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RAX80 range is not that great
So, it seems the range is a little lacking. Using one Linksys Velop node placed in the same location would give me 5ghz and of course 2.4ghz to my outdoor camera. with the RAX80, I get zero signal....
myersw wrote:
I agree that if the Velop can do it the RAX80 should. Are you using same wireless channel? Just in case something is funky there.
I would suggest opening a case with tech support, yes a pain to do. I guess since it seems like the wireless is weak it could be a defective device.
Not sure what channels the Velop was using because I left it on Auto. The RAX80 does not seem to have auto for 5ghz.I wish it did, with a toggle to either include or exclude DFS and maybe use DFS only.
People DON'T buy any AX wifi-6 router at this time. They are all full of bugs and your the beta tester for future purchases by others. These AX's were tested and believe it or not the R7800 out preformed them. This is new tech that will take a year or two to perfect in the real world. The latest and greatest are not the greatest and not worth anything for there current price tag. You gain nothing but a major headache.
Plus looking at Netgears recent track record with faulty broken firmware i would stay far away from giving them any of your hard earned cash.
James721 wrote:
People DON'T buy any AX wifi-6 router at this time. They are all full of bugs and your the beta tester for future purchases by others. These AX's were tested and believe it or not the R7800 out preformed them. This is new tech that will take a year or two to perfect in the real world. The latest and greatest are not the greatest and not worth anything for there current price tag. You gain nothing but a major headache.
Plus looking at Netgears recent track record with faulty broken firmware i would stay far away from giving them any of your hard earned cash.
I think even non AX routers have bugs. I have yet to find a router I am 100% happy with and I have tried many. I also keep in mind it's designed to work with AX clients of which there are non. It's really just working in backwards compatibility mode at this time.
- I only partially agree. There are no ax clients till the Intel AX200/201 WiFi cards release in Jan/Feb and the standard won’t be finalized till mid next year, so these are draft units, missing things like uplink direction MU-MiMO and WPA3 . So essentially it’s an ac router till next year by which time final revision WiFi 6 routers will be released anyway.
However in terms of comparing with the R7800 the RAX80 actually is giving slightly better performance on HT80 and on HT160 it outperforms it. Connecting a Samsung T5 SSD to the router I get 1120 Mbps in transfer rates to my laptop with an Intel 9260ac and that’s one floor below the router.
Additionally both storage and also VPN performance is night and day as the RAX80s chipset has proper crypto acceleration compared to the R7800.
The review you speak of by SmallNetbuilder was just a prelim not a true review. It was flawed because thiggins was getting very low speeds in his upload tests which I haven’t seen in my tests, also download tests seemed a bit off. As I said it was just a preview not his full fledged review. I totally disagree with the part about not buying at this time. I bought mine just over a month ago on 12/18/18, and have had no problems at all. The only nitpick I would have is that I wish the top side port numbers were directly over the actual ports.
Considering I belive these routers are based on Draft 3 of wifi 6 I would wait till its been ratified and any changes in silicon made for full compatibility. Right now something like the R7800 will do just fine, and you are not futurerproofing by buying draft ax routers that have no complete and irrefutable guarantee they will be fully compatible with the final draft, which I think will be released between September and November 2019. In fact if you can wait it out with the box you have unless its dead/dies it may be a good time not to buy at all untill late 2019, early 2020. wifi 5 will still be around for a while and R7800/XR500 etc which have HT160 if you need that feature on hardware and firmware which is more mature than current draft ax routers.
Looking at the wifi 6 routers growing pains from Asus it may be a bumpy ride for a while for all makes and backwards compatabilty with wifi 5 clients right now really important, so its probably best to wait a while. Its not like an ax router will magically make your current wifi network better untill you have ax clients really. The gains to be made are small for the price and pains of operating what is really beta firmware and hardware.
