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So far, so good
By Sheikyurbooti on Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2020
I installed this X6S AC3600 this morning; it was a breeze. Whenever I get a new “computer related” piece of hardware, my mind races back to the mid-90’s, when installing anything tech required you to call Bangalore India and try to understand a person that was genuinely trying to help you, but was all but impossible to understand. Those days are gone forever, but the nightmare remains with me. Perhaps that’s why I waited about a year too long to replace my previous NETGEAR router, which had, over the process of three years, literally burned itself out. Towards the end I was resetting it at least twice a day. So this new router seems to be a breath of fresh air. First, it was incredibly easy to install. The NETGEAR app took the place of the Bangalore phone call, and even guided me thru the relatively easy (but outwardly daunting) task of changing the factory preset SSID, to match my old SSID. As a result, I didn’t have to reset any of my WiFi devices for the new router; it was seamless (I’m talking about three security cameras, a printer, our MacAir, our ‘BigMac,’ and all our tablets, phones, plus the TV, and Alexa... sweet!). It’s range is far superior to our old NETGEAR, and the download/upload speeds have also increased greatly! I’m impressed. Here’s a special bonus for the free world, it ISN’T made in China; buying this router doesn’t feed the beast! It was a bit spendy, but, as the the man said as he was falling down the 20 story building, “so far, so good!”
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10 people found this helpful
Fast and unreliable
By Adriano on Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2020
I am a router enthusiast. I had routers from all major brands and I usually help friends setting up or fixing router configurations. And for some time I wished to buy the great Netgear Nighthawk. When my LAN reached 25 devices active at the same time and things started to slow down I figured out that a better router would help. My Spectrum router was not being able to deliver as fast as I needed. After I replaced the router I immediately noticed two things, one is that the router is very fast, good. The other is that some devices could not move from the 5GHz network to the 2.4GHz, the router just denied access, for some reasons. I had to reset to factory defaults and things started to work again. Then I used the router for 3 weeks without any problem. Then, out of nowhere my AirPrint Canon printer started to behave weird, refusing to print anything but still being able to scan documents from time to time. After spending one day trying to fix the printer I realized that the problem could be somewhere else. I put my old Spectrum router back and the printer started to work without any issues. So, I put the Netgear Nighthawk back and performed another factory reset, which fixed the issue with the printer for some time. It looks like the Bonjour service used by the printer is being blocked somehow by the router. But I noticed that the other issue (blocking some devices from moving networks) was back. It looks like the printer gets confused when the devices move from one network to another. The picture in this review shows that multiple devices have the same IP assigned, and this cannot be fixed with a reboot, only with a factory reset. At some point the printer started to fail again, so I decided to return the router. This is not a new router so it is likely that it will never get another firmware update from Netgear, so, I was not expecting a fix for those issues. Sad story.
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