Netgear AC3200-Nighthawk AC3200 Tri-Band WiFi Router Review

The Netgear Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri-Band WiFi Router (R8000) helps make an extraordinary debut, deftly managing several wireless devices about the same network, though several small rough spots that resulted in my own testing show a firmware update could be in order soon.

The Nighthawk X6 supplies a 2.4GHz band and two 5GHz bands. These double 5GHz bands become overall performance load balancers. Increasingly more home systems have pills, smartphones, and video gaming consoles carrying out heavy-demand throughput jobs, such as for example streaming HD video.

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Design

Netgear’s all-dark router’s design will be sharply angular with a geometrically patterned grille that means it looks like a spaceship. At 11.5 x 8.8 x 2.2 ins, the R8000 is among the biggest Wi-Fi routers close to, and unlike a lot of the peers, it requires to be set up horizontally or screwed right into a wall.

Down the center of the router’s top, you can find no less than 13 LEDs that show which bands and ports are active, and be it turned on and contains a Web connection. It can appear to be a Xmas tree, but there is a switch in the trunk to change all the lamps off. You may also restart the R8000 with a useful on/off change.

In a position to handle 3 independent lanes of Wi-Fi data traffic, the R8000 includes a single 2.4-GHz channel in addition to a couple of 5-GHz channels, among which may be reserved for high-speed visitors. The router’s six rectangular antennas make use of beam-forming ways to sculpt the signal to match the getting antenna.

Specifications

• WIFI TECHNOLOGY

  • 802.11ac Tri-Band Gigabit

• WIFI PERFORMANCE

  • AC3200 (600 + 1300 + 1300 Mbps)

• WIFI RANGE

  • Very large homes

• WIFI BAND

  • Simultaneous Tri-Band WiFi – Tx/Rx 3×3 (2.4GHz) + 3×3 (5GHz) + 3×3 (5GHz)

• BEAMFORMING

  • Beamforming—Smart, signal-focusing technology boosts the speed, reliability, and range of your WiFi connections

• NUMBER OF ETHERNET PORTS

  • Five (5) 10/100/1000 (1 WAN and 4 LAN) Gigabit Ethernet ports

• NUMBER OF USB PORTS

  • Two (2) USB ports: 1 USB 3.0 & 1 USB 2.0 port

• KEY FEATURES

  • AC3200 Tri-Band WiFi

  • WiFi Band 1: 600 Mbps @2.4GHz-256QAM

  • WiFi Band 2: 1300 Mbps @5GHz

  • WiFi Band 3: 1300 Mbps @5GHz

  SECURITY

  • Customized free URL to set up a personal FTP server

  • VPN support—secure remote access

  • Guest network access—separate & secure

  • WiFi Protected Access^® (WPA/WPA2—PSK)

  • Double firewall protection (SPI and NAT)

  • Denial-of-service (DoS) attack prevention

• PROCESSOR

  • 1GHz dual-core processor with three offload processors

• MEMORY

  • 128 MB Flash and 256 MB RAM

• PACKAGE CONTENT

  • Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri-Band WiFi Router (R8000)

  • Ethernet cable

  • Quick install guide

  • Power adapter

• STANDARDS

  • Two (2) USB ports: 1 USB 3.0 & 1 USB 2.0 port

  • IEEE^® 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz-256QAM support

  • IEEE^® 802.11 a/n/ac 5.0 GHz

  • Five (5) 10/100/1000 (1 WAN and 4 LAN) Gigabit Ethernet ports

• SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

  • Microsoft^® Windows 7, 8, Vista^®, XP^®, 2000, Mac OS^®, UNIX^®, or Linux^®

  • Microsoft^® Internet Explorer^® 5.0, Firefox^® 2.0, Safari^® 1.4, or Google Chrome^™ 11.0 browsers or higher

Pros