NETGEAR - Nighthawk RS300 (BE9300)

I just upgraded to Spectrum Gig and updated my older Nighthawk to a WiFi 7 Nighthawk RS300 (Be9300). So far so good.

On 6ghz, at least in the eu. Nothing to write home about, NA probably okey. 2.4(mostly iot now) and 5ghz nothing has really changed recently range wise. The 9300 (the eu equivalent)had some sort of quirk why we couldn't use it in our laptop testing station. But it's not something that would apply to home usage. For the average user it's very overpowered though. And it being a Netgear it will probably come with Netgear issues. So check the web for that.

I recently returned a Netgear Nighthawk RS300 because the UI was quite underwhelming and it lacked isolated vlan capabilities. After some research I replaced it with a Ubiquiti Dream Router 7, which was a lot better, but unlike the RS300, the internal wifi antennas barely cover half my apt, and wiring APs all over the place is not an option. Are there any consumer/prosumer grade wifi routers with great coverage and isolated vlan capabilities? Are there any other home network setups I should consider? What are my options here? The use case is basically that I'm a paranoid dumb-dumb who don't trust my robot duster (or human guests) on my home network, and my girlfriend needs instagram while she's on the shitter, which is "conveniently" situated on the diametrically opposite side of the apartment from the router.

I decided to go with the cheaper RS300. Will see how it goes.

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.

You're going to have a problem and its the house. I had some dead spots, tested multiple routers and mesh systems. The best fit for us was the Netgear Nighthawk RS700. Pushed through those dead spots and where we got 5mb/sec, now getting 450mb/sec. Even the mesh systems struggled there. I found a refurb on Amazon for $349. Its not cheap but it worked for me. (house is 3200sq ft, 7 users, 40+ devices w/ 1GB connection from Spectrum). I did try the RS300 and RS500 but neither pushed through like the RS700 did with the extra antennas. Looks like they bumped to $356 but mine was refurbed by netgear and had a 90 day warranty from them: [https://a.co/d/abj8BU7](https://a.co/d/abj8BU7)

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

I originally bought the Nighthawk as it was on sale locally but the router didn't work well with my Pico. It would periodically have long freezes on Wifi. I returned it for the Be550 and it's worked wonders ever since. Would the extra bandwidth on the be800 be worth the increase if I could get that for a discount as well? Or would it not make a difference for Pico wireless PCVR?

ASUS, got better UI on the app as well. I used to have Netgear

Almost went with this but the WIFI 7 Netgear Nighthawk was less than half the price so I went with that. 1 2.5gig port for desktop, one for laptop. It's awesome

Not everyone wants to shell out $500 for a wifi-7 nighthawk though. Seems redundant when the one provided for free runs the same frequencies and allows full wifi control with 250 simultaneous devices compared to nighthawks 50 devices.

i've had nothing but problems with my net gear wi-fi 7, after few weeks stuff buffers for split second, social media doesn't load immediately, i also have the net gear wi-fi 6 AX5400 router and works fine. seems walmarts website also has allot of complaints about wi-fi 7, and seeing that you actually have to have devices that use wi-fi 7, which technically none do, im going back to wi-fi 6, ether a new net gear router from amazon or MSI gaming routers or something.