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How to get the most out of Nighthawk AX5400
Hey all. I'm a total noob to most of this stuff so please take it easy on me! But I did just purchase a wifi 6 router in the Nighthawk AX5400. My point of this post is to try and gather information to help me get the best performance out of this router. Unfortunately where I live 250mb is the best internet available to me, so that's what I have. I have it connected to my modem using a cat 8 ethernet cable. I've heard you can get better performance out of routers according to what channel you choose for your network? Or by changing the mghz or something? I live in a smaller town/neighborhood and when I search for networks in range there are probably only 3 to 4 neighbors networks that pop up. Thank you all in advance for your tips!
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Best options?
1. centrally locate the router. They broadcast in a sphere so that'll provide the best coverage
2. put most of your higher bandwidth devices on the 5ghz. It doesn't broadcast as far or through at much a materials but is a lot faster than 2.4ghz.
3. keep the low bandwidth or IoT devices on the 2.4ghz. Its a slow network and sensitive to interference. You can try different channels on it to optimize but its more about trying them or using a scanner to see which works better.
Thats the quick/dirty optimize.
There's a ton of guides if you do a google for wifi optimization.
dabansotu wrote:
But I did just purchase a wifi 6 router in the Nighthawk AX5400. My point of this post is to try and gather information to help me get the best performance out of this router.
plemans has given you sound advice,.
If you want to dog deeper, don't look for advice on what to do with an "AX5400". There is no such thing.
AX is not a Netgear model number. Many devices come with the AC/AX tag, but it is essentially a label that Netgear, and others, attach to hardware to describe wifi speeds.
Look at the label on the device for the Model Number. And, if there is one, include the "V" bit to show the hardware version. If there is no V number, then you have V1.
