NETGEAR - Nighthawk RS500 (BE12000)

How big is your house? If it’s under 3000 sq ft you could get away with a strategically placed modern router (netgear rs500-700 for example). You’d most likely have to do some tweaking to the default settings for the most stable connection (I did)

In that case I would reccomend a tp link archer be 6500 for half the price. Its wifi7 with no 6ghz just mlo on 2.4ghz and 5ghz. I used one to replace a nighthawk be12000 that was $400 and absolute dogshit.

I have netgears RS500 and it runs great. Its $298 on amazon. The rs700 is if u want every bell and whistle.

I bought both a TP-Link BE9300 and Netgear RS500. I ended up keeping both. I agree the WiFi7 for this number of devices. I would go to the top level of each vendor for 100+

I actually needed to replace my ROG AX6000 router and I bought two routers to try them out. I bought the UDR7 and a Netgear RS500. I can say that the UDR7 has very poor coverage and worse long range performance compared to both the ROG and Netgear. The Netgear is the best of the three and the ROG on second place. I live in a 600 Sqft apartment and both the Netgear and ROG maxed out my 1000/1000 Mbps connection on WiFi in every corner, while the UDM7 gave me around 400/400 Mbps in some corners and only maxed out right by the router. I believe Ubiquiti products are meant to be built out with more APs rather than using one standalone powerful router. The UDR7 is only using 2x2 radios vs the other routers and that is very noticeable. The UDR7 UI is nice but I think I will return it since I’m replying on only one router and have no plans to add any APs.

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)

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.

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.