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What's The Best Netgear Wireless Wifi Router Available Today?
Netgear has so many products out right now it's diffiicult to know what's the best thing happening right now. Sometimes you just want the best regardless of cost but the most expensive doesn't always...
S-Warren The R7000 (AC1900) really is the sweet spot for Netgear and Asus actually. Negear's latest R7000 firmware seems to be quite stable, (less complaints) and, also a variety of 3rd party firmware to choose. from . I have two of them, running 3rd party firmware. So far, so good, on the R7000 front. Try to select routers that have Broadcomm chipsets (which the R7000 is based on). They seem to be more stable and also, have better firmware. Check ou the wikidevi site for router info. Just plug in the router in upper right search bar.
Word of advice. Do your homework on the 8000 and 7500 firmware and USB usage wise. It's best to check the forum first, or make sure you have an exchange policy..
I did some reading here in the forums on the 8000 and 7500 firmwares and it looks like there have been several updates to both but issues still remain with them. One poor guy say's he woke up one morning to a $300 brick. I am noticing that most issues people are having with Wifi Routers are mostly firmware related and not neccessarily defects of design. That being said it's a concern for me that the NightHawk is still having firmware issues after all this time.
As awesome as the NightHawk looks on paper those firmware issues make me somewhat relunctant to fork over almost $300. I'm curious to know how long you have had your NightHawk because in some cases the issues folks are having didn't show up right away but only surfaced some time later after purchase. So far I haven't had any problems with my AC1200 (knock on wood) but I just bought it a week ago. I can only hope it remains stable for years to come.
S-Warren The R7000 (AC1900) really is the sweet spot for Netgear and Asus actually. Negear's latest R7000 firmware seems to be quite stable, (less complaints) and, also a variety of 3rd party firmware to choose. from . I have two of them, running 3rd party firmware. So far, so good, on the R7000 front. Try to select routers that have Broadcomm chipsets (which the R7000 is based on). They seem to be more stable and also, have better firmware. Check ou the wikidevi site for router info. Just plug in the router in upper right search bar.
The more I read about Routers the more I learn. The experts are saying that in order to take advantage of the speed offerings these latest round of Routers offer, you need a compatible client. What do they mean by compatible client, is that a Modem or some other hardware/software?
I'm curious to know what kind of bandwidth you are getting from your ISP. I have Comcast Blast which is decent but for some reason it seems like the speed is better if I plug my modem in directly without the Router in play. You think I might be getting speed lag through the Router? IDK, it just seems that way to me. I'm considering bumping up my bandwidth a little higher.