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    Planning network in new home (2.000 Square feet) with tenants in basement

    Hello! Sorry if this is the wrong thread placement, this seemed like the best fit. I am currently building a three story house. The basement will be rented out. Size per floor is 60 Square meters (or 650 Square feet). The house will have a single line in from the ISP, and the connection will...
    • trems
    • Thread
    • access point edgerouter edgerouter x gs108 mesh netgear uap-ac-pro ubiquiti ubiquiti edgerouter x unifi
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    • Forum: Wi-Fi Buying Advice
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    Linksys or Netgear with wireguard and traffic customization

    Hello everyone , I'm planning to switch from ASUS AC3200 to Linksys wrt3200acm but now I'm confused after checking Netgear R7800. I want to know if I can achieve the following through any of these two routers with factory or Openwrt firmware: 1- My TV having one dedicated WiFi band/SSID which...
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    Netgear adds WPA3 support to Nighthawk AX12 (RAX120) by firmware

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    Netgear X4S R7800 Firmware comparison Stock vs Voxel performance issues

    I recently decided to test three different firmwares for the R7800, I have noticed that the performance of my R7800 performed actually worse than the crappy router my ISP sent so I played around with the firmware. I have fibre 1 Gbps up and down with the ISP Wifi about 5 feet from the router I...
  5. Julio Urquidi

    CES 2019: Netgear Announces SMB IPv6-Ready Switches, Mesh Satellite And More

    NETGEAR bundled its small-biz products into one press release, so here's the story. NETGEAR’s Smart Managed Pro S350 IPV6-ready series of switches will be available in five different models, each with 2 or 4 SFP ports. The new S350 lineup will be available in 8-, 24-, and 48-port GbE...
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    CES 2019: More NETGEAR News

    NETGEAR had more to share for CES 2019, including a 5G Hotspot, new Nighthawk DOCSIS 3.1 cable modem and higher security for Orbi. The Nighthawk 5G Mobile Hotspot (shown above) is the first announced standards-based millimeter wave mobile 5G device, available exclusively on the AT&T Mobile 5G...
  7. thiggins

    News CES 2019: NETGEAR Announces Wi-Fi 6 Orbi

    NETGEAR today announced it will be shipping a Wi-Fi 6 (draft 802.11ax) version of its top-0f-line Orbi RBK50 in the second half of this year. The company released relatively few details on the RBK152, only saying it will be Qualcomm-based, use a quad-core processor, support 12 streams and have...
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    Asus ac86u vs Netgear R7800 Nighthawk X4S

    Hi everyone, I know there are a few threads on this but I want to get a late 2018 opinion if possible. I currently have an Asus ac68u which has served us well for about 4 years. My parents need a new router so I'm going to give it to them meaning I need to get a new one. I bought the ac68u...
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    NetGear LB2120 - LAN fail over to 4G - feedback wanted

    I'm considering the NetGear LB2120 as I'd like to have fail-over in case comcast goes down. Anyone have experience with the LB2120 ? Hoping to use Google Fi data only sim. thx!
    • Livin
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    • fail-over google fi lb2120 netgear router
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Routers
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    Kamoj Kamoj information add-on V3 for Netgear R7800 X4S and R9000 X10 (Temperatures a.o.)

    Nota Bene: This add-on is obsolete. Please use new version at: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/kamoj-information-add-on-v4-for-netgear-r7800-x4s-and-r9000-x10-temperatures-a-o.55063/ Introduction: This add-on adds information (and corrects some) on the routers "debug-page"...
  11. thiggins

    News NETGEAR Stealthily Goes Public With Its Draft 11ax Routers

    NETGEAR today decided to let some of us write about its draft 11ax routers. Companies usually introduce new products--especially first-in-category / next-generation / top-of-line routers--with as much fanfare as they can muster. But NETGEAR is taking a different approach with its first two...
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    XR500 stock or X10 with 3rd party firmware?

    Hello! First post here. I own the Asus N66u running Merlin firmware. I have x-finity 1Gigabit service and feel I can be doing better in terms of speed and coverage. Also would love to be able to select more channels in 5Ghz as I see lots of networks using the same channels I have while my phone...
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    AiMesh or Orbi/Amplifi HD

    Hello everyone, I currently have an ASUS AC68U which gives pretty much full coverage to my whole home, but I have experienced instability in my living room TV when I have 10+ clients connected and it is the furthest device I have located from where the router is. I am unable to use an ethernet...
  14. thiggins

    NETGEAR Nighthawk AX12 Router Outed by Qatar ISP

    Qatar-based ISP Ooredoo today spilled the beans on an unannounced NETGEAR AX router. This Gulf Times story described Ooredoo's intention to "roll out first-in-class fibre home devices to "Qatar's Future City" Lusail to ensure Qatar’s first smart city is fully-connected". The first device is...
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    1 x 1 ac client upgrade?

    I recently purchased a refurbished Dell laptop that I upgraded with more RAM and a SSD drive (I had spare parts already). I have a desktop PC I built that handles all my heavy work. The laptop is mostly for the wife to surf the web and something to take on vacations that works better then our...
  16. kamoj

    Kamoj Kamoj information add-on for Netgear R7800 X4S and R9000 X10

    Nota Bene: This add-on is obsolete. Please use new version at: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/kamoj-information-add-on-v4-for-netgear-r7800-x4s-and-r9000-x10-temperatures-a-o.55063/ Introduction: [/B] This add-on adds information (and corrects some) on the routers "debug-page"...
  17. thiggins

    NETGEAR Debuts An Expensive Gaming Router

    NETGEAR announced the Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR700 WiFi Router at IFA yesterday. The XR700 takes a path similar to the NETGEAR's XR500, by reskinning an existing router and powering it with DumaOS. This time, it's the AD7200 class R9000 that gets gamified, bringing along a 60 GHz 802.11ad radio...
  18. thiggins

    Orbi Marries Alexa

    NETGEAR just announced a smart-speaker version of its popular Orbi Wi-Fi system at IFA. Orbi Voice is the first "smart speaker" to also include a fully functioning Wi-Fi system node. Its Alexa-powered features come via a four mic, two speaker audio subsystem with 35W of peak power from Harman...
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    Replacement for Asus N66?

    Hi all, Looking to upgrade my N66 now that most of our devices support AC. Have had no complaints with the N66 over the years on Merlin firmware, so that leads me to consider Asus again, but definitely open to other options. Needs/uses are fairly simple: * I have a Synology NAS hard-wired...
  20. Julio Urquidi

    Netgear Armor Security Service Is Now Available

    Originally announced during CES 2018, Netgear Armor Powered by Bitdefender is now available for the Nighthawk AC2300 Smart WiFi router (R7000P) and the Nighthawk AC1900 Smart WiFi Dual Band Gigabit Router (R6900P). Downloadable via a firmware update, Armor was designed to protect and combat...
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