Customer Ratings & Reviews

My 7 year old Cisco router died and this Netgear model was the best option as a replacement. It was simple to install and runs very fast. I also feel the design is durable and thoughtful. Plenty of connections and control features. It reaches every corner of my 2000 square ft ranch house (including the basement).

I purchased the NETGEAR - Smart AC1600 router and am very pleased with the overall performance in terms of speed, range, and bandwidth. Very easy to set up and includes two bands so that you can optimize for your device. I think this is the best compromise between performance and affordability.

Using this to replace my old Linksy e1500 which still works great. I set this up using my desktop web browser which was very easy. decided against the phone app due to numerous bad reviews. Download user manual from netgear first was helpful. All you do is type routerlogin.net in browser and a window pops up asking for login....which is admin and password for the password. I then changed my password. I used smart genie or whatever its called to auto connect to my dsl and I was up and running in no time. For me pc browser was easy and im not a tech guy. Hard to believe people have so much trouble. This works good in my small house. Bigger homes need a more powerfull router. Ihave 30/30 internet and that's the speed I get with this....lil bit better than old e-1500 liksys. I will update review after using for a while.

Works great, easy to set up. I'm not sure if I needed this one or if the AC1200 would have been sufficient. I had the AC1000 at first, but that was only good for 100 mbps input.

I bought this router to replace an older Netgear N router. The setup was so incredibly easy. I love that you download an app to setup the router. Learning on the difference between the 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks has let me take my home internet to the next level. I stream a lot, before my old router sometimes had some lag, thought it may have been to living in an apt building. But after getting this new AC1600 router, I learned it was the router. I pay for a 200mbps plan for my internet and supposively my modem is only to put out not even 100, but on the 5GHz frequency, I pull about 133mbps.

After increasing speed with ATT, I was still having buffering issues. The routers are the worst in modem/router combos provided by ATT. Purchased Netgear AC1600 and speed was immediate improvement!! The Netgear app was easy to navigate, I really like how it shows you how many devices are connected at one time!! I would recommend this unit for medium sized homes.

The unit was easy to install and simple to use. The netgear ac1600 is an incredibly fast router. I feel that this router was a was a good deal for the price I paid for it. I have paid more money for routers that I purchased in the past and they did not perform nearly as well as this unit. I would recommend this router to friends and family.

I really don't know much about this other than it works for what we intended to use it for. It seems to have quick speed and easy set up to start working. From store to out of box, set up and use took very little time and no real instruction reading. I would buy another if needed.

We had gotten an updated cable box. After hooking up, our WiFi wouldn’t work. We had replaced some wiring earlier in the day, due to house remodel/update and thought it got fried or something. After two router purchases, we realized that the cable box had to be activated. Lol But we kept this router hooked up and will use our other as a back up, in case of future misfortunes. I have absolutely no complaints about it. We have 3 phones, 4 laptops (one of which is a Lenovo gaming laptop, 2 xbox’s, and 3 televisions that we run Netflix, etc., on and the router keeps up fantastic. Buy it, you won’t be disappointed!

old wifi - also netgear went bad - replaced with this one and speed has increased threefold. This was a really good purchase. I did a thorough review before selecting this particular wifi.

Great router for the price. Have this thing running a gigabit line to support 60 IP cameras. No problems at all. Would recommend to anybody

This router was perfect for my 1500 sq ft house. My speed is great for working from home and using all my electronic devices at once doesn't seem to cause any lag.

I liked this router, but I bought a faster one because of the research I have to do. I think this is a great router and would suggest for internet browsing this works best.

Very fast and very adequate for the size of my home.

great range through out my whole house and super fast

Works great. Easy to set up and is really fast. No problems at all.

This router has great speed and was easy to setup.

I have been very satisfied with the coverage. The speed is excellent.

I upgraded my previous wi-fi router because we were streaming a lot more and have many wireless devices connected. Good speed and no real complaints. Good iPhone app too. I did mount the router higher up on a wall to provide better coverage around the house.

I bought this for my parents and it has been working great. It replaced at 20-year-old router so anything is better than what they had.