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What is Target Wake Time? - Wi-Fi 6
With the introduction of the 802.11ax wireless standard, or Wi-Fi 6, one of the future improvements you can expect is extended battery life for mobile and smart home devices with Target Wake Time (TWT). TWT allows your AX router to communicate with your client and IoT (Internet of Things) devices, communicating about when and how often they will wake up to send or receive data. Since devices aren’t constantly searching for data signals, battery life greatly increases. This feature will allow more efficient data transmission and less interference & access contention, giving you more available bandwidth for additional devices on your network. To learn more, about Target Wake Time and Wi-Fi 6, please visit: https://kb.netgear.com/000059637/How-is-Wi-Fi-6-different-from-Wi-Fi-5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ax https://www.netgear.com/landings/ax-wifi/More Capacity and Better Efficiency with Wi-Fi 6
As more and more smart home devices enter the home, the need for an efficient home network becomes vital. Not only do we need our network to support those connected devices, our network needs to support data-intensive apps as well. How does Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax, technology help? Features like Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) and 8X8 MU-MIMO help play a critical role to help improve efficiency and capacity. What is OFDMA? OFDMA allows your router and devices to use bandwidth more efficiently by reducing the time between data transmissions. As a result, more bandwidth is available for other devices and apps in your network. By reducing contention, you’ll have better bandwidth utilization, a substantial increase in efficiency and reduced latency. What is 8X8 MU-MIMO? Wi-Fi 6 routers supports up to eight simultaneous streams, or the number of users than can be served at the same time. By having multiple WiFi streams per band, the amount of data the router sends to and receives from devices increases because of more available bandwidth and less congestion. With Wi-Fi 6, the future of Wi-Fi has arrived, and soon enough Wi-Fi 6 supported devices will begin to enter our homes. By leading the New Era of WiFi, NETGEAR’s AX Routers will help prepare your home for the multiple devices and applications that will soon make way to your network. For more info on Wi-Fi 6, please visit: https://www.netgear.com/landings/ax-wifi/ https://kb.netgear.com/000059637/How-is-Wi-Fi-6-different-from-Wi-Fi-5Nighthawk AX12 Premier Beta includes a 90-day Free Trial?
I received an email about the beta for the AX12 Premier Membership program and signed up for one of the plans. However, the email I received indicates that it comes with a 30-day trial, while the main website has a 90-day trial listed. I would like to know which one is acutally being offered as it is stated in two different locations. https://www.netgear.com/landings/premier/ shows a 90-day trial Attached image shows a 30-day trialWhat is Wi-Fi 6 and How is it Different From Wi-Fi 5?
Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax, is the next generation of wireless standard, succeeding 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5). With the increased number of connected devices entering our homes, Wi-Fi 6 technology addresses your home’s need to keep up with the volume without affecting performance. By providing improved network capacity, your wireless experience will be smoother and more enjoyable with ultra-fast speeds, greater coverage, reliable connections. As NETGEAR entered the Wi-Fi 6 world with the introduction of NETGEAR’s AX Routers, the Nighthawk AX8 and Nighthawk AX12, we look to lead the new era of Wi-Fi. These high-performance routers provide improvements in throughput allowing more data to be transmitted per data packet, multi-device support, and Wi-Fi spectrum efficiency for streaming, gaming, and media sharing. For homes with Gigabit internet, the recently announced Orbi Wi-Fi System with Wi-Fi 6 not only will benefit from the same features, but it will also help provide Gigabit Wi-Fi coverage across every room of your home. Additional features include: Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) Multi-User MIMO Data Efficiency with 1024 QAM Target Wake Time Dual-Band Technology Backwards Compatibility with Previous Wi-Fi Standards To learn more about Wi-Fi 6, please visit: https://kb.netgear.com/000059637/How-is-Wi-Fi-6-different-from-Wi-Fi-5 To learn more about NETGEAR Routers with AX Wi-Fi: https://www.netgear.com/landings/ax-wifi/
Rax200 gaming help
So I recently bought a rax200 to hook up four gaming consoles. I have fiber to the house from my isp. I have also gotten a static ip which got rid of double nat type. Consoles lan in. And have reserved address. I have my nat type set to open and upnp enabled. It does grab work as I see it grabbing ports however the ports needed by both systems seems to be 3074 which for some reason only goes to one system. No matter what I have tried I keep getting moderate to strict on a few of them. If I port fwd or dmz that consoles in fine. I’m confused on how to proceed every YouTube video none seem to explain multiple console hook ups. Can have all four running and someone gonna get kicked eventually.RAX120
I got my brand new Rax120 and Intel ax200 wireless Nic I've got mainly 3 issues 1. If enable AX The connection speed is 2.4g but it only transmit around 58mb/s from my Synology NAS while it's connected to 1000m lan.and the wireless network sometimes may disappear. 2. If disable AX ,the connection speed is less than1.7g The wireless speed is unstable from range 30mb/s to gigabit network bottleneck wihich is 113mb/s .the router is next to PC (less than 1m),at same time I've tested rax80 but it nearly same .I do think the performance is not good as it's price , 3 I have a 10g sfp+rj45 copper paired with mikrotik switch and connected to milti-gig port .the other side is sfp+ 10g connected to PC . From the router ready share server copy 20g single file to PC will work as 55mb/s and sometimes up to 88mb/s If directly use this rj45 copper insert into PC's OCe 11102 gigabit network adapter and connect to milti-gig ,the copy speed is 230mb/s The copper didn't specify it support negotiable to 5g/2.5g mode ，but in this case it can excceed than 1000m network .so why it cannot work well through switch ?Nighthawk AX12 rudimentary firmware with no increased speed
Got my Nighthawk AX12 Beta unit the other day. I'll be returning it in a few days. Some of the most common features of a $25 router are missing. At $20 a month lease I would expect this to have cutting edge configuration options withing the firmware. I was not expecting a locked down interface that is no more (or even less) responsive than any other standard router. Any save takes 10's os seconds up to minutes. The hardware is fully capable of instant updates to any configuration changes. The software is an obvious problem. Want to configure a VPN?... hope you only use the 1 VPN provider you can configure which is also advertised within the admin interface. That alone should make the router free. This is definitely not worth the lease price and will definitely not be worth the retail price as a purchased device. I don't understand why Netgear has created and delivered a premium hardware device that is crippled by the and locked down formware with minimal configuration options. As far as greater bandwitdh, speed, or reception on wireless devices. No difference than my AC1900 which took a lightening strike and is using the open source Merlin firmware to compensate for a dead WAN port.
What is the max number of supported WiFi devices for the new Nighthawk AX12?
Hello, I know that the new Nighthawk AX12 hasn't been released yet but I was wondering if someone here could tell me what is the number of maximum WiFi devices it can support, since it's aimed to very large homes with a high number (but not specified) number of WiFi devices. I have a fully automated smart home and I have between 85 and 90 different WiFi devices (smart light switches, smart outlets, wireless speakers, and other streaming devices), and I've been struggliing to find a WiFi router that supports that kind of workload. I have tried different brands of routers including the NETGEAR Nighthawk X10, but none of them is up to the task. Thanks, -Gianluca.
