– Nighthawk WiFi 7 Router (RS600) – BE18000 18Gbps Wireless Speed – 10Gb Internet Port – Tri-Band Gigabit Gaming Router – Covers 3,300 sq. ft., 150 Devices – Built-in VPN, USB 3.0, 6Ghz Band

RS600 Tri-Band WiFi 7 BE18000: By far the best of the best for home network routers, and Internet routers. This router delivers bandwidth for Wifi 7 standards to its fullest potential. Streaming everything up to and including 8K video, zero latency, matching and exceeding your Internet service provider bandwidth plan. Compatible with every standard supporting service provider; i.e. Cox, Xfinity, Fidium Fiber, Starlink, and more. Running business applications, home entertainment services, running home and business applications simultaneously, the BE18000 delivers connectivity easily in a 3,000 sq. ft. home when centrally located. This is a "no compromise" system for superior Internet connectivity. This Netgear router is superior to all of the competitors offering similar devices. The 10 gig / multi-gig ports are capable of handling bandwidth from every fiber service available today. The advanced security features and parental controls ensure that everything remains safe. The BE18000 is compatible with all equipment that meets IEEE standards, past and present. The BE18000 is easily the best value for the money, offers the best in coverage and functionality. It is a "no compromise" solution for the network enthusiast, supporting Wifi 7 and IEEE Ethernet standards. UPDATE: April 12, 2025 The Netgear Nighthawk RS600 has delivered superior stability, bandwidth and throughput supported by our service providers plan purchased. The Netgear Nighthawk RS600 performance is flawless. Despite a tedious setup, the router has proven to be reliable, stable, highly configurable, clearly proving to be the leader in WiFi 7 standards. We're delighted to have upgraded from an earlier Netgear Wifi 5 router, only to experience superior performance, reliability, and superior stability. The RS600 is proven to be the router to own. UPDATE: April 22, 2025 The Netgear Nighthawk RS600 has delivered superior throughput, delivering a full 10 gig on the Intranet port between the RS600 and a Cisco 10gig/multi-gig unmanaged switch, and a full 1 gig of download bandwidth via Xfinity Internet services. The RS600 is performing beyond expectations. The RS600 stability is rock solid, and the configurability for advanced features is superior. This is the premier router on the market for extreme network throughput capacity, and a superior network security appliance to interface with the Internet. UPDATE: May 17, 2025 The Netgear RS600 continues to perform flawlessly. The routers stability in WiFi7 connectivity delivering exceptional performance for 6 Ghz compatible devices, while serving both 5 Ghz and 2.4 Ghz equipment seamlessly. The RS600 handles everything thrown at it, from 30 plus wireless devices, everything from computers, phones, TVs for streaming video, security cameras (18 and growing), printers, a scanner, and a dozen or more hardwired systems; all supported by the Netgear RS600. The ActiveArmor service offered by Netgear has also proven to thwart a number of connections, while the service offers the option to accept or deny through the interface. Not sure of the reviews where there seems to be disappointment, but our experience has been a solid WiFi7 performer, with network bandwidth second to none. The setup is simple for such a powerful network router. Spent my career in enterprise networking, so maybe that's our advantage with the equipment. UPDATE: May 22, 2025 Experienced the first firmware update for the RS600. The router update performed flawlessly. Netgear has delivered a seamless delivery of the first firmware upgrade for our RS600. The stability of the router before and after the first update has been flawless. All WiFi devices remained connected post update, resumed full operational functionality, with all three WiFi standards for WiFi 5, 6, and 7 returning to full stable operation. The 2.4Ghz, 5Ghz, and 6Ghz radios support all devices simultaneously without issue. The RS600 has been perfectly stable and running 24/7 since installation, well over a month of seamless operation at exceptional speed and bandwidth. UPDATE: June 4, 2025 Solid, Stable, Flawless network performance. Up-time 100%

Description: As a previous owner of a Nighthawk R8500 that I ran for years with very few issues, I am quite pleased with this upgraded beast. Funny enough, I had ordered this at the beginning of June and on the 4th, coincidence or not, I received an email that my R8500 has reached its end of service. Timing is everything! I also ordered the Nighthawk Extender (EXS27 / BE5000). I am quite pleased so far with the range and performance I am getting between the two. I have 12 security cameras from end to end on my property (2500 sq. feet) and for the most part everything is pretty solid. Along with the cameras, I have approximately 60 full color spectrum bulbs from both Hue and LIFX. In total, well over a 100 devices throughout the house and everything is working astonishingly well and has been outstanding so far. I have 3 primary devices running on the 6ghz channel on Wi-Fi 7 and the rest are on 2.4 and 5ghz channels. There are a few quirks with the application which I'm not going to go into great detail here, but one of the things that I am having a hard time with is that any of the devices going through the extender show if I open the extender via app or web, but those devices don't show as online if I am looking at the router. There should be a consolidated view of all connected devices regardless of their connection point so that I can identify and rename them all appropriately together in one place. It makes navigation and lookup quite difficult with this number of devices connected. My Extender is setup to use the same names as the SSIDs of the router which makes connecting to either very seamless, but at the same time, a pain, because I have to look in two places to see what connected to the extender and what connected to the router. Outside of those little annoying nuances, I am super ecstatic with the overall functionality and performance of the router and extender. Definitely an improvement in speed compared to my R8500, but that router looked like a stealth bomber with the antennas that could be adjusted. I am still a huge fan of that look. :) Thanks for another solid product Netgear!

works great ,wonce ypu get everthing set with the new password,and the nighthawk app. is a good way to set it up ,and the netgear modem paires well with it ,really fast .

Have had the router for 3 months and it’s been great ., instant upgrade over the netduma R3. The coverage is much better for my house. Cable speeds and WiFi speeds show and there is almost no disconnections from the router.. my service provider still sucks but hopefully there is another provider in my area soon.

Returning the Netgear RS600 WiFi 7 router due to poor WAN/LAN performance. Also all 2.4G devices disconnect after being up for 4 days. After upgrading to a regional fiber internet streaming service, my 8 year old Netgear R9000 router was getting ~ 550 Mbps both upload and download speeds. So decided to upgrade the router with a RS600 to support the newer phones, computers, along with the larger coverage area. WiFi coverage is great but the upload and download speeds aren’t. With all the defaults turned on download was in the 200 to 250 Mbps range and uploads were averaging around 20 Mbps (or around 5% of my 8 year old NG router). More importantly devices, especially the TV boxes, were starting to have significant issues. The RS600 default settings resulted in download speed in the 200 to 250 Mbps range and uploads were averaging around 20 Mbps (or around 5% of the old router). More importantly devices, especially the TV boxes, were having issues. Turning off all options except NAT filtering. This included Armor, Protection Engine, and the Port scanning. Performance improved but only to 450 Mbps download and 22 Mbps upload. All tests using Ookla’s Speedtest but also confirmed using other testing sites. New cables were used included Netgear’s provided cable. Factory reset has also been tried. Digging into the online postings, this upload problem appears to have been going on for some time and not fixed in the latest firmware update. And applies to more than the RS600 router. This performance problem appears to be mostly relevant to the home fiber optical systems. Older coax cable systems normally have their upload speeds throttled back to conserve bandwidth. So would have given it a 2 for poor performance but dropped it to a 1 for disconnecting all the 2.4G devices. Both problems are documented in other online forums and I don’t need a poor performing router.