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RAX200 Slow Wifi 6 Speed - 5 FT Smart Steering or 5 GHZ Hi
Hey Everyone, I have a new RAX 200, I set it up and I am having some issues. #1 the biggest issue is that the speeds within 5 ft in AC or AX with intel AX200 card are around 100-300 mbps U/D....
I should mention the 4800 mbps and 2400 mbps were the throughput options listed, however I chose channel 161 and 44 because they were the least congested.
I did not have any other devices connected to the router during my testing.
Oddly enough if I DC and connect quickly sometimes the speedtest bursts up to 600 but then very quickly drops back down to 150ish.
Which modem/gateway are you using?
I know you said you have it in bridge mode but they don't all implement bridge mode properly. Have you ever tried putting the gateway in router mode and the RAX200 in AP (access point) mode and then speedtesting?
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I haven’t tried that, I did see it. I can’t use the QoS then correct? Seems like an expensive purchase to become a set of antennas infront of a working router haha. I will give it a try and report back.
The router modem supplied is a T3200M Actiontec it has a port bridge mode on lan 4 then I disabled the radios and dhcp on it.
I also tried using Unbound as a dns server and a custom dhcp on my pi this morning and disabling the feature on the rax200 in hopes to see some change and it didn’t help.
A quick wifi scan shows about 18-30% congestion on every channel spread out nothing crazy never really hops up higher.the AP mode is more of a test. if you have full speed in ap mode, then we look at the bridge mode on the actiontec's settings a little closer