NETGEAR Nighthawk X6 Smart Wi-Fi Router (R8000) – AC3200 Tri-Band Wireless Speed (Up to 3200 Mbps) | Up to 3500 Sq Ft Coverage & 50 Devices | 4 x 1G Ethernet and 2 USB Ports | Armor Security

Netgear Nighthawk X6 “Redeems” self & Follow-up Support excellent!
****UPDATE******* Feb 20, 2015I am now updating my review of the Netgear R8000 to 5 Stars.I returned the original unit to Amazon. I was sent an replacement unit. Amazon goofed and then made it good. The 1st replacement was a very well used unit, NOT refurbished, just very well used and dinged up in an open package. I never even hooked it up, but contacted Amazon. They apologized and immediately sent a “New” replacement unit. Kudos to Amazon! The 2nd replacement unit arrived and I experienced none of the problems I had with the original unit. I have been running it for a month now without any problems and great performance. This unit lives up to expectations. I was also contacted by a high level and knowledgeable Tech/Customer support individual. He was very good, very responsive and I appreciated his follow-up. It was the opposite of the original experiences I had that were detailed below. Kudos to Netgear for the followup on this!**** Original Review below on January 7, 2015 with the title “Netgear Nighthawk X6 is a disaster and Netgear Customer service wasn’t much better!” *******I had previously have had very mixed results with Netgear routers. When they work, they are great. When they don’t they are a disaster. I made the mistake of giving Netgear one more chance with this router. It arrived from Amazon even faster than I anticipated. Kudos to Amazon on that! Upon installation of the router I immediately updated the router to the latest firmware. The Nighthawk X6 was easy to set up as I anticipated working with Netgear Genie which I happen to like. I have multiple desktops, several laptops, some tablets, and numerous wireless devices in my home. Most older ones use 2.4 GHz and the newer items use 5GHz connections. So I had great need for both. I also have two AC adapters I bought to use but have not yet hooked them up. The router worked great for three days on wired and wireless 2.4 and 5.0. It gave me the best range and signal strength I’ve had with any router on both 2.4 and 5.0 at all distances within my home. On both wired and wireless I was getting 25-30 Mbps when within 20-30 feet of the router which is what my ISP provides. I was finally a happy camper.Then after three days the wired connections all started to fail. Download speeds were now down to 1-3 Mbps on all four LAN ports. I tried a soft reset by removing power and that seemed to restore full wired speed temporarily. I played with this for several day and a few other tricks that have worked in the past. Nothing worked. Thank goodness I was still getting good speeds and connections on wireless.Then tonight I called Netgear Tech Support because this was a newly purchased router. Bad decision! The telephone tree you need to navigate to get to them is interesting and frustrating at best. When I finally got someone, their English accent was very difficult to understand, but even worse I could hear everyone else in the background at the call center so trying to hear and understand them over the background noise was almost impossible. I had this same problem with three different people. Why three? Because the first one put me on hold and then disconnected me before he had even asked me for a call back number. The second one I got when I called back said that she would call back if we got disconnected within 60 seconds. She had my cell number. I don’t think either of the first two could even understand what the problem was. They couldn’t grasp that the wired connection to the LAN ports was the issue. Finally, after many missteps she seemed to grasp it. But she had no idea what to do. She put me on hold to talk to a supervisor. When she came back, she had me make a change in in one setting and then we disconnected again. She never called back! I waited about 10 minutes or more. Then made my third and final call to support. This one finally seemed to understand what the problem was, but didn’t seem to know a lot more. Again, very difficult to understand and hear over the background noise from their call center. I used other devices to verify the problems for her, laptop, tablet, etc. She had we do a soft reset, but very different from any I have ever done before After she had me do this, the wired connection was worse, with download of 1-1.5 Mbps. Even worse, the 2.4 Ghz wireless no longer worked at all and 5 Ghz was dramatically slower. She had me download and re-install the firmware. Guess what, things were even worse. Final words from her, return it to Amazon as it must be defective! When you get a new one feel free to call us back to help you troubleshoot it! Just a very frustrating experience and a frustrating router for the top of the line router! So far it’s a bunch of junk! I hope that Amazon Netgear Tech Support sees this Case # 19264928. Very disappointed in the router and support thus far!I will be returning it to Amazon.

I picked this up replacing a Linksys EA2700 that I had for a couple years and was having some pretty bad speed issues. My connection currently is 30 Mbps down 10 up. Nothing super fast. Through the EA2700 I would be lucky to get 15-17 down, but the usual was around 8 with bad days dropping to 1-2. This was both wired and wireless. Hooking up a pc directly to the modem proved there was something wrong with it.First to get the bad points of the X6 out of the way. It’s quite big and expensive.The good. Setup was a breeze, a quick firmware up date I was good to go. Easily connected to another brands bridge which I have my printer connected to. I definitely prefer it’s UI over my previous Linksys router. It’s range is just amazing! Full signal everywhere in my house. I went to my neighbours place across the street and in the middle of their house I was getting 3/4 bars showing on my phone. I’ve barely had it a week, but so far it’s been super stable with 100% uptime and have had zero dropped connections or any connection issues at all.The best part is now I finally get the speeds I pay my ISP for. Full speed (in fact a little better as I regularly test at 31Mbps down), over wireless, anywhere in my house.I highly recommend this router.

After changing 3,4 router finally I got the best one because what I was expecting it’s more than my Expectation specially the WiFi antennas which are 6×6 strong & long range. The hardware configuration is also best just I will say if you are a home user or have small business setup then I’ll be highly highly recommended to you. Hi