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RAX120 Router Random Disconnects
Hey everyone, I know that I'm not the only one with problems on the Nighthawk WiFi 6 devices, but thought I'd post my most recent headache. My hardware consists of a Motorola MB8600 DOCS 3.1 modem w/...
The router stayed up all night for about 8 hours and then the same symptoms occured once I logged into my laptop and started checking emails for about 5 minutes. I attempted to login to the RAX120 and it would not accept my username and password... I attemtped a number of times and I was not fat fingering, because I was pasting the password from my PW database. I logged into the RAX80 just fine without any issue. Nonetheless, I just reset my router back to factory and the issue still occured after it came online with a default config. WTH?!?!? Is my modem hosed and causing me the problem? The logs in the modem have nothing telling and only a couple status messages. Possibly it's a coincidence and I wasn't being patient. Eitherway, I reapplied my RAX120 config from a backup and the connections are up again.
Anyone out there have any ideas? Are these Nighthawks trash like the community has been evangalizing over the past year? Or am I just a fool? Even though I've managed numerous other network devices from Cisco, Brocade, Linksys, TP-Link, Apple, and even Extreme Networks without ever seeing an issue like this...