I bought this to add to a Nighthawk X6S AC 3200 Mesh router as something recently started interfering with the signal and would no longer reach my smart garage door opener.
I also previously was unable to get good 5Ghz wifi speeds on the mid level and basement of my house.
Was able to set up in about 10 minutes and would have been even quicker if I used WPS but I manually configured.
Now getting blazing fast 5GHZ speeds throughout house and no lack of 2.4GHZ anywhere in the house.
If you are not a power user and looking to not spend alot or need something to hold you over until triband or quad band wifi 6E mesh systems are available.
Some things to note. If you are a power user this is not for you, there is a lack of being able to specify what devices are allowed to connect to the dedicated wifi backhual band and not as many management tools in the netgear UI that you would see in other brands or in netgears more expensive ORBI line. Netgear also only provides a trial for their security software and requires a separately purchase subscription which is awful to have very limited security features on networking equipment geared towards gamers and higher end home users.
I was able to score for $120 as part of cyber week deals and it was cheaper than dropping $400 - $600 on a decent wifi 6 mesh system especially with wifi 6E systems starting to become available and quad band systems are now becoming available. Will be using this until the right quad band 6E mesh system hits the market.
If you have your house ethernet wired I would suggest using wired backhaul, but for wireless only or wireless needs make sure you get a tri band with dedicated wireless backhaul.
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