NETGEAR Nighthawk

Not the cheapest WiFi Router out there but the Nighthawk RS700 qualifies its price tag with its sheer performance, blinding WiFi speed and simplicity of set up. I actually have 2 of these routers covering my home with one working as a gateway and the other acting as an access point. Coverage is great, transfer and data speeds are super fast and Armour just keeps getting better and better. Fast and stable with great coverage, a simple intuitive app for set up with a great GUI for more complex configurations, this router has the right blend of great functionality, cutting edge tech and ease of use. So good as I said I bought 2

wow the ease of setup and speed and quality and wifi signal and connectivity is amazing. and the functionality is amazing

I have given this product, the netgear rs700 1 star as it does not work properly with Apple Airplay and Sonos speakers over ethernet and Netgear can't solve the problem/give no support (I have to use ethernet to the speakers as all the neighbours have WIFI running and there is not enough channels on 5ghz and 2.4ghz, so ethernet solves the interference problems)If you add another brand of hub into the equation then it works and Netgear don't know why.I have been in contact with Netgear support about this problem from 10th Feb 2025 and it's now 25th May 2025, that's 104 days and no fix.In the beginning they kept coming up with small tweaks in the settings, none of which helped and I had already tried, they asked for diagnostics and progressed to 2 level supportThere have been no fixes or progress. This is a typical response from them, and guess what, nothing happened, no reply after this, nothing."NETGEAR Support Agent2025-04-28 17:42:33Hi T,Thank you for the follow up email.I will try to request specific progress for this case.I will get back to you once I get an update.XXXNetgear Level 2 Support"and a month later, guess what, NOTHING!To me, when you buy a product, you pay for the product and also support, however, Netgear don't give you support, just the 'brush off' if it's outside of changing a few settings, I'm really not joking here, they don't fix issues.Don't buy from Netgear, their support is appalling and they simply fail to fix their problems with their devices.Router itself is nice, and the WIFI 7 is strong and has a good range, but if you want something more than just browsing, like Music over the internet with your favourite speakers, don't take a chance with Netgear, use another brandI hope this helps your decision

This is one quality product, beautifully designed, wonderfully packaged and so performant.It unboxes like an Apple product, it's so well weighted and specification-wise it ticks all the boxes:1) Three WiFi radios - one for 2.4GHz, another for 5GHz and the third for the newly opened 6GHz band.2) Each of the three radios can support 4 concurrent transmisssions and receptions aka 4x4 + 4x4 + 4x4.3) It supports the newly available WiFi 320MHz channel bandwidth on 6GHz, and that's important because dual-radio WiFi 7 routers can't! And that is one aspect of where WiFi 7's highest speeds come from.4) MLO - multi-link operation - bonding 2.4GHz + 5GHz + 6GHz channels together for HUGE speeds, again a feature new to WiFi 7.5) MRU - multi resource unit support - this is where the improvements in latency come from in WiFi 7.6) 4K QAM operation - really close-up to the router (<3m) this is another new addition and another part of the contribution to the BE19000 rating of this router. Again this is only available on WiFi 7.7) Dual 10Gbps ethernet ports!8) USB 3.0, 4 more 1Gbps LAN ports and and App, and plus a well thought-out web user interface.It's spectacular!BUT it has no support for any WiFi Mesh standard, not WiFi Alliance's EasyMesh or even a Netgear proprietary WiFi mesh protocol.Why was that important to me?Well today I run 2x ASUS XT8 WiFi Mesh nodes (you might use the term router, and that's fine). WiFi mesh means you hook one WiFi router to your incoming broadband, and then place another one somewhere else in your home and then the two devices work together wirelessly to give you whole home WiFi coverage. But this router doesn't support ANY mesh standard, so I can't make them form a WiFi mesh network.Now, if today you don't need two WiFi nodes in your setup, then no matter which type of incoming broadband you have then this is the router for you IF you have WiFi 7 or WiFi 6E devices. It's also highly unlikely to noticely improve your current WiFi experience unless you're using WiFi 5 or powerline or WiFi repeater devices in your setup. From Apple ONLY the 2024 iPhone 16 models support WiFi 7, and only iPhone 15 Pro supports WiFi 6E. Apple's latest M4 iPads don't support WiFi 7 or 6E, and the current M3 MacBook Pro only supports WiFi 6E.Please note, if you receive one of these the first thing you MUST do is update it's firmware. Because the WiFi 7 standard is new and all of the vendors are rushing products to the market but those products will have been on the manufacturing production line 2-3months ago, and then sea-shipped (most likely) from China (add another 4-6weeks for that). So the software installed in the factory WILL have been superceded by a much more stable version simply because the OEM has had more test time and issues reported from early adopters and the market.

Options are limited, and it misses some of the key configurations that I would expect on such an expensive router. But this does mean that setup and configuration is easy as there are not many options.Also we are still waiting for firmware updates to enable some Wifi7 features.Signal strength is okay, but nothing special.I would recommend new Wifi7 routers with quad band, rather than the tri-band this comes with.

Good and and reliable connection. Yet, The range of signal is not as great and Two Lan's do not work, as aggregation. No problem with connection stability and speed.. yet, something is out of order