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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...
Tofu-Golem
Mar 06, 2021Apprentice
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.
Tofu-Golem
Mar 10, 2021Apprentice
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.
- SusursMar 19, 2021TutorAny updates to this? Is the issue still persistent?
The only solution I have noticed on the other topics was to disable port aggregation.- BenBoostedMar 19, 2021Guide
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.
- rafale7Mar 19, 2021Apprentice
Have not tried again but I have happily thrown mine away. What a waste of a very well designed piece of hardware destroyed by disgusting firmware.
- sjbhhMar 29, 2021Apprentice
This issue is still there and it is unbelievable Netgear has not done anything about it within the last 12 month.
When is a new firmware coming out that will fix these speed issues ?
- LarryliiMar 29, 2021GuideThey got our money, that’s all that matters to them. They have no desire to correct the issue.