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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...
While I didn't find a solution, I went an alternate route. I didn't want to burn another afternoon on this, so I simply connected the PS5 and XSX to a Linksys WUMC710 (wireless AC bridge). I had it left over from a project a couple years ago and it's been in the closet collecting dust since, now it has a use again.
The PS5 finally connects (albiet not how I wanted to connect to it), and the XSX packetloss has gone away when using the wireless bridge. They both speed test over 300mbits, good enough. For whatever reason, the NightHawk doesn't play nicely w/ the latest consoles, or at least mine doesn't. Neither the PS5 or XSX had issues with my older Velop Wifi 5 AP, but it's bonkers w/ the Nighthawk.
When troubleshooting the XSX packetloss, I noticed how my wired desktop ping range to the XSX would vary like crazy, from 1ms to 300ms, nothing stable, so that explains my kid's raging fit this morning. Connecting the XSX and PS5 to this wireless bridge, now I'm constantly pinging the XSX with 1-2ms response, the PS5 is re-downloading a few 100gbs of everything I wiped off it.