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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...
Complete piece of junk. Half the range of my previous Asus router. I spent 45 mins adding the correct names to my connected devices, rebooted and the router reset all of it to default names. Constantly dropping connection to my Nvidia Shield Tablet. I'll be returning this and waiting for the Asus AX router.
Annoyed_AF wrote:
Complete piece of junk. Half the range of my previous Asus router. I spent 45 mins adding the correct names to my connected devices, rebooted and the router reset all of it to default names. Constantly dropping connection to my Nvidia Shield Tablet. I'll be returning this and waiting for the Asus AX router.
I applaud your move. Right now, IMHO, Netgear is putting out crap. Too bad as they used to be one of the best. Might also look at Linksys. Hear good report about them also. My Asus router was much better then the 2 Netgear routers I sold due to firmware issues.
It is very sad. I love their range extenders, but this is a joke. I bought the x10 and was impressed with the power, even though nothing every became of AD. After my last post, it randomly renamed my 5G band back to Netgear 5g and deleted the security, leaving it open. One would think they could release a firmware supporting current mainstream technology as they already have working firmware on all their other AC routers. Not worth the money for sure. This is going back to Best Buy tomorrow.
Back to best buy tomorrow is a good move IMHO. Netgear used to put out good routers, but currently, due to crap firmware no more. Just do not buy another netgear router.
Annoyed_AF wrote:
... Half the range of my previous Asus router. ... Constantly dropping connection to my Nvidia Shield Tablet.
It's a risky game going for the latest class of wireless - especially now wehre a lot of the technology has changed massively, interoparability issues are predictable. A litle blt blue-eyed to believe other do better - as all vendirs are based on the radio firmware coming from the SoC and radio chip makers.
Annoyed_AF wrote:
Complete piece of junk. ...
I spent 45 mins adding the correct names to my connected devices, rebooted and the router reset all of it to default names.
That sounds more like Netgear. Why I don't wonder dear ChristineT ?
To those of you questioning/complaining about number of wireless devices allowed. My Unifi AP's are spected at 200 devices per AP. I do not need all that currently, but nice to know. I deployed Arlo cameras, but they talk to the base station over wireless provided by the base and not the home network.
myersw wrote:
To those of you questioning/complaining about number of wireless devices allowed. My Unifi AP's are spected at 200 devices per AP. I do not need all that currently, but nice to know.
The simple and very inexpensive Netgear 802.1ac Wave II WAC505/WAC510 are supporting 200 concurrent connected clients, too.
myersw wrote:
I deployed Arlo cameras, but they talk to the base station over wireless provided by the base and not the home network.
The wireless Arlo devices require different timing characteristics than what the standard WiFi allows - mainly to save and conserve energy on the battery driven cameras and other devices.
