NETGEAR Nighthawk Tri-Band WiFi 7 Router (RS280S) – Router Only, BE9200 Wireless Speed (up to 9.2 Gbps) – Covers up to 2,500 sq. ft. – 2.5 Gig Internet Port – 1-Year Armor & Free Expert Help

Awesome Wi-Fi router
This Wi-Fi router is awesome for the price. It runs circles over the Nokia router that my fiber internet company provided me. It can handle more devices simultaneously, has faster download and upload speeds, and the signal reaches further. Set up was a breeze and the app has many useful features.

Good 2.4/5Ghz performance for the price. Disappointing 6Ghz band.
Recently purchased and set up this router for my home, and here are some thoughts.First of all, on the specs themselves, I thought this was a steal at $188, compared to the RS300 at $280.  I did a lot of research and these are practically identical routers, the only difference being the 2.4Ghz band does not support WiFi 7, so it’s 500Mbps instead of 600Mbps, which seems completely trivial.  Anything you need high speed for should be using the 5Ghz or 6Ghz band anyways.Setup: I did run into an issue when setting it up.  After it asked me to name the network, it then needed a firmware update.  The firmware update completed fine but the network name reverted back to the default name, even though in the Nighthawk app it still showed the new name I gave it.  The only way to fix this was to turn off the smart connect feature that merges all the SSIDs into one, and once there were three different SSIDs, the names showed up correctly.Performance:  So far the performance is good, but hasn’t blown me away.  The range for the 2.4/5Ghz bands is pretty much the same as the cheap TP-Link AX1800 that this replaced.  The 6Ghz band range is terrible.  There’s no other way to put it.  It pretty much only works in the same room.  I was sort of expecting it to be worse based on what I’ve read online, but it’s worse than I thought.  Additionally, it’s actually a littler slower than the 5Ghz band on the one device I have that currently can use the 6Ghz band, which is my new phone I just got that has Wifi6E.  I tested both bands while standing right in front of it and the 5Ghz band outperformed the 6Ghz band by about 5-10%.  I bought this for future proofing, so we’ll see if Wifi7 devices will work better with it in the future.  My desktop PC has a wireless AC card in it and was able to max out my internet’s bandwidth at 800Mbps on the 5Ghz band no problem, so that was great (I upgraded my modem at the same time, which was previously bottlenecking me to 130Mbps no matter the device or band).Other: I have noticed at times that my phone will connect to the 2.4Ghz band instead of the 5Ghz band, so I made my phone forget the 2.4Ghz SSID to force it to always use the 5Ghz band.  I suppose if the smart connect feature had worked, it would have fixed this (but I can’t say since I never got to test it out).Conclusion:  Definitely not perfect, but still good overall for the 2.4/5Ghz bands.  For the price, I think it’s a good deal and hopefully will work well with Wifi7 devices in the future.

Great speeds but may be a bit finicky setting up.
Great router but not necessarily plug-and-play. Replaced previous Netgear that we had for 14 years but wanted to upgrade due to adding several WiFi devices. When we first plugged this router into our cable modem, the router turned on and we had WiFi access, but no internet. Turns out for our cable modem, the traditional method of turning on the cable modem first, then router did not work. We needed the router on and connected to the modem and then performed a software reboot on the cable modem. At that point the router was able to get an IP address and the internet starting working. Speeds (especially at 6Ghz) are incredible.

Excelente!

El soporte de la Netgear esta en la India, no hablan español, apenas hablan ingles, y forzosamente quieren tu nombre, apellido y correo electronico para tomar tu llamada. Si no das esos datos, te cuelgan. Netgear ahora se dedica a la venta de datos personales, ya que no hacen routers que sirvan.Compre este router por que la pagina de netgear insiste que puedes configurar un cliente VPN directamente en el router. Esto es categoricamente FALSO. El submenu que su misma documentacion indica, NO EXISTE dentro de este router, ende, NO ES POSIBLE configurar una VPN.Falla seguido. De la nada mis servicio deja de navegar. No indica falla o perdida de señal, o un timeout. Simplemente deja de cargar lo que sea, ya sea por wifi o por ethernet. El problema se soluciona inmediatamente conectando directamente al modem de mi provedor de servicios.Si, es cierto. Es Wifi6, pero solo para dispositivos mobiles. Mi PC tiene una tarjeta de red que tambien es wifi6, y por ninguna razon el router solo le permite una conexion tipo 802.11n, lo cual te limita a 200Mbps. No hay forma de conectar mi PC en 802.11ac o 802.11ax. Curiosamente, al compartir datos con mi celular a la misma PC, esa conexcion SI ES 802.11ax. Es decir, no es un problema con la PC, ni con el celular. El router simplemente limita las conexciones de PCs a 802.11n, y no hay forma, no hay manera de forzar al router a utilizar 802.11ax.Y por alguna razon todo quieren que sea por su jodida app.

Much smaller than I anticipated compared to my previous Nighthawk but no issues as of yet. The previous one lasted about 5 years. Seems to work well with WiFi 6/7 and handles cloud gaming effortlessly.(Tested with Nvidia GEFORCE Now and Xbox Cloud)