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phoyte's avatar
phoyte
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Sep 19, 2019

RAX80 - slow speeds

Model RAX80 - Firmware - 1.0.1.60 Purchased August 2,2019 I bought this router a few weeks ago and noticed that I wasnt getting the speeds. This morning I had our ISP out to the house to confirm tha...
mayeen12's avatar
mayeen12
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Apr 15, 2020

Stupid me - I intailly blamed by ISP .. didn't return in within the 30 day period.

 

NOW --- I'm stuck with the god dam router.. I can't return to best buy

 

Going through this forum, there is MANY MANY router reporting the same issues WAN limited to 500 MBPS

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majeremiah
Tutor
Apr 15, 2020

I am way past 30 days, wasting to much time hoping for a solution.

 

Got mine at Costco, I will see if they will take this one back.  I already sent the first one back, so they should understand this product is garbage.

  • mayeen12's avatar
    mayeen12
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    Apr 17, 2020

    I finally fixed my problem :)

    Final Results, I'm getting FULL 940 to 985 MBPS download (From Internet & Internal NAS Drive) - both in wired and wifi mode.

     

    PLEASE NOTE** All my clients are wired or AC or AX devices.

     

    Step 1 - Get the latestest firmware 

    Step 2 - Turn OFF QOS

    Step 3 - Turn OFF Traffic Meter

    Step 4 - Turn OFF Access Control

    Step 5 - Test you MTU from a wired connection > https://kb.netgear.com/19863/Ping-Test-to-determine-Optimal-MTU-Size-on-Router

    Step 6 - Adjust your MTU settings >> https://kb.netgear.com/24015/How-do-I-change-the-MTU-size-on-my-Nighthawk-router

    Step 7 - Use WiFI Analizer - FIND THE BEST CH for WiFI - I put AUTO for 2.4 and CH36 for 5ghz 

    Step 8 - ENABLE BEAMFORMING > DISABLE MUMIMO > ENABLE AX

     

    - So there is couple of other things i did, like use non netgear NTP server.. not sure if that even matters

     

     

  • billafin's avatar
    billafin
    Aspirant
    May 07, 2020

    Just wanted to chime in for any lurkers, this solution WORKS. The issues seem to be tied to steps 2-4. Everything was back up to about 1000/1000 after I changed these settings. 

     

    Thank you for the solution mayeen12