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RAX80 Unstable Wifi
Just bought the RAX 80 updated to the firmware .70 - did the reset a thousand times, fiddled with channels (1 for 2.4g and 128 for 5g seems to be the best).
(I'm a 275mb Comcast plan and usually get 320mb on 5g and about 90mb+ on 2.4g on a consistent basis with older Nighthawks)
So for the 2.4g is so unstable. Sometimes it's 60mb, sometimes, 20mb, then suddenly for a split second goes SUPER low, and then back up again. Is it just me, or is this unstable for such an expensive devices. Support isn't really helping - just telling me the regular stuff mentioned (channel, DNS, factory reset, power cycling etc...)
Someone mentioned updating to .76 and fixed it? Maybe factory resetting x5 and some fixed the wifi inconsistencies?
Suggestions? Return it? It's killing me. I don't want to waste so much time after I spent SOOOO much time and money already on this.
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Can't find confidence in this product, when it's doing such weird behaviors. I don't want to miss the exchange period - if I can fix it.
If you search the forums you'll see that just about everyone here is complaining of slow wifi on the RAX80. I opened a support ticket when I was in warranty but they didnt type what we did to fix my issue. After a factory reset I lost the settings and now I'm slow again.
Good luck...