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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 am having the same issue with the eax80 range extender I have finally set it up today to work with my rax120 and replace a r7000 extender I only really use the extender to take the load of all my smart devices I.e lights, sockets and cameras etc as I have a lot!
But when I connected it I get good speed over 5g but over 2.4g is piss poor barely 2-5mbps
When I check my link sped between the eax80 and rax120 it's over 2000mbps! I just can't seem to work this out
So now I am back to using my r7000
I hope some one sorts this soon
But when I connected it I get good speed over 5g but over 2.4g is piss poor barely 2-5mbps
When I check my link sped between the eax80 and rax120 it's over 2000mbps! I just can't seem to work this out
So now I am back to using my r7000
I hope some one sorts this soon
I have the same set up with a RAX120 and EAX80. Countless problems with both over the last year while working from home. The only way I could get them to sort of work was to change to Extender mode on the EAX80 (not Mesh mode) and switch off Wifi 6 on the RAX120. This is pointless as these features are why I puchased these expensive units in the first place. Netgear Tech could not fix the issues for me other than reduce settings. Unfortunately I could not return both units, otheriwse I would. The main outstanding problem is that the RAX120 still goes to sleep once or twice a week and stops connecting Wifi to everything while I still have a strong internet connection coming into the house. I have the latest firmware (1.2.0.16). You would think this bug could be easily fixed by Netgear - but no! The only way I could fix this was to manually reboot the RAX120 each time.
- It's so terrible. I bit the bullet and sold both on eBay hopefully to someone who had the patience to deal with the issues. I have since moved on to the wifi6 Orbi mesh system and haven't looked back
- Same. The wifi6 mesh works great which is why these issues are so infuriating. I even listed when I sold it no refunds. Research the known issues and be sure you understand before bidding