Customer Ratings & Reviews

Nighthawk DST router has a strong signal It corrected my low signal issue.

It covers areas that were dead in my house specially on the hallway to my room

Pros: Fast, Lots of Indicator Lights, Great WIFI reception, Lots of Features, Ethernet of Powerline Adapter (DST Adapter) Cons: Large First and foremost, I received this product as part of the NETGEAR F&F program. And I am in no way affiliated with Netgear in anyway. I obtained this router as a replacement for my Linksys E4200. My first impression was that this thing is huge in comparison with the Linksys. Fortunately, I have space to install this thing. The setup was very straightforward. It was initially preprogrammed with a generic Netgear SSID and a custom WIFI password. I immediately changed that to match my Linksys setup and also changed the subnet as well. After that I just swap out the Linksys with the Netgear and voila! It works. So no problem there. The WIFI strength was significantly stronger than the Linksys due to the 3 large antennas. The Linksys didn't have any external antennas to boost reception. I haven't figure out where to attach the DST module as I do not have a very large house. But I might just attach it for the fun of it. I also noticed that this is DD-WRT compatible. But from what I've read, the stock firmware is significantly faster than DD-WRT in terms of ipv4-nat because of the hardware acceleration. Because of that, I won't upgrade the firmware. And since my house now has so many devices (Chromecast, smart-tvs, wifi security cameras, gopro's, laptops, tablets, and smart phones) that connects to the WIFI, the 1900 MHz of total bandwidth will definitely come in handy and I enjoy the fact this device has a 1 GHz dual core processor to handle all the load as well. Only time will tell if this thing outlasts the Linksys. But with a 1 year Geek squad support, I might not have to worry about it too much.

I bought this router to fill the house completely with signal. I was hoping to use the extender in rooms that receive very little signal before, and boot the performance. In my case the base router has done the job without the extender. However, it appears that the extended will not work unless the signal is far stronger than anticipated. It will not work and provide a stronger signal than what the router itself provides.

This router is great it has good range and the extender seems to work good also.

Finally, no dead spots in my home. Netgear sends a full signal to every corner of my home.

I bought this equipment at a discount and lower price than found in other stores

works well to let us stream on wifi throughout our house. we're very happy!

I have a 1,300 sq ft apartment and it reaches every room. Great purchase

With our new home, this worked great to get a strong signal in the entire home.

I needed some help boosting my basement signal. This system did all that.

Enables me to have many devices streaming at once and doesn't mess up Netflix

Picked up this router to have better signal out to our office. Works great!!!

This router is been one of the boat devices I had ever bought in Best Buy.

Products was as described. Gives great reception in all rooms of my house. I have a 2 story house and it does not have any gaps. It is very easy to setup and works well. I am not using the second station. It seems to be more of a pain. I wish it automatically would pick up which one has a stronger signal and then switch. Currently it seems you have to login manually.

Previous router was slowly dying. Nice upgrade loving the range extender.

very easy to set up, signal is very good especially with the dst adapter

great router, very powerful no issues with it reaching where I need it to

decided to upgrade to the Nighthawk after reading reviews on it performance.

Router was east to install and start using. Would definitely by another.