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Javichu1984
Aspirant
Oct 13, 2015
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Nighthawk X8 R8500 Band Steering

Hello everyone.   I'm looking to buy this amazing router as it gets available in Spain, so I have read every review available, and I found one thing that could be very frustrating.   There's no o...
Advanced Features
Band Steering
Before You Buy
Firmware
R8500
X8
  • ElaineM's avatar
    ElaineM
    Mar 09, 2016

    At this time, the router only support band steering on 5GHz band with smart connect enabled. No 2.4/5G band steering support.

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Javichu1984
Aspirant
Mar 10, 2016

Thank you!

 

Are there any plans to support it?

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ElaineM
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Mar 11, 2016

I would strongly encourage you to input that idea in our Idea Exchange Board for our engineers to be aware.