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andrewrama
Feb 01, 2024Aspirant
WAX 610 Slow, Rebooting Mitigates Issue
Hi, I have a Netgear WAX610PA. It's currently running firmware V10.7.5.3. Recently I've experienced issues where the wi-fi becomes slow. I've run speed tests from my phone and from a laptop, a...
andrewrama
Feb 05, 2024Aspirant
Thanks schumaku,
I'll check that next time
I'll check that next time
BrianL
Feb 06, 2024NETGEAR Moderator
- andrewramaFeb 17, 2024Aspirant
Hi again everyone, an update on the issue:
Good news, I haven't experienced the issue since downgrading and upgrading again. Speeds have been solid. Performing the same test as before (running Speed test from my phone, about 1.5m from the AP) I just got 545Mb/s down and 553Mb/s up. That's great!
Some things to note:
my AP is configured to reboot itself twice a week (Sunday and Wednesday). Previously I had it configured to reboot only once a week, then increased it to twice a week when I started experiencing the problems. The scheduled reboots didn't seem to help. I've left it set to reboot twice a week.
After downgrade and upgrade I also changed a few settings.
I enabled band steering on one of my wireless networks and left it disabled on another. I tried testing both but after realised I may have made a mistake in my testing.
I also enabled rate limiting on my third wireless network, which is 2.4Ghz only for IoT devices.
I'll keep monitoring and report back if I notice anything interesting.
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