Testseek.com have collected 67 expert reviews of the Netgear R8500 Nighthawk X8 AC5300 Smart WiFi Router and the average rating is 81%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Netgear R8500 Nighthawk X8 AC5300 Smart WiFi Router.
May 2016
(81%)
67 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Published: 2016-01-27, Author: Ken , review by: legitreviews.com
Netgear has been one of our favorite networking brands for many, many years. Because they have been very consistent releasing high-quality products and updates to their entire line of products is one of the reason they have been one of the first companies...
Strong Performance, Good Looks, Highly Configurable, BleedingEdge Features
Relatively Expensive, Overkill For Some Home Users, MUMIMO Firmware Not Quite Ready
Evaluating the Netgear Nighthawk X8 R8500 from a home-user perspective is a bit tricky, because it is probably overkill for the majority of users. The presence of its dual LAN ports for Link Aggregation hints that this router is probably best suited to a...
Published: 2015-12-16, Author: Vincent , review by: straitstimes.com
Abstract: The Asus RT-AC5300 and the Netgear Nighthawk X8 are two of the most advanced consumer routers on the market.Both are tri-band 802.11ac routers, which means they support two 5GHz wireless bands over the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard and a single 2.4GHz band on t...
Abstract: Routers are getting faster than ever, and that's progress for you. In fact, they are getting ludicrously fast. Just two years ago, we had the first AC1900 class routers hit the shelves. And then in the past 12 months we saw the first AC2400 and AC3200 rou...
Good Smart Connect total throughput gain, Two aggregatable Gigabit ports, OpenVPN support
Most expensive router yet, but without significantly better performance, Smart Connect doesn't bandsteer, MUMIMO not enabled
First AC5300 class 4x4 "tri-band" router based on Broadcom XStream architecture with two 5 GHz radios, Gigabit Ethernet ports and USB 2.0 & 3.0 storage and printer sharing...
