NETGEAR - AC1750 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 5 Router - Black

I bought this as an upgrade from a router that was several years old, and I'm very satisfied with it! Much stronger signal that reaches areas of my house that were spotty before. Easy setup and no issues after a couple years of use. If you're being indecisive like me, this is your sign to just buy it!

I purchased this to replace my aging TP-Link Archer A7 and hoped to have some additional functionality. I'm far from a novice at setting up home networks and needed this to function as another router on a micronetwork in the house, to separate work devices from home devices. I regretted my purchase as soon as I started the setup. The QR code in the only "quick startup" documentation it had wasn't on the router so I started the manual setup. The mobile app refused to see it when I whether I was connected to the 2.4 or 5Ghz wifi so I went to the PC and started with the hardline setup. Once I finally got connected, the "advanced" setup automatically set it up as an access point without saying that's what it was doing. Ok, sure I was connected but I wasn't able to access the admin panel, at all, so factory reset. Get connected again, the UI is extremely slow. The initial setup completes and bam, instead of taking me to the admin panel it takes me to netgears website with how-to's. Completely unintuitive behavior. The mobile app still shows the router from when it initially set it to an access point and won't remove it, because it can't connect to it. Finally managed to remove it, somehow, I was beyond frustrated by this point. I logged back into the admin UI and there's no way to add a dark mode, it's a horrible white and insanely compact layout, I'm talking it would barely fill a 1280x1024 resolution screen. Trying to access any of the other tabs takes longer than loading reddit.com on 56k dialup. The actual functionality is ok but a far cry from what the TP-link has, and doesn't even have the traffic management that's indicated. It's useable, but barely. The mobile app, that's a joke. It takes forever to detect that you have a Netgear device on the network your connected to, took over 30 seconds to access the device once it was detected, you can't really change much of anything in the app so the only real use of it is to reboot it in the event you can't access it otherwise. oh, also, the lights. You can't dim them, you can't change the color. You either turn them all on, off, or only have the power LED. This wouldn't be so bad if they weren't such an obnoxiously bright white. At least give us the option to dim them. At this point I'll go with any other router, and I mean ANY, in the future.

This router works great, we were using an older netgear model since 2016 that recently went out(idk it just stopped working). This one streams everything great, very happy with one. Picture uploaded.

Helps upgrade your internet output it can be a little confusing when setting up if you don’t know what your doing

Easy interface, can see who is on your wifi. Easy to set up

Works so much better than the spectrum issued router

Router and wifi work OK so far but wasn't thrilled about the customer experience. My 12 year old Apple Airport Extreme gave out and needed something quick. I was not too happy the the Quickstart Guide in the box was simply a card that said to download an app. No manual (I have since obtained the manual online). Create an account, share email address ugh. Go through ad screens for additional software. More ughs. Barrage of emails on "days left for free security software" and offers for more paid services. App is so-so useful I suppose but would not miss it. Had I had the manual, would have simply access the router via ethernet and had it set up in less time. The coverage is about the same as the airport. Have a large lot and 3K SF home, covers everywhere. Apple was also gigabit. What I didn't expect is this thing lights up at night like Times Square. Have to keep the door to my home office closed at night. I've attached a pic of this Netgear next to the Apple, which only had one tiny amber/green light to show status. Oh, and it also had a 2Tb hard drive in it for backups. Maybe this is what all manufacturers provide these days. If so then I would change my "recommend to others" answer. Simpler is definitely better!

Love this router! This is the bedt router so far ive used cisco in the past it was just ok this thing is fabulous and fast covers all the dead spots !