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hi guys some goals here and this is the nighthawk x''k Wi-Fi router Morrow number are 8,000 now this is the latest from Netgear that supposed to be a huge upgrade to this our 7000 I have here right here in fact is so huge like having to r7 unit put on top each other almost how am I asked well before I get there let's check out this very cool design right here the first clan it look like the are 8000 here have no antenna or has built-in antenna that's not true you actually have a 6x long Turner right here but they come in a design that allows you to fold them on top of the rail like this personally I love to design because it allows me not to have to detach them before we packing the router which I always have to do after a review the new router here come with the usual four Gigabit LAN port and one gigabit one port or Internet port this is the port you want to connect your router to your broadband modem there are also two USB port right here the 2.0 port is for a printer and the 3.0 port is to host an external hard drive now come to the exciting part similar to the our 7000 over here the our 8000 is a dual man top-tier 802 point you have an AC router meaning it can operate in both the foggy head frequency band and the 2.4 gigahertz frequency band at the same time with a top speed up up to 1300 megabit per second and up to 600 megabit per second respectively but instead of having just one access point on each of the Bands the are 8,000 has two separate access points on the five-yard ban itself and that means it adds another 1300 megabit per second to it bandwidth for a total of thirty two hundred megabit per second in other words if the our 7000 here is an AC 1900 rotor these are 8,000 here is a very first AC 3200 router on the market now that sounds all cool but in my testing doubling down on the hood band doesn't always return better Wi-Fi connections because this is very similar to doubling the amount Blaine's on your home Street which only better the traffic flow when there is heavy traffic now if your Street already have a four lanes adding another four most of the time doesn't make any difference because there are just not enough cars to fill up the extra lanes so here's the old situation where you might see the benefits of this new router if there are a lot of 5g Wi-Fi clients in your home and I mean a lot like a dozen or more of them and all of those clients use the Wi-Fi connection heavily at the same time otherwise the are 8,000 here when working as intended is about as good as the are 7000 here at best and in my testing unfortunately he actually wasn't always working as intended and now I don't mean that it was slow anything because at the sustained speed on the Fatherhood band of some 480 megabit per second it actually was very fast however not this pre-configured Network printed on this label right here it's supposed to make the router work right out of the box and if you're okay with the default settings all is fine but if you want to make changes to the setting changes are something bad might happen in my case I had a hard time getting the 2.4 gigahertz clients connect to the router until I reset the router to the default setting I also had some issue connecting to the internet via the router here sometimes there was no internet at all even though everything seemed fine now I believe all those things just some bug and will be resolved via a future firmware update but overall there are 8000 here's seem to be only good for a 5 gigahertz only environment so getting it it's like adding more lanes you Street Y narrowing the sidewalks if that's not crazy now here the price $300 this is the most expensive browser you can find on the market if I'm on this one here check out my full review at cnet.com you know it's not just an overkill router but it's a rather wasteful one you get very little extra and mostly dismissing returns from it that exactly why I got only one unit and not - I did the 7000 here and that's because well I'm dumb low and this has been the first look at the nigh hop x6r 8000 Wi-Fi router from nephew