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Introducing The Nighthawk AX8 WiFi Router - The New Era of WiFi
NETGEAR is leading the New Era of WiFi with our new Nighthawk AX8 8-Stream WiFi Router! The Nighthawk AX8 is NETGEAR’s first WiFi Router to support Wi-Fi 6, the latest generation of Wi-Fi te...
shamarin wrote:
Netgear FW's for all Nighthawk serious of routers need upgrade with GUI redesign to modern one and also with the availability of more setup options. Now it's bad that super new routers have an old FW's with very old and unmodern GUI.
If I could choose between reliability, performance, features, and GUI ... I could do it without a new GUI.
Wrong priority setting in my opinion.
Totally agree. Get the firmware right, especially a good reliable basic router and wireless which we do not have now, then additions. I agree a upgrade to UI would be nice, but that would take a large commitment of engineering talent to make happen and they are demonstrating they don't have the talent to fix the basics, routing and wireless support..
- Now there are a lot of frameworks that helps to make a good and user friendly UI, such as Bootstrap, Qt and so on.
Just a heads up- I use a NightHawk X4S / R7800, did a speed test to iPhone XS, ~600Mbit at 5Ghz, ~90Mbit at 2.4Ghz. Wired speed test, ~950 Mbit.
Bought an AX8, updated to latest firmware and ran a speed test- max 50 Mbit doesn't matter if 2.4 or 5Ghz. Changing channels didn't help. Wired speed test, ~850 Mbit.
The wired setup was:
Motorola MB8600 -> AX8 -> Netgear GS750E 48 port switch -> Linux i7-8650U server
Pairs of cat 6 wires used the whole way through using Link Aggregation with theoretical bandwidth of 1.9 Gbit possible, capped at 1.21 gbit via ISP at MB8600.
The AX8 has a fan which is audible during booting but quieter afterwards.
Not really the experience I was hoping for $400 list retail, had to return it.
Sounds like Netgear still has not got the slow Internet connection fixed. Was hoping they would start over since this is a brand new flag ship product.
IMHO Looks like NG still = No Good.
