Review on 📶 NETGEAR WAX610 Wireless Access Point - Dual-Band AX1800 WiFi 6 Speed, Up to 250 Client Devices, 1 x 2.5G Ethernet LAN Port, 802.11ax, Insight Remote Management, PoE+ or Optional Power Adapter by Chad Michels

I bought this hotspot to get rid of lag and stuttering on my Oculus Quest 2 with Virtual Desktop and it didn't disappoint, but I had a few caveats. I have a Netgear R8000-100NAR router which is perfect for my house and the 6 people that live here. The additional 5GHz AC stream was a great upgrade for my Netgear R6400 which was dying and requiring weekly reboots when it freezes. In any case, most of my family members don't have Wifi 6 devices, so 802.11ac is fine for them, and the overall coverage of the R8000 is really good. But enough of that. I bought an Oculus Quest 2 about a month ago. I found that I can bypass the virtual desktop connection cable to play my SteamVR games wirelessly. But the old router (and the new one) lagged and stuttered. I got a limit of 866 MB/s with a latency of 25-40 ms. My router is on the opposite end of the house and has to wirelessly go through 5 walls, a microwave and a fridge to get to where I use my Oculus for indoor VR. I was thinking of making a terrible mistake with the R8000 and should have gotten a WiFi 6 router, but the R8000 was on sale and a great buy for the price as it's not new technology anymore. And even the AX router wouldn't cut here because of the signal drop, so I decided to buy this access point and place it at the other end of the house where I use my Oculus the most. This is a massive improvement when playing VR from my PC to my Quest 2 headset, and I get a solid 1.2Gbps with 15-25ms latency. Games run smoothly with no stuttering or artifacts (apart from what happens on my very old slot machine). In short, it works, and it works great. I noticed that. Not that it's anything against the device, but be aware and it might save you some headaches. When I first plugged it in and tested it, my performance actually degraded or matched my 866Mbps AC connection. I wasn't very happy with it as it was supposed to be faster. Firmware update did not help. I knew the access point didn't come with a power adapter (12V - 2.5A) and I was fine with that. I had some really good Cisco and Lucent PoE adapters for some SIP phones that I thought would work fine. But I happened to look at the access point and noticed that the power indicator was yellow. Looking at the AP notifications, he said throughput was reduced due to low performance. I've tried both brands of injectors to no avail, but I remembered I had a power supply from an old R6400 router. Plugged it in instead and boom. The power indicator turned green and performance was off the charts. My point is that this is a great AP, but make sure you have the correct power supply or PoE injector for that particular AP as the industry standard solutions I tried didn't work with it.