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Apr 19, 2020RAX120 slowing down the AX connection to a few Mbps
Hi everyone, Looks like I've have made a huge mistake and bought the super expensive Nighthawk RAX120. Since the day it arrived, only problems... A whole mess of them... It's so frustarating that...
Retired_Member
Apr 20, 2020OP. It seems that disabling the AX from the router admin page solves the traffic stall issue, but I'm not sure yet (it's much more stable, that's for sure). I'm still testing it, but turning the router into an 802.11ac one seems to work. So basically I have a wifi6 router (on paper) that only works as wifi5. Still, it's slower than the router the ISP provided (an Arris modem+wifi router combo). Wonderful! However, I still have the wifi network dropouts now and then. I have "solved" this issue for the moment by plugging the router to the AC outlet via a radio remote controller (formely used to control some spotlights in the library). So when I don't see the router anymore in the network, I just press twice the radio remote (once for power off, second time to power it up) and wait for it to boot. Isn't that fantastic?
Oh, and BTW, about the buggy admin page GUI: did a little bit of debugging work, just for fun... There are plenty of Javascript bugs; also the CSS is very poorly written and buggy. Who wrote that piece of "code", Netgear? :)
I'm only keeping RAX120 on for now becasue I want to test it a bit more, but otherwise I'll have to return to the old one soon and forget about this... thing...
Boraz
Jul 14, 2020Aspirant
Heya OP, just checking if you are still experiencing the this issue? I'm experiencing a the same issue with the RAX120 and a AX200 WiFi adapter. I haven't found any solution on the forum but I have seen other people reporting the same issue. However I haven't seen a concrete reply from Netgear or an actual solution to fix the problem. Thanks in advance for your reply!