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jbtaco2002
Sep 15, 2020Star
CAX80 problems
When you buy one of these at this price point, there's a certain expectation that it will just work. set it up once and pretty much forget about it. That has NOT been the case for me as pretty m...
BEB7474
Nov 15, 2020Star
I am on my 2nd cax80 as well. I'm still having the same problems. I want to throw this **bleep** out the window. I have the Samsung s20 + as well. I promise you, it's not our phone or cox, ITS NETGEAR. Have you downloaded the nighthawk app for your modem/router? That's how I contact Netgear. Click on "contact." But I can almost guarantee you, they are gonna have you do the same crap over & over. Its something w/their firmware.
dadabunchie
Nov 15, 2020Aspirant
BEB7474 wrote:
I am on my 2nd cax80 as well. I'm still having the same problems. I want to throw this **bleep** out the window. I have the Samsung s20 + as well. I promise you, it's not our phone or cox, ITS NETGEAR. Have you downloaded the nighthawk app for your modem/router? That's how I contact Netgear. Click on "contact." But I can almost guarantee you, they are gonna have you do the same crap over & over. Its something w/their firmware.
Their FW is definitely borked and there are no updates since release. I do wonder if the CPU on the device is underpowered and it stalls to keep up with the load of adding devices even though its a WiFi6 router.
Some advice, create backups of your settings regularly (I mean often). Also when restarting, completely power down the device meaning unplug the d**n thing for > 30s.
With the logs have useless information and an unreliable reboot/restart process its a crap shoot with this device. I've had my device for about 3 months and its rebooted multiple times and sometimes its seamless and other times it would reset to default.
my 2 cents