Time based control of what is accessed and when. Use Beamforming to extend coverage even further. By plugging a USB drive into the Nighthawk, and using the Read圜LOUD portal or mobile app, you can safely store or backup your files for free. Use Google Drive and Dropbox to store your files within the cloud. There’s a USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 port if you prefer to connect your storage this way. To help avoid buffer and lag, Netgear have provided Quality of Service (branded as Dynamic QoS by Netgear).ĭynamic QoS prioritizes network sensitive traffic such as voice, video and online gaming over all other types. Luckily the X8 uses a 1.4GHz DUal Core Broadcom BCM47094 processor to ensure a ‘sturdy ship’. This is ideal for connecting a NAS drive (if it supports link aggregation/port-channeling) to increase data flow.Īll of these awesome features don’t mean crap unless there’s a powerful processor to take care of things. Most home routers support only 4 physical LAN ports, the R8500 has 6! Not only that, but it’s possible to ‘aggregate’ two ports together to grab 2Gbps throughput. Note that due to the fact the amplifiers are located on the actual external antennas, they cannot be replaced. The 4 external active antennas are especially advantageous for smartphones, which due to their size don’t have the most powerful radios. This lessens the possibility of amplifying noise from the router board and encourages a cleaner wireless signal with less interference.
Rather than having the amplifiers located within the router and therefore close to the board, the amplifiers are within the antennas themselves. The X8 R8500 has active antennas which re-engineer how amplifiers interact with the antennas. This 4×4 Quad Stream router can provide MIMO wifi across multiple clients resulting in more efficient access all round.Īnd here’s another first. This means your 5GHz clients are load balanced with Smart Connect over two bands to make your network as efficient as possible.Ģx 2.16Gbps 5GHz radios & 1x 1Gbps on 2.4GHz radio total up to a huge 5.3Gbps theoretical throughput.īe afraid, be very afraid! Netgear have finally stepped into the land of MU-MIMO technology. Just like the Nighthawk X6 before it, the X8 is a Tri Band router. This is helped along with 1024 QAM radios that pump out over 2Gbps over each 5GHz radio. Excellent if you use a NAS drive for streaming videos. Here are the killer features under the hood of the latest Nighthawk router… 7 Features of the Nighthawk X8 Netgear Nighthawk X8 R8500 AC5300 Features It’s not been confirmed as to when the MU-MIMO feature will become available, but Netgear claim it should be available by the end of 2015 with a firmware update.
Not only is it Tri Band, but it’s MU-MIMO ready – Netgear’s first venture into this territory.
It’s their second Tri Band (the first being the X6 R8000, which was released last year), and has been beefed up to tempt the heavy users among you. So far we’ve had the R7900, the C7000, the R6700, and now we have the latest and the greatest – the Netgear Nighthawk X8 R8500 AC5300 router. Over the last couple of years, Netgear have been releasing a new breed of router, known as the Nighthawk.
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