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Re: RAX-70 second 5 Ghz band drops randomly
I know I'm late to reply but I just bought one of these routers (rax70) and had same issue (it was disconnecting after about a minute and only on the fast 5ghz network).
My resolution was to do 3 things to the fast 5g network, one was change from channel 100dfs to 128dfs, second was to change from wpa2 to wpa3 security and third was to change the adapter settings on the computer, setting roaming aggressiveness from low to medium and I haven't had a disconnect in over 2.5 hours.
I'm using firmware V1.0.13.128 as that's the latest one that supports 4800Mbps on the fast 5ghz network, all firmwares after that nerf the fast 5g speed to 2400Mbps.
Hope this helped.
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If you have any DFS signals in your area, setting the speeds down to "up to 2400mbps" and using a non-dfs channel is recommended
Channel 40 has always worked great on my RAX routers.
Also there is newer FW available for the RAX70: Nighthawk Firmware Releases | NETGEAR Communities
Any progress on this?
I know I'm late to reply but I just bought one of these routers (rax70) and had same issue (it was disconnecting after about a minute and only on the fast 5ghz network).
My resolution was to do 3 things to the fast 5g network, one was change from channel 100dfs to 128dfs, second was to change from wpa2 to wpa3 security and third was to change the adapter settings on the computer, setting roaming aggressiveness from low to medium and I haven't had a disconnect in over 2.5 hours.
I'm using firmware V1.0.13.128 as that's the latest one that supports 4800Mbps on the fast 5ghz network, all firmwares after that nerf the fast 5g speed to 2400Mbps.
Hope this helped.
