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Nighthawk x10[R9000] To Nighthawk Tri-Band AX12[RAX200]
So I upgrade from R9000 to RAX200 Router, I was hoping to see at least 10% Wi-Fi speed improvement but seen none!!! I got Verizon Fios Gigabit speed but surprise to see no improvement over the previous Router!!! I have changed channel on both 2.4 and 5Ghz but didn't do anything yet!! I do have installed latest FW and Factory reset as I always do, I know it's probably early or premature Level for this Router but expecting NG will release better FW to address the speed issue!!! No Wi-Fi dropping issue so far....
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Redtulips7 wrote:
So I upgrade from R9000 to RAX200 Router, I was hoping to see at least 10% Wi-Fi speed improvement but seen none!!!
How comes you expect this - because the old was designated AD7200 and the new AX11000? Or simply new == faster?
Unless you have capable Wifi 6 (802.11ax) clients which can bring a massive speed enhancement, the 802.11ac standard implemented on the RAX200 is still the same, and will remain the same, for your existing 802.11ac clients.
Curious where you have acquired your RAX200 btw.
Forget one point (as editing after posting is still not possible here in this community section ChristineT Christian_R !) ... of course the RAX200 will allow some more concurrent throughput (by multiple clients) on 5 GHz because of the two radios in this band.
Last, for the future records in the community - which firmware version is in place on your RAX200?
Can't see the in-line image because of the **** mandatory moderation yet ... if it's a RAX200 better don't use the product tag of the RAX120.
Screenshot does clealry indicate a Nighthawk AX12 (RAX120) - not the original subject Nighthawk Tri-Band AX12 (RAX200). These are two different products. So my assumption of v1.0.0.78 == RAX120 was correct. But hey, I don't blame you for Netgears very unlucky product designations - this kind of confusion was predictable (and I warned Netgear in time about the AX12 confusion...)
- Just because you have two 5Ghz radios doesn’t mean you will necessarily see a noticeable improvement. The average home network wouldn’t really tax even a dual band router. Even if you have like WiFi 20 devices, actively transmitting devices will generally be like 4-5 at best in a 3-4 person household with the rest idle or intermittently transmitting to sync data.
Plus without AX clients you won’t really see any improvements over AC triband radio routers.
