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NetGear Nighthawk MK62 Mesh Wi-Fi 6 System 2 Pack $179.98 Delivered @ Costco (Membership Required)
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Bought the 3 pack instead the 2 pack around 2 years ago, paid around $400 back then. Used it for 3 storey house (1 on each level), use it as router (had different modem). Does the job well. No more lack of signal strength on upper level of the home. Mobile Devices works fine with the Wifi 6 especially fast.
I have this, works great. Parental controls are locked behind a subscription though.
Parental controls are locked
Lol
Lol
So the Parental Controls are for controlling the parents then?
I also have this, excellent system - I have an ethernet backhaul, seamless moving around on my phone from one end of my house to the other, always have good speed and connection quality - OS installed on the routers are pretty good as well, went and manually changed my computers to the highest bandwidth and lowered things like home automation items to lowest
Beat me to the listing - previous price was $209.99 from Costco
Cheapest price seen on here was from Good Guys over 10 months ago for $149 + Delivery
May be share any reviews - good or bad?
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Despite being WiFi 6, the total bandwidth is limited to 1800Mbps: 1200Mbps on 5Ghz and 600Mbps on 2.4Ghz.
Which is similar to most WiFi 5 mesh systems from a few years ago.
Lack of a dedicated wireless backhaul means if you are to link these wirelessly then your effective max bandwidth will be 600Mbps (i.e: half of 1200Mbps on 5Ghz channel, because that bandwidth will be shared between node to device and node to node communication).
So not really an upgrade for anyone who already has a decent WiFi 5 mesh system, but for $150 it’s a pretty good buy for someone looking to upgrade an old single router.
Dual band mesh router? Ew!
Ethernet mesh nodes FTW.
Any good deals on a tri band wifi 6 mesh router ?
I don't know about mesh, but Netgear have proper tri-band (Ie. One equipped with a 6E radio) router shipping at the start of June, announced only in the last couple days.
Hilariously bad pricing though, being ~$1100. That and your clients probably wouldn't support it (over 6E's spectrum) unless they shipped with Intel AX210's in laptop/desktop or fairly new phones. (There's the MT7921K laptop card being sold with AMD branding, but that only does 80mhz channel width I think…)
Tbf to netgear, the only real competition in the triband wifi 6e space is the ASUS GXE11000 which is in a similar price bracket.
Had this for about 10 months and it has been a great. Connected to Telstra 5G modem and using as a router. Only downside is you can’t purchase another 2 pack and extend it. If need more than 1 satellite must purchase 3 pack.
How did you get it to work with your Telstra 5G?
Just connected LAN cable of Telstra 5G modem to this router. Now I have 2 wifi networks and I just choose to connect to nighthawk network
Damn, I was considering buying this just to extend the existing two pack I already have.
I tried it, and then when couldn’t set it up did some research and found out than it’s known issue. Returned my second set to JB, lucky they accepted it and gave me store credit.
You can add extra satellites by purchasing extra dual packs. But only the satellite can be used.
If doing this, you will have a spare power supply and a back up Router (primary unit)
I tried it, couldn’t make it work.
Go into the Nighthawk app and settings, then add satellite and follow the same instructions you used for the initial satellite unit MS62.
Set them up close, then move then out to the extremities.
How are these compared to the Orbi WiFi 6 routers?
iirc Orbi are the ones with a dualband backhaul. and marketed as a more premium product over this one.
This is basically the budget version of the Orbi. Generally considered half as fast as the Orbi, and about half the coverage.
Not terrible if you want to save money, but if you want a premium then go for the Orbi.
I returned it after 2 weeks. Using Optus 5G modem and it did not keep its connection and a lot of apps did not open. You could tell that there was some kind of delayed security process going on but I could not turn it off
Nighthawk units also have an app to easily turn on Guest WiFi, so you are not having to expose your local network to all your kids friends!
Seems to have quite a bit of mixed reviews. Specially with mobile devices. Anyone had this before?