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Nighthawk RAX80 Middling WiFi Speeds
I just want to see how others are doing when it comes to WiFi speeds with the AX8. My WiFi coverage is great, but the speed is underwhelming. I have Xfinity Gigabit coming to my home. I get full 1G...
Thanks for the response. After trying for half the day again and still not budging over the 370 mark on the iPhone, I decided to just call it quits.
I then saw the RAX120 on sale for $399 on Amazon, so I had my local Best Buy price match that. I've returned the RAX80 for the RAX120 and now I'm hitting 650Mbps consistently on the iPhone and I'm a happy camper.
With so many people recommending the 7800 over the 8000/8000p, or the 9000 if you want to spend more of the "last-gen" stuff, I'm really thinking this is just a Qualcomm vs Broadcom issue and Qualcomm seems to be bringing the good stuff lately, but that's just purely speculation on my end from comparing all these routers lately.
In the same exact boat here. Xfinity gig. Get near Gig speed on wired. but no matter what I do, I can't get the wifi to go over 450Mbps. I've got a laptop with 802.11ac, so should be well acheivable. Someone from Netgear should pipe up here and let us know what the correct settings are. Looking at just giving this thing back and going the Ubiquiti route.
I changed my settings and now getting more reliable fast speeds on 5G. I downgrade the firmware to 1.0.1.40. Set the 5G speed to 2400 and using DFS channel 108. Not all devices support DFS channels, luckily all my devices support it. Depending on the network card in your laptop determines how fast you can connect. My Dell laptop max is capable of 433 Mbps on AC so the fastest download I receive is 360 Mbps down considering overhead. My iPhone and iPad max is 866 Mbps so the fastest I get down is about 650 Mbps. My Note 9 seems to connect at 1083 Mbps so the max download I receive on it is 700 Mbps.
I am on GIG plan with Spectrum. Over wired I can achieve 940 - 950 down and 35 - 40 up.
Thanks for the suggestion. Same here, on wired I get pretty close to Gig. I tried downgrading the FW to 1.0.1.40. And using DFS 108. Still can't get past 450. I'm on a MacBook Pro. With 802.11ac. Holding down the Atl-key and clicking on the WiFi icon shows me details of what my device is capable of - 1300Mbps. So feels like it's pointing to settings on the router
None of my Macbooks are AC capable. They are running MAC OS High Sierra. Luckily they support GIG Ethernet. I have found if I try using the Speedtest app in Safari I never get anywhere near 940 down. However, if I use the “SPEEDTEST” app by OKLA from the Mac App Store then speedtests give me 940-950 down. Over wireless the best I can achieve is about 250 - 300 down over Wireless N on my MacBooks.
