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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.
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.
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.
Looks like the Netgear R7000 edges out Asus, D-Link and Linksys in the AC1900 catagory from the comparisons I just looked over. With a host of 3rd party firmwares to choose from along with the Netgear firmware the R7000 looks like the safer choice for me. I just wish the NightHawk AC3200 didn't have all the firmware issues, I really do like the AC3200.
TYpically, thet are talking WIFI client.