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Nighthawk RAX80 not visible to Windows 10 laptop
I bought a Nighthawk AX6000 (RAX80) WiFi router. All my devices (TiVo, Roku, iPad, iPhone, Android phone, Surface Tablet) connected without issue. None of my ASUS Windows 10 Laptops with the Intel ...
I too had this issue with my new RAX80 on one HP laptop with an intel chipset. My solution was to go to Intels site and download the recomended driver update. After update and reboot the laptop saw the RAX80's wifi ssid. I have over 30 devices connecting and that was the only one i had issue with.
Interesting. Seems that there was nothing wrong at the router end. This bit was the giveaway:
Wiedeman wrote:
All my devices (TiVo, Roku, iPad, iPhone, Android phone, Surface Tablet) connected without issue. None of my ASUS Windows 10 Laptops with the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 WiFi card could see the SSID being broadcast by the router.
Suggests that the Windows stuff was the source of the problem.
Did these Windows PCs connect to other wifi sources? Before you applied the new drivers, that is.
I too had this issue with my new RAX80 on one HP laptop with an intel chipset. My solution was to go to Intels site and download the recomended driver update. After update and reboot the laptop saw the RAX80's wifi ssid. I have over 30 devices connecting and that was the only one i had issue with.
I too had to use the Intel updater to fix this issue. HP's driver did not work.