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Rebooting Netgear rax 120
Recently I bought a Netgear Rax 120 Serial : 5VE399 1.2.8.40 on Ebay.
When it arrived to me in Ukraine, I could not believe that the device for $300 could work so badly.
WiFi was rebooting constantly, the speed in the 2.4 Ghz range was dropping to 25mb/s.
It was very warm and the cooler was on very rarely.
I tried every configuration option, but it did not work.
I decided to take it apart.
And I found out that the problem was not with the firmware but with the fault of Netgear!
THERE WAS A MISTAKE IN THE COOLING RADIATOR ASSEMBLY!
The legs on the pressure plate, which is held in place by 4 rails, are in the wrong order.
They don't align with the holes in the board, because of that the plate is not pressed tightly, and when you load the 2.4 chip, very poor cooling of the chip occurs.
I fixed it by rearranging the legs in the correct order, assembled the router and it worked.
The problem was solved and now he almost does not heat up, his temperature is 40 degrees, with a connected home network of 12 PCs, 16 phones, surveillance cameras, smart home and everything works fine.
If you need pictures email me.
When it arrived to me in Ukraine, I could not believe that the device for $300 could work so badly.
WiFi was rebooting constantly, the speed in the 2.4 Ghz range was dropping to 25mb/s.
It was very warm and the cooler was on very rarely.
I tried every configuration option, but it did not work.
I decided to take it apart.
And I found out that the problem was not with the firmware but with the fault of Netgear!
THERE WAS A MISTAKE IN THE COOLING RADIATOR ASSEMBLY!
The legs on the pressure plate, which is held in place by 4 rails, are in the wrong order.
They don't align with the holes in the board, because of that the plate is not pressed tightly, and when you load the 2.4 chip, very poor cooling of the chip occurs.
I fixed it by rearranging the legs in the correct order, assembled the router and it worked.
The problem was solved and now he almost does not heat up, his temperature is 40 degrees, with a connected home network of 12 PCs, 16 phones, surveillance cameras, smart home and everything works fine.
If you need pictures email me.
Might be why it was sold on ebay versus from the netgear store.
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Might be why it was sold on ebay versus from the netgear store.
- This plate was assembled the way it was at the factory, as these guides are pressed into it. It is almost impossible to do this at home. The plate is a router overheating problem. In this case, I do not see the difference where the Rax120 was bought
