Optimium told me that I needed to restart my router so often is because of all of the items attached to it. They suggested I purchase a Nighthawk router to alleviate this problem.

I've had this modem/router for a year and I've had none of the issues that others are reporting. I did have a bit of trouble with Comcast when I was activating it but I had the same problem when I activated my previous modem so I believe the issue is with my account and/ or with Comcast.

I first purchased this router only to return it the following day (after a full wasted day of troubleshooting) and had it replaced. This second router has now failed after two months, now have to return again (after a further four hours of troubleshooting). Not sure I want it replaced now though...

If there were one area we had to fault it, it would be on the lacksidasical addition of Netgear's ubiquitious Genie software configuration tools. This isn't a slight on the X8 as much as it is on Netgear as a whole, and if there's anything we would change about the X8 it would be that it's bound to...