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RAX120 Dropping Speed
A day into my new RAX120 and I'm running into issues with WiFi dropping speeds down to 20/30 Mbps or dropping connection altogether on 5GHz. Upon reboot, speeds come back to normal which on WiFi devi...
What were you using that was not stock and what firmware version are you on now.
Did you perform a factory reset after updating?
I've been using netgear router for 12 years now and my last one was R8500. After automatic install of the firmware I noticed a degrading performance of the router.the first release it worked flawlessly and then worked like 1 to 1\2 year it became a piece of crap. I
always have a fight with the internet providers. What a waste of money because I'm not buying cheap ones its their latest ones! On my RAX AX120, the first release firmware out of the box worked fine. The auto update is making it worse as I observed, this is just MY OBSERVATION!!!! No offense to whoever this KillerHippie is saying. So tired of seeing a very expensive router will just go down the drain, I decided to revert it the original firmware as if out of the box and hard reset it 30-30-30 like use before on old netgear routers of mine. MY EXPERIENCE after I used the nighthawk app with netgear armor on the last week of my trial because I dont want to buy it, my Iphone was
disabled for no reason that I cant open and have reset. I turned of my router and walla I was able to turn it OFF and do reset.
I reset everything (what a waste of time) I have 32 loT connected to it like garage, switches and CCTV my house is fully automated.
So on the consumer end this is not a joke! Im just an ordinary netgear user and if this situation happens it cost me a lot of time and effort to connect all of them. What I did was to disconnect if from my at&t IP passthrough gateway, hard reset it to 30-30-30sec and reconnect all of my devices changed my password.This is my current firmware that you can download from the website. Im not suggesting you also do this,
this is just my experience and currently I have no more problems. Mind you I'm pretty happy with my lifelock coverage! if they get my info.
I know the auto update is a problem which is why I said turn it off and manually update. I also beta tested this router along time before its release for Netgear so know it very well. Don't do a 30/30/30 as modern routers NVRAM do not need that and it can cause corruption. Downgrading when there is security issues is your own decision but it could expose your router to some nasty security issues which Netgear will not help you with as you didn't keep your router up to date.
