Review on 🔁 Rejuvenate Your Wi-Fi Network with the NETGEAR Renewed R8000-100NAR Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri-Band Gigabit Wi-Fi Router by Michelle Dreger

I wish I had never bought this. I have an R6300v2 that still works fine. The front panel light has stopped working and it needs to be restarted at least once a month, but other than that it's reliable. It's not as good as the signal coverage around my new house (which moved from a 1600 sq ft 2 story house to a 2100 sq ft single story house). I still use the R6300v2 for another connection I have and serve it for a specific purpose, but this R8000 should have taken its place and given me WiFi throughout the house. Let's start with WiFi coverage. This is bad. The antennas only point in certain directions depending on their position on the router. Not entirely bad, but it certainly doesn't help with the attainment. The router is in the middle of the house. He tries to send a signal to both ends of the house on one of the bands. The 2.4 performs slightly better than the 5 when it's further away, but the speeds are absolute rubbish. I swear this router should have been from 2002, it's that badly made. Being near a router works pretty well, but I got it for wireless coverage around my house, which should be something it can easily do. Besides Wi-Fi, wired connections are even worse. On three separate occasions I've had to completely reset the router and use a frustrating app to complete setup. WHY?! I turn on the computer, which stays connected all the time. It sits on my desk next to the router and has a 10ft CAT6 cable that runs under and around the back of the desk (must support this cable). I go to the desktop and see that I am not connected. That stupid globe is just making fun of me. Maybe it's a cable? No, swap the cables and get the same problem. Another port? Every port does that. Check modem? Can connect directly to the modem and have no problems. On and off mode and router? Yes. Again and again. Refuses to show a connection when connected. I know the modem is working. Not only does the router not offer a wired connection, it also offers no wireless connection. Remember how I said his job is to start a wireless network in my house? Yes, it isn't. No streaming for the wife, no Fortnite for the kid, and no Revain watching while I poop. All lose. I don't have to reset the modem to factory settings once, not twice, but three times. I can finally get him to give internet back to everyone. This happens two more times in about two months. I am so frustrated and have no idea what to do. I've looked into range extenders and amps, but that only solves part of my problem. I don't have time to spend hours resetting this over and over and going through this horrible setup. While there are issues with the router's ability to provide a signal and stay connected, that's not the only place this router is looking. he is far behind the times. The interface is almost identical to the one I have on my R6300v2. Even the same frustration of opening ports remains. I'll never understand why it hasn't changed. Of course I could flash something else on it. but if he works like that, works with the material meant for him, I wouldn't do it for anything. Even more annoying is the lack of controls and tools in the Nighthawk app that seem very important to using certain other features of this router. Let's integrate these two things better, or at least communicate with each other. This is a missed opportunity for a company that has been in this game for a long time. I look longingly at my brother's ASUS products and see how they connect easily to provide full coverage of where he is without requiring new connections for access. Dots or weird redesigned apps that don't work well with archaic interfaces. I wish I'd waited and taken something else, but here I am. Having bought this as an upgraded Revain device I'm not even sure what my recourse is in this situation as this thing seems utterly useless on all fronts. I think in this price range I just expected more, maybe too much. Maybe my old router is damn good, I don't know. What I do know for sure is that no one should buy this thing.