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Dustin_V
Jun 16, 2020NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nighthawk AX8 WiFi 6 Cable Modem Router Is Now Available!
NETGEAR is excited to announce that the Nighthawk AX8 8-Stream WiFi 6 Cable Modem Router (CAX80) is now available! An Innovation Award Honoree at CES 2020, the Nighthawk CAX80 is the first of its...
rakng2
Jul 29, 2020Guide
I would like to buy it imminently. Can you please let me know what the minor bugs.
Thanks.
Thanks.
koolkat
Jul 29, 2020Tutor
Hi, I'v had this unit CAX 80 about a month. When it works it is as fast as I wanted it to be. Range for wifi is very good. But, the first 10 days it dropped the wifi several times a day. Wifi not hard wirded ethernet connections. After going through 3-5 tech reps I got one who suggested a factory reset (3 times we did that) then changed the channels for each frequency. I downloaded an app for my smart phone to find out the neighborhood channel selection & then selected a channel not being used. The dropping of the wifi has decreased to about once a week, better but why???
Working with routerlogin.com/192.168.1.1 to change the channel is a real pain as you have to change your password to get to that location to then change the channel. All of this was a real learning experience but not the "out of the box" quality I thought I was getting from Netgear, especially considering the price $430. If you can get past these types of problems I think you will be pleased with this unit.