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RAX80 5 Ghz band... Bug preventing the 5Ghz band from running at full speed
After a long, diligent and frustrating effort to get Netgear Support to resolve a problem with my original RAX80, they finally sent a replacement. The new unit does not have the slowdown problem of t...
I just got a RAX80 today, and I have been load testing it. I have had no connectivity issues at all with 15+ devices connected.
However, I noticed a detail in your post. I was getting inconsistent and very poor download speeds on 5GHz. They were always below 100 Mbps and sometime like half that amount. I set the Mode from 4800 down to 2400 Mbps and I am consistently getting way faster speeds on wireless download speeds.
Thanks!
This is an update to my previous post.
First off, the characters used in the SSID are definitely not the issue. I did find that the RAX80 I had at the time of my post was definately corrupting the configuration, though. Netgear sent me a replacement, (this is the third one in a bit under two months.) On this one, there is no config corruption and it doesn't lock up when attempting to change the 5 Ghz speed up and down, but the 5 Ghz band will not allow 5 Ghz adapters to connect when it is set as up to 4800 Mbps, even though they are Wi-Fi 6 compatible, with current Intel drivers and documentation that says they do. (I may try doing a binary file compare on the good and bag .cfg files just to check out the differences...)
Interestingly, this box doesn't connect at 4800 with either the default or my custom SSID. It IS much more stable, generally.
I have two new tools that arrived today: One is a new diagnostic Wi-Fi scanner app that can better diagnose the Wi-Fi signals. The other is a brand new PCI Wi-Fi 6 adapter that advertises itself as compatible with the Nighthawk RAX80 and a long list of other units. That will be arriving this afternoon, and I will have a much better chance to find out ith the RAX80's % Ghz band will talk to anything when set to 4800 Mbps. - I'll post more after my experiments. (Note: May not be able to do this right away because my wife wants me to clean the garage... ) :-|