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Rebooting Netgear rax 120
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When it arrived to me in Ukraine, I could not believe that the device for $300 could work so badly.
WiFi was rebooting constantly, the speed in the 2.4 Ghz range was dropping to 25mb/s.
It was very warm and the cooler was on very rarely.
I tried every configuration option, but it did not work.
I decided to take it apart.
And I found out that the problem was not with the firmware but with the fault of Netgear!
THERE WAS A MISTAKE IN THE COOLING RADIATOR ASSEMBLY!
The legs on the pressure plate, which is held in place by 4 rails, are in the wrong order.
They don't align with the holes in the board, because of that the plate is not pressed tightly, and when you load the 2.4 chip, very poor cooling of the chip occurs.
I fixed it by rearranging the legs in the correct order, assembled the router and it worked.
The problem was solved and now he almost does not heat up, his temperature is 40 degrees, with a connected home network of 12 PCs, 16 phones, surveillance cameras, smart home and everything works fine.
If you need pictures email me.
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Might be why it was sold on ebay versus from the netgear store.
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Might be why it was sold on ebay versus from the netgear store.
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May have been a mfr'g defect of the line.
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Re: Rebooting Netgear rax 120
Has anyone reported similar issues here?
Not the construction, which can change during manufacturing and that few people will feel confident to investigate, but the consequences you see in performance, the reboots.
There have been various reports of reboots on a number of routers. These usually get put down to firmware rather than manufacturing.
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Re: Rebooting Netgear rax 120
Something I do for ANY wifi router I use, place a USP laptop cooler fan under the router for additional cooling all the time.
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There was a bug thread going that seems to have been locked can anyone please help?
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-with-WiFi-6-AX-and/RAX120-V2-Constant-Random-Reboots/m-p/...
Some people mentioned about a beta firmware fixing it, how would i get this?
My serial number on the router is 6k01215xxx. Is this one of the confirmed models effected?
Rebooted ablut 15 times last week, up until i found out about this issue i'd called BT out twice they confirmed no issues. I then witnessed the lights on router resetting and checked the netgear logs shown it going down.
Not impressed!
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Re: Rebooting Netgear rax 120
Yes.
Sent.
@Serial45 wrote:
Im havng the same issue guyd driving me mad!!!
There was a bug thread going that seems to have been locked can anyone please help?
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-with-WiFi-6-AX-and/RAX120-V2-Constant-Random-Reboots/m-p/...
Some people mentioned about a beta firmware fixing it, how would i get this?
My serial number on the router is 6k01215xxx. Is this one of the confirmed models effected?
Rebooted ablut 15 times last week, up until i found out about this issue i'd called BT out twice they confirmed no issues. I then witnessed the lights on router resetting and checked the netgear logs shown it going down.
Not impressed!
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Re: Rebooting Netgear rax 120
My serial # is 6JY, is there any way I could get the beta FW to try out? The reboots are starting to get more frequent, typically during Teams calls when I assume the utilization is creeping up.
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Re: Rebooting Netgear rax 120
I have also been dealing with constant reboots with my Nighthawk AX12 RAX120v2, running Firmware Version V1.2.8.40. I've purchased a cooling mat that has been placed under the unit and this has not solved the problem. I've also seen mention of a beta firmware update, but have not received a reply from the user on this message board. From what I have seen and experienced, trying to stream video over 2.4Ghz is a sure way to make the unit barf and reboot. Would appreciate anyone's insight. @DarrenM
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What is the routers serial number seen in back please?
@JustinDK wrote:
I have also been dealing with constant reboots with my Nighthawk AX12 RAX120v2, running Firmware Version V1.2.8.40. I've purchased a cooling mat that has been placed under the unit and this has not solved the problem. I've also seen mention of a beta firmware update, but have not received a reply from the user on this message board. From what I have seen and experienced, trying to stream video over 2.4Ghz is a sure way to make the unit barf and reboot. Would appreciate anyone's insight.
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Re: Rebooting Netgear rax 120
@FURRYe38I am at the point where I want to throw this unit out the window. The cost was excessive for the problems I have had with reboots daily. The older Linksys model I migrated from had less features but never rebooted unless I lost power or purposely opted to do so.
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