I purchased the warranty and confidence was restored after phone being hung up in my face twice! Why? because of the agent that took the time to explain inform and help.
I use netgear routers at two other locations. I got this one to avoid cable company fees, have strong WiFi and use the netgear app to keep tabs on things. Everything works as expected, signal is strong inside the house but fades quickly when beyond the outside walls. The routers with the external antennas have stronger signal when you go outside.
The router works fine. Covers my 2000 sqft hoist well. The app to interface with it used to be awesome and then they changed it to a terrible app that’s Mostly unusable. Now I want this router to give me the smallest reason to replace it. Don’t buy it. Seriously, the app is that bad. Since the update I’ve had to restart it daily. I’ll never buy a netgear again.
Response from netgear.comBy NETGEAR Team, April 27, 2020
Hi David,
The app will not cause you to need to restart your router. Please log in to MyNETGEAR and click support. One of our support experts will be happy to help.
I was having a lot of problems with other routers because on my concrete walls I got this and I can go any place in the house or even outside and still get signal I love this router best money I spent
Speeds quadrupled the moment this beast fired up! Couldn’t believe it but Ookla confirmed what I was seeing. My Wi-Fi speed literally is 4 times faster than the rental junk from the ISP. It’s only been running a week but I can tell you that’s a week free of irritating reboots!