Going on 6 months and never had to reboot from a failure. My 13 son games all the time on 5g frequency with no issues. Running 7 voip phones, 6 being at&t wireless. 23 devices on my network. Not sure how you'd have a problem with this unless your technically incompetent.

Brilliantly easy setup and it just works; No extenders needed even for our 1920s thick walled house; Anyone want a defunct homehub5 with 2 dual band BT extenders? :

The price

Big and bruising, Netgear's Nighthawk X8 AC5300 Tri-Band Wi-Fi Router is a networking behemoth that has it all, with a price tag to match. The router has everything from built-in amplified antennas and the latest MU-MIMO technology for more efficient traffic management to six high-speed wired LAN...

Many LAN ports; with support for data aggregation; Active amplified antennas; Triband operations produce impressive speeds; Lots of customization options

Expensive; Bigger than most routers; Sometimes sluggish interface

The Nighthawk X8 is one of the best Wi-Fi routers you can buy.

Intuitive back-end; Top-notch performance; Easy setup; Loaded with features

Steep price tag; Large size

The router game is heating up once again, after being dormant for what seemed like an eternity, thanks to new iterations of the Broadcom platform. We first examined this platform for 802.11 AC routers back in October when from Netgear, D-Link, TrendNet, and Asus.

Netgear is one of the very few companies that continue to churn out high-quality products time after time. Since I have been reviewing routers, we have gone from seeing the launch of consumer 802.11ac with the first Nighthawk R7000, to several Nighthawk routers later the biggest and possibly best of...

I don't know whether it's a permanent reduction, or just due to the holiday shopping season. But if you jumped on the R8500 when it first hit the shelves, you paid $100 more than you can get it for as I write this.

The Netgear Nighthawk X8 R8500 is the current flagship 802.11ac router in Netgear's lineup. Packing in three Wi-Fi bands, plus the latest MU-MIMO and quad-stream technology, it's the fastest AC router the company has ever made.

Very fast Wi-Fi; More Ethernet ports than most; Smart Connect for 5GHz bands

Smart Connect doesn't cover all three bands; USB ports hidden under flap; Very large

I am on Virgin media 200 meg service , I use to get an average of 206 meg now I get around 226 .. But it`s the interface I like , and the speed of access , uploading files to the usb.3 interface .. I also can share files on the cloud easily with no fuss ..

I installed it the evening I got it, it worked perfectly. Next morning it kept flicking on and off and was totally useless. Doesn't help that they don't even provide you with a diagram for the various lights, let alone a something to enable trouble shooting. Perhaps that would be too many pages!