NETGEAR - Nighthawk AX8 8-Stream AX6000 Wi-Fi 6 Router - Black

My son talked me into this router, paired with a 1.4GB modem, back story is the Auris gateways are real bad and within a month you see poor WiFi. Now to the positive of running this nighthawk router with the modem is by far the best decision I made. The set up took me 30min. The genie Software is extremely nice and gives dad administrative control over every device in the house, my sons were disappointed, said to much power for 1 person . One thing that may put some buyers off is the price, this isn’t the cheapest route to go, I was told by the Best Buy associate, you won’t find a dead spot once this is installed properly. Speedtest: DL300 UL25 I did hit 340 twice and 31 also / I’m paying for 300 / 20 .. hope this helps / I also purchased the geek squad program for help , I didn’t call anyone but Best Buy, they made this purchase painless

Purchased this alongside the Arris SB8200 to replace our outdated cable modem/router Netgear N600. The RAX80 has an easy setup and handles our 1Gb/s download speed from Xfinity well. We have this setup in a medium/large house and I get signal everywhere including outside. I bought this on sale for $299, not sure it is worth $399 normal price unless you need greater than 2Gb/s speeds.

I got 2 story apt. and approximately 25 devices all around the crib. There are smart electric plugs, few smart bulbs couple of iPhones, my girls iPad, 4 laptops, iMac, a gaming desktop, Apple TV, Nvidia Shield TV, PS4 PRO, Nintendo Switch, of course, almost forgot my OnePlus 6T + Thinkpad X1 Carbon, Google Home controlling it all. Any device you might have, we got it. When I installed this router, i went and turned every device on and on those that could, turned on UHD 4K Netflix stream, trying to test the limits of RAX80, and guess what? This beast didnt even bat an eye! The CPU inside was at 10% usage! TEN PERCENT! This is outrageous, like its price. But, we all know, if you want to be the Top Dog wifi in your apt complex, it will cost you.

This really pairs well with the Nighthawk Modem. It took about 45 minutes to set everything up. It's super sleek looking and you can manage every device attached from your phone. Range and signal strength is unparalleled. Definitely worth upgrading from a stock Comcast Modem/Router combo. I haven't had any problems with connectivity and works great for our three person household.

Fan is constantly on with ambient room temp 69 deg F. Netgear X10 and ROG Rapture fan never spun up sitting in the same spot. I even propped up the unit on top of a box to provide more air for the vents underneath hoping it would stop the fan from constantly running, it didn’t work. The fan noise would not be an issue if the router was in a different room but it so happens to be in the same room as where I sit and where the cable port is located. Speed is no faster then NETGEAR x10 or Asus ROG Rapture since it’s not running in true AX standards (no devices with AX adapters yet) Running latest firmware. Also my dell laptop cannot see the WiFi channel unless I disable the “AX” feature in the settings. I have an open case with Netgear support (tiger team) to look into both of these issues. I thought the 1st unit was defective so exchanged it and same issue with constant fan on as well as unable to see WiFi channel from my dell running windows 10. I would wait to purchase this until a firmware fix for the constant fan running is fixed as well as backwards compatibility is resolved with certain WiFi adapters.

I was a little hesitant to purchase this router after reading some of the reviews and visiting the Netgear forums and seeing some of the complaints. But, I decided to go ahead and get the router ( I added the 4 year insurance in case something goes bad ) and I have been nothing but happy with it’s performance. My Appletv, IPhone 11, Ipadpro and all my electronic that rely on internet are much snappier, not to mention that my download and upload speed have increase. I’m aware that lots of users are having problems with this router, but also remember, that lots of people are also not having problems with the router and you will see very few people of the latter come and give a positive, while you will see almost all the people who have had bad experience come in an give a bad review. I’ll keep updating my review to give anyone trying to huy

The router works very well and handles the speed of the network with no issues but for some reason, it is not penetrating through the walls so well as my earlier Netgear router especially to my bedroom even though it is on the same floor and like 40 feet away.

Used it for about two weeks before returning it. Looks cool but didn’t work as expected. It would need to be rebooted to restore functionality. All devices would be connected but none of the network functioned until restarted. Could be I just got a defective unit. Instead of giving it another try I just decided to get a different router.