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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...
Download the Beta firmware from the Netgear support website and try it out. I tried it out and it seem to have fixed something. Haven't experienced loss of connection on the 5ghz channel since couple days ago that I installed the beta firmware. Keeping fingers crossed.
I did download it and it's connected now to both the 2.4 and 5ghz. It's just the speed is horrible slow for the 5ghz xtended. It stutters, Google.com takes like a minute to load, other web pages hang and videos don't even load. I don't know if there's anything else I might be able to change on my router thst will help or what.
I second all comments. The extender promises a lot and does not work at all. I connected the device and it dropped the 5Ghz connection with the RAX200 router. Then I factory-reset the extender, updated the firmware and it dropped the connection with the router.
I conducted up to 20 factory resets within the last few days, tried several configurations and everytime the device drops the connections.
Main effect: All devices connected to the extender lose connectivity and don't get it back. Basically it acts as a WiFi jammer in my household.
Conclusion: I will return it and use 2.4Ghz as best as possible until a functioning device appears on the market.
What should you do: Stay away from the EAX80. It is a diva!