From experts who ACTUALLY tried their hands on this new astonishing technology.
It’s been half a month now, since when XRM570 becomes available for users. Here’s how it’s been so far, along with all the facts and myth around it.
Despite that Netgear is renowned for making some of the best gaming routers, still you ought to deal with WiFi dead zones of your own. Especially, if your home acquires an enormous area. However, this time, NETGEAR decided to conjointly eliminate these zones with Nighthawk Pro Gaming Mesh WiFi system – XRM570.
Yes, it’s a system, not just a router. (And this is the first myth going around for XRM570). In fact, this is a bundle of two Netgear products – Netgear Nighthawk XR500 router and Mesh Extender EX7700 TRI-BAND extender. Which both are the already existing products of Netgear. This clears the second most famous myth that – it’s a new product, which of-course, it’s actually not. It just has a new model “designation” along with fancy nomenclature.
If we delve to the actual router, it’s a dual-band AC2600 series that offers blazing WiFi speed of 1,733 MBPS on 5GHz Band and an adequate speed of 800 MBPS on 2.4 GHz band. Not only this, it also has four intrinsic LAN ports for wired connectivity(game consoles) and latest Netgear router firmware.
Whereas, the extender used – EX7700 is the tri-band mesh extender known for its high speed data flow by providing a dedicated back channel. Also, its smart roaming feature intelligently connects your mobile devices to the fastest available WiFi while doing web surfing.
Collectively, by means
of a simple device, the Netgear mesh combination kit from the Nighthawk Pro
gaming family is intended for less-savvy users to combine high data rates of up
to 2.6 GBit per second, that too for many simultaneously connected devices
through the MU-MIMO wirelessly.
Over to the
setup part now…
According to NETGEAR, the Nighthawk Mesh extender can be rapidly set up, simply plug it in and start leveraging the seamless WiFi coverage throughout your home or workplace. On the other side, routerlogin.net is used for the router setup.
But since both the devices are factory-paired, the collective setup procedure becomes much easier. And also you get a good out-of-box experience. All you need to do is plug both the devices to the power supply, and wait for the power LED to glow.
Make sure you have placed both of them close to each other. Let the extender get itself connected to the router. A solid amber light on your extender resembles a good connectivity with the router. Thereafter, you can use 192.168.1.1 or your router’s IP address for the network configuration. Also, you can use the Nighthawk application for the same purpose. Need not to mention, the setup of all parameters of Netgear on DumaOS baptized operating system can be done in addition to a classic web interface via a free offered app.
For detailed setup steps, check out XRM570 User Manual. Or if you’re still scratching your head with whether to go with it or not, check out the user reviews ….
Reviews
by Users
Initially it has got mixed reviews as currently the WiFi 6 technology is cynosure of all eyes, whereas, the XR500 router (of XRM570) belongs to the WiFi 5 router family. But since it’s still will take a long while for WiFi 6 gadget to reach out to every household, this mesh WiFi system is grooming its popularity in a slight pace, especially among gamers. Hard core online gamers are pretty satisfied with its performance. Some even regard it as the modest dream router for gaming, within it’s price segment.
As far as the wireless performance is concerned, with a dedicated Wi-Fi
backhaul for mesh Wi-Fi , Netgear’s Nighthawk Pro Gaming XRM570 delivers
reliable 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac wireless LAN throughout the house and faster
data rates than traditional mesh kits.
Summary
Overall, since WiFi 6 is still far from reach to every household, XRM570 Mesh WiFi system can endear gamers for a lag free online gaming experience. Not only this, it also takes care all the WiFi needs of a modern household. Lastly. not to mention, the bundle product will save you around 60$ as compare to the combined price of individual router and extender.