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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...
avtella
Jul 29, 2020Prodigy
Seems definitely like a firmware issue rather than hardware as mine has been solid as an AP. It’s been 3 months since the last update so hopefully they take care of this soon, otherwise most of you with this issue are probably better of changing models or switching vendors at this point.
BenBoosted
Jul 29, 2020Guide
I have official thrown in the towel on this. I went with an Amplifi Alien and am seeing faster wireless performance by about 75Mbps and much further range/signal strength.
- kyleh22Jul 29, 2020AspirantGood to know. I’ve been eyeing up that router. I’ll probably make the switch if updated firmware isn’t announced soon.
- KyneAug 11, 2020Apprentice
The Alien is nice, but no DFS, no way to control the (upper) 5Ghz channels on teh 2nd radio in mesh mode. I want to love it, but I actually went back to a single RAX120 as I need DFS where I'm at..