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phoyte
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Sep 19, 2019

RAX80 - slow speeds

Model RAX80 - Firmware - 1.0.1.60 Purchased August 2,2019 I bought this router a few weeks ago and noticed that I wasnt getting the speeds. This morning I had our ISP out to the house to confirm tha...
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mayeen12
Star
Apr 17, 2020

I finally fixed my problem :)

Final Results, I'm getting FULL 940 to 985 MBPS download (From Internet & Internal NAS Drive) - both in wired and wifi mode.

 

PLEASE NOTE** All my clients are wired or AC or AX devices.

 

Step 1 - Get the latestest firmware 

Step 2 - Turn OFF QOS

Step 3 - Turn OFF Traffic Meter

Step 4 - Turn OFF Access Control

Step 5 - Test you MTU from a wired connection > https://kb.netgear.com/19863/Ping-Test-to-determine-Optimal-MTU-Size-on-Router

Step 6 - Adjust your MTU settings >> https://kb.netgear.com/24015/How-do-I-change-the-MTU-size-on-my-Nighthawk-router

Step 7 - Use WiFI Analizer - FIND THE BEST CH for WiFI - I put AUTO for 2.4 and CH36 for 5ghz 

Step 8 - ENABLE BEAMFORMING > DISABLE MUMIMO > ENABLE AX

 

- So there is couple of other things i did, like use non netgear NTP server.. not sure if that even matters

 

 

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billafin
Aspirant
May 07, 2020

Just wanted to chime in for any lurkers, this solution WORKS. The issues seem to be tied to steps 2-4. Everything was back up to about 1000/1000 after I changed these settings. 

 

Thank you for the solution mayeen12