Netgear AC3000-Nighthawk AC3000 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. We’ve just had dual-band routers as yet, working on the two 2.4GHz and 5GHz band. 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 movies. You’d normally desire to assign those devices to the more-robust 5GHz band, but with therefore many devices competing for throughput, you’d quickly saturate it. The X6 instantly configures its two 5GHz bands on different stations, so that you can link more products at 5GHz without the performance suffering.

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1		Netgear Nighthawk X6 – AC3000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi Gigabit Router	Amazon.com
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Design

Concerning the size of a coffee-table guide, Netgear’s Nighthawk X6S is among the largest routers in the marketplace and is approximately one-quarter larger than the Linksys WRT32X router. Clothed in basic dark, the 11.0 x 9.0 x 2.1-inch X6S could be set up about a tabletop, shelf, or windowsill. Or, if you want, the bottom offers cutouts to wall-mount the X6S, however, the router’s six pull-out antennas work the risk to be utilized as a coating rack if installed vertically. On the drawback, the antennas can neither become changed nor swiveled to goal the router’s transmission.

The Nighthawk X6S is made around Broadcom’s BCM4365E Wi-Fi chip. It includes a dual-core 1.8GHz processor, 128MB of RAM, and 512MB of solid-state storage space for keeping the system’s firmware and configurations. While this router will minus the WRT32X’s bandwidth-expansion technologies, the X6S makes use of the most recent Mu-Mimo technology for connecting with several gadgets at once.

Performance

The X6S hits its stride when other routers begin to peter out. General, it switched in a good performance, nonetheless, it excelled at midrange distances. Predicated on Broadcom’s BCM4365E Wi-Fi chip, these devices create a tri-band 802.11ac network which has an AC4000 rating.

Specifications

• WIFI TECHNOLOGY

  • 802.11ac Tri-Band Gigabit

• SPEED AND RANGE

  • 3Gbps WiFi Speed

• WIFI PERFORMANCE

  • AC3000 (450 + 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

  • AC3000 Tri-Band WiFi

  • WiFi Band 1: 450 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

  • Standards-based WiFi Security (802.11i, 128-bit AES encryption with PSK)

  • Double firewall protection (SPI and NAT)

  • Denial-of-service (DoS) attack prevention

• PROCESSOR

  • 1GHz dual-core processor with three offload processors

• PROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY

  • WiFi 6

• MEMORY

  • 128 MB Flash and 256 MB RAM

• 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, 10, 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