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Problems w/ New WiFi 6 Nighthawk 8AX - EAX80 Range Extender w/ New WiFi 6 Nighthawk AX12 - RAX200
Please help. I am a long time Netgear customer, and have been buying Netgear products since the early 2000s. Upon receiving my Nighthawk AX8 (EAX80) and configuring it I found myself fairly disapp...
I have the same issue - bought the RAX200 and EAX80 with great confidence that surely products from the same company will work well together. Frequent drops - cannot get Airprint to work - products not showing up in the app - just maddening to spend that kind of money to have these kinds of issues. Mine two devices are going back tomorrow unless there is some miracle over night
I have an RAX80 Wifi6 router and just got the EAX80 in hopes of performing better than the EX8000 tri-band mesh extender. Boy was I wrong. After reading all of these complaints about the EAX80, I totally can relate to all the poor performance problems. After rebooting, it seems to be performing well but test after test shows that the wifi performance is actually poor despite it showing a high connection status. It cannot even perform as good as the EX8000 X6S that it was SUPPOSED to replace. The X6S is a solid rock compared to this over-priced EAX80. I will hold on to it and hope for a firmware update after seeing all of these complaints but will be using the X6S only for now. I'm really disappointed in Netgear for releasing this EAX80
I have exactly the same issue as everyone else on this thread. I bought the EAX80 over a week ago and its very poor, it gives only 52% signal 6ft 5ghz away from the router setting up even next to the router you only get 83% 5ghz. I am on a bt 900/110Mbps package I've ran several tests and only get 260/100Mbps speedtest.net I bought this to upgrade from my EX8000 extender I have now reverted back to my EX8000 which is so much better I get 690/110Mbps on the same setup and same position for both extenders. Is Netgear goig to fix this issue in an update does anyone know thanks
carys4 wrote:I have an RAX80 Wifi6 router and just got the EAX80 in hopes of performing better than the EX8000 tri-band mesh extender. Boy was I wrong. After reading all of these complaints about the EAX80, I totally can relate to all the poor performance problems. After rebooting, it seems to be performing well but test after test shows that the wifi performance is actually poor despite it showing a high connection status. It cannot even perform as good as the EX8000 X6S that it was SUPPOSED to replace. The X6S is a solid rock compared to this over-priced EAX80. I will hold on to it and hope for a firmware update after seeing all of these complaints but will be using the X6S only for now. I'm really disappointed in Netgear for releasing this EAX80
- Just dump it. They have no interest in fixing it. I switched to their orbi WiFi 6 mesh and have been much happier.
- FYI - AirPrint would not consistently pick up my HP8020. I figured out that it was because the printer was connecting to two bands at the same time. I turned off one of the bands on the print we config and can now reliably AirPrint.
Also, I disallow any devices that I want to run Sonos from the extender. That defeats the purpose of the extender but it did fix my access to all Sonos devices.Well I finally pulled the plug (literally) and got an ASUS RT-AX92U WIFI6 mesh router. Zero problems after 3 days. SONOS is still a pain to setup but everything else went flawlessy. No IP passthru - no isolating devices to the main router .....