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RAX40 cutting my upload speed?
Hello, I purchased a RAX40 a few weeks ago. The first few days, my upload speeds were what I was expecting (~30Mbps), but soon after that, I noticed that my upload speeds have been cut in half (n...
Well, I give up for now.
Multiple firmware downgrades/upgrades. Multiple factory resets. Always the same result.
13.5Mbps upload speeds when I am paying for 30Mbps upload speed.
Download speed fine (paying for 200 and get around 230Mbps)
Connecting directly to modem always gets me back to around 29-30 Mbps upload speed.
Router was giving me 30Mbps upload speed for about a day after buying it, and I haven't seen it again since.
This is the strangest thing.
Can someone recommend a good replacement for the RAX40? A non-WiFi 6 router that provides comparable performance to a RAX40?
I would like to stick to netgear, and I am still within the return window on Amazon...but since I keep being told I purchased a product on the "bleeding edge" of wifi technology, I think I want to take a step back and go with something that has all the kinks worked out.
So...any recommendations?
So for now, I've actually decided to go back to the old router provided by Optimum...it's a Sagecom F@st 5260.
Ever since putting it back online, all of my devices now enjoy their full upload speeds (paying for 30Mbps, and now seeing faster than that on speed tests...around 35-40Mbps).
On the RAX40, I was only getting around 13-14Mbps upload speeds.
So...until I actually get WiFi6-capable devices, I'm just going to stick with my old router for now.
I originally bought the RAX40 because I thought my old router was the source of my degrading download speeds...when in fact it was the fault of my internal wifi card in my PC....since putting a new wifi USB adapter on the PC, that has brought back my download speeds.
Thanks everyone for their help...sorry we couldn't get anything resolved with the RAX40...I would have kept it for the future if it would have worked correctly.