Tri-Band WiFi
The Nighthawk X8 AC5300 Smart WiFi Router with breakthrough Tri-Band WiFi technology delivers a massive combined wireless speed of up to 5.3Gbps. X8 optimizes WiFi performance by intelligently assigning every device to the fastest WiFi band possible and doing so allows devices to connect at their maximum speed. Load Balancing distributes WiFi devices ensuring usage of both the 5GHz WiFi bands. Even if everyone and everything in the home that's connected to the Internet is streaming, gaming, working, playing, socializing or updating at the same time, the X8 won't miss a beat—you'll enjoy seamless clarity and zero lag.
Dynamic Quality of Service (QoS)
If you like gaming and streaming videos, then you can benefit from Dynamic Quality of Service (QoS).
Dynamic QoS automatically prioritizes bandwidth to latency sensitive applications like online gaming and video streaming by recognizing application and device information as well as bandwidth needs. Dynamic QoS will also ensure that lower priority applications like file downloads will never get completely stopped.
Powerful Dual Core 1.4GHz Processor for Faster Processing
Basic WiFi routers use simple single core processors to connect WiFi devices to the Internet.
Nighthawk X8 delivers Tri-band WiFi, quad-stream performance on each band, Multi-User MIMO capable, has 6 Gigabit LAN ports
with Port Aggregation, and dual USB interfaces to connect external USB storage. Using a single core processor would cause severe performance issues as various processes compete for CPU power.
That's why the X8 utilizes a powerful 1.4GHz dual-core processor to separate processes and prioritize high performance WiFi connections to get maximum combined WiFi speeds of up to 5.3Gbps. This is performance perfected!
Active Antennas
Each new generation of routers grows more powerful than the last, delivering
stronger WiFi signals with greater range. At the same time, the WiFi signals
on mobile devices are not getting more powerful. This difference in WiFi
performance — a strong WiFi signal from the router and weaker ones from mobile
devices — reduces overall WiFi range and speed.
To meet this challenge, NETGEAR developed the industry's first Active Antennas
technology. NETGEAR moved the WiFi amplifiers from their usual location, on the
router's motherboard, up to the top of the antennas.
Active antennas help improve WiFi performance by amplifying signals in the
antenna itself. Thereby avoiding any signal loss during transmission between
antenna and router board, as well as avoiding any noise insertion from the
router board components. This provides cleaner and stronger receive signals
for amplification from your mobile devices.
Traditional WiFi router has harder time receiving weaker mobile device signals.
Nighthawk X8 Active antennas compensate for weaker mobile device signals
and effectively improve signal strength.
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