with the ability to move 1.189 Gbps of data to the receiving test device. ![]() Over the course of two weeks of daily use, the Linksys Atlas Max 6E performed well and was a reliable data companion and more than enough to fill my 3,500-square-foot home with wireless data. On the downside, the 6GHz band has a notoriously short range that works best in the same or adjacent room. It adds up to the potential to stream 8.4Gbps, well short of the Orbi RBKE963’s 16 independent data streams and a theoretical limit of 10.8Gbps.įor gamers and plain-old data hogs, the Atlas Max 6E can use seven ultra-wide 160MHz data channels in the high-performance 6GHz band so that those who demand the high data flow will get it without starving others at home of data. While its 2.4GHz band can move 1.2GHz of data and the 5GHz band delivers 2.4GHz of data, the high-performance 6GHz band can handle upwards of 4.8Gbps. Its Airtime Fairness streamlines operations and the Node and Client Steering route the data through the least used portions of the network. ![]() The satellites can be wired to the host using Cat-6 cables to act as access points.Ĭapable of handling 12 independent streams of data, the Atlas Max 6E has the latest Wi-Fi 6E technology, including 4X4 MUMIMO transmissions to handle a lot of connected devices and beamforming to tailor the data to suit the receiver. Where the Orbi RBKE963 adds a second 5GHz network that’s dedicated to moving data from the satellites to the router, the Atlas Max 6E uses Linksys Velop Intelligent Mesh technology to dynamically optimize the traffic to and from the host router using whichever band is least congested, potentially streamlining data flow. Each Atlas Max 6E tower has 12 amplified antennas.Īble to accommodate up to 195 clients, the Atlas Max 6E’s tri-band design works with the 2.4-, 5- and 6GHz bands. ![]() It has 512MB of flash storage for its firmware and settings as well as 1GB of RAM available and is powered by a 2.2GHz quad core processor. Linksys Atlas Max 6E review: Features and capabilitiesīuilt around Qualcomm’s Networking Pro 1210 chipset, the Atlas Max 6E isn’t as capable as the Orbi RBKE963, which uses the more advanced – and expensive – Networking Pro 1610 chip. There’s also a key for starting the Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) process for quickly adding a device. Underneath, the Atlas Max 6E has a power switch and reset button to return it to its factory-installed software. ![]()
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