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RAX80 vs R9000 vs Whatever
Hi!
I recently upgraded my internet to Gigabit and my R7000 just isn't up to the job.
I've been looking at the RAX80 (AX6000) and the R9000 (X10). They are the same price. I'm strugglin...
The 2nd 5Ghz band will NOT increase coverage, only throughput across the 5Ghz spectrum, sounds nice on paper but the R7800 trumps the X6 in range and overall performance even with dozens of clients thanks to a superior Qualcomm chipset, plus Broadcom chipsets like the one in the X6 haave issues with advertised extras like MU which causes performance loss rather than gain unlike on Qualcomm routers. Ive had had tthe R8000, R8500 and the R7800 so this is from experience as well. Realistically even with dozens of clients connected only a handful will be actively using a lot of bandwidth so for the average home user even power user tthe R7800 is still a better unit there are enough reviews out there, I have not seen a single one shows either the x6 or x8 ac routers beating the R7800 in 5Ghz performance at close or far ranges.
In my testing the RAX80 was definately better than the older x6 or x8 even as an ac router I get around 1120 Mbps Down and ~480 Mbps Up when doing LAN transfers to router's USB port with my Samsung T5 SSD, and around 960 Mbps Up/Down in transfers to my NAS, all tests were on WiFi (My Dell Inspiron 7577 with an Intel AX200 internal adapter, previously 9260ac both supporting HT160).
Also know that the current AX routers don't support all AX features as they are draft routers, so wait till 2nd gen AX routers and hopefully prices will be more sane by then as well.
- Agree the 2nd 5ghz band does not increase coverage, but you can choose to connect only you to it or your whole house. It's like a 3rd wifi, for me it works out very nice.
Man, for me the AX8 didnt perform, and I was hoping it did, maybe I got a faulty one??
As far as the 7800 goes, I haven't tried that one...Probably not, you know slight variances in antenna layout between different routers and that in conjunction with different home layouts can also give differing results. If the X6 is performing better for you stick with it, since that was the best in your environment.