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Hi guys,
Just picked up the new Nighthawk X6 from Dicksmith for just over $300 delivered.
Cheapest I previously found was $349.
NETGEAR Nighthawk X6 R8000 AC3200 Tri-Band WiFi Router $303.43 Delivered @ Dick Smith
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LGeorgio17 on 10/08/2014 - 22:07 dicksmith.com.au (685 clicks)
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get a life JV
Don't know why anyone negged jv. That's the most valuable contribution he has made in months.
3200pmpo actual transfer is more like 120rms
So the rack of lamb has a lack of ram?
I just bought the Nighthawk AC1900 R#7000 from OW on friday for $170.14! Saw the R8000 looks hektic but was $399!
Can u actually get the full speed of 3200 on a wifi? Or its just shared speed??It's always shared speed.
So whats the MAX speed on the latest single wifi chip laptop/pc can handle now?
There's WAY too many variables when it comes to wifi to give you an actual answer. Hence why they're always advertised as their (impossible to achieve) theoretical speeds, as opposed to Ethernet and the like which the advertised speed is (usually) the actual achievable speeds.
So whats the MAX speed on the latest single wifi chip laptop/pc can handle now?
Currently, max theoretical speed per client/device is 1300Mbps/1.3Gbps link (5Ghz AC, 3x3 multi-chan MIMO bonded stream). This will increase to 1.7Gbps 4x4 when AC2400 routers such as Asus RT-87U are released.
Adapters which support this 1.3Gbps speed don't come cheap…
i want one…but not yet…i don't think…but i do want one…must resist
too expensive for now.. any deals on ASUS AC2400 RT87U (4x4 band) even Asus RT-AC68U Dual-band Wireless-AC1900 Router with Gigabit Switch
From this very clear and simple review I can't see any real world improvement from the R7000 for most people (watch the video review):
http://www.cnet.com/au/products/netgear-ac3200-nighthawk-x6-…
Maybe if you were using it in a hotel or something to share your signal? Otherwise what am I missing?
Nope, you're right, these multi-bandwidth, multi-channel setups aren't really that practical for most people. You have to have varying devices that can use the full bandwidth of only one of each individual option to get the full benefit. I'm sure there's someone out there willing to go to that length but it's not particularly practical for most people.
Totally agree ^^^
The extreme price premium is mainly just for the better wifi tech.
Many people still have legacy b/g/n devices that use 2.4Ghz band & haven't yet even adopted the use of 5Ghz.It'll be awhile until AC devices become as widespread, abundant as N currently is as it's still fairly new & not quite mainstream yet.
Stick to using 5Ghz N if you don't yet have NBN as I don't see any benefits of upgrading besides faster file transfers over wifi at longer range, but even that is variable.
Personally the $40 D-link GbE router I have is adequate for another 2-3yrs which by then true 2/3Gbit+ wifi (per stream/device) will be out.
Not quite sure I understand you…
You have to have varying devices
Do you mean like the laptops, tablets, smart phones, media centres, Smart TVs, etc. that most have multiples of nowadays that will be equipped with varying protocols?
Firstly, I can't see the reason you'd want to keep cluttering up the already overly (ab)used 2.4GHz freq band, especialy when you add a heap of other devices to the mix such as ip cameras, baby monitors, etc. Also, a few devices are now coming through with AC, like my Galaxy S4. So to go out, buy, and want to run it through an N (or lower) only capable router would be like buying a V8 and pulling 2 plug leads!!!
The funny thing about this… Is that this time next week, 3200 will be last weeks news!!!
$300 for a router? lol
what's so funny about it?
thats not fuuny but its hilarious…….how can someone spend 300 bucks on a router.
what it does ?? can it walk to my fridge and bring me chilled beer?
Does the fridge you probably spent a grand or more on bring you your beer?
Someone who wants reliability,performance and better wifi range than a cheap $50 routerYou are probably happy with your 56k dial up modem/router as long as your beer is chilled! Fair enough! Do you find hilarious how people spend >100k for a car and not ride a bike?
@GregFiona:
Agreed… Best thing I ever did for my network was spend $180ish on a router (DSL2890)! Have multiple devices (phones, tablets, TVs, cameras, etc.) hooked up simultaneously around the house with next to no dropouts, as well as QUICK, perfect streaming to my WDTVs! Yeah, it's a few extra bucks… But a longer term investment!@Snoop:
same here! I've always used cheap routers found on special on OZB for less than $50 and I always thought I had good results but since I bought my $200 Netgear(yes I know) router my life has changed: no more internet dropouts, less youtube buffering, 3 smart tvs streaming HD content from my media server without buffering, better voip quality, at least 15 devices connected simultaneously without problems, don't need to reset the router every 2 hours, wifi range covers the whole house plus the yards, no more microwave dropouts, my iMac connects to the new router 5 times faster same my iphone 5s, and the list goes on and on!
I think I shouldn't be complaining if I still have to go and grab my beer from the fridge ;)I think I shouldn't be complaining if I still have to go and grab my beer from the fridge ;)
Unless you have to stuff around tapping a new keg… A TapKing keg of course!!!
It is too expensive and it did not score a very good review.
http://www.cnet.com/au/products/netgear-ac3200-nighthawk-x6-…
This makes me want to cook rack of lamb.