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R8500 - Does it support 4K streaming
I just bought the new R8500. Are there any known issues with it? With 20 attached devices and two 4K television I wanted to make sure it didn't bog down like my other one.
Very high quality 4K streaming shouldn’t need more than about 40Mbps, so even over a single gigabit link there should be plenty of capacity there, I’m not sure you would see any benefit at all from an aggregated switch connection.
Hi Loudog2,
Welcome to the community!
As of this writing, we do not have any known issues. The device has been tested to work as it should before releasing it to the market.
Based from your network description, it will handle the devices that you have.
Let us know if you need further assistance with it.
Thank you for being a loyal NETGEAR customer.
Loudog2,
Sorry I’m a bit late in replying, but here’s some real-world testing figures that you might be interested in;
Throughput – up to 215% faster than the R8000
In a non-optimised comparative throughput test around my house using a gigabit wired server and a laptop fitted with the Intel 7260AC wireless device I achieved a throughput of over 350Mbps which was 215% faster than the R8000 on the same day.
Throughput – coupled with an RN202 NAS using Link Aggregation Mode 2
- Wired 106Mbytes per second – a 1.5Gbyte file transferred in 14 seconds
- Wireless 40Mbytes per second – to the Intel 7260AC laptop
With the RN202 connected using two Ethernet cables to the R8500 I see over 100Mbytes per second over a gigabit LAN, and over 40Mbytes per second wireless
Sustained Throughput - reliable
A transfer of over 800Gbytes of data from one NAS (Buffalo) to the RN202 completed without any errors – took quite a while as the Buffalo NAS is not exactly fast.
Readycloud – Secure easy access
The RN202 and R8500 can share the same ReadyCloud capability so both are easily accessed remotely from the same web page securely.
4K Video
Sadly, I don't have a 4K display, but the throughput tests that I have run coupled with the RN202 NAS performance when connected to the R8500 tells me that this configuration will have no difficulty at all handling 4K video.
Just bought the R8500. It's sitting on the couch out of the box. First impression before installing it. Why are the activity lights sitting on the top of the unit. I find it hard to believe that most people sit it on a desktop. I will put this on top of a shelf where i won't be able to see the activity lights. Usually when something happens on the internet, I look at these lights to see if everything looks okay. To do this now, I'll have to use a pole with a mirror or get a stool to look at them. The Nighthawk design series seems to be this way. the Netgear industrial design people should stop preferring form over function. The older units were more functional in that they had the lights on the front of the unit. I know, this doesn't make it look like a sleek sportscar but, remember, it's a Wifi router for petes sake. I'm not going to waste my desktop real estate on a router. Thats' reserved for paperwork. I'll get off my soapbox. Just hoping it lives up to it's other touted capabilities.
That’s an interesting point.
Perhaps LEDs could be duplicated on the front panel, LEDs are not particularly expensive? The router already has the options to control the LED illumination so a second row of LEDs could also be controlled. The reason I have not suggested just moving the LEDs is because those top LEDs are in a good position if the router is wall mounted.
If you have suggestions for moving the LEDs or any other suggestion in fact, I would be happy to pass these on to Netgear engineering.
