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MERCUSYS MR1500X, dual-band AX1500 Wi-Fi 6 router review

A Wi-Fi 6 router whose band rates add up exactly to its badge, and whose opening bullet describes a different model altogether.

The bottom line The arithmetic is clean and the proofreading is not. For a small flat wanting WPA3 and three wired sockets it specifies enough; the wrong model name in the opening bullet is the reason to confirm the port breakdown before ordering.

On the listing

Wi-Fi 6 with up to 1.5 Gbps, made of 1201 Mbit/s at 5 GHz and 300 Mbit/s at 2.4 GHz; OFDMA and MU-MIMO for simultaneous transmission to several devices; four multidirectional high-gain antennas with beamforming; three Gigabit sockets; WPA3; BSS colouring to reduce interference from neighbouring networks; Smart Connect choosing the better band for each device; and a title stating plainly that there is no DSL function.

The badge that adds up

1201 plus 300 is 1501. The badge says AX1500. That is the closest match between a printed badge and the figures beneath it anywhere in this lot, and it is worth saying because most of the shelf rounds upward by twenty-four to two hundred.

The bullet about another router

The opening bullet begins by naming an MR60X. The title, the reference and every other bullet name an MR1500X. The claim itself is a general one about Wi-Fi 6 allowing more simultaneous connections, so nothing specific has been carried over, but a page that names the wrong product once is a page whose other numbers deserve a second look.

The three sockets

Counted, rated Gigabit, and never divided. On a router of this size the usual arrangement is one socket for the incoming line and two for devices, but the listing does not say so, and a buyer who needs three wired devices should establish the split first.

Before ordering

If the household has more than two wired devices, ask the seller how many of the three sockets are LAN. That single answer decides whether a switch is needed as well.

Availability

Priced from 31 € to 40 € across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores the day this page was checked.

It is stocked on the British Amazon store as well, in that country’s own currency. The range above leaves those out: it counts euro stores and no others.

The American Amazon store returned nothing at all, so the buy button there opens a search in that country rather than a page that would not load.

Every figure in this section is what Keepa held on the day this page was last updated. Stock and prices move without warning.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 10 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

Where it holds up, and where it stops

Strengths

  • The two published band rates add up to the badge, so nothing on the page has been rounded in the maker favour
  • States WPA3 explicitly, which is the security line that separates the current generation from the previous one
  • Names BSS colouring as the answer to interference from neighbouring networks, which is a specific mechanism rather than a claim of better signal

Compromises

  • The first bullet describes an MR60X, which is not the product in the title, so the opening claim belongs to another model
  • Three sockets are counted without saying how many are LAN and which one is the WAN, on a router where that split is the whole wired specification
  • No stream count for either radio, so the 1201 Mbit/s cannot be checked against a channel width and a stream figure

Specifications

Wi-Fi generationWi-Fi 6 — stated in the title and in the first bullet
IEEE designationNot published on the listing — eight bullets cover the generation, speed, capacity, coverage, wired sockets, security, interference and band selection, and no 802.11 letter pair appears
Stated class figureAX1500 — stated in the title, and quoted as up to 1.5 Gbps made of 1201 Mbit/s at 5 GHz and 300 Mbit/s at 2.4 GHz. Those two come to 1501, so this badge matches the arithmetic behind it
Band countTwo — stated: 5 GHz at 1201 Mbit/s and 2.4 GHz at 300 Mbit/s, with Smart Connect choosing between them for each device
Stream countNot published on the listing — OFDMA and MU-MIMO are named as capacity features, without a stream figure for either radio
WAN port speedNot published on the listing — the title counts three Gigabit sockets as one group and does not mark one for the incoming line
LAN port speedGigabit — stated as part of the three Gigabit sockets in the title; how many of the three are LAN sockets is not said
Port countThree — stated in the title, with no breakdown between LAN and WAN
USB portsNot published on the listing — no USB socket is named in the title or in any of the eight bullets
Antenna arrangementFour multidirectional high-gain antennas with beamforming — stated; the listing gives no gain figure and does not say whether they are external or internal
Amazon referenceB0CJ9SX156 (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN6957939001629

The questions that come up before an order

Does the wrong model name in a bullet affect the specification?

It affects how much of the page can be trusted without checking. The claim in that bullet — a Wi-Fi 6 standard allowing more simultaneous connections — is generic enough to apply to both models, and we have reported it as the listing states it while naming the discrepancy. Nothing has been carried across from one model to the other.

What does BSS colouring do?

It tags transmissions so that a device can tell its own network apart from a neighbour transmitting on the same channel, and carry on rather than waiting. In a block of flats where every channel is occupied it is one of the more useful things Wi-Fi 6 added, and naming it is a specific claim.