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RAX80 may not fully support 802.11ax
Read the fine print.
http://netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/RAX80.aspx
"This router may not support all the mandatory features as ratified in Draft 3.0 of IEEE 802.11AX ...
As seen on any other pre-standard draft released chipsets and products.
TGax Timeline - borrowed from http://www.ieee802.org/11/Reports/tgax_update.htm - as of writing:
| Current Timeline | |
|---|---|
| May 2014 | Start of TG |
| November 2014 | First draft of the TG SFD approved |
| January 2016 | Proposed TG draft |
| March 2016 | Draft 0.1 was approved and Comment Collection started |
| November 2016 | Issue Draft 1.0 and start WG Letter Ballot — Failed (57.77%) LB 225: opened Dec. 1st, 2016 and closed Jan. 8th, 2017 |
| September 2017 | Draft 2.0 and WG Letter Ballot — Failed (62.84%) LB 230: opened Oct. 5th, 2017 and closed Nov. 4th, 2017 |
| May 2018 | Draft 3.0 and WG Letter Ballot — Passes (86.5%) |
| November 2018 | Mandatory Draft Review |
| November 2018 | Draft 4.0 and Recirculation Ballot |
| February 2019 | Formation of Sponsor Ballot pool |
| March 2019 | Draft 5.0 and Recirculation (unchanged) |
| July 2019 | Initial Sponsor Ballot |
| January 2020 | RevCom submittal and publication |
Thanks for posting. Some folks don't seem to understand pre-release and not finalized yet as meaning more features will be added when standard is ratified and finalized.
duckware I think you have some beef with these draft-based NETGEAR models. The competition is not any much better. ASUS not and TP-Link not
