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ScottyBeam
Mar 27, 2021Aspirant
Poor coverage and signal strength with AP WAX214
Dear Community I recently bought the AP WAX-216 for private use to improve the WLAN coverage in my appartment plus to get WiFi6 (AX) support. Setup: I use the AP with PoE powered by a Cisco R...
ScottyBeam
Jul 18, 2021Aspirant
After some chats with the support without any improvement of the situation, I decided to return the device... Bought now an AP from another brand and works definitely better, also allows to set the power transmission accordingly.
I think, Netgear is producing devices mainly for end users and that's why they have decided to remove any advanced settings, instead their "logic" decides certain settings... So this AP is certainly not a device for advanced users or businesses where you want to change settings to your own need...to be fair, my new AP was also double price...
I think, Netgear is producing devices mainly for end users and that's why they have decided to remove any advanced settings, instead their "logic" decides certain settings... So this AP is certainly not a device for advanced users or businesses where you want to change settings to your own need...to be fair, my new AP was also double price...
schumaku
Jul 18, 2021Guru - Experienced User
ScottyBeam wrote:
I think, Netgear is producing devices mainly for end users and that's why they have decided to remove any advanced settings, instead their "logic" decides certain settings... So this AP is certainly not a device for advanced users or businesses where you want to change settings to your own need...to be fair, my new AP was also double price...
Not a generic Netgear thing, you could have choosen the WAX610 (similar platfrom like the WAX214) for about the same amount of money, and there are much more controls available...
Of course, I'm with you on the automatic power feature - permitting it's working in the way I would imagine - thus I try to bring this to Netgear's attention again.
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