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Netgear WAC120 Wireless slow
we purchased a wac120 over a year ago and its been a frustrating experience. i've had nothing but issues with the wifi.. it used to be that it'd start out up around 70-80Mbps which was obviously grea...
Hi all
We have patch image ready for this wilreless slow on 5 Ghz radio. Please reach https://www.netgear.com/support/contact.aspx to get the patch image
Thanks
Raghu
That link doesn't work.
DaneA contacted me privately and I'm now running the beta patch on one of my WAC120's. at 16:12 today I got a 186Mbps download from Speedtest.net. At best I can get about 208-212Mbps.
I'll check the speed every day for the next few days at the same time and at other times too and we'll see if there's a gradual slow down or not.
Oh and if anyone asks, I can't give the patch to anyone as it's on an NDA so please go straight to Netgear to get a copy if you want to run the beta.
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Paul
24 hours after the first test, the next speed test has delivered 193.16Mbps download speeds so a slight improvement over yesterday which based on the increase could well be down to local available bandwidth. At the moment though, there's no significant drop in speed during my periodic tests through the day that can't be put down to time of day and usage habits in general having an effect on our internet access. Certainly, the internal wireless speed seems to be pretty consistent.
Paul
5 days after patching and I'm still seeing full speed wireless connectivity. I've now patched both WAC120's I have with the beta firmware and they both seem to be operating just fine. I haven't rebooted either of them or my laptop in all this time.
Paul
Well by now, I would have already rebooted the devices using the old firmware but as of just now, I'm still seeing full speed data transfers on our network. The machine from which I'm testing has not been rebooted or powered down this week either so I can be sure that the machine and access points are both performing correctly.
When using speedtest.net. All the devices capable of exceeding the 200MBps Internet connection speed are reaching between 180-213Mbps as measured by the site. Devices such as Android tablets and mobile phones which are capable of 100MBps are reporting around 85-95mbps.
We've had no obvious slow downs on the internal network and the slow downs on the Internet connection can be attributed to the time of day and usage in the area as we're on FTTC about 80m away from us with Coax Cable into a DOCSIS 3 Cable Modem capped at 200Mbps by our provider the wired network is 1Gbps. All in all plenty of bandwidth for what we use and the majority of the devices we run these days are wireless so having stable fast wireless for the last week has been quite noticable in so much as we no longer notice any slow downs...
Paul
Thanks Paul for your feedback. Glad that beta firmware is working fine for you. Since your concern has been resolved, I encourage you to mark the appropriate reply as the “Accepted Solution” so others can be confident in benefiting from the solution. The NETGEAR Community looks forward to hearing from you and being a helpful resource in the future!
To be honest, I'd like to give the beta firmware at least another week of running before I say it's fixed for me. It certainly looks like it is up to now but the issue was quite random in its occurrence and we're now into the time period where I'd expect to be thinking about rebooting the devices.
I did experience significant slow down yesterday evening but resisted the urge to reset the AP's. This morning when testing, the speed tests are full speed again so it was my Internet connection and not my WiFi connection that caused the slowdown last night.
Finally, as I didn't open this support issue, I cannot mark anything as an "Accepted Solution".
Paul
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