For highly networked households, housing communities or small businesses, the router is great

Netgear R7500 Nighthawk X4 AC2350-Smart Wireless Gigabit Router,
4 antennas,
1 network cable,
1 power supply,
1 manual and a software CD.

Not only the cardboard makes her a lot, but the router itself is very space-IG with its 4 antenna and the angular shape. He reminds us more like a spaceship from Star Wars or other relevant films than to a standard router. The doing of the thing could not be stopped, as it rather serves as a kind of brand recognition.

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Connectors and optics

Ventilation shafts are located on all sides of the router for cooling the hardware. Since the router has a 1.4GHz dual core processor, the cooling should also not be underestimated. The whole thing also still running as passive cooling, which is a good and especially quiet solution. One should only make sure that the vents are not delivered - the router should be free or -hängen. The front view of the router is very striking. The LED indicators at the bottom to light up and give the router activities. Are located on the rear panel ultimately verschiedenstene ports that must have a router. So you can see from left to right:

- On / Off switch for the LED display (this is how the disco lights off - the unit is running anyway)
- Reset button,
- Antenna Slot 1,
- 4 times LAN port,
- To connect to the router 1 Internet connection using a modem,
- Antenna slot 2,
- PSU connector and
- Power Button.

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Installation of the device

For the construction and installation of the device, we first took our manual again and wanted to advance See the manufacturer's installation video (via a QR code). Shortly thereafter, the disillusionment - the page could not be found. So we have followed the manual and its own knowledge and have step by step the router to the modem and our devices connected.
First, we have connected to the router via network cable to the power. Then the router has been connected to our modem. Furthermore there in our household a small NAS, a network-enabled hard drive, which also requires a LAN connection to the router. The router can be so, up to a maximum of four kabelgedundenen devices connect.

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Featured

Via web interface allows among others to access the router. There we have personalized the first thing the password of our router. Netgear provides a software package also for further setting screen "NETGEAR Genie". This we have installed on all our devices to, for example, send. Larger amounts of data quickly and easily using the home network. In addition, we were able to set static IP addresses for specific devices. So our NAS and the network-enabled printer has a fixed address in the home network, as this IP address conflicts are avoided if other temporary devices to connect to the router. A nice feature is also the network map, in which one sees all connected devices. Optionally, you can be informed of each reconnection of a device so as to always have an overview of the network environment.

We liked the use of the 5 GHz network. In this network theoretically 1733 Mbps are possible, what / s corresponds to a speed of around 215 MB. Practically, we achieve here unfortunately only 36 MB / s - still a big improvement on our old router. It is probably due to the network adapters that are installed in the respective terminals. To demonstrate the speed again, we have moved with the old and new routers the same file on our NAS. The two pictures show the speed in 5 and 2.4 GHz network.

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Problems that have occurred in our test:

- When connecting USB storage devices, the Internet connection was lost inexplicably.
- In the course of using the speed breaks within the network. The whole thing is so bemerktbar: if one turns the device or PC, then is full speed, and over time will reduce this.
- The promised modem speed of 1733 Mbps, we have unfortunately reached at any time. Show Average we could only 330 Mbps (wireless no matter whether wired or) use.

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Conclusion:

For normal users, surfing, e-mails sent, making online banking, etc, the Netgear router in our opinion is oversized. Given the fact that in this day and age more and more streaming services come but on the market and are offered to the router is very well suited just for these purposes. Since we are professing streaming fans, casually surfing and general online travel a lot and are in the home network back more data and forth, we can tap the Leisung of gigabit router rather. We also have several devices that we connect with each other and also super example. So easily a spontaneous slide show on the smart TV can organize for the grandparents, with no effort. Priced the Netgear R7500 is 229 Euro (RRP) - for beginners, or for normal domestic use, this router is rather superfluous, since one would not exploit the full potential. For highly networked households, housing communities or small businesses, however, the router is a fine thing.