NETGEAR Nighthawk X8 / Wireless router / 6-port switch / GigE / 802.11a/b/g/n/ac / Dual Band | R8500-100PES

Description

Tri-band Wi-Fi and quad stream performance boosts X8's combined wireless speeds. Four external active antennas plus four internal antennas amplify Wi-Fi range. Six Gigabit Ethernet ports mean even more wired devices can connect and with port aggregation 2 ports can combine to double maximum wired speeds.

Special Features

• Fast tri-band Wi-Fi router
• Dynamic Quality of Service
• Active antennas
• Connect more

Product features

• Fast tri-band Wi-Fi router
  The Nighthawk X8 smart Wi-Fi router with breakthrough tri-band Wi-Fi technology delivers a high wireless speed. X8 uses Smart Connect to optimize Wi-Fi performance by intelligently assigning every device to the fast Wi-Fi band and doing so allows devices to connect at their maximum speed. Load Balancing distributes Wi-Fi devices ensuring usage of both the 5GHz Wi-Fi bands. Even if everyone and everything in the home that's connected to the Internet is streaming, gaming, working, playing, socializing or updating at the same time, the X8 won't miss a beat - you'll enjoy seamless clarity and zero lag.
• Dynamic Quality of Service
  If you like gaming and streaming videos, then you'll benefit from Dynamic Quality of Service (QoS). Dynamic QoS resolves Internet traffic congestion when you have competing Internet demands at home. Dynamic QoS identifies your online activities by application and device, and then utilizes bandwidth allocation, and traffic prioritization techniques, to automatically allocate more bandwidth to latency sensitive applications like online gaming and video streaming, while ensuring that lower priority applications continue to work.
• Active antennas
  Active antennas help improve Wi-Fi performance by amplifying signal in the antenna itself. This allows the router to receive cleaner and stronger signals from your mobile devices, avoiding signal degradation between the antennas and motherboard.
• Connect more
  Six Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports allow you to connect even more wired devices. Two of six Gigabit Ethernet ports can be aggregated to double the connection speed to a Network Attached Storage device for 4K HD streaming or fast backups of multiple Wi-Fi devices simultaneously.