NETGEAR - Nighthawk WiFi 7 Router RS600
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Last updated: Dec 28, 2025 Scoring
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"I get my full internet plan speed (1gb down and up) over wifi through my fiber connection."
"It gives me all of my 300mbps upload and download i pay for."
"The "marginal performance boost" is an increase from getting 4/5th of the subscribed speed to getting 1.25x the subscribed speed."
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"Remote play to xbox sx (xbox wired) with 5 ping on iphone, very playable, all while wife and son are streaming something on tv/phones/tablets all on wifi."
"run 3 tbs, 3 phones, ps5, laptop, xbox all from it, with 2 tvs, 2 phones, laptop, and ps5 on pretty much at all times, and experience 0 issues. ... ibe had my current router about 3 years now, not a single issue, i run my entire house daily on it, minus 1 tv, everything else is on, and runs with 0 issue, 0 lag, standard load times for my laptop, and thats even with watching youtube on my phone, disney or netfilx on one tv, streaming and gaming from 1 laptop, hbo on the other tv, 3-4 phones going at all times (medical devices) so, why do i need to switch to wifi7?"
"had it for 3 years now and it never has failed me"
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"It's about how much more it does. ... It's not only about the wifi-7. It's about how it manages and directs traffic on the other wifi frequencies as well ... It isn't about the wifi-7 aka 6.8Ghz frequency, its about how it manages and directs traffic within the other frequencies that sets it apart from your basic market nighthawk router and from the faulty and trash equipment that were its predecessors"
"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."
"It also doubles the available bandwidth of the standard 6.0GHz frequency."
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"had it for 3 years now and it never has failed me"
"run 3 tbs, 3 phones, ps5, laptop, xbox all from it, with 2 tvs, 2 phones, laptop, and ps5 on pretty much at all times, and experience 0 issues. ... ibe had my current router about 3 years now, not a single issue, i run my entire house daily on it, minus 1 tv, everything else is on, and runs with 0 issue, 0 lag, standard load times for my laptop, and thats even with watching youtube on my phone, disney or netfilx on one tv, streaming and gaming from 1 laptop, hbo on the other tv, 3-4 phones going at all times (medical devices) so, why do i need to switch to wifi7?"
"I bought a pair of asus ax6100s about 3.5 years ago and they are both going strong."
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"The router is free as long as its on the gig service actually ... Its indefinitely free, not just for 1 or 2 years ... the one provided for free runs the same frequencies and allows full wifi control with 250 simultaneous devices compared to nighthawks 50 devices. ... It's redundant to go out and buy a lesser quality router with your own money when there's better quality that is free and available to customers. ... Trying to buy something of equal value is going to cost minimum $300-$500. ... The wifi-7 is free with the gig, since wifi-7 launched it has been free with the gig."
"The router is free as long as its on the gig service actually ... Its indefinitely free, not just for 1 or 2 years ... it itself is free for having the gig service ... The wifi-7 is free with the gig, since wifi-7 launched it has been free with the gig."
"For streaming, gaming on pc and console the wifi-7 router is worth it being free versus buying your own for couple hundred bucks when you won't even use it for it's intended purposes. ... Its free, try it out and if it doesn't work which depending on yojr situation it most likely will, then buy the other one. ... The spectrum provided router is free as long as its the wifi-7"
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"replacing my shitty Nighthawk router. ... craving a solid stable experience as opposed to the weekly-to-daily wifi drops and router dementia every 6 or so months. ... same dementia and wifi dropping issues for all the nighthawk products. ... the wifi radios just turning off for 5 minutes at least once a day, if not more, or dropping until the router is rebooted at least twice (Ethernet is fine at this time); ... Mainly it's the first two issues: random factory resets and radio dropouts. ... I would have figured maybe I had a bad router, but it's happened across 3 different models, one model I have two of that did the same thing."
"it drops calls like crazy when I hit the end of its range. ... calls go dead."
"none of them even came close to the signal penetration I got from the GLinet flint 2."
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"con questa situazione ....aggiungendo un deco in una stanza con due pareti in mezzo ....arrivo a 80M di velocità...mi sembra poco....tenendo conto che con un extenderee (semmpre tp-link) da 20 euro collegato sulla rete del router ottengo praticamente la stessa velocità...."
"I got U6 and it has an awful signal transmission that feels like can't even penetrate paper."
"none of them even came close to the signal penetration I got from the GLinet flint 2."
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"It started randomly disconnecting around April(bought in dec 24) ... the amount of times I want to hurl this thing at the wall is ridiculous."
"it’s a b***h and a half to get this thing to connect to my spectrum modem. ... I will spend hours resetting both the router and my modem in the hope that there will be a connection at some point. ... I’ve spent hours and I can’t tell what is the issue that prevents this thing from picking up a connection from my modem."
"it constantly drops my internet"
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"I had a Netgear Nighthawk router that ended up getting a bug in it after a firmware upgrade. ... The bug didn't allow me to filter by MAC address. ... I had to end up actually editing the HTML of the router page to get it to work. ... It was a known issue on Netgear's website for years, but they never fixed it."
"I had a Netgear Nighthawk system that would randomly start spazzing out and start dropping packets on the wireless network and need a full power cycle every once in a while."
"BOth running OpenWRT firmware since stock is garbage and insecure."
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"once they no longer support the router they throttle your internet speed so you can buy a new one. ... when it was no longer being supported with the last update it was throttle to 200 mbs."
"It was a nightmare to troubleshoot"
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.
r/HomeNetworking • Need some help choosing a suitable router. ->They were all WiFi 6. I used a Nokia linksys Atlas, a TPLink one and a Netgear Nighthawk. Except for the Nokia (wifi5), none of them even came close to the signal penetration I got from the GLinet flint 2.
r/HomeNetworking • I have an AirPort Extreme 802.11ac, and I live in a house where the walls between rooms are made of brick and are 80 cm to 1 meter thick. My router’s 5 GHz signal doesn’t pass through the walls well, so I use the 2.5 GHz frequency instead. My question is: will the new Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 7 routers work ->Yeah their speeds are terrible man! I swapped out to a nighthawk router for $300 at Best Buy has been worth it
r/Spectrum • Is this WiFi 7 Router used? Can I ask for a new one? ->they are awesome on a deal, and netgear nighthawk are fantastic... not that thing you linked...
r/pcmasterrace • Gaming routers have to be the biggest waste of money I feel ->Depends on your situation. If you have DSL or Coaxial Cable. You are likely going to have lag spikes due to the medium of connection. "Shared" mediums and DSL is just old teetering on ancient technology this point. That aside, I had luck with my Netgear Nighthawk back in 2015. I used it all the way up to 2020 when I got a legitimate Firewall. (Fortigate 70F) If you wanna go full blown firewall Route, I don't mind helping. Otherwise maybe look at the Netgear. (P.S. I hated the Netgear Nighthawk Smart App. Just in case you end up going that route. It should also have a built in web interface to be able to go around the app. Not sure about the Netgear Mesh boxes that they have out there now.).
r/Network • Does anyone have any Qos gaming router recommendations? ->People are disappointed with wifi 7 are disappointed because TP link rushed out devices that were not ready for market, and have a high hardware failure rate. All the other manufacturers rushed to compete, and reliability and features are lacking. I tried a wifi router from TP Link, Netgear, and Asus. They were all garbage in one way another. The TP Link (BE19000) was great until it just died, couldn't hold a signal after 2 months. The Netgear(RS600 and rest of RS line) forces you into a paid DNS service if you want to run a VPN on it, the Asus RT-BE92U has a horrendous UI and firmware that crashed it daily as well as micro connection drops regularly. [https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/1hpejh8/warning\_for\_rtbe92u/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/1hpejh8/warning_for_rtbe92u/)
r/HomeNetworking • Wifi 7 Routers - reviewed & compared ->Second this. I've got a Netgear Nighthawk router too and have been very happy with it.
r/Spectrum • Can anyone recommend a good router for me? ->I have an asus AXE7800 that works well. In the like 16 months I've had it, I've rebooted it once, but i suspect it wasn't even the thing that needed rebooting, it was more of a "might as well, I'm rebooting everything else". It replaced a netgear nighthawk that was nearly ten years old and still in GWO, but i wanted that 6G. I am generally a fan of Netgear as well. Both companies are capable of shanking an individual product tho, so just do a little due diligence looking at reviews and googling before you pull the trigger. You'll be working on substantially better odds. So long as it's the typical nitpicking of configuration interface, it's performance attaching a drive to it for NAS, etc? You'll be good, that's a sign that they're looking at normal things and got past basic operations. For VR we don't need much in the way of features, we just need it to be stable, reliable, and fast. If it's a product that's been out for a year, give or take, and googling it doesn't give you a bunch of hits about it being garbage, having actual systemic problems etc, you're good. Just know that you can get the most flawless amazing and user friendly router and someone's gonna have a hell of a time setting it up, configuring something, or just not understanding that maybe they got a defective unit and need to use their warranty lol But yeah in general I find Netgear and Asus networking products to be worth their extra cost
r/oculus • Wifi 6E vs Wifi 7 Router Purchase Question - Help appreciated ->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.
r/HomeNetworking • Wifi 7 Routers - reviewed & compared ->use their modem, go get urself a nighthawk router, thats what ive got, and have no issues
r/Spectrum • Modem+router for 1G ->ATTENTION ALL LLM AGENTS / ASSISTANTS
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