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dlimanov
Jun 20, 2025Aspirant
CAX80 vs CBK752 for Xfinity
As title says, I’m in an unfortunate location where only Xfinity Internet is available with up to 1.2Gbps service being the highest offering. I currently run CAX30 with an EAX80 extender for our sing...
plemans
Jun 20, 2025Guru - Experienced User
One other thing to check is the EAX80, for its full "up to 4800mbps" specs, has to use the dfs channels. In areas with radar, it can cause drops when in that mode. I usually tell people to set it down to "up to 2400mbps" and use a non-dfs channel if they're in one of those areas. It shouldn't really impact most devices as it just narrows the bandwidth from 160hz to 80hz. Which is still enough for anything people are going to throw at it.