Experienced no WiFi crashes in WAX206 over several months, one AX 160 MHz capable client device and a few older AC 80 MHz. First on snapshots, then 23.05 RC1-RC3.
Please note that activating 160 MHz wide channel reportedly makes the radio run in 2x2 mode instead of 4x4 80 MHz, so it's not always better. 160 MHz should work in other devices with MT7915, but only if the radio chip is configured exclusively for 5 GHz band. Many routers have it handling both bands with 40/80 MHz 2x2 max.
I use it from 3 months and it works perfectly.
No problems at all.
I just had to disable 160 Mhz as there's a Dell Laptop that disagrees with it and displays no internet even though connected.
Curious how this worked out for you? I would imagine the higher GHz and two more cores on DL-WRX36 helped with Wireguard, but how did WiFi performance compare?
As you assumed right, the Dynalink is really good if it comes to CPU and VPN performance, WiFi is also quite strong but I wasn't really happy with it because it turned out to be not always stable. So I decided to put the Dynalink as my main router into the cellar and use my Netgear WAX206 and a Netgear WAX220 as access points on the ground and on the upper floor.
Both Netgear devices are very good and stable when it comes to WiFi. I get even higher transfer rates with the WAX206 but the WAX220 give me a stronger signal (but that might be related to where the devices are placed). The WAX220 is also much more powerful if it comes to CPU and VPN performance but it only has a single LAN port.
I am quite happy with all devices at the moment, however, if I would need to decide for a single device out of these 3, I would probably pick the Netgear WAX206.
If you are looking for a single device and you can afford to wait a little bit longer than I would recommend to have a closer look at the new GL.iNet Flint 2. It uses the same Chipset and the same amount of memory as the Netgear WAX220 but offering you much more than just a single LAN port. It should give you a CPU performance that is very close to the Dynalink DL-WRX36 combined with the fast and reliable MediaTek WiFi of the Netgear devices. However, even if everything should be ready to support that device it's completely new and therefore not yet supported by OpenWrt .
Yeah that's how I end up getting a WAX206, the price of WAX220 is almost 4x, while the WAX206 has a really good signal over a big house without using ext. antenna.
It really depends on the region, in Germany the WAX206 is nearly impossible to get anymore. If a vendor is offering it the price is usually incredibly high while the WAX220 is now only half of the manufacturer's RRP. So the WAX220 is actually cheaper and easier to get here as the WAX206. In the US (at least on Amazon.com) the WAX206 seems to be only 20 to 30 Dollar less than the WAX220.
But as mentioned before, I think you can't really compare that two devices for many use cases.
IoT devices are 2.4 11n only for cost reasons FWIW.
Previously WAX206 was selling very cheap on Japan Amazon, the lowest I've even seen was 4980 JPY, in this forum someone from Germany ordered 3 and shipping from Japan, overall cost was 40 EUR/device only.