After a lot of hype, the Netgear R8000 Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri-Band Gigabit Wireless Router is just a disappointment. Positioned as a major upgrade to the previous R7000 model , which is one of the best -- if not the best -- home routers from Netgear, the R8000 is impressive on paper.

The all-new Netgear R8000 Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri-Band Gigabit Wireless Router has powerful hardware and excellent Wi-Fi data rates on the 5Ghz frequency band; When coupled with an external hard drive, the router also functions as a robust NAS server

The router has a buggy 2.4Ghz band and comparatively short Wi-Fi range, and -- when all is working as intended -- it doesn't perform any better than other AC1900 routers; It's also crazily expensive

Purchased in October 2017. In August after update the router started dropping off wifi signal. Reset and worked for 6 hours then reset wirked for 2 hours and so on. Until it would not reset. Calked customer support. After an hour of me telling them what i did. They had me do a hard reset.

I have another week before it goes back to Newegg as defective. I have reached out to Netgear support to see if there is a fix. If not, back it goes

Great looking unit

I have tested all three channels with about 7 devices now

This may strike some of you as a bit odd but the first thing i do whenever i go to a hotel, restaurant or cafeteria I've never been in the past i always check to see if they have WiFi available and if so what is its strength and range.

Overall Build Quality; Design; Near-Excellent Wireless Performance; AC3200 (Concurrent 802.11n & two 802.11ac Bands; User Friendly Web Interface; Features; Technologies Used (Beamforming & TurboQAM; Android & iOS App; 4 Gigabit Ethernet Ports / WAN Port; 2 USB Ports (USB 3.0 & USB 2.0; LED On/Off...

Price (For Some; High-Gain Antenna Quality

Almost half a year ago our pages presented a review on NETGEAR R7500 wireless router, which allows user traffic transmitting via a wireless network at the speed up to 2,33 Gbps. Even then the vendor intrigued us with a new model that was just awaiting its arrival to Russia.

High user data transmission speeds in the wireless segment; Powerful CPU; Support of VPN server functionality; IPv6 support; Ability to create guest wireless networks; Good access speeds to data located on an external hard drive; Support of three independent wireless bands; High data transmission...

The web-interface is not completely translated; and to change localization Internet connection is needed; Relatively high price; IPv6 and OpenVPN cannot be used simultaneously

The Nighthawk X6 has plenty of bells and whistles and is geared towards either the individual that has multiple devices such as gaming systems, laptops, mobile devices, etc and not for those that have just one or two devices.

Netgear Nighthawk X6: Netgear's Latest Flagship with Tri-Band Wi-Fi Netgear has released their latest flagship wireless router, the Nighthawk X6 R8000 which is an Tri-Band 802.11ac.