NETGEAR Nighthawk AX3000 4-Stream Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 Router - RAX35-100NAS (Renewed)

Internet speed was around 130-150 MBPS, now it's around 320-350 MBPS when right next to the router, and 220-250 MBPS when on a second floor in my home! It's a HUGE jump right off the bat! Setup was easy, took about 15-20 minutes to get it all set up, including changing the Wireless Name and Password for 2.4G, 5G, and Guest Access Points. HOWEVER, the Ethernet Cable that came with it is not backwards compatible with my modem, so I have to use the original Ethernet Cable that came with the old router. Not a problem though! Great first impression.

Would have given this 5 Stars but I was unable to take advantage of the "Armor" Trial Subscription due to just missing the trial period because this was a "Renewed" product. Tech Support, while putting on the impression of being helpful, was useless. I knew they could reset the "Trial" period but they were unwilling to do so, trying to push me to purchase the subscription. Otherwise, the actual product is working superb thus far.

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First off, the hardware works pretty great, especially for the temporarily discounted price! But I despise the slow, buggy, intolerably annoying firmware. This irritating device *REQUIRES* you to install a privacy-invading phone app, create a netgear account, register your device with them, and only *then* does it allow you to set up the device, and only in the most minimal way. Once you go through the annoyance above, you no longer need the netgear account or phone app, unless you ever need to hard-reset the device. The direct web interface is adequate to set the device up as a WAP (which is why I bought it), but I would not want to use this thing as my main router. The firmware is far too limited, slow, and poorly implemented for it to be a useful router. At the time I bought, it was the cheapest device I could find capable of being a WiFi6 WAP, and it eventually works well in that regard once the irritation of setting it up is over. As an aside/warning, if you set this thing up as a WAP, you'll want to set up a static IP address in the firmware. I didn't, and when I connected it to my network, it obtained 3 different DHCP addresses with 3 different MAC addresses, and abandoned them all, then eventually obtained a final one it stuck with. But it only gave the DHCP server its hostname for the first attempt. So, my DNS server thinks the hostname I gave it points at the first attempt, which is abandoned. It took me some sleuthing to find the actual IP address. Also, once you set it to WAP mode, the amazingly incompetent firmware won't allow you to change any networking settings, so you can't change it to have a static IP then.Speaking of DNS, once you do get it set up, if you use the DNS name to access it "RAX35" by default, the device immediately redirects your browser to some netgear site. Only by typing in the raw IP address can you access the router config interface. I sort-of solved this by adding a CNAME to my DNS server to point "www<dot>routerlogin<dot>com" back at the router's name, and using that DNS name to access it, but that's a kludge at best.

Pretty good router. Exceptional value when you consider it’s refurbished!

Lots of people using this for a router say it has problems -- and that may be. I needed a way to add 802.11AX AP's to my pfSense router, and this was a very affordable way to do it. It's been rock solid for over a month, and I get over 600mbps real-world speeds. A great value for this use case. The processor in this is extremely weak, so unless you're using it in this capacity, I'm not sure I'd recommend it. There's no way it'd keep up with gigabit internet with any sort of advanced functions enabled (eg, anything that causes HW NAT acceleration to be disabled).

I use to be a fan of Netgear as a whole. For the most part, they usually do things right and have pretty good equipment. HOWEVER, after several different routers with extremely poor results over several years, I AM DONE!This is suppose to be a pretty good router with blazing fast speeds. But I quickly realized that all the serious issues wrong with this was enough to drive me crazy and send it back.Extremely Poor Speeds at Mid Distance:Just 3 rooms and a few walls between was all it took to knock my wifi speed from 480Mpbs+ to barely about 200Mbps. Ok so some of you are saying "WTF! 200 is freakin' fast". While it's enough for most streaming, I have 20+ devices with smart lighting, appliances, streaming TV's tablets and more. Then I have a NAS set up with HD qualify videos also streaming. However, I'm not complaining about the 200Mbps at mid distance. Rather, I'm illustrating a point. So at mid distance, I'm concerned what it'll be another wall away. So then I go a bit further out.... literally another wall away.... which I'm now about 800 ft away. Guess what this router is doing now? Nope, you're wrong... it's much much lower. I'm now pegging 9Mbps. I can sit next to the router with my laptop and approach 500Mbps. Few rooms over and I'm hovering around 200 and around 800ft away, I'm down to about 9Mbps. What about my ISP's wifi if I connect direct? Here are the same distance.... next to the router I'm doing ~380Mbps, few rooms over ~280Mbps, about 800ft away..... 70Mbps.Here it is again...ISP's router: 380Mbps (full bars), 280Mbps (1/2 bars), 70Mbps (2 bars)This router: 500Mbps (full bars), 200Mbps (full bars), 9Mbps (1 shy of full bars).So the take away? Yes, this router has good signal range but what good does it do if somehow you're getting speeds slower than a low-level DSL connection?Constant Sudden Drops and Complete Loss of Internet:Then to make matters worse. About every 5 - 15 minutes, I'd lose ALL connection. Somehow, no matter where you're located.... even on top of the freakin' router, the internet would just go dead EVEN though it was still connected (wifi). It was as if the ISP shut off the internet. I debugged the hell out of this and I 100% determined that it had nothing to do with anything but this router. I could easily switch back to the ISP's wifi and it worked perfectly fine. I could go wired on this router and it would work. Just the wifi would somehow think it had no internet. To boot, I couldn't even access the admin panel. However, this did start occurring after I did a firmware upgrade. Then I read online that people have been complaining of the bad quality of the firmware. But, apparently that upgrade was recommended since it patched security holes. The only way to get this back online was literally power cycling it.... but doing so every 5 - 15 minutes.This router is not ready for prime time. In fact, I'm not even sure it's ready for development release. Send it back to the drawing board. Asus, here I come.