

It looks fantastic, taking the shape of a spaceship with two delta wings and a smooth aerodynamic body. The AX12 is a huge router, but that only means there’s more to love. Netgear Nighthawk RAX120: Beautiful design Fastest Wi-Fi speeds to date, familiar range.Netgear Nighthawk RAX120: Excellent performance.Simple Wi-Fi settings, advanced network storage options.Netgear RAX120: What you’ll miss out on.A standard feature set with Access Point and client modes.Netgear Nighthawk RAX120: A familiar, standard router.Netgear Nighthawk RAX120: Hardware specifications.Powerful hardware, complicated Wi-Fi specs.Netgear Nighthawk RAX120: Beautiful design.
NIGHTHAWK R8500 SPECS UPGRADE
Also, there aren’t many Wi-Fi 6 clients out there, so you can’t enjoy it much yet.īut, if you’re looking to upgrade your small or medium home to Wi-Fi 6 right away, the Netgear Nighthawk AX12 is definitely worth the consideration. On the downside, with a current cost of somewhere between $400 and $500, the router is too expensive considering its lack of gaming, mesh capability, and cyber-security features. Place it in the open, and you’ll get yourself a great conversation starter. That said, the Wi-Fi performance reported in this review is potentially only half of the router’s top speed.Įven with this constraint, the Netgear RAX120 is by far one of the fastest routers I’ve used - its multi-Gigabit Ethernet port is a game-changer. (No typo here, I’ll explain the router’s 8×8 specs below). It’s important to note that the Intel AX200 is a mid-tier dual-stream (2×2) Wi-Fi 6 client, while the RAX120 is a faster 4×4 Wi-Fi 6 router. I do now, thanks to Intel’s newly released AX200 adapter card, which is an easy Wi-Fi 6 upgrade. That’s because I didn’t have a Wi-Fi 6 client to test the Asus. The Netgear Nighthawk AX12 12-Stream AX6000 Wi-Fi 6 Router (model RAX120) is my second Wi-Fi 6 router, after the Asus RT-AX88U, yet it feels like the first.
