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Nighthawk AX8 8-Stream WiFi Router - Buyer's Guide
With the influx of smart home devices on the market making their way into our homes, one thing we tend to overlook is the infrastructure that supports it. From smart speakers, security cameras...
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Does the laptop support AX? I suspect not.
There are maybe one wireless hardware manufacturer that is making a chip that supports AX. AX is a coming down the road thing.
Folks let me know if wrong.,
AX supposed to be backward compatible with all existing WIFI chipsets. The fact that I have a dozen or so older devices in my house that do not have the AX chip but DO see the SSID broadcas confirms the backward compatibility. It maybe the AX8 is only backaward compatible with some devices but not all and this needs to be addressed in an firmware update.
Backward compatible can be iffy when the standard is not even finalized yet. So I am not surprised that a device does not work. Until there are clients that support AX I would turn it off.