NETGEAR - Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri Band WiFi Gigabit Router (R8000)
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"had it for 3 years now and it never has failed me"
"It replaced a netgear nighthawk that was nearly ten years old and still in GWO"
"almost never needs a reboot."
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"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"
"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."
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"had it for 3 years now and it never has failed me"
"almost never needs a reboot."
"it's been great for two years solid"
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"The router though, I really wanted the ability to manage the devices connected to it and prioritize certain devices and applications. The one I have handles things the way I wanted."
"almost never needs a reboot."
"had it for 3 years now and it never has failed me"
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"I get my full internet plan speed (1gb down and up) over wifi through my fiber connection."
"I get the 1000mbs with mine, it is a newer model"
"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."
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"It was a nightmare to troubleshoot"
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"none of them even came close to the signal penetration I got from the GLinet flint 2."
"I got U6 and it has an awful signal transmission that feels like can't even penetrate paper."
"I got U6 and it has an awful signal transmission that feels like can't even penetrate paper."
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"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."
"The last Nighthawk I had constantly resulted in "Connected, No internet" for too many devices."
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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."
darose 1.0No idea if it supports all the things you're asking, but I run dd-wrt on a netgear r8000.
promaster9500 0.0I 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.
Academic-Swimming919 0.0I 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.
Accomplished-Ruin945 0.0I moved from a Netgear Nighthawk router and extender to an Orbi network... Well worth it to me.
AppropriateDevice84 0.0They 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.
aztekca 0.0Yeah their speeds are terrible man! I swapped out to a nighthawk router for $300 at Best Buy has been worth it
Bananaland_Man 0.0they are awesome on a deal, and netgear nighthawk are fantastic... not that thing you linked...
CapRoyal2192 0.0May mga spare Netgear Nighthawk ako na ginamit lang for testing. I can sell to you if need mo for a very cheap price. Dual band and of course gigabit ports na plus stronger wifi signals.
ChickenEmbarrassed10 0.0Second this. I've got a Netgear Nighthawk router too and have been very happy with it.
I'm using a Netgear Nighthawk router and have been happy with it.
clamroll 0.0I 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
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