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Pincushion79
Aspirant
Oct 24, 2020

Mk62 wifi devices

I keep seeing the mk62 being marketed as being able to support 25+ wifi devices. What is the "+"? I have 45-50 devices and my current nighthawk x8 continuously drops them at random. Please tell me how...
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microchip8
Master
Oct 24, 2020

NETGEAR routers usually support up to 32 devices per band. You're overloading your router with so many devices connected at it

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    Pincushion79
    Aspirant
    Oct 24, 2020
    The x8 is triband, even with combining the 2 5ghz bands, it should still support 64 devices. Not sure how that would be overloading my current router.
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      microchip8
      Master
      Oct 24, 2020

      Combining bands doesn't make it send out some magical superband. 

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        Pincushion79
        Aspirant
        Oct 24, 2020
        Your words, 32 per band. If I were to use all 3 bands... 96... if I were to use only 2, 64 devices. But I am around 45 or so and still having issues.