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Introducing The Nighthawk AX8 WiFi Router - The New Era of WiFi
NETGEAR is leading the New Era of WiFi with our new Nighthawk AX8 8-Stream WiFi Router! The Nighthawk AX8 is NETGEAR’s first WiFi Router to support Wi-Fi 6, the latest generation of Wi-Fi te...
Eric_Cartman wrote:
Can this Router support more Devices then the X6 R8000 AC3200?
The X6 comes in at 32 devices per channel. 2.4 and 5ghz
Appears marketing does not know much about the real world requirements - the number of IoT is growing fast at many prospect customer site - this information is missing on both the AX8 and AX12 "Show All Tech Specs". Strange.
I have the x6 ac3200 but I have 45 lot devices all requiring 2.4 mostly to link plugs. If I power on any more then 32 devices the whole network starts failing. Is there a Netgear router that can power 50 plus 2.4 ghz devices simultaneously or is there a way to get around this bottle neck ¿
Eric_Cartman wrote:
I have the x6 ac3200 but I have 45 lot devices all requiring 2.4 mostly to link plugs. If I power on any more then 32 devices the whole network starts failing.Wait - I understand that the radio (here the 2.4 GHz) does stop to accept more connections. This should not cause other issues - except that some of the IoT own't be able to associate and can hardly be used of course. Confirm that's the "only" problem.
From the performance view, having that many devices on the same radio can't be the world's best idea. I would suggest to start deploying dome distributed wireless access points (with wired connections to the main router) instead of pusing that much devices on a single router.
Wait - I understand that the radio (here the 2.4 GHz) does stop to accept more connections. This should not cause other issues - except that some of the IoT own't be able to associate and can hardly be used of course. Confirm that's the "only" problem.
(........Hi Schumaku Yes sorry You are correct my phrasing was off the What happens is I have say 32 connections (2.4Ghz) and then when house mates come home they cant access to Wifi There devices attempt to connect but cant) But the 32 devices in fairness seem to work fine. Its just that there are no new connections allowed
From the performance view, having that many devices on the same radio can't be the world's best idea. I would suggest to start deploying dome distributed wireless access points (with wired connections to the main router) instead of pusing that much devices on a single router.
(Schumaku.........I actually have 2 Netgear Access Points hardwired back to the X6 Nighthawk allready but they themselves are classed as part of the 32 connections, ditto anything connected to them so unfortunately that isnt a work around :(
The way the AX standard on paper sounds great with its it treats the 2.4 and 5 ghz bands but until devices can use it and we see how the AX standard works in the real world no one can truly say what will happen. I hope that the new standard work as
promised .