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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...
I have a similar issue, and I'm done.
I have a RAX120 with a RAX80 acting as an access point. The 120 gets around 10% speed even over ethernet, and the 80 stopped providing WiFi at all after the last firmware update.
No more Netgear. I'm buying a router from a different brand today and throwing the Netgear routers in the garbage where they belong. I can't take this anymore.
- This was the best decision I’ve made. Less stress in my life with this POS in the garbage. Worst investment I’ve ever made!!! It’s comforting to know that netgear has got our backs. Lol 😂
- I moved on to Asus AX86U a while back. It just works to the point I've forgotten it is there. I'm using full 160 Mhz and routinely get 800 to 1200 mbps. It's half the cost as well.
I don't understand why the RAX gets such good reviews. Only way could be if people are only using 2.4 GHz channel. Sigh.
I went back on what I said.I did a factory reset on both routers, readjusted the various settings, and things went back to normal. The only difference is that I didn't turn remote management back on, so now the Nighthawk app is kind of useless (or rather, it can only work on the router it's actually connected to).
These routers are so finicky. When they work, they work spectacularly. When they don't work, it's like trying to use an anvil as a networking device.
- Any updates to this? Is the issue still persistent?
The only solution I have noticed on the other topics was to disable port aggregation.The consensus amongst the folks in this post that own this router is to throw it in the trash and get a non-Netgear router.