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Terrible WiFi with RAX12 after switching off Xfinity AP
I deciced to replace the AP on my Comcast XB6 with the RAX120. Everything went great at first! I was hitting 870+ Mbps on WiFi 6 and 600-700 on 802.11 AC devices. Latency was low and legacy device...
LOL on the prefers 2.4. Most devices seem to blindly grab 2.4 when they see a stronger SNNR. With WiFi 6 it isn't as bad, but not optimal. I've got my desktop and router within 10 feet of each other and they will still go to 2.4 without a bit of configuring and "forget this" on my part.
I could sware I did port 1 only on the XB6 only and it still failed.
I've replaced all of my desktop clients now with Intel AX200 cards. They will outperform the direct ethernet connection but I'm suffering from random failures on all systems now. They can be easily bounded by an on/off of the wifi connection. But it only happens when connected to the RAX in ax mode. I think these failures are realted to the cards and perhaps not 100% the RAX.
If I could combine the best of the XB6 and RAX, it would be an amazing device. Netgear needs to get their act together on a few things.
michail71 wrote:... I've replaced all of my desktop clients now with Intel AX200 cards. They will outperform the direct ethernet connection but I'm suffering from random failures on all systems now...
A wired connection is the best way to connect devices when possible.
Going further, using separate vlans for ioT, guest and main in some form is also additionally preferred. One can get really complicated here too with vpn and intervlan routing, etc.
It is why I use a different setup in my main residence (40+ devices) and have everything connected via wire where possible and enough AP's to cover those that need wireless.