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ChristineT
Nov 17, 2021Administrator
RAXE500 Beta FW v1.0.9.72 is available for Testing
Hello RAXE500 Community,
We have a beta firmware available for testing for the RAXE500 that we hope will resolve some of the instability issues that have been reported over the last few months....
TWilson
Dec 21, 2021Aspirant
Item 1
I still experience the same frequent client disconnects using the beta firmware that I experienced in prior firmware in the 5GHz band even with its Mode set to "Up to 2400 Mbps" and channel set to 44 (non-DFS channel).
This only occurred with my prior RAX200 when its Mode was set to "up to 4800 Mbps" due to Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS). When I changed the RAX200 Mode to "Up to 2400 Mbps" and selected a non DFS channel, the disconnects stopped occurring (I live near an airport so I assume DFS was sensing a radar and was switching channels resulting in client disconnections).
With the RAXE500, changing the 5HGZ band mode to "Up to 2400 Mbps" and selecting a non DFS channel hasn't resolved the client disconnects (like it did with my prior RAX200).
Not happy about this and am considering returning the RAXE500 and rolling back to the RAX200 because of this and item 2 below.
Item 2
The 6GHz band is working with my Windows 11 devices having the Intel AX210NGW adapter using WPA3 on 6GHz.
Range is horrible though. I get 3 bars when 15-20 feet away in line of sight. Connection speeds are also frequently the same as or lower than what I get when connected to the 5Ghz band.
The 6GHz radio power output seems to be much lower than the 5GHz radio (I know there is greater attenuation across materials when using 6 GHz vs 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz - however I'm observing this with line of slight with only air between the router and device).
I had much higher hopes for 6Ghz band than this (The marketing for has been extremely over hyped). I currently have the entire 6GHz band to myself in my neighborhood and its typical performance isn't any better than what I get on the congested 5GHz band (was expecting to see improved data transfer ratperformance between 6GHz AX clients and file/applications servers attached to local network).
Item 3
The beta firmware included support for QOS. When I select the QOS setting page, I see options to enable WMM for 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 5GHz-2. By default, WMM is checked for 2.4GHz and 5GHz (5GHz-2 is not checked).
Obviously, there shouldn't be any settings for 5GHz-2 and instead should be settings for the 6GHz band.
I haven't tested if QOS works on 2.4 or 5 GHz bands.
DarrenM
Dec 21, 2021Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
Thank you for all the feed back I forward this to our engineers.
DarrenM