NETGEAR - Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR500 Wi-Fi Router
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Last updated: Jan 3, 2026 Scoring
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"I can basically always trust my X40 to finish a midnight cleaning session in the dark and wake up to find it sitting in its dock and have clean floors in the morning."
"I think its hands down the best all around option right now, especially once you hook it up to the water line and drain, i run it daily in our house and we got rid of our cleaning help because of it."
"significantly worse object avoidance than than the Dreame x40 and L40 ... The best feature of the L40/X40/p10 pro ultra is that they have class leading object avoidance so you don't have to pick up your cat's toys or prep your house every time you want to run the robot meaning you can run it on a daily schedule which will keep your house cleaner. ... I run my X40s daily and they never get stuck on cables, cat toys and other random junk that ends up on the floor."
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"I get my full internet plan speed (1gb down and up) over wifi through my fiber connection."
"It gives me all of my 300mbps upload and download i pay for."
"The "marginal performance boost" is an increase from getting 4/5th of the subscribed speed to getting 1.25x the subscribed speed."
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"Remote play to xbox sx (xbox wired) with 5 ping on iphone, very playable, all while wife and son are streaming something on tv/phones/tablets all on wifi."
"run 3 tbs, 3 phones, ps5, laptop, xbox all from it, with 2 tvs, 2 phones, laptop, and ps5 on pretty much at all times, and experience 0 issues. ... ibe had my current router about 3 years now, not a single issue, i run my entire house daily on it, minus 1 tv, everything else is on, and runs with 0 issue, 0 lag, standard load times for my laptop, and thats even with watching youtube on my phone, disney or netfilx on one tv, streaming and gaming from 1 laptop, hbo on the other tv, 3-4 phones going at all times (medical devices) so, why do i need to switch to wifi7?"
"The router though, I really wanted the ability to manage the devices connected to it and prioritize certain devices and applications. The one I have handles things the way I wanted."
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"Both that I suggested are QualComm based with hardware accelleration support with custom builds. I personally use them and they are SOLID."
"Installation is as easy is simple upload and upgrade. No command line, nothing! ... Its as simple as any other router supported by OpenWRT. As i said no tinkering or commandline or tftp or anything. Simple upload and upgrade."
"LN1301 / MX4300 from Linksys is great with openwrt"
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"I speak as someone who was once a 'wired network' purist for the same reasons as you, and also someone who works from home. A good router, set in a centralized place will probably be a cheaper and simpler solution than wiring everything together."
"Remote play to xbox sx (xbox wired) with 5 ping on iphone, very playable, all while wife and son are streaming something on tv/phones/tablets all on wifi."
"run 3 tbs, 3 phones, ps5, laptop, xbox all from it, with 2 tvs, 2 phones, laptop, and ps5 on pretty much at all times, and experience 0 issues. ... ibe had my current router about 3 years now, not a single issue, i run my entire house daily on it, minus 1 tv, everything else is on, and runs with 0 issue, 0 lag, standard load times for my laptop, and thats even with watching youtube on my phone, disney or netfilx on one tv, streaming and gaming from 1 laptop, hbo on the other tv, 3-4 phones going at all times (medical devices) so, why do i need to switch to wifi7?"
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"Roborock refused to cooperate or properly fix the issue while still under warranty! ... Their customer support is all through email after you call the 1800 number, and their response was basically we replaced the board in the unit and base station what do you want us to do? ... well they never emailed back. Calling the 1800 number you get the "were so sorrycwell escalate this and you'll recieve an email soon." No email just silence."
"they would no joke die consistently 2-3 months after their warranty expired. 3 of them in a row, like clockwork."
"replacing my shitty Nighthawk router. ... craving a solid stable experience as opposed to the weekly-to-daily wifi drops and router dementia every 6 or so months. ... same dementia and wifi dropping issues for all the nighthawk products. ... the wifi radios just turning off for 5 minutes at least once a day, if not more, or dropping until the router is rebooted at least twice (Ethernet is fine at this time); ... Mainly it's the first two issues: random factory resets and radio dropouts. ... I would have figured maybe I had a bad router, but it's happened across 3 different models, one model I have two of that did the same thing."
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"replacing my shitty Nighthawk router. ... craving a solid stable experience as opposed to the weekly-to-daily wifi drops and router dementia every 6 or so months. ... same dementia and wifi dropping issues for all the nighthawk products. ... the wifi radios just turning off for 5 minutes at least once a day, if not more, or dropping until the router is rebooted at least twice (Ethernet is fine at this time); ... Mainly it's the first two issues: random factory resets and radio dropouts. ... I would have figured maybe I had a bad router, but it's happened across 3 different models, one model I have two of that did the same thing."
"it drops calls like crazy when I hit the end of its range. ... calls go dead."
"none of them even came close to the signal penetration I got from the GLinet flint 2."
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"con questa situazione ....aggiungendo un deco in una stanza con due pareti in mezzo ....arrivo a 80M di velocità...mi sembra poco....tenendo conto che con un extenderee (semmpre tp-link) da 20 euro collegato sulla rete del router ottengo praticamente la stessa velocità...."
"I got U6 and it has an awful signal transmission that feels like can't even penetrate paper."
"none of them even came close to the signal penetration I got from the GLinet flint 2."
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"It started randomly disconnecting around April(bought in dec 24) ... the amount of times I want to hurl this thing at the wall is ridiculous."
"it’s a b***h and a half to get this thing to connect to my spectrum modem. ... I will spend hours resetting both the router and my modem in the hope that there will be a connection at some point. ... I’ve spent hours and I can’t tell what is the issue that prevents this thing from picking up a connection from my modem."
"it constantly drops my internet"
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"I had a Netgear Nighthawk router that ended up getting a bug in it after a firmware upgrade. ... The bug didn't allow me to filter by MAC address. ... I had to end up actually editing the HTML of the router page to get it to work. ... It was a known issue on Netgear's website for years, but they never fixed it."
"BOth running OpenWRT firmware since stock is garbage and insecure."
"only way to fix it is buy reverting to an older update making you vulnerable to getting hacked."
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.
r/HomeNetworking • Need some help choosing a suitable router. ->They were all WiFi 6. I used a Nokia linksys Atlas, a TPLink one and a Netgear Nighthawk. Except for the Nokia (wifi5), none of them even came close to the signal penetration I got from the GLinet flint 2.
r/HomeNetworking • I have an AirPort Extreme 802.11ac, and I live in a house where the walls between rooms are made of brick and are 80 cm to 1 meter thick. My router’s 5 GHz signal doesn’t pass through the walls well, so I use the 2.5 GHz frequency instead. My question is: will the new Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 7 routers work ->Yeah their speeds are terrible man! I swapped out to a nighthawk router for $300 at Best Buy has been worth it
r/Spectrum • Is this WiFi 7 Router used? Can I ask for a new one? ->they are awesome on a deal, and netgear nighthawk are fantastic... not that thing you linked...
r/pcmasterrace • Gaming routers have to be the biggest waste of money I feel ->Depends on your situation. If you have DSL or Coaxial Cable. You are likely going to have lag spikes due to the medium of connection. "Shared" mediums and DSL is just old teetering on ancient technology this point. That aside, I had luck with my Netgear Nighthawk back in 2015. I used it all the way up to 2020 when I got a legitimate Firewall. (Fortigate 70F) If you wanna go full blown firewall Route, I don't mind helping. Otherwise maybe look at the Netgear. (P.S. I hated the Netgear Nighthawk Smart App. Just in case you end up going that route. It should also have a built in web interface to be able to go around the app. Not sure about the Netgear Mesh boxes that they have out there now.).
r/Network • Does anyone have any Qos gaming router recommendations? ->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
r/pcmasterrace • Gaming routers have to be the biggest waste of money I feel ->Second this. I've got a Netgear Nighthawk router too and have been very happy with it.
r/Spectrum • Can anyone recommend a good router for me? ->I have an asus AXE7800 that works well. In the like 16 months I've had it, I've rebooted it once, but i suspect it wasn't even the thing that needed rebooting, it was more of a "might as well, I'm rebooting everything else". It replaced a netgear nighthawk that was nearly ten years old and still in GWO, but i wanted that 6G. I am generally a fan of Netgear as well. Both companies are capable of shanking an individual product tho, so just do a little due diligence looking at reviews and googling before you pull the trigger. You'll be working on substantially better odds. So long as it's the typical nitpicking of configuration interface, it's performance attaching a drive to it for NAS, etc? You'll be good, that's a sign that they're looking at normal things and got past basic operations. For VR we don't need much in the way of features, we just need it to be stable, reliable, and fast. If it's a product that's been out for a year, give or take, and googling it doesn't give you a bunch of hits about it being garbage, having actual systemic problems etc, you're good. Just know that you can get the most flawless amazing and user friendly router and someone's gonna have a hell of a time setting it up, configuring something, or just not understanding that maybe they got a defective unit and need to use their warranty lol But yeah in general I find Netgear and Asus networking products to be worth their extra cost
r/oculus • Wifi 6E vs Wifi 7 Router Purchase Question - Help appreciated ->use their modem, go get urself a nighthawk router, thats what ive got, and have no issues
r/Spectrum • Modem+router for 1G ->Couple ideas… Try another router. My netgear nighthawk is working fine. Put a wireless ap right near your bedroom. Sounds like you would have line of sight from the router to the ap, so that should work well. Run an Ethernet cable along the ceiling from the router to your bedroom and put a wired ap there. This gives you wifi and you could also run a wired connection out from the ap. Wired is going to give the fastest most reliable result.
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