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RAX120 Stability
Earlier this year I purchased a RAX120 and almost immediately started facing “early adopter” issues with the firmware. I attempted to work with the community in addressing the DNS issues and WiFi spe...
Hello MCBurn,
Welcome back to the community! So far, our support team has received positive feedback regarding the latest firmware version.
Christian
The most stable firmware is .108, but the signal of 2.4G is weaker than other version. No reboot, no d/c.
The newest firmware .136 has a big improvement from .122/.128, I have noticed only 2 reboots since it's out.
Well, here we are again a few days into my second attempt at running a RAX120 and back to having issues. It appears about once per day the router will fall flat on its face and connection speeds will drop to <10 Mbps until it’s rebooted.
Noticed connectivity issues arising tonight so ran a speed test (on a wired connection): ping of 211, 8.36 down, and 6.41 up.
Checked logs and rebooted. Logs were very uneventful since the last reboot to correct the same issue a couple days prior.
Upon coming back up, ran another speed test. This time is back to normal: ping of 15, 1,148.78 down, and 37.93 up.
I've attached the router log that has everything since last failure minus the DoS entries. Have also attached speed test results from minutes apart showing before and after reboot.
Any ideas? Should I try rolling back to .108? I don’t have any devices using 2.4G and have the radio disabled, so not concerned with .108 shortcomings in that regard. May just give up on this line of routers for good if it can't go more than a day or two without requiring a reboot.Two days later, we’re at it again. Again, I’ve captured logs from the last reset I posted two days ago until now, with another speed drop occurring tonight.
The speed test this time was captured on a device with only support for AC, so overall speed is lower, but you can clearly see the impact the reboot of the router had in returning things back to normal. I also captured the memory/RAM figures prior to reboot, and everything looks normal.
Any insight? This has happened now on two separate RAX120’s I’ve owned, which are on a network where a cheap Netgear AC router has been running strong for years.
When you upgraded to .136 did you perform a factory reset afterwards?
Downgrading to such an old firmware version is a security risk and not advisable.
