NETGEAR - Nighthawk WiFi 7 Router RS300, 9.3 Gbps, Up to 2,500 sq ft, 100 Devices - Black

I finally got around to upgrading from our old Nighthawk X10. I looked at the current models and decided on the tri-band due to the speed, versatility, and coverage. It pairs well with the Nighthawk DOCSIS 3.1 Cable Modem I got a couple of years ago. I am getting much faster speeds over both WiFi and wired connections. I am guessing it is because I have a lot more wireless devices in the house (cameras, door bells, streaming devices, pet food feeders/sprinklers, etc.). Initial setup was quite easy with the app. WiFi and most of the network came back up within 10 minutes. (It helps if you change the network name and password to the old one so you don’t have to change every single wireless device). Hooking up the NAS drives in aggregate mode took a little more research tho.

This is an amazing router. Had an Adtran router from my ISP it was awful. The first adtran router they provided burned out in 3 months. They don’t know why but they did replace it. Worked fine for about 5 months then throughput dropped to 50mbps felt like I was stuck back in 2005. Had enough of the adtran router. Went out to bestbuy was skeptical to buy due to some reviews, price was good, stated throughput was good. Checked out a Asus, Msi, etc. again reviews had me skeptical paying the price for a gaming router and went with this beast for a test. I am not disappointed! This router trucks! Even with multiple devices connected downloads and uploads are 1200-1500mbps. Adtran router claimed to be doing 1500mbps in its own Speedtest but anything outside their Speedtest was garbage. Speedtest.net showed 5-50mbps. Gaming was atrocious. Videos and movies were grainy and would freeze. 100% price to performance worth it. Great coverage area, great latency and speed, more than impressed with the BE9300!

Setting up this router was a breeze. I had it going in about 15 minutes flat after physical installation and updates. The speeds, via hardline, are exceptional. We have 1 gb speeds and this router delivered on that flawlessly. The wifi is where it falls a bit short. Speeds via wifi are actually great the range is where the life is sucked out of it. Go beyond one room and you start seeing bars disappear. Besdies this, unless you have a huge home its a great choice.

I replaced an older nighthawk router because I thought it was the cause of my network outage. It ended up being a Spectrum node issue that they didnt discover until after two service visits. This was actually a blessing in disguise as my network speed doubled with the new router. Easy setup using nighthawk app that I already had. I really like that you can tell it to automatically choose which network band to use so only one router name shows up in your device wifi setup instead of three (2.4g, 5.0g, 6.0g). It is seamless so your phone or other device just switches to the band with the best signal depending on distance from router. I didn’t even know about 6.0g until I got this router. It works really well if you are close enough to the router.

Was wanting to get a better router as recently our WiFi plan was upgraded. I really like the smart connection, where instead of having all three WiFi routes open there is only one and the best one is used for the device. I also like how it shows the potential amount of WiFi goes to each device. I do wish though there was a way to have it prioritize a device, as i like playing games I would want it to prioritize my Xbox when possible but I have yet to fine a setting or location where I can do that. It does feel like the WiFi is no longer being choked by the router as some devices feel like the WiFi is faster. It also is quiet a nice size that fits really well with how we have our set up for our modem and such.