NETGEAR - Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR500 Wi-Fi Router

Netgear R7800 or Netgear Nighthawk XR500 -- almost same hardware!

Have the XR500, you can't run open-wrt on it, at least easily. It runs 2 OS's and is very frustrating.

Interesting, this is new. Says February, cool that it finally made it onto the XR500. However it runs 2 operating systems at once, so I imagine bricking it must be a lot easier. Is there an install guide even for something like this? And if I’m not mistaken, possible WiFi issues?

Well this is good to hear, also I did misspeak I meant dual firmwares. For some reason I thought OS’s. Here’s a [link](https://forum.netduma.com/topic/25324-openwrt-on-the-xr500/) to a moderator that commented so on a forum. Regardless if there’s no issues I may go ahead with it! Thank you.

I flashed it, all went well, however I went from 1gbps to 500 mb/s on the lane lol. Will haft see what happened. Thanks for posting, saved me some $$

Is your isp on this list? https://pon.wiki If so you could get any number of routers that have an sfp/sfp+ port, and a semi custom module and delete the Ont from the arch. It’s very unclear what you are doing now. Did you take a computer that previously was wifi and you ran cable to it and were surprised it was a lot faster than wifi? Failing that, put the Ont into bridge mode if you haven’t. The select gear from your favorite people like ubiquiti, Mikrotik, …etc and get rolling with wired and wireless stuff. Edit: your netgear xr500 is wifi 5. That’s pretty old wifi as far as standards and speed go.

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

With a descent router wireless is nearly as good as wired these days. 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. I use one of those nighthawk routers with four antenna. Alternatively, doing data cabling runs throughout your house can be in DIY territory. It would be much cheaper than hiring a contractor and you could be done with it in about a day depending on how many rooms you want patched in and how much you care about wire enclosures being visible. Lots of people just put cable mounts in the corner near the ceiling and run them outside the wall.

With a descent router wireless is nearly as good as wired these days. 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. I use one of those nighthawk routers with four antenna. Alternatively, doing data cabling runs throughout your house can be in DIY territory. It would be much cheaper than hiring a contractor and you could be done with it in about a day depending on how many rooms you want patched in and how much you care about wire enclosures being visible. Lots of people just put cable mounts in the corner near the ceiling and run them outside the wall.

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.

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. 

Yeah their speeds are terrible man! I swapped out to a nighthawk router for $300 at Best Buy has been worth it

they are awesome on a deal, and netgear nighthawk are fantastic... not that thing you linked...

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.).