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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....
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 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.
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.