Netgear’s New Nighthawk X4S AC2600 router and Range extenders

Posted by On January 05, 2016 0 Comment
1. Nighthawk X4S AC2600 2. Nighthawk Wi-Fi Range Extenders with MU MIMO support. 3. Two New Powerline Ethernet Adapters.

When it comes to routers, Netgear has always the best that will suit your needs and most probably value for money. Now they have launched a new set of product for home and small office networking. These are the products they have launched recently:

1. Nighthawk X4S AC2600
2. Nighthawk Wi-Fi Range Extenders with MU MIMO support.
3. Two New Powerline Ethernet Adapters.
If you do not know MU-MIMO let me explain it to you. Multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) is a set of multiple-input and multiple-output technology in wireless communication. MIMO enables a router to send data to multiple devices simultaneously and also allows Wi-Fi access to multiple device access.
Now lets check the Netgear devices.

Nighthawk X4S AC2600

This beast is a dual-band (5GHZ & 2.4GHz), which is now common in most upcoming powerful devices. It has 4 antennas to deliver top speed of  1733 Mbps on 5GHz band and 800Mbps on the 2.4GHz band. Also Multiple User MIMO will enhance the support of multiple devices at your home or office that need heavy data transmission simultaneously. It also comes with support of 160 MHz of bandwidth that may be required by some clients.
When it comes to the rank of the router in comparison to the flagship router of Netgear. This beast lies just below the flagship one. The price is said to be around $270. It has four port Gigabit switch whole the flagship X8 has six port Gigabit switch. All the other things are almost same like it has same number of USB 3.0 ports and USB 2.0. Two USB 3.0 and one USB 2.0. It will also be packed with an e-SATA port.

 

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Netgear’s Nighthawk X4S is a dual-band 802.11ac router that promises to deliver throughput of 1733Mbps on its 5GHz network and 800Mbps on its 2.4GHz network.

 

 

Nighthawk Wi-Fi range extenders
Netgear has added two new Wi-Fi range extenders to its Nighthawk line. The Nighthawk X4 AC2200 (EX7300) (Price: $170) has support of MU-MIMO and the ultimate beam forming technology to deliver maximum input output to multiple devices at speed of 2.2Gbps. The Nighthawk X4 AC1900 (EX6400) (Price: $140) looks identical and also the technology is same just one difference is that it has maximum data transmission speed 1.9Gbps as compared to 2.2 Gbps od EX7300.
Both of these range extenders are geared up with not two not three but four internal antennas with a whopping coverage range of 10,000 feet (as per the company said). They are also dual-band (2.4GHz and 5 GHz) which supports Netgear’s FastLane technology. When the extender is turned on setup is completed, it uses one band to connect to the router and the other band to connect to the Wi-Fi clients.
The below diagram shows how the extender works:
[Main Router]———Wifi———>[Band one–Extender–Band Two]———>[Clients (Farer than main router)]
Netgear announced two new Nighthawk Wi-Fi range extenders: the EX7300 (delivering throughput of up to 2.2Gbps), and the EX6400 (promising throughput of up to 1.9Gbps).
The EX7300 and EX6400 also have a one gigabit ethernet port. This will let you to connect to a device that requires wired connection. If you need more devices to connect you can use an ethernet switch port that connect to the extender and then connect all the other devices to the ethernet switch port. Both of these products will be available from 5th Jan 2016 onwards. 
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Powerline ethernet adapters

The two powerline ethernet adapters are:

1. PowerLine WiFi 1000 Priced at $120
2. PLW1000 Priced at $70

Both of these devices are very good but the first one Powerline WiFi 1000 is pretty much impressive. It’s a HomePlug AV2 model thats according to Netgear is capable of supporting gigabit throughput over powerlines. Netgear’s PowerLine WiFi 1000 kit has wireless access point 802.11ac which enables connection of multiple users but it only support one wired client only.

Powerline ethernet adapters The two powerline ethernet adapters are: 1. PowerLine WiFi 1000 Priced at $120 2. PLW1000 Priced at $70
The PLW1000 is also HomePlug AV2 compliant but it has only throughput of 500Mbps. Also it cannot be used as an wireless hotspot/access point. Both of these adapter kits are available to buy online.