Customer Ratings & Reviews

Has been working well. Setup instructions need a little work, but I was able to get everything working before much time. Overall, I'm impressed with the item.

Works well, but it doesn’t cover the entire house. We have a 1600 square foot, single story home, and there is a corner of the house it doesn’t reach. Otherwise, we are pleased so far.

The output has been excellent. The only negative, and it is only a problem every three months or so, if that I have to power the unit down and reboot it as it freezes up.

Nice product but it’s Wi-Fi distance that it covers isn’t really great you need to buy the Wi-Fi extender from net gear that works with the net gear router then you get excellent coverage!

Worked okay for a while, but as soon as the 1-year warranty expired the 5ghz started acting up. The SSID began randomly inserting strange characters. I was going to factory reset and set it back up again to fix it but my attention was drawn away. A year later I remembered it and did this, but the 5ghz was GONE. No channel was listed under the info for the antenna. Reading up I discovered on pages upon pages on websites including Netgear's own, the hardware for the 5ghz was highly susceptible to heat and failure. So you can only rely on the 2.4ghz antenna on this model. And once the 5ghz antenna goes out, rebooting will take a long time. I also began having problems with the unit randomly going out. If you do access control (allowing ONLY certain MAC addresses to access your network), the Netgear interface CANNOT handle this properly. You might be able to add a device but you'll NEVER be able to edit or delete it. This has NEVER been fixed in four years (two routers) of their web settings interface. (I will not use limited smart phone apps.) Plus, automatic update for firmware doesn't always work. The most recent update was (apparently) 1/18 and it wasn't pushed to my router. Unsurprisingly it broke more than it fixed, removing plenty of features (like antenna transmit power) to the point where I'm done with Netgear products.

Purchased this router to replace a very unreliable TP Link router that was less than two years old. Easy to set up/install and so far is a much better and more reliable WiFi Router.

Great product, but sometimes difficult to set up depending on location the unit is placed in the home and the other electronic equipment located near the router itself.

Very good router if you have less than 30 devices. After that it is very unstable and reboots alot. Have to upgrade to mesh if you have more.

The WiFi and internet portion work well but the unit physically can use some work as the posts for the WiFi to cast out are flimsy and fall every once in a while.

I talked to a Best Buy associate about what router was best for me and my internet needs. He recommended this one and it has been awesome for me it has a app to help with maintenance and parental controls.

I bought this for my father who needed to replace his dead Apple AirPort Extreme. This router is hands down awesome and very user friendly. The nighthawk application works great as well.

I have spectrum 400.0 internet and this router hooked up to a cm1000 netgear im getting great speeds and connection. Test at 480 download and 24 upload every test always above 450

Great for accessing by multiple users. Our speed had remained "excellent" per the speed test and my children are now happy that their "packets" are not dropping while gaming.

I have really liked this router. The built in firewall is great for blocking malicious content! Even sends me a message on my phone when something is blocked (allowing me to question the kid). :)

Been using it for a while and everything works great except for the auto-swap between 2.4 & 5 GHz. Dropped connections all the time until I turned that feature off.

Prior to purchasing and setting this up our WiFi was slow and had dead spots in a 3200sq ft house. This one works much faster and no dead zones. Multiple smart TVs, computers phones even guest don’t slow it down

We were having issues with our signal dropping, and changing to other WiFi networks. Purchased this item and my husband installed It easily. We have had no problems since. Great product.

It was easy to setup but it would cut out many times even on ethernet connection.

I kept having trouble with cable tv then cut the cable and streaming tv- freezing, going black, etc. not being tech knowledgeable, I decided to try a more powerful wireless router. It works great, no more problems!

I live in a very congested area, so it’s hard for me to get good wireless. This did improve it but still wasn’t good enough for online gaming on my ps4, so EThernet cable was my solution