Netgear RAX20/RAX15 AX1800 Wi-Fi Routers

[Internet Man]

This device just hit the FCC and WikiDevi has the details: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_RAX20

Chips might be Broadcom BCM6755 for the CPU and both radios or a Qualcomm IPQ8070 + QCN50x4 like the EnGenius EWS357AP. Intel has a dual 2x2 offering but all other known devices using this claim to be AX3000 thanks to 160MHz channel bandwidth.

The RAX15 is supposedly identical but it might be feature-limited through a software change.

 

[microchip]

I hope it's Qualcomm-based

 

[thiggins]

I hope it's Qualcomm-based

Why?

 

[microchip]

Why?

Better firmware. NG routers that are Qualcomm-based have more trouble-free firmware (I guess because Qualcomm uses OpenWrt as its SDK). Their Broadcom models suffer a lot if you daily visit the NG forum full with reports about issues, sometimes major ones

Also, if I'm not mistaken, Qualcomm uses in-silicon packet processors (at least my R7800 does) instead of relying on CTF that gets disabled if you use specific features. I could be mistaken, tho

 

[RajunCajun]

One of them should be a mesh wifi system.