NETGEAR - Nighthawk Tri-Band WiFi 7 Router

Has nothing but problems when I upgraded to a TP Link WiFi 7 AP, devices would go offline randomly in the middle of the night and never reconnect unless I manually deleted them and re-added them. Returned for another model, same issues. Returned and exchanged for a Netgear Nighthawk RS700 and has been working perfectly. The interface for configuring the AP is dog slow and borderline useless half the time because changes take minutes to apply sometimes but once it’s all setup it’s the first time I’ve ever experienced as ‘set and forget’ type network. Edit/ Configured the AP to Smart Connect with all 3 frequencies in one SSID and set the 2.4G to a Channel 6 instead of Auto and I have never experienced an issue with losing connection or adding devices.

As far as I know there is no mesh router with 5G. That being said I’d recommend you get a good 5G router like the netgear m6 pro and a great wifi7 router like the netgear rs700. I used to have the orbi 960 and they suck. When the orbis are working they are super fast. But at times they are not working… that got on my nerves so much that I now have the rs700 for wifi and I don’t even need a mesh.

Netgear rs700 I recommend. It can do 3500 square meters.when upgraded can get Higher speeds. I got mine $800

I currently have the Netgear Nighthawk RS700 and the speeds are great. However, it claims to have 3500 sq foot of range but it doesn’t have the best range as I disconnect once I get to my front door. The router is upstairs with nothing directly blocking it. Would anybody recommend a better WIFI 7 router that has great range for them?

Thanks for the response. Did the factory reset. Relocating the router will be challenging based on where the service comes in the house. Far corner.

RS700S - good for 3500 sq ft.

Stay far away from routers with fans, I returned a tp-link wifi 7 router over this exact issue. Sfp port was so hot it was unreal. Try to cool your place in summer with air conditioning, you don't want some fan blowing heat. Also moving parts is a bad idea for longevity. Also when I ran latency tests I was loosing O.4 to 0.8ms over fiber with the tp-link, my old router from 10 years ago never added that much latency, just to give you an idea of how bad fans are. This is not enterprise, cisco is enterprise and they use heatsinks not fans. If you want a decent router for home, Netgear rs700 uses heatsinks and has 1500 more sq ft of range than this thing, yep not 2000sq feet, but 3500sq feet, should get good reception in your backyard this summer. If you want enterprise you'll have to go cisco.

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.