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PurplePanda
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Nov 04, 2019

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...
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inspectorgadjet
Apprentice
May 17, 2020

I have these issues with the EAX80 and my RAX120 as well, I wish I had seen this forum before my return window was up. I guess I have to hope they release new firmware soon.

I tolerated the issues as long as I did because I was having to reboot the EAX80 once every week or two, but the problem has started happening multiple times every day now since I updated to the newest firmware on the RAX120 with the Netgear Armor functionality.

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Jeff-4
Guide
May 17, 2020

I was lucky ot still be ble to return both the RAX80 and EAX80 and receive a full refund. After more than a week of uptime and no issues, the Orbi WiFi 6 system (RBR840, purchased from Costco), I finally feel like I have a stable, well-performing system.