Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have used Nighthawk routers in the past and have always had great a great experience. I have found this router to equal or be better in many areas. The router is easy to set up. One of the issues with Netgear routers in the past has been the app. They have not been very intuitive and feature rich. This app does an excellent job of assisting with setup. Follow the steps and you will be setup and running with very little problem. My home is two story and about 2500 sq ft. I have the router on one end of my house so its not even in the middle. The range of the router is excellent. I have full coverage everywhere in my home as well as most of my yard. There is no need for an extender. As one of the first Wifi 7 routers I was interested to test it out. I do not have devices that will run WifI 7 at this time (its still very new) but the router was still very quick running in WiFi 6 mode. You can setup up multiple wifi connections and secure each separately. Over all I would happily recommend this router to future proof for WiFi 7.

We recently got quantum fiber 3 Gig service. They installed a c 6500 ONT and with that they supplied a separate router/pod. The pod was only producing up to 2.5 gig speeds with Wi-Fi 7 capable devices. It would randomly drop service and lag as well. We recently purchased a nighthawk RS 700 and it has been worth every penny. Wi-Fi speeds are faster and more control over network also service has not dropped since installation of nighthawk RS700. We were concerned with the installation with quantum fiber ONT but it has been a seamless transition just plug and play no need to do transparent bridge with network.

Works great and as expected! Incredibly fast and has not had any drops.

I purchased the NetGear Night Hawk 5Stream Dual Band WiFi Router two years ago and was impressed on the speed and reliability of the router. I upgraded to this new TriBand WiFi 7 router. With faster internet speeds available, this new router takes my WiFi connection and speed to another level. With WiFi connection to a PS5, TVs, laptops, tablets, phones and Ring camera system, my reliability does not skip a beat. This is what upgrading is all about and I can honestly say I am 100% satisfied with the results. If you were thinking of upgrading and your house has high data usage, it is definitely worth it. I am happy I made the jump. Makes me wonder what how NetGear ORBI router platform performs.

Great coverage and excellent speed. No bufferring. Great standalone as I do not like mesh systems be ause they drop half the bandwidth with every hop

Easy to set up with the netgear Nighthawk app. Able to handle all of my devices easily. Excellent range and speed across all my devices. Would recommend to anyone wanting to upgrade to a wifi 7 capable device.

I purchased the RS700 to replace a Netgear AC1750 router. With the old router I was seldom able to achieve over 200 Mbps over Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi 5) and usually was limited to around 150 Mbps when only 2 rooms away. With the RS700 I receive over 550 Mbs at -41 dB with the same devices at the same distance. Unfortunately, I am unable to use the enhanced 6E and Wi-Fi 7 options since none of my current devices have that capability, but this router is clearly ready when I do upgrade those devices. Easy to setup, great in use, worth the cost.

I work from home and require reliable internet. This router is the most powerful, diverse device I’ve ever owned! I can dedicate the highest performance to my work laptop, while assigning doorbells and other ancillary devices to lower power guest settings. I love it!

Upgraded from a netgear nighthawk rax200 and this thing is giving me wifi speed tests of double and thats using a wifi 6 device. So you still get a speed increase even without using wifi 7. I would highly recommend this for both range and speed as my range has doubled! Overall i am overly satisfied with this device and would recommend it to other or buy it again.

Excellent product, I have used this on my older phones.

Initial Impressions: The Netgear Nighthawk RS700S breaks from the antenna farm trend. Instead, Netgear engineered a tower design equal to the height and volume of a two-liter bottle of soda. It weighs about the same. There are eight 3-D printed antennas inside this slim box. Additionally, there are vents made of aluminum at the top and bottom of the box. I assume this is a passive cooling system. I have not heard any fan noise. The router has three bands, 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz which support legacy Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi 5/6/6e, and Wi-Fi 7. There are no Wi-Fi 7 devices available to me at time of this writing. The setup wizards for the Nighthawk are awful. I was forced to setup the router using the manual path. Which I found very disappointing. The user interface is pedestrian, very slow, and lacking some basic features that I would expect with a flagship product. Bitdefender integration is a highlight since it offers both integration with the Nighthawk and edge protection with an included 1yr, 10-user license for edge protection such as workstations and laptops. Finally, I found the 6 GHz band to be extremely unstable. Setup: I have set up a lot of wireless routers for different living environments over the last 20 years. Some are easier to set up than others. The Nighthawk is easy to set up if you do not use the setup wizards. Let us talk about the wizards for a second. The Nighthawk can be set up using a mobile app downloaded from Google or Apple app stores. The Nighthawk starts on its own private network, makes a connection with the app, and then leads the user through the setup and configuration process. I ran into a few issues here. First, the router must be connected to the internet router. The wizard will not compromise on this step. If you live alone then this is not a big deal. This is a big problem if you live in a household where the internet is life. In my household, someone is always working from home, streaming a movie, doing homework, engaged with social media, streaming high resolution music, and all combinations of the aforementioned from 7am to 11pm. Set up for me started at 11pm. The next issue I ran into was setting up the Wi-Fi networks. At first, I chose to set up three separate networks, one for each band. Unfortunately, the router refused to rename the networks to anything other than Netgear88. Reboots, name changes, harsh language. It all repeatedly failed. Worse, Netgear88 was inaccessible because the password for the network is associated with the network name I set and not with Netgear88 network. The default wireless password for your router is conveniently printed on the bottom of the router. I reset the router using the reset button located at the back of the router. Next, I chose to connect directly to the router via network cable and the default gateway address. I was greeted by another wizard. In this case, the setup process failed at naming the router and setting up a new Admin password. Again, best practice. Sad face... I had to reset the router to factory defaults because I could not log into the router using the new default password. Finally, I chose the manual setup route by connecting directly to the router using a network cable. The wizard has a choice for manual configuration. This time I configured the router offline before deploying it to my network. From here I was able to set up my wireless networks, set up passwords, change the default admin password, configure the network, and set my allowable IP address ranges. Nighthawk Interface: The web interface for the Nighthawk is slow. Moving between pages can take 2 to 10 seconds. Sometimes longer. There is no discernible reason for this. Even the mobile app suffers from this slow response. Applying changes can take 10 seconds to 2 minutes each. A two-minute or longer wait is guaranteed if the router needs to reboot to implement the changes. The mobile app is not immune to this. I find this frustrating because the next closest competitor to this Nighthawk, which I currently own, already does a better job serving up pages, implementing changes, and goes as far as to offer a more robust user interface than the Nighthawk. I honestly expect better from a flagship product. Network Speed: Network speed is top notch. I have approximately 40 devices on my network consisting of several workstations, several gaming and work laptops, tablets, phones, TVs, other smart device, network home theater receivers, switches, network streamers, and other smart devices that all connect to their respective cloud services. TVs, Receivers, and gaming consoles, and workstations are all hard wired into the network. Everything else is wireless. File transfers are fast. I have had two TVs streaming videos, work from home laptop going, music streaming to my office receiver, and the kids doing social media simultaneously using a combination of wired and wireless connections with no issues. The Nighthawk hardware is a solid performer with a single exception. Wi-Fi: The 6 GHz band is unstable like nobody’s business. I have several Wi-Fi 6e certified devices that cannot maintain a stable connection with the Nighthawk. For proof, I ran a continuous ping for about an hour and could see the disruptions in real time. How does this impact performance? Long load times for web pages, dropped connections, broken file transfers, disruption in meetings, you get the point. It is not good. Maybe the 6 GHz band is for Wi-Fi 7 devices only? If there were the case then my Wi-Fi 6 devices would not keep preferring the 6 GHz band as the default, best network. This is true if I am rocking three individual networks and allowing Windows to decide or if the Nighthawk is configured for Smart Connect. SmartConnect combines all three bands into a single SIDD. Then Windows can pick the best connection for the connected device. Unfortunately, Wi-Fi 6 devices like to grab the 6 GHz band by default. Windows will not auto switch to the super stable 5 GHz band unless the 6 GHz band is completely unreachable. Unstable is not unreachable. My only remedy is three separate Wi-Fi networks, one for each band. I hide the SIDD for the 6 GHz band and force Windows to connect to the 5GHz band. A downside is that I lose the super high performing Wi-Fi performance that the 6 GHz band. The other downside is that I cannot turn off the 6 GHz antennas. This is one of those basic features that I would expect from a flagship product that I mentioned earlier. It is a waste of electricity to run a set of antennas that I cannot use. To be fair, my Wi-Fi 6 Router also has a 6 GHz band that is difficult to maintain connection to. So, this may be an environmental issue that has nothing to do with the router. The difference is that my devices will auto connect to the ultra-stable 5 GHz band automagicaly on my previous router. Security: The Nighthawk integrates with Bitdefender. A 1yr, 10-user Bitdefender license is included. Armor must be activated via the mobile app. Armor cannot be interfaced with from the router. Why? I have no idea. The only indication that Armor is running is a chicklet on the Home page that states Security, with a Sheild and “A” symbol, is enabled or disabled. At least one computer on the network must be running Bitdefender to establish end-to-end security. According to Bitdefender, the security environment strengthens as more Bitdefender clients are added to the network. I really like the idea of an integrated end-to-end solution. I also like what I am seeing thus far with Bitdefender. So much so that I am considering dropping my current security software and migrating my systems to Bitdefender. This is not a Bitdefender review. However, I will say that it is nice to have a holistic security solution that is not constantly nagging me for more money. Final item. The Nighthawk app does interface with Armour. Except, the Nighthawk app forever prompts to activate the trial period. And then it will simply “fail to subscribe.” Whatever. Final thoughts: The Netgear Nighthawk RS700S is a solid performer once it is properly setup and configured. The user experience desperately requires a useability, performance, optimization, bug, and beauty pass before I can recommend this router. The Nighthawk does keep up with all my internet and data needs. I really like the Bitdefender end to end integration and will consider migrating my clients to the solution. I do not like having to pay an annual subscription to Bitdefender if I choose to only leverage the router security feature. I also do not like zero access to the Armor router security features unless I am running the client somewhere on my network. Even then, I do not really have access to router security. However, this is an enterprise like solution for a consumer/small business device. I do not know of anyone else offering this type of solution. Netgear packed a lot of innovation into the Nighthawk. However, for a premium flagship product, the user experience is terrible. This needs a lot of work before I feel comfortable recommending this product.

Easy setup and overall device configuration! The app pretty much does all management which is a bit easier to navigate than a typical router configuration page.

Stop scamming your customers and give them what they pay for ,not lock them in to a contract, embedding a software system that knows too much about your personal information? Found software information in my hard drive that it was very difficult to delete and detect. I had to call Apple to remove. The software they were even stating that this is gone too far for a software protection. I had to restore the computer in order to remove it from the device be aware. ! Asus! has given me a very simple ssetup & connection, fast and latest technology with quad band/ 2.4ghz 5.1 5.2 & 6.0ghz plenty for all devices and some for years to come! running spectrum coaxial speeds 1000 mbps are well over tranfer to a much better speed through my router reaching between 1600 mbps and above !

Speeds up all our wifi because the newer phones and tablets can go on WiFi 6 and older ones on 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz has less traffic than before. Reaches farther too. Looking forward to trying Wifi 7 when I get newer devices.

The best router I have ever had. Not a single issue to be found. Works as expected with no hiccups. With WiFi 7, I'll be sure to use this for years.

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" This router does not live up to its hype. I've spent hours playing around with the settings, channels etc on this device, and can only get 650mbps max out of it..which is 200mbps less than my crappy ISP-provided router! Furthermore, you can't adjust the Wifi settings like with most routers. For example, AX features are fixed and cannot be modified or disabled - which causes a world of frustration when trying to connect smart home devices. e.g. You can't use Apple homepods with this router. Security features are also fixed at WPA3-personal- which is fine in theory but a lot of devices are not yet compatible with WPA3. The only way you can modify your wifi security-protocol is if you disable the "smart connect" feature and break up your internet into three separate networks (2.4ghz, 5ghz, and 6ghz). So, basically- if you have even one smart device that is not WPA3 compatible, you will lose the ability to have all your devices connect seamlessly on one network. So tedious! I could maybe gloss over these frustrations if I was receiving a massive increase in Wifi speed, but it's LESS than I got out of the most basic/crap router. I do love the design of this router. It looks great, is compact/modern/sexy...but it just doesn't live up to its mega-router potential. Huge disappointment.