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RAX200 - PS5 Won't Connect to Internet
Hey Netgear Community, I just joined the Nighthawk family today. I spent the better part of tonight migrating ~40 wifi devices at my home to the new Nighthawk Wifi (I run it in AP mode). Every devic...
I'd be looking more at your pfsense firewall. When the netgear is in AP mode, the pfsense box is managing dhcp/nat/routing. If the ps5 is getting a IP address, the netgear is doing its job. But something between the device handling routing and the netgear is causing issues.
Unfortunetly, that's not the case. The 40 other wifi devices can reach the internet fine, just not the PS5.
And there was a new problem this morning, which killed about an hour of my time, my son was playing the XSX and all the games have bad packetloss - Fornite, Splitgate, COD, Rocket League. I powered up the old AP and he's able to play w/out packetloss, now both APs are broadcasting.
This is turning out to be a $400 mistake. I turned off the 3 QOS options (Enable WMM), and after the router reboots, nothing can connect to Wifi (all connection failed). Wifi only works when those 3 WMM options are enabled. Ridiclous.
I'm going to do a factory reset on the Nighthawk and give this one last try. If I can't get the PS5 to work, or if we get continued packet loss on the xbox, I'm going to return the stupid thing.
The killer is wasting all the hours reconfiguring wifi on 40+ devices.
Can the PS5 ethernet connect to the RAX in AP mode and get internet? Do same with console connected to the firewall device.
IF your other devices are connecting to the RAX in AP mode and the PS5 can't, this would probably be a PS5 issue. There are some known issues with newer game consoles. 1, xbox causing bad networking issues when connected. I believe PS has some wifi issues on the radios.
Again, the RAX in AP node is just passing thru traffic and not doing ANY routing. Your host router or firewall is doing that and could be causing problems.
- I'm having the same problem after installing my new CAX30 model. Spent 7 hours last night on the phone with Netgear trying to set mine up. Finally got everything connected.....except the PS5. It is hard wired and shows on the network, but the router isn't allowing it to get a connection.
