I know it will work with x6 especially. But will this fast lan 3.0 what is special about it.
Is this extender use any specific proprietary connection like orbi does with 4x4 band to establish the fastest and stronger connection. Can the user's expect a almost loseless tranfer here instead of wifi usually 50% loss.
More info needed
Like what would be benifit for x6, x4s and x8, x10 user will benifit from this extender.
@Saint-Timothy wrote: Does the range extender work with an older Netgear router?
Yes.
However, your older router will probably limit the overall wifi performance. One way to overcome that is to use the X6S as an access point (connecting it to the router with ethernet).
... But will this fast lan 3.0 what is special about it.
Is this extender use any specific proprietary connection like orbi does with 4x4 band to establish the fastest and stronger connection. Can the user's expect a almost loseless tranfer here instead of wifi usually 50% loss.
Like what would be benifit for x6, x4s and x8, x10 user will benifit from this extender.
FastLane3 uses a dedicated 4x4 band to connect to the router. Orbi also uses 4x4 for it's backhaul. However Orbi's backhaul is closed. FastLane3 is open, and will connect to any router.
As you point out, most extenders see a 50% drop in throughput because each wifi packet is repeated (relayed to the router) over the same radio. All versions of FastLane avoid that loss, by relaying the packets on a dedicated band. But previous Netgear extenders are only dual-band - so using the older FastLane required you to limit your client connections to either 2.4 ghz or 5 ghz.
But since this extender is triband, you still get both 2.4 ghz and 5 ghz for client connections. And because FastLane3 is 4x4, it can carry all the client traffic easily.
The Nighthawk X8, and X10 models are both triband quadstream, so they are ideal for FastLane3.
The X4 is dual-band quadstream. The X6S will work very well with it, but 5Ghz client connections to the router will compete with the FastLane3 link.
The X6 is triband but only tristream. It will also work very well, but FastLane3 will be somewhat slower because since it can't use 4x4.
Note I don't work for Netgear, and any errors in the info above are my own.
