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Internet via Unitymedia speed 32,000

On X6 are connected via LAN:
My PC with Windows 8.1
NAS WDMyCloud

About Wi-Fi connected:
Notebook with Windows 7
2 Android Smartphone
Network Printer Brother MFC-J470DW
Samsung Smart TV

The initial setup of the X6:
Originally I had a 30 router from TP Link, but has no Gigabit LAN. Netgear has provided me with the X6 available for testing, the not only Gigabit LAN but much more controlled.

For specifications of X6:

Dimensions: 29.6 x 22.7 x 5.5 cm (W x D x H)
Weight: 1,1 kg
Dual core processor with 1 GHz
Tri Band WLAN (1 x 2.4GHz / 600 Mbps and 2 x 5 GHz / 1300 Mbps)
6 high-performance antennas
Beamforming (focused wireless signals)
Remote access via VPN
SmartConnect (chooses intelligently the best WLAN for each device)
5 Gigabit ports (1 x WAN and 4 x 1 x LAN)
Memory: 128 MB Flash and 256 MB RAM
1 x USB 3.0 and 1 x USB 2.0
Switch to A / Deactivating the LEDs

In the box you will find:
1 LAN cable
Quick start guide, manual on CD
Power cable

The initial setup

I connected the X6 using the supplied LAN cable to my Unitymedia cable modem. The initial setup is automatically started. Here, however, I had the modem again to restart, so that everything was set up correctly.
On top of the X6 then the lights blink frantically to himself, but what can be avoided with the little switch on the back.
Only a white LED is visible which does not flash.
For me a lot of sense, because the X6 is directly in front of me on the wall, and thus no longer bother me the LEDs.
The X6 has, as you know it from Netgear, the IP 192.168.1.1
User is the default: admin and that password is password

The default SSID and the wireless key to be found on the bottom.
In very uncluttered router menu I have only once the preset SSID and / WLAN key replaced with the data that I have used on the previous router.
Thus, it was no longer necessary to have to reconfigure my existing network.
All devices listed above were ready for immediate use.

Exciting it was natural for me to test how it looks with the range of the wireless and the speeds.
And I have even expanded the 6 antennas NOT what looks visually a lot more sophisticated, but apparently not reach or hardly hurts! With folded antennas of the X6 looks more like a crab or an insect.
I live on the 2nd floor and can go with this router still down in front of the house through 2 walls and a house wall without problems on the Internet. Without repeaters!
It still 3 me be displayed from 5 bars.
My notebook I have this connected to 2.4GHz.
With my Samsung S5 mini I use 5 GHz WLAN. Even with this, I have an excellent reach to the X6.

My WDMyCloud NAS was also perfectly integrated into the system and is reliably addressed by the router and the data transfer is running at maximum speed. Both over LAN, and wireless everything great!

My Samsung TV I have connected via Wi-Fi. With my "cheap router" before I had when watching Amazon Instant Videos repeatedly stuttering or complete failures. With the X6, it runs now here perfectly.
Even on TV, I can access the media in my WDMyCloud best quality.

The Brother wireless printers I have connected via WPS, which worked without any problems. Unlike other routers, such as a Fritz! Box you have the WPS button, which classifies the way, up in the LEDs, only briefly once and not several seconds. Then this button, which is also the LED and connecting it lights up again permanently flashing.

My Conclusion:
Certainly the X6 is not a cheap product, but it moves so well in the high end range, which of course costs. For this you then just get a top product!