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Waahmbo
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Sep 06, 2016
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R8500 MU-MIMO support

Purchased this router 11 monts ago, was promised MU-MIMO support by the end of the year (2015).   Does the current firmware, V1.0.2.64_1.0.62, support MU-MIMO?   Also, random reboots still seem t...
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    Retired_Member
    Oct 05, 2016

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VE6CGX
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Sep 06, 2016

R7800 works good on MU-MIMO. Read the review at smallnetbuilders.

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ElaineM
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Sep 07, 2016

We apologize for the delay.

MU-MIMO was included previously it's just that our engineers needed to work on it for better performance.

I was advised that MU-MIMO will be back on the next firmware release soon.