Netgear Nighthawk X10 AD7200 Smart WiFi Router (R9000)

[sfx2000]

So why not just return it to the store and get another one if you liked everything else about it?

WRT3200ACM - $179 at Fry's...

Just saying...

 

[Pierino]

WRT3200ACM - $179 at Fry's...

Just saying...

I just checked. It's $250

 

[sm00thpapa]

WRT3200ACM is still $179.99 on Amazon. The Netgear X4S is still a beast of a router.

 

[Pierino]

I tried the r7800. In my house I couldn't get my full download speed on the 5ghz band.
I can on my rt-ac68, rt-ac87, wrt1900ac and ea8500.

I also just checked on Amazon, the wrt3200acm is $248. Maybe I'm not looking correctly. Lol

 

[pete y testing]

I tried the r7800. In my house I couldn't get my full download speed on the 5ghz band.

then it was prob a lemon as tbh most of these bhr should be able to give the full speed over 5 gig wifi with little effort

 

[sm00thpapa]

Agree probably a bad router. I pay for 200Mbps download and my R7800 gives me 250Mbps down and that's even at 30 feet distance on 5GHz.


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[RogerSC]

I tried the r7800. In my house I couldn't get my full download speed on the 5ghz band.
I can on my rt-ac68, rt-ac87, wrt1900ac and ea8500.

I also just checked on Amazon, the wrt3200acm is $248. Maybe I'm not looking correctly. Lol

How much is your download speed, and where are you relative to the router when you can't get the full download speed on 5GHz.? I find that interesting, since the R7800 that I have is about the best BHR (see sfx2000's .sig file *smile*) I've had. Not only can I get my full download speed on 5GHz., but it has the strongest wireless coverage throughout my house that I've had for a single router. I know that you're experienced, so if you've really spent some time with the R7800 that you have and you bought it new, maybe it's broken? Can you RMA it? If it's used, sorry that happened to you.

 

[Pierino]

I returned it to microcenter the next day. I always test at the furthest location in my house from the router.
I also always use the same channel and width when testing different routers so that it is a fair comparison.

Maybe it was a bad unit. I dint really want to try another seeing as how I don't really need more. Obviously.

 

[wfhmaster]

So why not just return it to the store and get another one if you liked everything else about it?

I thought about it, but I was worried it would ruin my chance to return the router for a full refund if it didn't work out... which it didn't. I also figured they have a bad batch of them so why play the lottery trying to find a good one, if any of them are good at this point, I wonder. If the 88U is a disaster like the 87U then I'll try one again and see what happens...

 

[pete y testing]

I wonder. If the 88U is a disaster like the 87U

chalk and cheese , the 88u is a pimped up version of the 68u and works great , the 87u sadly didnt survive the Quantenna train crash and is still problematic even after many updates

the 88u however is a champ , best wireless coverage of any BHR i have tested so far

 

[wfhmaster]

chalk and cheese , the 88u is a pimped up version of the 68u and works great , the 87u sadly didnt survive the Quantenna train crash and is still problematic even after many updates

the 88u however is a champ , best wireless coverage of any BHR i have tested so far

Awesome to hear, the 88U arrives this week, can't wait to give it a shot. Does it still have that USB 3.0/2.4Ghz interference problem that the 87U has? That was killing me because I need fast NAS (SSD) and good 2.4 range at the same time.

It's hard not to be disgruntled about the 87U and go with another Asus after that experience, but the Netgear didn't pan out. Netgears support, pay-for support non-the-less, is god awful too. I won't complain about Asus support again after dealing with Netgears! It's amazing they can get away with that poor of support, and charge for it too!

 

[pete y testing]

Does it still have that USB 3.0/2.4Ghz interference problem that the 87U has?

sorry cant really tell you as i dont think i have used usb anything in ages

because I need fast NAS (SSD) and good 2.4 range at the same time.

then put that SSD in a real nas enclosure with ethernet and forget usb

i would prefer not to see usb on routers at all ( might make em cheaper as well ) with the likes of wireless printers and real NAS enclosures there is no real need for usb and it would free up the routers cpu not having to deal with it

 

[wfhmaster]

sorry cant really tell you as i dont think i have used usb anything in ages



then put that SSD in a real nas enclosure with ethernet and forget usb

i would prefer not to see usb on routers at all ( might make em cheaper as well ) with the likes of wireless printers and real NAS enclosures there is no real need for usb and it would free up the routers cpu not having to deal with it

Yes, it's probably time to move to a dedicated NAS for me, your advice sounds good. Ever since I've played with routers with built-in NAS via USB, amongst other non-typical router services, the reliability has seriously gone down hill. I used to not reboot my routers even once a year and never an issue, but now it seems common to have to reboot monthly, if not nightly!... they even put utility to do so in the router itself! ;-)

 

[sm00thpapa]

I own about 20 routers and my top 3 are the 88U, 68P and X4S. Right now I'm using the X4S and it's a beast.

 

[sfx2000]

Has anybody actually seen a R9000 in the real world?

(there's a reason for asking, as Netgear has a couple of 4*4:4 QC-Atheros devices out in the market...) - I've got a PCAP caught in the wild, and good things inside it - my best guess would be that what I found is probably R7800..

 

[janthony6]

Has anybody actually seen a R9000 in the real world?

(there's a reason for asking, as Netgear has a couple of 4*4:4 QC-Atheros devices out in the market...) - I've got a PCAP caught in the wild, and good things inside it - my best guess would be that what I found is probably R7800..

I have an R9000. I've noticed that it doesn't perform as well as the R8500 in terms of WAN to LAN speed. I have a gigabit connection: 1000mb up and 1000mb down - on the R8500 I was getting 950 down and 950 up. On the R9000 I'm getting 850/850.

Wireless performance - leaning toward the R8500 being better. I think Netgear needs a few firmware updates to get this right.

 

[pete y testing]

Wireless performance - leaning toward the R8500 being better.

thats prob because the x10 is really a r7500 ( 1733M + 800M ) with the extra 60 gig transmission bolted on

 

[pete y testing]

DP

 

[wfhmaster]

I own about 20 routers and my top 3 are the 88U, 68P and X4S. Right now I'm using the X4S and it's a beast.

The X4S might be the one to get then, wish I had tried one. The 88U I setup last night has improved wireless from the 87U, but 5G is still crap, worse than the 2.4G at any distance from the router, for me anyway. 88U seems to be working decent otherwise, but the X10 did seem a bit more solid somehow, more responsive both in the interface and in wireless. Whatever, as long as this 88U can keep running for at least a week I'm calling it good enough. It seems like a fixed up 87U to me, all the same options, and it does still have the USB 3.0 interference setting BTW.

 

[pete y testing]

but 5G is still crap, worse than the 2.4G at any distance from the router,

you understand thats the way it works , esp at distance , in my testing at 25 meter through a few walls i lose 50% 2.4 gig and 66 % of the 5 gig and that is all just because of physics

It seems like a fixed up 87U to me,

different wifi chipsets , fadter cppu more ram , the 87u is crud in comparison