I recently moved from a small apartment building in a residential area to a large apartment complex and my old router couldn't break through all the wifi noise from my neighbors' routers. I was getting 70 mbps through an ethernet connection, but only 3 mbps over wifi. I upgraded to the Nighthawk to get the 5ghz channel and the automatic channel-switching, and it's like night and day. Now I have the same speeds over wired and wireless connections. The setup was pretty straightforward. It took me a couple tries to get the automated setup wizard to work through all it's steps, but maybe 20 minutes later and after a classic turn-it-off-then-on-again system reset I was ready to go.
Holds up after years, even with constant use from smart home devices, game systems, desktops, laptop, smartphones. The software is simple and the app makes it even easier.