Review on NETGEAR Nighthawk 6 Stream AX5400 Router by Cori Nance

I used to be a fan of Netgear in general. Most of the time they do things right and have pretty good gear. HOWEVER, after several different routers with very poor results over the years, I'M DONE! It should be a pretty good router with lightning speed. But I quickly realized that all the serious issues involved were enough to drive me crazy and send me back. Extremely Slow Mid-Range Speeds: Just 3 rooms and a few walls in between was enough to drop my WiFi speed from over 480Mbps to just under 200Mbps. So some of you are like, "WTF! 200 is freaking fast." While that's plenty for most live streams, I have 20+ devices including smart lighting, home appliances, TV streaming tablets, and more. I then set up the NAS for both HD video and streaming. However, I'm not complaining about 200Mbps at an average distance, I'm just illustrating the point, so my concern is that there will be another wall in the middle distance, then I go a little further, literally over the wall, which I'm about now 800ft. Guess what this router is doing now? No, you're wrong. It's much lower. Currently I'm set to 9Mbps. I can sit next to the router with my laptop and I'm getting close to 500Mbps .Several rooms behind and I'm hovering at about 200 and about 800 feet, speed drops to 9Mbps What about my ISP's Wi-Fi when I connect direct Those are the same distances itinerary First I do 380 Mbit/s, several rooms over 280 Mbit/s, about 800 meters away. 70Mbps. Here it is again. ISP router: 380 Mbps (full lanes), 280 Mbps (1/2 lanes), 70 Mbps (2 lanes). Bars). So what to pick up? Yes, this router has a good signal range, but what's the point if you somehow get a lower speed than a low-level DSL connection? Constant sudden disconnects and complete loss of internet: What's worse. About every 5-15 minutes I lost ALL connections. Either way, no matter where you are. Even on the damn router the internet would just shut down even though it was still connected (Wi-Fi). It's like the ISP shut down the internet. I debugged the hell out of it and found 100% that it has nothing to do with anything other than that router. I was able to switch back to ISP Wi-Fi with no problem and it worked great. I was able to connect to this router and it would work. Wi-Fi just kind of thought there was no internet. I couldn't even access the admin panel to download. However, this occurred after I updated the firmware. Then I read on the net that people are complaining about the poor quality of the firmware. But apparently this update was recommended because it fixed security holes. The only way to get it back online was to literally cycle the power on and off. but do it every 5-15 minutes. This router is not prime time ready. In fact, I'm not even sure if it's ready for development. Send it back to the drawing board. Asus, here I am.