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yurarnd
Tutor
Jan 18, 2019

Netgear Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR500 what's his nat

Hi what kind of NAT it hardware or software ?
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Netduma_Jack
NetDuma Partner
Jan 21, 2019

Is there any particular reason you are asking this? 

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    yurarnd
    Tutor
    Jan 21, 2019

    hardware NAT reduces ping in the game better than software

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      FURRYe38
      Guru - Experienced User
      Jan 22, 2019

      Hard to tell what NG uses. I would presume it would be HW since these routers do support 1Gb ISP speeds and HW NAT cut thru is needed to achieve these speeds. 

      yurarnd wrote:

      hardware NAT reduces ping in the game better than software

       

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        yurarnd
        Tutor
        Jan 22, 2019

        thank you, but I would like to know for sure, they say that asus ac87 hardware NAT, I'm just used to netgear and do not want to take asus. I don't know what to do now