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Dustin_V
Nov 07, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
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...
Annoyed_AF
Nov 30, 2018Initiate
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.
myersw
Dec 01, 2018Master
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.
- Annoyed_AFDec 01, 2018Initiate
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.
- myerswDec 01, 2018Master
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.