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RAX40 dropping signal
Anyone else experiencing signal loss randomly with latest firmware? ISP is good, router works fine after reboot, but it's almost daily and sometimes twice a day. Running Firmware V1.0.3.80_1....
- I ended up swapping for an ASUS AX3000. This being the final straw, I have had multiple issues over the last year and change from SmartConnect not working at all to spontaneous reboots. I couldn’t go much more than a week without some sort of issue.
I'm still on version .80 and it's been good for me although I had to disable a chunk of features just to make it stable. I'm not sure about trusting .88 just yet as it might make things worse. They did just release a v2 of the Rax40 so .88 might be to finish bricking the v1 rax40 to convince people to upgrade.
I've been using .88 for a week now and the signal doesn't outright drop as much but it's significantly weaker and I reboot it once or twice daily. Tonight is the first time it's dropped completely. I've rebooted a few times and the signal is weaker than usual - I can't even connect from where I usually use it from.