![]() ![]() It was able to deliver 5GHz coverage in areas of my home where I often struggle to get a useable connection on either radio band. Regardless of speeds actually achieved, the Hydra Pro 6’s range is surprisingly good considering it’s a solo device. Note that you cannot enable or force the Hydra Pro 6 to use 160MHz all the time. The 920Mbps figure is the average from all tests. On occasion, it would move from channel 44 to 100 and use 160MHz to boost speed to 1161Mbps. The only exception was when stood 1m from the router. Oddly, the speeds recorded on the Realme X50 (a Wi-Fi 6 phone) were not as good (except at 1m), and while the Google Pixel 6 (see below) recorded faster speeds, they were barely any different to what I recorded on the MR3750 last year. Rather than use separate SSIDs and force the Hydra Pro 6 to use 2.4GHz or 5GHz, we used the default settings, as most buyers will, and ran speed tests in four locations and allowed the router and phones to decide which frequency to use. This is an example of the Hydra Pro 6’s band steering in action, choosing the best radio frequencies on a per-device basis. I also found that the Hydra Pro 6 automatically shunted the Mate 10 Pro to Channel 11 (a 2.4GHz channel) when performing speed tests upstairs or out in the garden, whereas the other two phones – Realme X50 and Pixel 6 – were kept on Channel 44 (a 5GHz channel). But there were no such problems connecting to the Hydra Pro 6 on the same device in those locations. ![]() ![]() One interesting observation was that the Hydra Pro 6 was better was at connecting to my (old) Huawei Mate 10 Pro, a Wi-Fi 5 device, in more areas around the home, suggesting better coverage than the MR3750.įor example, in the upstairs office (located roughly 15 metres away and one floor up from the router) and in the garden (stood 20 metres away, with two walls and two shut doors between the client and the router), the Mate 10 Pro struggled to connect to the Linksys MR3750. You can also enabled WPA3 encryption instead of WPA2 (or a mixture of the two) if you have any devices which support the newer encryption standard. The Linksys Hydra Pro 6 broadcasts one SSID by default, but if you want to separate the bands and have the router broadcast two names, one for 2.4GHz and one for 5GHz, you can, but you need to open up the desktop control panel for this, as you can’t do it in the mobile app. You can quickly and easily create Guest Wi-Fi networks for times when you have people over and you don’t want to hand out your regular password. You can also rename devices as they appear on the dashboard, and apply parental controls, which can restrict certain devices from accessing specific domains, and apply homework hours. You can choose to prioritise up to three devices on your network, which is helpful if you’ve got lots of devices all straining for bandwidth at the same time. Once everything’s set up, the Linksys mobile apps also let you dive into the Hydra Pro 6’s settings and check on the devices currently connected. ![]()
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