NETGEAR - Nighthawk X4 AC2350 Smart WiFi Router

I have no experience with this router, so I cannot vouch for this specific model. That said, I feel like I should present what is probably an unpopular opinion on Reddit: Deals for consumer\gamer level networking gear like this tend to get downvote bombed because the popular opinion is that semi business level gear from Ubiquiti and others is so much better that no should be buying anything else. I went down that road for several years when helping friends and family with network upgrades (usually Edgerouter-X and a Unifi AP). What I found was that it was no more reliable than a decent home router\AP, and in a lot of cases it was actually MORE finicky, with well known issues and complications. The fixes for those, if they existed, were at times beyond my skill level as someone who isn't a networking professional and has no knowledge of the Linux command line (if it was MS-DOS I might do better... LOL). So, I had to rely 100% on solutions people came up with online, and the actual homeowner could basically do nothing on their own. Anyway, some of those users have since switched back to a decent consumer level gear from Asus or others and they never have any throughput or reliability issues when I ask them. Me personally? I bought a Netgear R7500v2 for $50 on post-black-friday clearance from Walmart in 2015 (it was $200 normally) and it has worked flawlessly for 10 years. The wireless throughput is plenty for my devices and it has been rock solid (up to date third party firmware is available for this model). The secret to having reliable internet for me has been to have my router + modem on a battery backup. So, it only goes down when I manually reset it or the ISP is having issues, and small dips in power do not cause the router to get stuck in a non-functional state. So yeah, if you are interested in learning about networking, the slightly more pro-oriented gear is probably good, but don't disregard consumer level gear. It can most definitely work fine, even for PC enthusiasts.

Not an expert but sharing my very recent experience. I had an old nighthawk Netgear router from 2018 that started to act up, so I got a newer WiFi 7 router from Netgear (RS90) and it was even worse than the old one. After hours on the phone with tech support they couldn’t do much, so I returned it and went with a TP-Link WiFi 6 mesh (Deco X55 AX3000) and it has been working great.

With a descent router wireless is nearly as good as wired these days. I speak as someone who was once a 'wired network' purist for the same reasons as you, and also someone who works from home. A good router, set in a centralized place will probably be a cheaper and simpler solution than wiring everything together. I use one of those nighthawk routers with four antenna. Alternatively, doing data cabling runs throughout your house can be in DIY territory. It would be much cheaper than hiring a contractor and you could be done with it in about a day depending on how many rooms you want patched in and how much you care about wire enclosures being visible. Lots of people just put cable mounts in the corner near the ceiling and run them outside the wall.

With a descent router wireless is nearly as good as wired these days. I speak as someone who was once a 'wired network' purist for the same reasons as you, and also someone who works from home. A good router, set in a centralized place will probably be a cheaper and simpler solution than wiring everything together. I use one of those nighthawk routers with four antenna. Alternatively, doing data cabling runs throughout your house can be in DIY territory. It would be much cheaper than hiring a contractor and you could be done with it in about a day depending on how many rooms you want patched in and how much you care about wire enclosures being visible. Lots of people just put cable mounts in the corner near the ceiling and run them outside the wall.

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.

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. 

Yeah their speeds are terrible man! I swapped out to a nighthawk router for $300 at Best Buy has been worth it

they are awesome on a deal, and netgear nighthawk are fantastic... not that thing you linked...

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.).

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

use their modem, go get urself a nighthawk router, thats what ive got, and have no issues