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RAX200 or Orbi ax6000?
so, been using the orbi wifi 6 3 piece system for a few months now, and only a couple of issues, like the random internet disconnects that are talked about all over the web...wifi speeds are fantasti...
I had the same Asus router, and had the same issues with instability; I was going to buy a RAX200 in the beginning, but, I had read nothing but complaints about it; True, as you say, people only post when they have issues, but it seemed liike almost everyone did.
I have had the Orbi AX wifi 6 since January, and it has also had issues on and off; the firmware/software was an embarassment, but, they did a decent update a week or 2 ago, and now at least,we have Netgear Armor, but you still cant do anything wiith their lightweight, flimsy software/firmware.
The RAX200 looks like its super stable now, and the price has come down too; problem is, I need some sort of extender.AP in my garage for my POE camera, and having the 3 Orbi kit made it easy to put one out there, with no slow downs either.
I'm concerned if I switch to the RAX200, whatever Extender/AP I add, unless its a triband AX, which they do NOT offer at this point, will slow down my wifi speeds..It appears that either the EX8000, a tri band, but AC extender, or the EAX80, a dual band, but AX extender would be my 2 best choices..
I get between 400-800MB on wifi everwhere on my property with my 1GIG Cox connectioon, using my Orbi 3 unit AX system
thanks
Can't you buy the RAX200, say from Amazon, and return it back for a full refund if it doesn't meet your expectations? FWIW my RAX200 even gives me a fairly good signal to main road about 100 metres away!
yes, thats my plan, once I figure out which extender is the best one to use with it!
thanks
If you're needing "the best" extender to go with the RAX200, I'd recommend either the EAX80 or the EX8000.
I haven't played/used the EAX80 so I'm not sure how it works in comparision to a triband extender like the EX8000.
I've got an EX8000 and can vouch for how much better it performs versus a standard dual band extender. Reason it functions better is a standard dual band extender has to receive and rebroadcast with the same chip and it can't do both at once. So they automatically run at 50% the speed of what the network is.
The tribands reserve one of the 5ghz bands just for router---extender communcation to mitigate that problem.
I'm not sure if that's how the EAX80 works or not with it being an AX extender.
I have the same question; its weird, that the "newest" AX extender, the EAX80 is only dual band, and the older AC extender is tri band..
I'm sure asking Netgear directly would make it even more confusing as to which one to "pair" with the RAX200
I know a dual band will lose speed if it is being used to "extend" a tri band setup, but, the dual band is the only AX extender they make..
Way too confusing, when it should be so simple to choose..
