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Your experience with RAX120
I want to start this thread to know about end users' experience with RAX120. My own experience has been extremely bad. Even with firmware rolled back to 1.0.0.84 and performing hard reset to factory ...
I moved from R8000 to RAX120 because of issues with R8000. I had a rocky start and finally stablized everything after a hard reset to defaults and configuring everything again. The only issue now is that I cannot run my X8000 extender with the same SSID as the devices do not all connect. If I have any wifi disconnects it comes back within seconds. However most of my connections has been working good/stable for the last 3 weeks.
I did buy a separate PCI-E ax card for a desktop but the issue there was that my wife couldn't use remote PC connection to her work computer through the card/connection? Before she yelled at me I changed the connection to a wired one through the extender and all is well. However I never tired troubleshooting why the remote connection wasn't working with the ax wifi connection.
Can I suggest something totally weird? If you are using EX8000 extender with RAX120, please make sure that the name of the ReadySHARE device is changed to something different on one of these devices, even if you are not using them. I have kept the readyshare name on RAX120 and on the EX8000, I have changed the name to shareext. The reason is that in EX8000 and RAX120, the ReadySHARE is never really turned off. So, when you do a nslookup readyshare, it will sometimes resolve to the IP address of EX8000 and sometimes resolve to IP address of RAX120 (I operate the RAX120 in AP mode). For some bizarre reason, this causes havoc with the wireless devices and they drop WiFi connection. Please see if this fixes your issue of not being able to run RAX120 and EX8000 on the same SSID.
Thanks for the suggestion. My extender has readyshare name ExtedHD while my RAX120 has the default name of \\readyshare\USB_Storage.
I am very hestiant to use one SSID since my last experience and will keep waiting for a stable firmware from .84. Right now all my wifi devices are connected to RAX120 unless for some reason getting slow speeds then will get on the extender network. This has been stable for 4 weeks after my hard reset on RAX120.