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RAX80 regularly disconnects devices, then they reconnect
I recently “upgraded” from an R8000 thinking I would have better connectivity and faster speeds. Since purchasing the RAX80 I continually have devices drop their connection at random, then they reco...
My experience with this problem is slightly different. In my case, the RAX80 simply slows a specific (random) system's connection down to a crawl. Rebooting the system dows nothing to fix this. The only fix I've found so far is to reboot the router and problem is gone.
Tech support has suggested changing the MTU setting to 1468. (Advanced>setup>Wan Setup) So far, I haven't noticed any improvement from this.
So they made another suggestion I haven't had the opportunity to check out yet. Here it is:
">>click on advanced on the top of the page
>>Then Select Advanced Setup
>>under Advanced Setup click on Advanced Wireless setting
under Wireless Advanced Settings (2.4GHz b/g/n) under Fragmentation Length (256-2346): changed the number 2346 to 2300
for CTS/RTS Threshold (1-2347): change the number from 2347 to 2301
do the same for Wireless Advanced Settings (5GHz a/n/ac)
Hit apply.
After this please observe the connection at least six hours."Perhaps this is worth a try. I have some other problems with this box. If they can't resolve them, I'g going to ask NetGear to buy the RAX80 back or replace it with something that is stable enough to actually work correctly. - My own optinion is that they shouldn't be messing with public domain code to run this box, generally, this has too many glitches and security issues. - You'd think they could afford to have professionals writing the firmware for these systems.
mafo5000 wrote:Has anyone figured out how to get this router working? My connection is insanely unstable and does not work 65% of the time. When it does work my download speeds are 40% of what they should be.
I can't believe I wasted $350 on this piece of junk..
Right now only way I can get stable speed on Ethernet and Wi-Fi is by turning QoS on... on previous firmware I had to turn QoS off. My modem is on gigabit plan and I am getting around 500Mbps on WiFi and 700 on Ethernet. With QoS off both speeds drop for some reason. On previous firmware with QoS off my speeds were higher 900 on Ethernet and 500 to 600 on WiFi.
I found one way to make this working is to turn off the MU-MIMO, it is not compatible with AX function is on. and choose channel 60. It is basically unusable when you select 100+ channel. Qos used to be a problem, you need to turn it on and reboot and turn it off again.