Nighthawk X6s Tri Band Wifi Range Extender Review

The netgear nighthawk x6s ex8000 offers the rare ability to use the same network name and password as your router but other extenders offer better speed and range.

Nighthawk x6s tri band wifi range extender review.

It s powerful enough to put speedy wi fi in every corner of your. And 50 devices with ac3000 tri band wireless signal booster repeater up to 3000 mbps speed plus mesh smart roaming 137 63. The nighthawk app makes setup with your existing wifi router easy. Netgear s nighthawk x6s tri band wifi range extender ex8000 seeks to solve your wireless networking woes by taking the fastlane3 technology that we praised in the orbi ac3000 and implementing it.

The nighthawk x6 is a tri band range extender featuring one 400mbps 2 4ghz band and two 866mbps 5ghz bands. This offers a theoretical speed of 2 2gbps according to the extender s documentation but in reality one of the 5ghz bands is used for the fastlane3 feature. Use the app to get more out of your wifi. Big expensive and worth every penny netgear s 180 nighthawk x6s tri band range extender leads the pack in data speed and range.

Not so with the netgear nighthawk x6s tri band wifi mesh extender ex8000 228. That s well ahead of the throughput. This nighthawk mesh extender uses your existing wifi to create a powerful whole home wifi network. Much like netgear s orbi mesh wi fi systems this tri band range extender uses a dedicated 5ghz radio band to.

Overall it turned in a good performance but excelled at midrange distances.