I have a Netgear R7000 and has been great for me and best bang for buck and is still a very good router. There are other Netgear routers but from forum pros on ddwrt this is one of the better ones.
Yeah the R7000 was one of the rare high-end WiFi 5 routers that could push 400–500 Mbps over 5GHz.
Most of the older Netgear models below that tier (like the R6xxx/WNR series) max out around 90–120 Mbps because they only had Fast Ethernet ports or budget 2.4GHz radios.
So it depends heavily on the exact model.
My R7000 supported me way longer than it should. First as my router, the still as my router flashed with tomato, then as an AP for my Opnsense build and decommissioned last year when replaced with a U7 pro. I've loved my icg fiber and my Opnsense box. But the r7000 was the goat of my network.
I’ve got 2 of these in my house, and 3 spares that I’ve managed to pick up at a thrift sore for like $5. Everything that has a network port is hard wired, I don’t need the latest WiFi 6 or 7 or whatever it is. Only things connected to WiFi are our portable devices.
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