That’s a nearly three-fold improvement with the router and client close to each other. Other Wi-Fi 6 routers were similarly left in the digital dust, with the Asus AC-RT86U’s managed 929.7Mbps, the TP-Link Archer AX6000 moving 884.4Mbps and the Linksys MR9600 delivering 822.0Mbps. That’s a 42 percent jump over the Netgear Nighthawk AX8’s already-impressive 1.389Gbps. After setting the router up 15-feet from the S21 phone and using the RAXE500’s SmartConnect, channel 36 (for 5GHz) and channel 33 (for 6GHz), the RAXE500 delivered a peak throughput of 1.153Gbps for the 6Ghz band and another 1.242Gbps for the 2.4- and 5GHz bands. Using Ixia’s ixChariot’s network simulation software and a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra – one of the rare devices that can take advantage of Wi-Fi 6e’s potential – I created a busy network with 10 simulated users. With its ability to move data back and forth in the 2.4-, 5- and 6GHz bands, the Nighthawk RAXE500 blew other routers away. Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 review: Performance There are activity lights for power, Internet and its three data bands as well as its wired Ethernet ports and the two USB connections. Happily, the RAXE500 has a switch for turning off the dozen LEDs that light up when the router is operating, although this can also be done in the router’s software. There’s a power connection as well as an on/off button and a recessed reset button that reverts the RAXE500’s settings to the way it left the factory. In addition to buttons for using the router’s Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) and turning off the system’s Wi-Fi transmissions, rendering the RAXE500 as the equivalent of a wired router, there’s a pair of USB connections for mounting hard drives on the network. The RAXE500’s first two wired Ethernet ports can be aggregated for top speed. It should be enough for most but is less than the eight wired LAN ports that the TP-Link Archer AX6000 provides. If the Multi-Gig port is not being used, it can act as an extra downstream 1Gbps Ethernet connection there are four other dedicated downstream 1Gbps networking ports available for a total of five wired networking ports. Its connections are in the back, and the RAXE500 has a Multi-Gig data input port that can work with the latest broadband modems to deliver up to 2.5Gbps. The RAXE500 can move up to 1.2Gbps on the 2.4GHz band, 4.8Gbps on the 5GHz band and an additional 4.8Gbps on the 6GHz band for a total of 10.8Gbps. Capable of servicing 12 simultaneous data streams, the RAXE500 has beamforming to match the transmission characteristics to the receiver, MU-MIMO for serving a large number of devices and 1024QAM for increasing the router’s efficiency when multiple systems are demanding data. It adds up to nearly 5Gbps of extra data carrying capacity.īuilt around Broadcom Wi-Fi 6e hardware, the RAXE500 includes a quad-core 1.8GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and 512MB of flash storage space for the router’s firmware and settings. Compared to Wi-Fi 6 systems, the RAXE500 opens a wide expanse of 6GHz spectrum, more than doubles the available data channels available and offers an extra six ultra-wide 160MHz channels. Unlike traditional triband routers with a 2.4GHz band and two 5GHz bands, the RAXE500 is the first of a generation of Wi-Fi 6e systems that provide access to the 2.4-, 5- and 6GHz data-delivering bands. At $599, it’s roughly triple what some high-performance Wi-Fi 6 routers go for and close to $200 more than the similar-looking Wi-Fi 6-equipped Netgear Nighthawk RAX80. The Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 can be found through several major electronics retailers, and is presently one of only a handful of Wi-Fi 6e products available to buy. Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 at Dell for $549.99.Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 review: Pricing and availability Still, if you crave the newest, fastest and coolest looking router around, the Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 fits the bill as one of the best Wi-Fi routers you can buy. Unfortunately, Netgear makes extended protection and additional security updates a subscription-based extra that could add nearly $200 to the already spendy price of the RAXE500. Our Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 review shows that the new Wi-Fi 6e router adds lots of configuration options to the category-leading short-range performance, while keeping devices and the network clean with Netgear’s Armor security software.
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