At $343.00 shipped, the router is one of the most expensive we have tested. One of the biggest issues with the Netgear R8500 is the price.
The antennas are trimmed in a nice mellow blue and you can control how the rest of the LEDs act from the router itself no need to grab a computer and log in. The router wont keep you up at night in a mostly dark room with a bunch of flickering lights.
The router is still quite large, but the design isnt exactly radical. The Netgear R8500 is a return to sleek and stylish. When the R8000 was introduced, it was not only large, but radical in style looking like an alien mothership with its flip-up antennas and Batman-inspired slopping nose. When the Nighthawk line was introduced a few years ago, it was a departure from the boxy form to a more sleek style. For many years, Netgears routers looked cookie-cutter and the same. Other routers in this class (like the Netgear R8000 or Linksys EA8500) already have been working with multiple radios, MU-MIMO-ready setups, and network attached cloud storage.Īs we look at the Netgear R8500, we have to note the design change from R8000. The Netgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300 WiFi Router is not really that revolutionary and essentially contains only a few features that we have not seen on other flagship routers: the new active antenna design, and aggregated Ethernet ports are the two new highlights that Netgear has introduced. Because they have been very consistent releasing high-quality products and updates to their entire line of products is one of the reason they have been one of the first companies we mention when making recommendations. Netgear has been one of our favorite networking brands for many, many years. I’ve done a fair amount of research into this problem and a lot of people in the ATT and Netgear forums seem to have similar problems but no solution that I found.Netgear R8500: Final Thoughts and Conclusions I have been struggling to get gigabit bandwidth through the R8500 and am running out of things to try. All my speed tests are done through and I’ve replaced all the necessary cables to Cat6. If I put the BGW210 in IP Passthrough mode the speeds out of the R8500 are 230/230 through LAN. But when wired directly into the BGW210-700 I easily get 900/900. I get similar numbers when wired into the LAN port of the R8500. ATT Fiber just came to our neighborhood and we upgraded to their gigabit 1000/1000 plan which has been pretty awesome so far!Ĭurrently my network goes like this: Fiber from the wall -> ATT fiber box -> ATT modem/router (BGW210-700) -> 8 port unmanaged Netgear switch (mainly using this switch to connect my pc/plex server because I can't get gig speeds out of the Nighthawk) -> Nighthawk X8 R8500 (In AP mode).Īll of my wireless devices are connected to the R8500 and I can get about 300/300 on the 5ghz R8500 network. My family just upgraded from Comcast where we were getting 175/5, which was pretty terrible for Plex remote streaming and our plan to cut the cord. u/RoweDent created this awesome resource on network theory u/tht1kidd_ has created a suggestion post regarding information everyone needs to provide when asking a question about their network There have been some excellent guides written in this sub, and we're always looking for more!
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