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Wi-Fi 6 band drops speed, needs reboot
Hi so for some reason my RAX200 have started droping speeds after a couple of days on the Wi-Fi 6 band, running channel 128 5ghz-2 band. I only have one device connected. If i reboot the router ...
plemans I'm testing this on 3 devices the results are the same.
My 3rd Band wifi 4gh-2 where i run WiFi 6 on the 128 channel i onlye have once device assigned, when i first noticed the issue i added more devices to test, same result max speed of 200mbps, restart router full speed on my Desktop full speed on my mobile what it now supports around 600mbps, i use speedtest to test my speed.
So for exampel right now.
Open SpeedTest website on the Desktop thats on the WiFi 5ghz-2 128 channel = Speed caps at 200mbps
Move the desktop device to the WifI 5ghz-1 running on channel 42 i get 900mbps.
Repeate steps with Mobile result change is only due to mobilephone supports 600mbps opn Wifi 2 200mbs caps out on wifi 1 600mbps.
Restart router.
For 2-5 days i will have maxed out speeds at 1200+mbps on 5ghz-2
I can do the same test on multiple devices iPads, laptops all the same, only the second 5ghz band gets this issue.
I can try changing the channel but i dont think that will help at all as i dont have any radar issues on that channel it's more of a degration of speed over time on the band.
always worth give it a channel change.
Did the issue just crop up or has it been this way since you bought it?
has a factory reset been done?
plemans I dont know how long i had this issue, i mean i dont notice much as i dont use much bandwidth on the device or very rarley.
I have done factory reset, restored settings same issue.
I will try changing channel but I dont think thats the issue as the speed gets instantly back after one reboot, but channel is the only thing different from the other bands right now. If i move the device to 5ghz-1 i get 900mbps+ while on the 5ghz-2 on channel 128 i get 200mbps after a couple of days, so i guess the channel is the only part different if there is no firmware issue with the second 5ghz band.
plemans No luck changing band, same thing happens now.
Channel 100, Channel 116, Channel 124, Channel 126, Channel 128
This is not an channel issue this is most likley a firmware issue on the second 5ghz band using DFS channels.
Other 5ghz band speed stays the same, secon 5ghz band speed drops and caps out at 200mbps always. After a reboot speed is 1200mb+ wait for a couple of hours speed drops to 200mbps.
All the channels you switched to, are still dfs. so if its impacting one, it impacts all.