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EAX80 limited to 20mb...
I have a few nighthawk products. I just bought my third, an EAX80. I previously had only a ac4000 and upgraded the wireless with a ex8000. That combo worked pretty good. I got full speeds through the...
I think there are massive problems with the EXA80.
If I have a device connected via 5ghz wireless to my Nighthawk X10 R9000 that is on the other side of the house through a number of walls...I get a speedtest result of 476Mbs. Connecting the same device to the EAX80 just feet away results in speedtest download results of 2Mbs.
Despite the fact that the device reports the wireless connection as excellent and the extender's 5ghz connection to the main router as being over 1700Mbs and providing up to 2400Mbs from the extender to devices.
Half the time devices that are just feet away from the extender prefer to connect to the main router despite a weak signal.
So I think there are a massive issues that Netgear seems to have ignored with the EAX80.
I don't know that adding any additional hardware would solve the issues.
I just replaced the EAX80 with another EX8000 like I had before. Now I'm back to decent connection speeds that I would expect.
The EAX80 just seems to be garbage.