Feel and design:
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The router has spooked me at first a little fright. He is to be honest quite large. A fair bit bigger than our old Fritz box. With its design, that for me a stealth fighter plane is modeled, I like him very well. The 6 antennas can be rotated so and fold as you like it, and I have kept myself Just looking at the variation as can be seen in the pictures. On the bottom holes for mounting the router on the wall are provided. On the top keys to the wireless on and off, and a WPS button located which can be used to type the password easily without connecting devices to the router. The build quality is good. Only some of the antennas have a little game, but this is not so bad. I would recommend a mounting on the wall. Not only for reasons of space, but also because it can in dust by the air vents on the top otherwise otherwise.
Connectivity:
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The router has a lot of connections to communicate with other devices and networks. Using the USB ports you can connect hard disks and USB sticks to the router. The software allows a then access via device on the network to the data or to make them even over the Internet from everywhere. Then you have, so to speak its own server and knows where the data are different than in the whole cloud ... Praiseworthy is the router to the USB 3.0 standard controls, enabling higher read and write speeds. In addition, the X6 has 4 Ethernet ports to which you can connect it to cable networks, or can directly connect a PC, if you want to use no wireless. To this end, there is a marked addition yellow Ethernet port so you come to a total of 5 ports. Should a the LED's on the front so you can disturb this simple off via a small switch on the back.
Furnishings:
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The establishment of this router is without exaggeration a breeze. The manual is initially scary thin, but includes all the information you need to get started and if necessary refers to more detailed sources of information eg. on the Netgear site. This makes the commissioning clear and simple. This very positive first impression is also reflected in the settings in which one of the NETGEAR software from PC / MAC from carrying out continued. The surface is cleaned up, the setting formulated clearly and overall very clearly. In my opinion, the possibilities are that the software offers a very comprehensive. This I say, however, without being fully professional. The ability to make a prioritization is in my opinion very useful. When a movie is streamed in the living room through the Apple TV receiver it is very annoying when it begins in exciting places to buffer ... If I now the Apple TV correlating highest priority, ie the streaming video, so it is ensured that the well stream runs. We really works the super.
Performance:
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The transmission power of the 6 antennas is excellent. The router is located under the roof in our house, that is on the 2nd floor. Even in the garden and downstairs I have great reception with my laptop and smartphone. The look of high-resolution videos Youtube, etc. is not a problem. So far, there were no complications during the transmission of data or wireless dropouts like our old Fritz box !. The ability to build a server that I have allows data from anywhere on the Internet now retrieve targeted. About the performance in this regard I will as soon as I manage to report at this point.
Conclusion:
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In my opinion, the X6 is called rightly the flagship among the routers. He can do almost anything and that too with an incredibly good performance. Personally, I would make him interested and experienced people in this field, the fiddle like at your own home network Refer immediately. This review will be based on constantly updated my future experiences.