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Nighthawk R7000 vs R8000
I'm looking for a new ac wireless router and want to know which of these models is the best. What are the pros and cons of each router?
- Well i just pulled the trigger on the R7000. Usually i go for the latest and greatest but it sounds like the R8000 still has some bugs to work out and the R7000 more then meets my needs. :)
Hi,
I tried R8000 for a week or so and replaced it with R7500. In R8000, on 5GHz, radio 1 uses lower side freq. spectrum vs. radio 2 using higher side. Because of this the signal at given distance is little bit different between two radios. radio 2 has better signal. Throughput rate between 2 radios maybe slightly different because of this. R7500
has long way to go to realize it's superior hardware but at the moment I like it's QOS and stock f/w is quite stable. OpenWRT beta f/w is also available with some issues and I tried it to find out it is working well as good as stock f/w on basic router function.
I tried R8000 for a week or so and replaced it with R7500. In R8000, on 5GHz, radio 1 uses lower side freq. spectrum vs. radio 2 using higher side. Because of this the signal at given distance is little bit different between two radios. radio 2 has better signal. Throughput rate between 2 radios maybe slightly different because of this. R7500
has long way to go to realize it's superior hardware but at the moment I like it's QOS and stock f/w is quite stable. OpenWRT beta f/w is also available with some issues and I tried it to find out it is working well as good as stock f/w on basic router function.