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Nighthawk WiFi 7 Router RS100

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NETGEAR Nighthawk WiFi 7 Router RS100

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User sentiment25% positive
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Last updated: Apr 6, 2026

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r/HomeNetworkingAdvice? looking to buy a new router.
10 months ago

Keep looking, I recently snagged a TP-Link axe300 for $175 and I probably won't upgrade again for a very long time. It's not even possible to describe how fast my connection is compared to my Netgear RS100 that I stupidly "upgraded" to. Ping? Good luck measuring it, it floats around 9-13-17ms in our home we bought 2 years ago which is all brick and wood with a standing seam metal roof and a million miles of trash lead conduit and wires from previous owners' remodels. If you designed a stress test for wifi signal you'd stop short of how much of a nightmare my house is because it would seem unrealistic for anyone to deal with and yet this brute SINGS signal throughout my house. Don't settle for good enough, take your time and get the best. I promise there's another fool out there switching to WiFi 7 right now who's about to sell a beast of a router on ebay for a fraction of it's worth and that's your time to shine homie. Best of luck hunting

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r/pcmasterraceGot the router all set up!
7 months ago

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

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r/SpectrumModem+router for 1G
10 months ago

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.

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r/HomeNetworkingWifi 7 Routers - reviewed & compared
5 months ago

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.

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r/SpectrumRouter?
11 months ago

I got a $110 wifi 7 Netgear router from Walmart. It works fine with my Spectrum cable modem.

r/SpectrumI need a modem and router for my first apartment and need some input.
11 months ago

Take their free modem, put a surge protector on the incoming coax, buy a router of your own. I got a wifi 7 Netgear at Walmart for $110. Get whatever bandwidth you can afford, as it sounds like you'll be using it. When/ if Spectrum brings fiber, it's their equipment they'll replace, not yours.

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r/SpectrumMy best decision: Getting rid of the Spectrum router
6 months ago

I had the same problem spectrum came to my crib tried to hook everything up couldnt figure it out so he left the new wifi 7 router in the box and hooked up a wifi6e router..after i hooked it up myself when i got home from work and was very disappointed. I went and bought the new netgear wifi 7 router and with my 1Gig Internet i pulled 1134mbps..

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r/SpectrumWifi 7 router coverage
11 months ago

I had one of their WiFi 7 routers and the gig plan. It was absolutely garbage even for a 2 bedroom apartment. I couldn't even get speeds close to 500 and at times it would just restart on its own. No 2.4G band steering as well. I returned it and got my own wifi 7 router from Netgear and damn that did a much more wonderful job than that garbage spectrum

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r/buildapcsales[Router] NETGEAR Nighthawk 5-Stream AX5 WiFi 6 Router (RAX43) AX4200 - $49.99 @ Amazon Renewed
4 months ago

I dont know about this model but fuck Netgeat Nighthawk. I owned a different one few years ago that was supposed to be a a high spec version, and it caused me infinite problems, which all disappeared when I bought a different one.

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r/HomeNetworkingNeed some help choosing a suitable router.
7 months ago

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.

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r/wifiI need suggestions of Wifi 7 mesh routers
3 months ago

I moved from a Netgear Nighthawk router and extender to an Orbi network... Well worth it to me.