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Nighthawk (RAX200) Connectivity Issues with Some Devices
WiFi connections have been inconsistent with some devices, Amazon Echos mostly, but there are other devices as well. The issues started immediately after setting up the router. The router is usi...
Everything I thought I knew, I think is wrong. All radios at 100% and I am having no issues at the moment
I believe that disabling 40/20mhz coexistence and setting radio to 100% power were my only changes.
Other than the "I'm no Expert" part I believe this part can be disregarded.
mbonetti wrote:DISCLAIMER: I am not an expert :)
but think that I have narrowed the issue down to the second 5Ghz band. My previous router had only two bands 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. I think I recall reading something about some devices not working well with higher channels, unfortunately I don't recal where I saw this (I will update if I find it)
Setting the power of the second 5Ghz network to 25% seems to have helped but I still have issues. I can't seem to find a way to disable the 2nd radio, but even if that worked I would consider it a work around, not a solution.
I guess I was lucky for a day or so. I'm still having several issues with dervices staying connected to WiFI. I really hope this can be resolved, I don't want this to end up in my box of junk routers, especially considering the price.
1) Turn off smart connect,
2) Choose a unique SSID for each of the 3 bands
3) Manually choose a channel for each band - I'm using ch 6 for 2.4ghz, ch 44 for 5ghz1 and ch 157 for 5ghz2
4) Manually connect each wifi client for your chosen band
psychopomp123 wrote:1) Turn off smart connect,
2) Choose a unique SSID for each of the 3 bands
3) Manually choose a channel for each band - I'm using ch 6 for 2.4ghz, ch 44 for 5ghz1 and ch 157 for 5ghz2
4) Manually connect each wifi client for your chosen band
Thanks for the reply! I am sure that "work around" will work and may help a future reader of this thread. Actually, that is going to be my interim fix until NETGEAR can get things ironed out. But I paid for a router with SmartConnect and want to use it. I really don't want to configure 50+ devices manually because SmartConnect doesn't work as it should.
I intend on leaving the 2.4ghz band the same ssid/pswd I have used for years and manually configure the devices I want on 5ghz to use the other two bands.
SmartConnect should work (and has on older, much cheaper routers) so I consider this a work around rather than a solution. I really wish NETGEAR would release an update that fixes this issue.