NETGEAR Nighthawk X6 Smart Wifi Router (R8000) - AC3200 Tri-band Wireless Speed (up to 3200 Mbps) | Up-to 3500 sq ft Coverage & 50 Devices | 4 x 1G Ethernet and 2 USB Ports | Armor Security, Black

With a son who has been complaining for weeks about lag on his online gaming issues and numerous calls to Virgin media to sort out their signal etc, we are supposed to have 200Mb Fibre and a Hub 3 but the signal between 2 x V6 boxes less than 10 feet apart and wired PC’s has been appalling! signal fallout an absolute joke, watching programs only for the TiVo box to tell you the signal has been lost from one TiVo to the other, or just so laggy the Wi-Fi just can’t keep up.From what I have read online & in forums etc (Though I am sure some other suppliers have similar issues) Seems the Virgin Hub 3 isn’t that good at distributing the signals to the devices that need the best connection – Please do look up the difference between “Bandwidth” and “Latency” as latency is the key! You may well be getting good signal coming in the Hub say 200mb, but it is how the signal is distributed and how quickly (Latency) to your devices that is the key and the Hub 3 is pants at doing that! Though they would never tell you!The latency with the Virgin was so bad during online gaming that you could say in Fortnight shoot first but get shot first because of the lag etc, I decided to go online, do some research and in the end I bought this beauty, and so far so good, high latency to those devices that ask for it, and connectivity Virgin could only dream of!Overall, It’s not that hard to set up, I worked out where it needed to go first, then unplugged all the hard wired devices and rerouted the wiring etc to make life easier! just some simple wiring, attaching of network and power cables, and then some good old common sense a bit of tweaking and all is fine.I also bought the smaller Gigabit switch (To the right of the Nighthawk in the pic) to allow me a few more wired network connections and this just connects to the Nighthawk through one the of LAN ports giving you 4 extra ports to play with.Once you get set up, give yourself several hours to do it, as it’s not a 5 min job, I’m no computer expert but have a little bit of an idea and it took me most of the day to place, fit, wire, download, test etc.The result so far is, by just using the Virgin Hub 3 to introduce the internet signal into the Nighthawk, there now appears to be no more latency lag on the online gaming front (The Hub 3 is ok for bringing a signal into your house but appallingly bad at distributing the signals to where they are actually needed!) but with this there is no issue at all, you just connect your Hub 3 in Modem mode (Video’s on you tube to show you from other users how to do it) and then you use the Nighthawk router to connect your devices where you can via a network cable or just use the Nighthawk’s superior Wi-Fi signal for all your mobile devices (You can connect up to 64 wireless devices to this router alone should you wish to).Regarding Virgin TV, The Virgin Wi-Fi signal for one of our TiVo boxes was often at 18% and would always cut out! and now, with this Wi-Fi its often over 90% with no drop out what so ever.Really happy just made the decision to buy this router, just sorry I didn’t not do it earlier and save the earache! I Also still need to tidy the cabling up as you can see!

So my provider is EE and it's 100% hassle free to connect this. Type your IP address into internet browser. Login to router. Switch off wireless and DHCP. Plug the router in with the ethernet cable and it's as simple as that. Did not need a separate modem. As per, this may differ with broadband provider.Now this router has dramatically improved my internet experience. Broadband providers should be teaming up with these manufacturers. Previously couldnt get WiFi in my room which is literally a 5 second walk from the living room. 2.4ghz was terrible and would get one bar on 5ghz. Bearing in mind this a replacement router too lol. The nighthawk solved that issue. I get WiFi everywhere in my flat now. Connecting to smart speakers etc is now flawless. Literally in a second my music from Spotify is playing on my speaker previously sometimes it just wouldn't work or would start stuttering because the connection would change for 5ghz to 2.4. was a nightmare. Doesn't cut out if I move it around the flat either. My speeds have increased a bit but if anything it's just more stable now and ping for online gaming is always below 30. I get ZERO packet loss. When i say that, I really do mean it. Playing games like Battlefield have just become the smoothest experience ever. Like things weren't that bad before for gaming but this router has just fine tuned my connection to be at a level everyone should be at. My K/D ratio has spiked since getting this.The app is great but I'd like to play around with more settings. Haven't fully checked if this is possible on a desktop or something maybe but anyway it's good with some cool settings to play with. Just keep an eye out for firmware updates for the router on the app though.I highly recommend this. If you're having issues where you can't get connected in an other room or your gaming experience online isn't that great. I'd say go and buy it. I can't promise it's going to solve your problem but it's 100% worth trying. I live in a one bedroom, one floor flat. So I don't know how it'll be in a bigger property but I'm confident this router will help improve things.It's a big boi too but a good big boi. So make sure you've got a stand or side table for it. It deserves the space it requires. I also like the fact there are attachments on the back for wall mounting with some screws as well. They aren't provided though.To round up though. This piece of kit is worth considering. Like I said, I went from a few niggling, obstructive issues to absolutely none after setting this up. So I'd recommend at least giving it a try. I'm sure once you get it going you'll realise what I mean.

Good router, luckily I managed to grab it on a good deal on prime day.I would say that this router is probably overkill for a lot of average users, but I have it connected to my Virgin 152MB fibre connection, and feeding into a 24 port gigabit switch in my house with ports in every room.In terms of the hardwire connection, the router has not skipped a beat and is rock solid, it has not needed a single reboot since the day I bought it. The router also has NAS functionality if you attach external storage, but I have a dedicated synology NAS so this function is not required.The only reason I am knocking a star off is due to the fact that the wireless does not seem to be as strong as claimed. I have the router in a cupboard which obviously would hamper the signal strength but I still find that the router does not cover the whole of the ground floor of my house (it struggles in my extension area and also in the kitchen - I have a fairly large house).The upstairs is not an issue for me as I have an extender acting as an access point to cover the first floor, but I am still surprised that I cannot get signal all around the ground floor, even on the 2.4ghz band.