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New - RAX200 Firmware Version 1.0.6.138 Released
New Features and Enhancements:
Adds support to EU SKU for Router Analytic (RA) opt-in, opt-out feature
Removes support from China SKU for gaming VPN Funjsq
Security Fixes:
Fixes sec...
I would enable OFDMA and test after you do a factory reset. Also test with and with out Smart Connect enabled...
What is the connection rate of your wireless device while connected to the 5Ghz-1 radio?
You can see this if you load up wifi sweet spots app on your mobile device.
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FURRYe38 wrote:I would enable OFDMA and test after you do a factory reset. Also test with and with out Smart Connect enabled...
What is the connection rate of your wireless device while connected to the 5Ghz-1 radio?
You can see this if you load up wifi sweet spots app on your mobile device.
Thanks. I updated the router to the latest firmware (still much slower uploads and downloads after updating) and then did the factory reset. The result is a bit weird. Initially I still got the same low download speeds but they were much more erratic than previously, anywhere from 50 - 200 Mbps. Upload speeds were back to previous good levels and pretty stable (around 660 Mbps). I then enabled OFDMA and download speeds improved dramatically to pretty stable at around 450 Mbps. I then tried turning OFDMA off again and both download and upload speeds stayed pretty stable but dropped about 10%. The download speeds were still much better than before which is a bit odd. Even stranger, if I reboot the router, it goes back to the original behavior with unstable 50-200 Mbps download speeds and still stable upload speeds around 660 Mbps. Changing OFDMA, either enabling it or disabling it, stabilizes the download speeds at around 450 Mbps (if enabling OFDMA) or around 400 Mbps (if disabling it). Should I try another factory reset to resolve this rather odd behavior on re-boot, or just be thankful it's working well after performing this "adjustment" after re-booting, and leave it alone? I'm pretty happy with the speeds.
I also tried enabling Smart Connect, both with OFDMA enabled and disabled, but it didn't seem to make any difference.
PS: Wi-FiSweetSpots is giving me 620 Mbps on my iPhone XS at the same location on the same network. Speedtest on the phone gives me 500 Mbps download and 600 Mbps upload.
I'd let it run for a bit longer and observe before another FR. Possible that maybe your testing the speeds a bit to soon after the router is fully ready and other things are happening that is taking up some CPU time and after this settles, speeds are normalized...
I liked the theory as it made a lot of sense but unfortunately it didn't work. I rebooted the router and went and did something else for 45 minutes. The extra time did stabilize the download speeds, so I think your theory was partially correct, but they stabilized down the way between 27 and 44 Mbps. Disabling OFDMA (since it happened to be enabled) increased the download speed to between 441 and 459 Mbps. Oddly this time enabling OFDMA again made things worse with download speeds between 366 and 381 Mbps. To check if this was consistent, I disabled it again and download speeds went back up to between 457 and 464 Mbps.
FURRYe38 wrote:I'd let it run for a bit longer and observe before another FR. Possible that maybe your testing the speeds a bit to soon after the router is fully ready and other things are happening that is taking up some CPU time and after this settles, speeds are normalized...
Might give a factory reset another try then.