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Axeldook's avatar
Axeldook
Aspirant
Oct 28, 2015
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AC5300 Nighthawk X8 Smart WiFi Router R8500 uk release date

Hi, 

 

Does anyone know when this router will be released in the UK please. 

 

thanks

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  • ElaineM's avatar
    ElaineM
    Nov 05, 2015

    Possible release will be mid-December of this year.

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  • Babylon5's avatar
    Babylon5
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Oct 28, 2015

    Someone may come up with a quicker answer, but otherwise I will enquire later today when I get home from work, about 7 hours from now.

     

    I was on the beta test for that router and have it set up as an AP right now (works perfectly well as a router also). My ISP is Virgin Media so the very impressive wireless throughput that the R8500 provides is very welcome.

     

    Use with a compatible Link Aggregation NAS is also very impressive with transfer rates at the full gigabit rate over my very busy LAN, easily hitting a sustained 100Mbytes / second.

    • Axeldook's avatar
      Axeldook
      Aspirant
      Oct 28, 2015

      thanks Andy, 

       

      I look forward to hearing from you.

       

      The R8500 router has some impressive specs. Keen to upgrade from my R7000...

      • Babylon5's avatar
        Babylon5
        NETGEAR Employee Retired
        Oct 28, 2015

        I do have quite a few routers, currently I’m running six concurrently (that’s about 15 different SSIDs), and that includes the R7000 which is one of my favourites.

         

        I have found that the throughput and performance of the R8500 is noticeably higher than the R7000, and as I mentioned above the Link Aggregation feature is a must-have with a compatible NAS.