Nighthawk X10 R9000 AD7200 Smart WiFi Router

Before I upgraded to a higher-performing router, I used a Netgear R9000. It worked great. I have two of them sitting in my garage now. When I bought it, the R9000 was claimed by DDWRT forum members to be the fastest VPN router supported. Don't know if that's still true.

I just upgraded from a Nighthawk R7900P to a R9000 and it made a noticeable difference in both speed and stability. The old R7900P is now in AP mode for the other side of the house. Here’s the best part: I picked them both up at the local thrift store. Threw the latest firmwares at them and they’ve been great, other than the older 7900 being a bit slow to respond and taking longer to boot, etc. I feel that buying older equipment that has had time to get the necessary updates, has lost its value and otherwise has had the outright failures weeded out tends to work better for me. Sure, they aren’t the latest and greatest, but most of us don’t need that. We just need reasonably stable devices that support the devices and features we use and provide the security and support to keep us reasonably safe.

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.