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My Night Hawk RAX 70 is VERY slow only on ONE device
Hi I have a problem that Netgear Support has given up on and can't solve. I thought I would " pick the brains" of the community for any ideas. My Wifi 6 night hawk router connects fine and fast to al...
The windows driver update is typically just for generic drivers, thus it will not find official ones.
I don't have much experience with apple systems, though I think bootcamp has a driver package that users need to install after installing the OS.
Beyond that, you may need to find the adapter model number. In device manager, you can find it by heading to details and then looking for the hardware IDs from the dropdown menu, and the first entry will have the model number.
Beyond that, one of the issues seems to be the generic drivers not properly supporting protected management frames where if they are turned on in the router's WiFi settings (some WiFi routers have then on by default), it will cause some devices to perform slowly. In which case, better drivers or needed, or protected management frames must be turned off in the advanced WiFi settings (may be labeled as PMF)
I looked at “device manager “ and it just says
“Broadcom 802.11 ac Network Adapter” when I click update drivers it says “Best driver for this device already installed”. My computer is an IMac 2020 running windows in boot camp. When the computer is running as a Mac it connects to the net gear very fast. When I use a different router the same windows setup connects to other routers super fast.
“Broadcom 802.11 ac Network Adapter” when I click update drivers it says “Best driver for this device already installed”. My computer is an IMac 2020 running windows in boot camp. When the computer is running as a Mac it connects to the net gear very fast. When I use a different router the same windows setup connects to other routers super fast.
The windows driver update is typically just for generic drivers, thus it will not find official ones.
I don't have much experience with apple systems, though I think bootcamp has a driver package that users need to install after installing the OS.
Beyond that, you may need to find the adapter model number. In device manager, you can find it by heading to details and then looking for the hardware IDs from the dropdown menu, and the first entry will have the model number.
Beyond that, one of the issues seems to be the generic drivers not properly supporting protected management frames where if they are turned on in the router's WiFi settings (some WiFi routers have then on by default), it will cause some devices to perform slowly. In which case, better drivers or needed, or protected management frames must be turned off in the advanced WiFi settings (may be labeled as PMF)
- Thank you Razor512. That sounds like something worth a try. Out of curiosity, what does PMF do? And will I suffer on any of my other devices that work so well right now? In the last few minutes I found a “work around “ I disabled the Broadcom network adapter, used an old Asus usb dongle ( wireless adapter) that is more than 5 years old . It works just great !!!! Go figure! It would be nice not to have to though. I will investigate your suggestion . Thank you .
This site offers a good amount of detail on protected management frames. https://www.wi-fi.org/beacon/philipp-ebbecke/protected-management-frames-enhance-wi-fi-network-security
It is also a requirement for WPA 3.
- You are my HERO!!!!!! It worked! A month of back and forth with Net gear support and you solve it with your first suggestion!! Thank you so much you have saved me so much grief.