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session_101
Aspirant
May 12, 2020

RAX80 slow WIFI speeds, LAN is fine

RAX80 Router Firmware Version V1.0.2.76_1.0.35   This just started happening recently. WIFI basically goes to a crawl/slow speed for no reason.   I basically narrowed this down to the router. ...
Christian_R's avatar
Christian_R
NETGEAR Employee Retired
May 15, 2020

Session_101, 

 

You may try disabling AX to see if there are any improvements.

 

Christian 

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brianebrown79
Aspirant
May 16, 2020

I am having the same issue, disabled AX and on a totally differnt 5ghz channel than anything my attena can pick up (120).

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    brianebrown79
    Aspirant
    May 16, 2020

    I actually ran through all of the channels, nothing worked faster than channel 120.  I get a around 480 mbps down, on a CenturyLink 1Gbps (940Mbps) fiber connection; using a Intel 9260 chip, connected at 1.7Gbps to the router.