Wireless Type | 802.11n, 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g |
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NETGEAR Nighthawk X6 Smart WiFi Router (R8000) - AC3200 Tri-Band Wireless Speed (up to 3200 Mbps) | Up-to 3500 sq ft Coverage & 50 Devices | 4 x 1G Ethernet and 2 USB Ports | Armor Security
Price: | $294.36 + $28.62 Delivery |
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Connectivity technology | Wireless |
Frequency band class | Tri-Band |
Data transfer rate | 3200 Megabits Per Second |
Brand | NETGEAR |
Wireless Type | 802.11n, 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g |
About this item
- FAST Wi-Fi PERFORMANCE: Get up to 3500 sq ft wireless coverage with AC3200 speed (Tri band up to 600 + 1300 + 1300 Mbps)
- RECOMMENDED FOR UP TO 50 DEVICES: Reliably stream videos, play games, surf the internet, and connect smart home devices
- WIRED ETHERNET PORTS: Plug in computers, game consoles, streaming players, and other nearby wired devices with 4 x 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports
- LOADED WITH ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY: Designed with a 1GHz dual core processor, 6 amplified antennas, Beamforming+, Dynamic QoS, Smart Connect, Amazon Alexa Voice Controls, and more
- USB CONNECTIONS: Share a storage drive and printer with any connected device, and create a personal cloud storage to access from anywhere, using the 2 x 3.0 USB ports
- CIRCLE APP PARENTAL CONTROLS: Pause device internet access, view site history usage, and filter websites for free. Set online time limits, schedule device internet access, and more.
- ADVANCED CYBER THREAT PROTECTION: NETGEAR Armor (powered by BitDefender) is network wide anti virus, anti malware, fraud/phishing/ransomware security on an unlimited # devices for a 30 day free trial. Note: Netgear technical support number 03448754000
Product Information
Capacity:Nighthawk AC | Model:AC3200Technical Details
Brand | NETGEAR |
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Series | R8000-100UKS |
Item Model Number | R8000-100UKS |
Operating System | Yes |
Product Dimensions | 29.55 x 22.68 x 5.45 cm; 1.1 Kilograms |
Item Dimensions L x W x H | 29.5 x 22.7 x 5.4 centimetres |
Colour | Black |
Flash Memory Size | 128 |
Item Weight | 1.1 kg |
Department | Default Category |
Manufacturer | Netgear |
ASIN | B00TDV2IS4 |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | 28 August 2015 |
Additional Information
Customer Reviews |
4.2 out of 5 stars |
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Best Sellers Rank |
22,771 in Computers (See Top 100 in Computers)
304 in Routers (Computers) |
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Product Description
NETGEAR R8000 Nighthawk X6 Tri-Band AC3200 (3.2 Gbps) Smart Wi-Fi Router - Circle Parental Controls and Alexa enabled
The Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Router with breakthrough Tri-Band Wi-Fi technology was built to connect to each and every device in your home automatically and simultaneously. Laptops, tablets, phones, TVs, game consoles, music streamers, cameras if it’s Wi-Fi enabled, it’s X6 accelerated. A powerful combination of features provides wireless speed of up to 3.2 Gbps, three Wi-Fi bands, smart connect intelligence and Dynamic QoS ensures every device is assigned the fastest Wi-Fi connection possible and optimised for maximum speed. Using Amazon Alexa, control your home network with voice commands.
802.11ac Tri-Band Gigabit
The Nighthawk X6 AC3200 router with tri-band Wi-Fi technology was built to connect to each and every device in your home - automatically and simultaneously. Laptops, tablets, phones, TVs, game consoles, music streamers, cameras – if it’s Wi-Fi enabled, it’s X6 accelerated. With a massive combined wireless speed of up to 3.2 Gbps, three Wi-Fi bands and smart connect intelligence, every device is assigned the fastest Wi-Fi connection possible and optimised for maximum speed.
FEATURES
- Get fast Wi-Fi speeds – Up to 3.2 Gbps
- Tri-Band Wi-Fi delivers more Wi-Fi for more devices
- Six high performance antennas for enhanced range
- Smart-connect designates slower and faster devices to separate Wi-Fi bands
- 1 GHz dual core processor with three offload processors
- Beamforming+ improves wireless range and reliability
- Easily manage your home network with the NETGEAR genie app
Connect More | Do More
4 Gigabit Ethernet Ports allow you to stay wired for the most stable and uninterrupted connectivity. Access your media and backup your data with an attached USB hard drive connected to the super-speed USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports.
Speed | Range | Reliability
With Beamforming+ the router and device communicate with each other, so the router can directly beam the Wi-Fi signal to the device which boosts speed, reliability, and range.
Tri-Band Wi-Fi
Nighthawk X6 enhances Wi-Fi performance by intelligently assigning every device to an optimal Wi-Fi band and doing so allows devices to connect at their maximum speed. You'll enjoy seamless clarity and minimal lag.
Nighthawk app
Easily setup your router. Manage Internet access by pausing and resuming internet instantly. Run a speed test. All from your mobile device!
Note: Lights now showing on the front could be that the light switch on the back of the router has been turned off or from the GUI.
Set Contains:
NETGEAR Tri-Band WiFi Router
Power Adapter
Ethernet Cable
User Documentation
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Good Build Quality
Good Wifi connection
Cons:
Size is bit bigger
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I ordered the R8000 hoping to resolve all of these issues, and a week in, I have to say I wish I'd done it sooner. I now get full internet bandwidth, or close to, on mobile devices, and the stability is absolutely rock solid. Also, the coverage reaches the entire house, and down to the bottom of our 30ft garden with no need for any form of extender. In short, it gives you a proper Wi-Fi network that allows connected devices to perform as you would expect.
Installation was a doddle, and took all of 5 minutes to get it connected and working. Simply log in to the Virgin Hub 3's admin webpage, and switch the Hub into modem mode. This disables all of the Wi-Fi functionality on the Hub 3, and uses it only to connect to the Virgin network. Reboot the Hub 3, connect one end of the supplied ethernet cable to any port on the Hub 3, and the other to the yellow "Internet" port on the R8000, using the Nighthawk mobile app. Download the Netgear Nighthawk app to an Android or iOS device, connect the device to the Wi-Fi on the R8000 with the credentials on the sticker on the top of it, launch the app, and simply follow the instructions. It instantly identified the router, connected to it, installed the latest firmware update, prompted me to update the admin password (no brainer anyway), and then it all came to life and started working.
There's a lot the Nighthawk app can't do, so after doing this, you will need to go to the admin web page for the R8000 (192.168.1.1 default) and log in with the admin credentials you just provided in order to complete the config, set your Wi-Fi security and SSIDs up, configure your access control and guest network, and so on. You'll be tweaking stuff for a while, but you really do get a basic, functioning Wi-Fi network inside of 5 minutes.
The full parental control is achieved via the Circle app (by Disney, strangely), which does come at a monthly cost of £5 (with a month's free trial included), but it is absolutely brilliant. It gives you all the control you need, lots you probably don't, and is so easy to set up and use that it's worth every penny. I created profiles for both my daughters, and assigned the devices they use to them. The software then logs and manages everything these devices do on the network. It will enforce internet access times, bed times, and even let you control access to individual websites or apps. For devices used by adults, or static devices such as our Amazon Echos, smart switches or media streamers, you can set these as 'unmanaged', so that they work without any interference at all.
The app also allows you to quickly and easily enable and disable internet access for an individual user with a single click, extend time limits quickly as a reward, and provides a full breakdown of the URLs and apps accessed by each user, with times and dates, and the amout of time spent on each. The other really handy thing is that you get a push notification to the app if a new device accesses the network. I have experimented with MAC address access control on Wi-Fi before, but it is a pain having to log in to the admin console every time you have a guest who wants access, or whenever you buy a new device. With this, you can leave access open, but get a notification whenever a new device logs in. It's a much better solution, for me anyway. Of course, you can still go a step further and restrict access by MAC address, if you prefer.
Downsides? The router is a big old lump (see pic) which will need a decent amount of space, close to your Virgin Hub. It's also not cheap of course, but when you're paying £50 a month for 200 Mbit internet, your devices are struggling to see a tenth of that in reality, and the standard hardware supplied by the ISP simply isn't fit for purpose, the performance upgrade it delivers is instantly noticeable. It has been nothing short of a transformation in terms of the real internet speeds we are seeing, and I love the visibility it gives over what the kids are doing and when, as well as the easy control to stop unwanted behaviour. The difference between "proper" Wi-Fi, and what you get with the standard ISP provided junk really is staggering, both in terms of performance and configurability.
Fantastic bit of kit. Highly recommended.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2019
I ordered the R8000 hoping to resolve all of these issues, and a week in, I have to say I wish I'd done it sooner. I now get full internet bandwidth, or close to, on mobile devices, and the stability is absolutely rock solid. Also, the coverage reaches the entire house, and down to the bottom of our 30ft garden with no need for any form of extender. In short, it gives you a proper Wi-Fi network that allows connected devices to perform as you would expect.
Installation was a doddle, and took all of 5 minutes to get it connected and working. Simply log in to the Virgin Hub 3's admin webpage, and switch the Hub into modem mode. This disables all of the Wi-Fi functionality on the Hub 3, and uses it only to connect to the Virgin network. Reboot the Hub 3, connect one end of the supplied ethernet cable to any port on the Hub 3, and the other to the yellow "Internet" port on the R8000, using the Nighthawk mobile app. Download the Netgear Nighthawk app to an Android or iOS device, connect the device to the Wi-Fi on the R8000 with the credentials on the sticker on the top of it, launch the app, and simply follow the instructions. It instantly identified the router, connected to it, installed the latest firmware update, prompted me to update the admin password (no brainer anyway), and then it all came to life and started working.
There's a lot the Nighthawk app can't do, so after doing this, you will need to go to the admin web page for the R8000 (192.168.1.1 default) and log in with the admin credentials you just provided in order to complete the config, set your Wi-Fi security and SSIDs up, configure your access control and guest network, and so on. You'll be tweaking stuff for a while, but you really do get a basic, functioning Wi-Fi network inside of 5 minutes.
The full parental control is achieved via the Circle app (by Disney, strangely), which does come at a monthly cost of £5 (with a month's free trial included), but it is absolutely brilliant. It gives you all the control you need, lots you probably don't, and is so easy to set up and use that it's worth every penny. I created profiles for both my daughters, and assigned the devices they use to them. The software then logs and manages everything these devices do on the network. It will enforce internet access times, bed times, and even let you control access to individual websites or apps. For devices used by adults, or static devices such as our Amazon Echos, smart switches or media streamers, you can set these as 'unmanaged', so that they work without any interference at all.
The app also allows you to quickly and easily enable and disable internet access for an individual user with a single click, extend time limits quickly as a reward, and provides a full breakdown of the URLs and apps accessed by each user, with times and dates, and the amout of time spent on each. The other really handy thing is that you get a push notification to the app if a new device accesses the network. I have experimented with MAC address access control on Wi-Fi before, but it is a pain having to log in to the admin console every time you have a guest who wants access, or whenever you buy a new device. With this, you can leave access open, but get a notification whenever a new device logs in. It's a much better solution, for me anyway. Of course, you can still go a step further and restrict access by MAC address, if you prefer.
Downsides? The router is a big old lump (see pic) which will need a decent amount of space, close to your Virgin Hub. It's also not cheap of course, but when you're paying £50 a month for 200 Mbit internet, your devices are struggling to see a tenth of that in reality, and the standard hardware supplied by the ISP simply isn't fit for purpose, the performance upgrade it delivers is instantly noticeable. It has been nothing short of a transformation in terms of the real internet speeds we are seeing, and I love the visibility it gives over what the kids are doing and when, as well as the easy control to stop unwanted behaviour. The difference between "proper" Wi-Fi, and what you get with the standard ISP provided junk really is staggering, both in terms of performance and configurability.
Fantastic bit of kit. Highly recommended.




Here's the crunch. With my PS4 connected via 2.4Ghz wirelessly on the old router, I was getting a download speed of anywhere between 5 and 8.8 Mbps NOW with the new R8000 and the PS4 connected via 5Ghz I am getting a consistent download speed of 67Mbps so pretty much a 10 x improvement.
It's worth saying though, if you're buying a new router because you have slow broadband speed, be sure it is the router and not your actual line speed first. The best way to test this is to do a speed test from a laptop hard-wired into the router by ethernet cable and if that's good or as expected, then the likelihood is you have slow and congested wi-fi. If not then get your line speed sorted first before buying a new router.

If you are using Airplay products, then stay very clear of this. Been experiencing various issues, namely Airplay devices not visible, TimeMachine drive disappearing etc. Normally can be fixed by rebooting everything but having to do that every other day is clearly not great. The most annoying and biggest problem is stuttering experience on Airplay - both streaming to Zeppelin Air and to AppleTV. Affects all devices and connections.
Also Netgear only provide 90 days of support - after that you are on your own! I was able to get some support that seemed to fix the issue for the majority of time even though it still reoccured occasionally. Then with a recent firmware update the issue returned. And now I realised that I cannot get Netgear support outside 90 days of purchase even tough the product is still within warranty! Ridiculous and complete failure of Netgear as a company.
Thankfully Amazon were amazing in helping out and providing a refund for this router. Lesson learn and now will stay away from Netgear.

I bought this and installed it - they get a solid connection from the extreme end of the garden now. Every single problem has been fixed. If you don't understand how to connection it together, you can ask a technician to visit from your ISP who will do it all for you. I'm leaving a list here for some things I recommend you do before or as you install properly into your house, for free. :)
Stuff you should probably do:
1) Download Netgear Genie (Software to control the entire router and local network)
2) Connect as many devices to the 5ghz channels as you can. 2.4ghz is overcrowded and low functioning now. If your device can't find the 5ghz channels, it's probably just using an old network card. Not much you can do about this unless you're comfortable installing a new one, or buying a newer machine.
3) DO NOT USE QOS OPTIONS IF YOUR SPEED IS 300MBPS+ (literally not needed unless you're doing some crazy server stuff)
4) Keep it in a place central to the house for maximum range.
I should've done this 5 years ago when my family started paying for Virgin Media. Don't wait as long as I did. This is a clean 5 stars from me. If you found this helpful, please hit the "HELPFUL" button below. It'll really help me too :)

From what I have read online & in forums etc (Though I am sure some other suppliers have similar issues) Seems the Virgin Hub 3 isn’t that good at distributing the signals to the devices that need the best connection – Please do look up the difference between “Bandwidth” and “Latency” as latency is the key! You may well be getting good signal coming in the Hub say 200mb, but it is how the signal is distributed and how quickly (Latency) to your devices that is the key and the Hub 3 is pants at doing that! Though they would never tell you!
The latency with the Virgin was so bad during online gaming that you could say in Fortnight shoot first but get shot first because of the lag etc, I decided to go online, do some research and in the end I bought this beauty, and so far so good, high latency to those devices that ask for it, and connectivity Virgin could only dream of!
Overall, It’s not that hard to set up, I worked out where it needed to go first, then unplugged all the hard wired devices and rerouted the wiring etc to make life easier! just some simple wiring, attaching of network and power cables, and then some good old common sense a bit of tweaking and all is fine.
I also bought the smaller Gigabit switch (To the right of the Nighthawk in the pic) to allow me a few more wired network connections and this just connects to the Nighthawk through one the of LAN ports giving you 4 extra ports to play with.
Once you get set up, give yourself several hours to do it, as it’s not a 5 min job, I’m no computer expert but have a little bit of an idea and it took me most of the day to place, fit, wire, download, test etc.
The result so far is, by just using the Virgin Hub 3 to introduce the internet signal into the Nighthawk, there now appears to be no more latency lag on the online gaming front (The Hub 3 is ok for bringing a signal into your house but appallingly bad at distributing the signals to where they are actually needed!) but with this there is no issue at all, you just connect your Hub 3 in Modem mode (Video’s on you tube to show you from other users how to do it) and then you use the Nighthawk router to connect your devices where you can via a network cable or just use the Nighthawk’s superior Wi-Fi signal for all your mobile devices (You can connect up to 64 wireless devices to this router alone should you wish to).
Regarding Virgin TV, The Virgin Wi-Fi signal for one of our TiVo boxes was often at 18% and would always cut out! and now, with this Wi-Fi its often over 90% with no drop out what so ever.
Really happy just made the decision to buy this router, just sorry I didn’t not do it earlier and save the earache! I Also still need to tidy the cabling up as you can see!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2019
From what I have read online & in forums etc (Though I am sure some other suppliers have similar issues) Seems the Virgin Hub 3 isn’t that good at distributing the signals to the devices that need the best connection – Please do look up the difference between “Bandwidth” and “Latency” as latency is the key! You may well be getting good signal coming in the Hub say 200mb, but it is how the signal is distributed and how quickly (Latency) to your devices that is the key and the Hub 3 is pants at doing that! Though they would never tell you!
The latency with the Virgin was so bad during online gaming that you could say in Fortnight shoot first but get shot first because of the lag etc, I decided to go online, do some research and in the end I bought this beauty, and so far so good, high latency to those devices that ask for it, and connectivity Virgin could only dream of!
Overall, It’s not that hard to set up, I worked out where it needed to go first, then unplugged all the hard wired devices and rerouted the wiring etc to make life easier! just some simple wiring, attaching of network and power cables, and then some good old common sense a bit of tweaking and all is fine.
I also bought the smaller Gigabit switch (To the right of the Nighthawk in the pic) to allow me a few more wired network connections and this just connects to the Nighthawk through one the of LAN ports giving you 4 extra ports to play with.
Once you get set up, give yourself several hours to do it, as it’s not a 5 min job, I’m no computer expert but have a little bit of an idea and it took me most of the day to place, fit, wire, download, test etc.
The result so far is, by just using the Virgin Hub 3 to introduce the internet signal into the Nighthawk, there now appears to be no more latency lag on the online gaming front (The Hub 3 is ok for bringing a signal into your house but appallingly bad at distributing the signals to where they are actually needed!) but with this there is no issue at all, you just connect your Hub 3 in Modem mode (Video’s on you tube to show you from other users how to do it) and then you use the Nighthawk router to connect your devices where you can via a network cable or just use the Nighthawk’s superior Wi-Fi signal for all your mobile devices (You can connect up to 64 wireless devices to this router alone should you wish to).
Regarding Virgin TV, The Virgin Wi-Fi signal for one of our TiVo boxes was often at 18% and would always cut out! and now, with this Wi-Fi its often over 90% with no drop out what so ever.
Really happy just made the decision to buy this router, just sorry I didn’t not do it earlier and save the earache! I Also still need to tidy the cabling up as you can see!

