• Reviews around wifi (3.79 of 5)

    NETGEAR Nighthawk X8 AC5000 Tri-band WiFi Router, Gigabih Ethernet, MU-MIMO, Compatible with Amazon Echo/Alexa (R8300)

    • Wifi is very strong all throughout my house, upstairs and downstairs
    • 2-story home and remains plenty strong (I still prefer wired where possible, but the WiFi is now strong enough to depend upon anywhere in the house).Some of the features that I really
    • Enter the Nighthawk, super fast WiFi stealth bomber
    • Fastest WiFi
    • WiFi is flawless.
    • Slow, interrupted wifi and clunky connection design makes this not worth the buy.
    • Excellent Wifi router which provides high speed and stable connection
    • Excellent WiFi routerBy Larry Kern on Apr 12, 2016 9:13:54 PMBest WiFi router I have owned.
    • The best WiFi I have ever used.
    • I should say that when the units did work, they were great - super fast speeds both hard-wired and wifi.
    • The Nighthawk X8 router is easy to set up and provides outstanding WIFI range.
    • I had been looking for the most powerful WiFi transmitter since I thought if I was going to fix
    • The best wifi I have bought in years.
    • It's wonderful to know I have a reliable wifi.
    • Great wifi from the 8 antennas.
    • This router was able to scan the environment and pick the least used channel at any given time in order to provide me with optimal WiFi performance.- Though not measured, I did also notice that the WiFi seemed much more responsive (aka peppy) than its predecessor while playing wireless phone
    • Was able to propagate between three bands as well as wifi guest settings
    • Great wifi coverage as well.
    • Def worth the money, now my entire home (2 levels) has super fast wifi
    • Wifi has never been better
    • After messing with the WiFi setting and disabling all broadcast of THE SAID I discovered the the lights on the antennas would turn off
    • probably the strongest signal wifi
    • Lightning fast wifi!
    • The wifi seems fast too, so much so that we don't feel the need to plug into ethernet anymore on the laptopsI am not using the routing capabilities of this device at all, and that's the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars
    • poor wifi
    • With all this said, the NETGEAR Nighthawk X8, AC5000 Smart WiFi Router has a lot of power under the hood and is compatible with Amazon Echo.
    • you're looking for a very good WiFi router with the high end features of the R8500 but don't feel like spending the money on the R8500 this R8300
    • Having a signal that your device can hear through floors and walls doesn’t fix the problem if the router can’t hear your device’s puny WiFi card meekly talking back.
    • just works and the WiFi is great (was previously using a Netgear R6300 which wasn't bad considering how old it was).
    • But if you want a seamless WiFi network at a large home with multiple devices running then this is the router to buy
    • Works great once I figured out how to disable the U-verse wifi
    • Amber LED, no wifi, can't ping it.
    • No more whiny kids complaining about slow wifi and their lagging gaming consoles
    • Google the forums and see for yourself "C3700 2.4ghz slow" or "nighthawk 2.4ghz slow" or "nighthawk wifi slow" and you will see endless forums on this topic, some of which Netgear marks as "solved", which is entirely BS
    • It was incredibly easy to set up and it completely dominates my neighbors WiFi.
    • I have a household filled with a lot of wifi sucking peripherals and this router manages all of them without skipping a beat.
    • Purchased this router in hopes of haveing better wifi
    • Superior WiFi building penetration (and vastly superior speed) on the 5GHz frequencies compared to a a 2012 5th-gen Apple Airport Extreme it replaced
    • Outstanding WiFi performance
    • Fast WiFi with great range.
    • Best WiFi range I have ever had...
    • Great Wifi Router with strong speeds!
    • It has excellent wifi speed and coverage, even in an apartment building with dozens of other wifi networks
    • This router will ensure that you are prepared to have the best wifi experience.6
    • wifi slow
    • The nighthawk gives great wifi service
    • Ultimately, it doesn't matter how fast the wifi is if the internet speed is capped and you can't take advantage of it.
    • I used to have horrible WiFi connection and would always be getting disconnected but after I bought this my connection is amazing
    • My nighthawk X8 saved us from the nightmare wifi experiences
    • This is a robust WiFi router that is a bit on the pricey side, but is reliable and has great signal strength
    • Here is what we’re running now:Half a dozen laptops (including my office ones since my WiFi is now faster than wired over MOCA was)Four
    • This router covered any dead spots I had in coverage and the SMART WiFi AC Feature provides fast WiFi speeds.
    • I know get excellent wifi speeds at the farthest reaches of our 3400sqft brick home
    • Not as "tweaky" in some ways as the Cisco, but is seems way more solid so far - only had it a few days - my 5 Sonos players seem to do better and haven't lost a connection yet or gotten confused - we'll see, but so far this is a fantastic WIFI router.
    • I finally knew that it was time to do something about the crappy WiFi, and instead of filling the place up with repeaters/boosters (Ring and Sonos both sell their own
    • All of my problems vanished the moment I turned on my Nighthawk x8 Smart Wifi Router!
    • The Nighthauk has made my WiFi a strong whole house system.
    • Great wifi coverage and amazing speed anywhere in the house...
    • But I am keeping this because it really serves the purpose that I bought it for--reliable WiFi WPA2 connection!
    • so I try to use other products like wifi extender and even the Almond 3 complete system which it would work ok for a short time but lose signal or disconnected
    • Easy install and great way to boost an existing cable router’s WiFi
    • I specially like this feature a lot since I have noticed that my wifi is much more stable and faster when I move around the house, especially the locations which are far away from the router (downstairs, backyard
    • Drop the cash on this thing and enjoy your wifi.
    • x8 blasts the wifi up to 200 feet beyond the house, totally satisfied and would highly recommend
    • The ambient temperatures I measured since I the router began operation has never exceeded 79ºF; right now it's 78ºF.Because of this, the router reliability is likely marginal, maybe because of bad thermal design