Customer Ratings & Reviews

This Wi-Fi access point is a great choice for anyone with a home office. The setup process was straightforward and fast—I had it up and running in under 15 minutes without any issues. One feature I particularly appreciate is the ability to aggregate two Ethernet ports on the router for connecting a local network drive. This feature significantly improved performance, especially when multiple users were accessing the network storage at the same time, resulting in faster data transfer and a smoother overall experience.

Nice router, but it was hard to make use of the improvements. I had a RAX80 and since I only have 1GBs service where I live, the BE18000 didn't get me any improvements.

This router is outstanding. It has great range and is way better than my last router

The RS600 is a pretty great router but these are the major issues I had for a router that cost 500 dollars give us more Ethernet ports at least 4 T1000 gigbit ports and then a separate 10gigbit port and then a WAN port also please have dual USB 3.2 port or even a USB C port on the back so you can support more functionally. ASUS offers more. One other issues is why we cant get software that allows you to view files while on the go that's no complicated to use.

Really not bad for WiFi. Within 40mbs~ of Ethernet. Actually very impressive. Decent house coverage. In a poor location in my new house at the moment and still able to reach the other side of a 2700 sq ft area. Connection a bit slower on the far other side of house, closer to 500mbs instead of 960, but that’s par for course and most likely a result of the weird spot it’s in. 8k streaming works fine with multiple devices running. Again, pretty cool for WiFi. Difference between this router and previous 6E router was substantial, 350~mbs, if that matters to you. Also doesn’t look like a weird crystal monster, like some of their others—might be a plus or minus if you like that kinda thing.

The firmware and associated app are poorly made and obfuscates many of the settings an administrator might want to fine tune. Netgear is 100% all in on monthly subscription services and actively makes it difficult to administer your router without them. My biggest complaint is I seemingly cannot disable Anywhere Access, which allows remote login to your router from the Internet... I *thought* disabled it but every time I use the Nighthawk app it says I'm connected via Anywhere Access and not locally (I can switch to local, but that doesn't give me peace of mind). And I can't even check the status of the setting toggle because its seeming disappeared from the Nighthawk app (and I can't find an associated setting using the web interface). When I use the hamburger menu and tap Settings -> Security the only option available is to enable Netgear Armor (a subscription service) and nothing about Anywhere Access. Netgear has really screwed the pooch. I would not recommend you buy this router.