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RAX120 is dead -- does NOT fully support 802.11ax
Read the fine print.
https://www.netgear.com/images/datasheet/networking/wifirouter/RAX120.pdf
"This router does not support some of the mandatory features ratified in Draft 3.0 of IEEE 8...
"Both downlink and uplink OFDMA are mandatory features for 802.11ax (although it seems likely that pre-standard equipment from some vendors will omit uplink OFDMA)."
Useless quote - provide reference. Source is probably one of these many blah-blah Web sites according to my Google search.
At the risk of repeating: Some features are indeed part of the standard, this includes a field for uplink OFDMA, however it's usage and availability is deferred to 802.1ax wave 2.
You aparently still don't understand the processes going on with the standardization TGs and the industry developing and delivering early access pre-standard hardware. Jumping on new technologies is a game - for the chipset makers, for the product makers, and for the customers.
How many products in the field are fully supporting all 802.11ac features (wave 1 and wave 2)? And we're well in the year 2019 already.
1) Netgear is saying that is a mandatory feature in Draft 3.0.
2) https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/wp/WP_802.11AX.pdf has a table that places that feature in "wave 1", and splits out mandatory and optional features.
Time will show which features the Wi-Fi Alliance will include in their interoperability testing requirements - further more, I'm convinced the fully standard coverage will take far more time ...