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New firmware for AX8 1.0.1.56 available and not good results
Updated to the new firmware and it lowered my Wi-Fi speed. I have Comcast blast 250 Mbits. With 1.0.1.40 I was getting 300 Mbits down and with new firmware my speeds lowered to 50-70 Mbits. Back to 1...
I found the problem. Login and change the 5g wireless channel to 153 and the mode to 2400Mbit. For some reason the new firmware changes this. All is back to normal now with my wireless speed which is back to 300Mbits.
OK. Always worth trying.
The factory reset is more a "witchcraft" move than a technically informed solution, but it does seem to fix problems sometimes, especially on the wifi front.
I found the problem. Login and change the 5g wireless channel to 153 and the mode to 2400Mbit. For some reason the new firmware changes this. All is back to normal now with my wireless speed which is back to 300Mbits.
I checked my speed again with the old firmware 40 and my ethernet speed was at 350. I then reinstalled firmware 56 and double checked that the 5g was still the same at channel 153 and mode 2400 as it was before the update. The update didn't change this on mine. However, the ethernet speed was back down from 350 pre-update to 120 post update. I didn't even bother checking the wifi speed since the speed with the ethernet cord directly into the router dropped so drastically. Went back to fw 40.