NETGEAR - Nighthawk AX3000 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 Router (RAX36S)

Netgear Nighthawk RAX36 has been excellent for my house.

I have had a Netgear Nighthawk RAX36 for a couple of months now and it's pretty great (I have a 1600 sq ft single floor house). If you have a large house, my cousin uses Netgear Nighthawk RAX43 with a couple of APs (he has a 2500 sq ft house with two floors). He has the Spectrum 1gbps plan and it works perfect with RAX43. I am still on the old 400mbps plan but my RAX36 supports gigabit internet.

I'm not gonna shit on you for wanting nice looking stuff in your home like many others here are. Obviously it's performance should be unaffected, however you will save money in the long run by purchasing a nice new router for $60-120 and just using that. Saves you $10 per month so it pays for itself in under a year. I got a really good one on sale for $80 and have no regrets. It's about to pay itself off in a couple months and the performance has been honestly better since switching.

https://a.co/d/45OQMkU It's a Netgear nighthawk RAX

Don’t purchase anything less than Wi-Fi 6, because it has beamforming and other really great technologies. So, range won’t be your problem on the 5 GHz band. Also, no matter what router you’ve got, switching to Wi-Fi 6 will definitely give you a huge improvement in stability. And don’t buy anything from Huawei especially those secondhand ONTs they are unstable instead, buy a cheap ONU if you have fiber you’ll find them for like 2k 3k, and connect it with an ASUS or TP Link. These are the only two companies I would recommend, or maybe Netgear. I’ll just give you some models you should look for in your range: **ASUS AX58u, NETGEAR RAX36s and TP LINK AX55 (you'll only find the TP-Link brand new)** That’s all you need.

I did a bunch of searching before I ended up with my nighthawk RAX30, my brother in law is also tech savvy and most of the complaints I read about he confirmed. My nighthawk is at my ex-wives place, I now live with my sister and brother in law and we use his nighthawk RAXE500, their house is a large ranch style home and I have great WiFi all the way across the house. About the same speeds on my Xbox on WiFi that got at my apartment direct wired, but obviously more buffering time. Trying to get them to let me run a cable through the attic to hardwire lol but this does just fine for me. They had an ASUS and a TP link previously and they both were meh.

Just did this - 7 people, 3 floors. Went through a few mesh systems (tplink be4800, be5000, XE75). Hated the way mesh worked, walked to another room device would hang on the further node and online games were choppier (higher ping and latency) than a single nighthawk (even had wired backhaul from main to second of the 3 nodes). Then went through multiple Netgear Nighthawks (rs200, rs300, rs500, axe3000). Ordered a refurbed RS700S for $349, its a beast but better coverage, better speeds, lower pings, less latency than any of the Mesh systems. Dead spots where we got 5-10mb/sec now getting 550mb. Using the nighthawk app I could see with the RS500 60% signal level in some of the dead spot areas, now getting 90+%. I've got a 1GB connection from Spectrum and they overprovision so wirelessly with iphone 17 getting over 1gb a floor above or under the router and up to a room away still. Wired to PCs getting 1.1-1.2 gb too. I tested speeds in every room of my house with each system to record speeds. I found a single, more powerful router to be a much better and consistent solution for 3 floors and 7 people.

Netgear nighthawk. Spend what you can afford for the coverage you need.

Considering that you’re using a very old 802.11n-only device, an upgrade to a decent WiFi6 device will modernize you greatly. These can be very inexpensive. I picked up a used Netgear Nighthawk WiFi6 router for $30 and it covers my apartment perfectly, despite the 200 neighbors. Then, when the future arrives and it’s time to expand, I’d buy something new. WiFi7 prices are only going to fall faster and WiFi7 clients will become all that more common, so it will pay to wait. Network gear is one of those things that you can’t future-proof. The tech changes fast enough, and the prices change fast enough, and the client support lags enough to the point where it’s is more efficient to buy for today, and not for 24 months from now.

Netgear nighthawk for 6. Using tplink easy mesh for 7 and been happy so far

Definitely 👍. I use a Netgear Nighthawk with WiFi 6.

I dont know about this model but fuck Netgeat Nighthawk. I owned a different one few years ago that was supposed to be a a high spec version, and it caused me infinite problems, which all disappeared when I bought a different one.

I agree. I have tried numerous Netgear products, going back to a PCMCIA card, and all of them have had problems. The last Nighthawk I had constantly resulted in "Connected, No internet" for too many devices.