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welchyboy
Feb 18, 2020Star
RAX120 Slow Wifi Speeds
Hello I am needing some help! I have the RAX120 Nighthawk router and I have having super slow wifi speeds. For the one computer that I have hard wired the speed test shows around 39-48Mbps download w...
kyleh22
Jul 22, 2020Aspirant
This issue only seems to impact my AX devices. If I toogle off AX from the router menus, my speed stays constistant. The issue with the router appears to be related to the AX functionality...
kyleh22
Jul 28, 2020Aspirant
Update, turning of AX did not fix the issue. The speed still randomly drops to <1Mbps...
I have noticed this issue really only impacts my windows 10 laptop that has a wifi 6 network card. When the wifi is working well on the laptop, the Nighthalk app report a link rate of 868Mbps. When the speed slows the link rate says 6Mbps. Does anyone know if link rate is noegotiated by the computer or by the router? It seems strange that this seems to only impact my windows laptop and not my iOS devices. Any thoughts?