Speed of internet as great, but coverage was moderate- didn’t reach entire house.
Response from netgear.comBy Consumer Affairs, March 8, 2021
Hi Javier Galvan,
Wireless routers, access points, and adapters send and receive radio wave signals through antennas. To optimize your wireless range, we suggest checking this resource: https://kb.netgear.com/1114/Improving-wireless-range-Overview
Please let us know if this resolved your issue by updating your review. If you need further assistance, please email us at NetgearTeam@netgear.com for additional resources or to contact one of our support experts. We will be happy to help.
As a retired network engineer from a major US telecom, I have extensive experience with commercial grade networking products. For a midrange home router the AX6 has thus far performed beautifully. It replaced an R7000 and there is a notable improvement in performance. There has been both improvement on the wi-fi side of the router as well as smaller improvement on throughput to the Internet side of the router. The setup through the Nighthawk was seamless and very straightforward. One of the reasons for upgrading was the support for WPA2-AES and WPA3 as the R7000 only supported WPA2-TKIP which proven to be less secure. I have paired the router with an EAX15 Extender replacing a pair of TP-Link extenders. The improved wi-fi coverage on the new devices has allowed me to eliminate a 2nd extender. Home is 2 level, 2800 sq ft condo. One thing I would like to see would be support for trunking and VLAN implementation. My place has structured Ethernet infrastructure with outlets in every room. My 4 Rokus are all connected via Ethernet back to patch panel and Gig switch and from there to the AX6. Being to create a trunk to the switch and then separate VLANs to each of Rokus would allow me to get everything off a flat LAN. Just a thought. Overall the AX6 has fully met my expectations.