Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR1000 WiFi 6 Router

I had a similar one. I fucking hated it. It had this extremely overbloated operating system that ate like 90% of the processor and 80% of it ram doing nothing. It introduced ~25 ms of latency, extreme jitter and dropped like 10 percent of my packets... Over ethernet... It was like xm1000 or smthn like that. Absolute dogshit. Edit: it was a "Netgear Nighthawk XR1000" apparently. Miss remembered it being asus cuz red and black gamer aesthetic.

Yea it was a netgear mb

Of course! We have Netgear Nighthawk (X3)

One of the best purchases I've ever made. I basically stopped playing my PS5 altogether until I bought the Portal the day it was released. Now I play all the time so I'm actually getting my money's worth out of my PS5 now. I much prefer handheld gaming, my Switch was almost never played on my TV, and the Portal gives me a handheld PS5. It definitely needs a good network though. It worked pretty well on my old Netgear XR1000 but that piece of junk crapped out on me. It doesn't work so well on my Unifi UDR7, which breaks my heart because it's an otherwise amazing router, but I inherited an old Asus AX92U and I set that up as a dedicated network for just my PS5 and Portal. I use a separate VLAN on the Unifi for the Asus and have my wifi channels set apart to keep congestion at a minimum. It works amazingly well with my setup, you'd never know it was being streamed.

I have an XR1000 for about 5 years now. I previously had a nighthawk R7000 for 6 previous years (the last 2 years was with a new R7000 because the previous ones radio died completely), same dementia and wifi dropping issues for all the nighthawk products. The fact that I couldn't put any custom firmware on any of these routers fuckin sucked too. The XR1000 hasn't had an update in 3ish years now.

yeah I stopped buying gaming routers 4 years ago. I was on my 3rd nighthawk - they would no joke die consistently 2-3 months after their warranty expired. 3 of them in a row, like clockwork. I went with a mesh system and I am very pleased with it. it allows me to have solid fast wifi in my detached garage, which wasn't possible with the gaming router. and I have overall way better signal on the other stories of my house. I get close to 1 gig on wifi now. the mesh system, which includes 4 routers, was also cheaper than my nighthawk. never going back tbh

But...why? Do you have a massive home and don't think the ATT router will cover it? This is usually the only reason that actually makes sense to get your own these days. I would recommend getting the ATT hardware. These are usually very good hardware, and if anything goes wrong you call ATT to have them replace it or send a tech out. If you buy your own router you have to set it up yourself, figure out your own issues. From what I hear the hardware ATT uses is comparable to a lot of the $300+ Netgear Nighthawk routers. If you still want to buy your own, and know how to support wifi/set everything up/deal with issues (ATT probably will not help you if you have your own router), etc then get a good Netgear Nighthawk router. I personally wouldn't buy anything less than a AX5400 but that's going to be fairly identical to the BG320 that ATT is going to install and service for $10/mo. Not to mention that if ATT releases new hardware for their internet, you can usually upgrade it for free if you still have their service.

Similar experience to mine with the 750P series. about 2 months after i bought it i noticed no internet, rebooted mutliple times nothing, couldnt access the unit on the app or the web management, full pin reset and it was back up, so i didnt think anything of it. 2 weeks later same issue. Called support they had me manually install the same firmware that was on the router and satillites, all good for about 6 weeks the it did it again. Previous tech said if it does it again they will RMA the router but dont hard reset as they wanted to see if they could get logs. So i call support again only to be told while my units are still under hardware warranty the included "tech support" is only 90 days and I'd have to buy a tech plan starting at $99. I'm like oh no thnkas you can just RMA, look at the history of the serial number. Tech tells me they cants RMA it unless they "troubleshoot" the issue and they cant do that unless i buy a plan.. I nearly lose it on the phone. guy puts me on hold for like 10 mins only to come back and tell methe RMA is approved. Replacement unit shows up 2 days later, all good right? wrong. I had the 750P model from best buy which is an AX5400, they replaced the router with the 750 model which is said to have a better cpu and mo0re antennas but is only an AX4200 unit. I do use the wireless backhaul to connect my audio system to my network and the things i have in the basement so I was a litter concerned. The first issue I had was getting the Satillies to connect correctly to the 750 as the sats are like the router the 750P model line, They would connect but never stay synced, googling the error pointed to bad signal even though they were in the smae spots. As luck would have it Support called me just to verify it showed up to which i told them they sent the wrong unit, they reopened the case and told me they would send a second replacemeent the 760 which is the new direct replacement of the 750p, i asked them to verify it works correctly with the satillies whcih they did. That showed up this morning, and the satillites just wouldnt connect, took about 2 hours to get them to connect and they still seem glitchy.. My patience with netgear had run out, I just picked up the TP Link Deco BE65 Pro BE11000 kit and will be setting that up in the morning then probably selling the netgear cheap or giving it to a friend or something.