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No trace of Wifi6 networks on Nighthawk RAXE500
I just bought a new NETGEAR Nighthawk RAXE500, set it up, 6G Wifi networks (regular and guest) are enabled and SSID broadcasting, and there's no trace of these Wifi 6 networks anywhere. I've got an i...
tonydi is correct.
the only devices that support 6E currently are the samsung S21 and the intel AX210 wireless board. But even the intel doesn't fully support it as windows hasn't supported the wpa3 for it or enabled it in public views of windows. So to get it working on windows requires work-arounds to get it functioning.
Its a bit of a pointless band currently. I usually recommend the RAX200 or RAX120 to people until more devices support 6E
I understand that not many devices support 6E, and that band won't be reachable by most current devices. But the RAXE500 is supposed to be backward compatible, and support not only 6E and Wifi 6, which iPhone 11+ and iPad Pro support. I'm not seeing that.
The RAXE500 supports Wifi6, which used to be called 802.11ax, as well as earlier flavors of Wifi like 802.11g, 802.11n (now called Wifi4) 802.11ac (now called Wifi5). All of these earlier versions run on the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands.
On my Samsung S20FE, my wifi icon has a "6" next to it. As is typical, Apple doesn't want you to be "bothered" by anything technical like that so they don't tell you. Run some speedtests and then go into the router's UI and navigate to Advanced, Setup, Wireless Setup and uncheck the Enable AX.... box.
If your speedtests now are appreciably slower, you will know that the devices were connecting with Wifi6.
Tested both with AX enabled and disabled -- no difference in speed whatsoever. As for the iPhone displaying "6" or not with its connection speed -- Apple has never hesitated to display anything which implies faster performance. They were displaying the "5" in 5G on the iPhone before that was even a known thing.
Believe what you want but Apple does not display an indicator for a Wifi6 connection.
What does the speedtest show when you're connected to the 5GHz Wifi band?
What is the download speed for your Internet plan? If it's not higher than what an 802.11ac connection can go, then the 802.11ax speed test won't be any different.
