Netgear has the R7500 Nighthawk X4 was officially announced, after the arrival of the high-end router already uitlekte. The 802.11 ac router with support for the quadstream-wi-fi high speed obtain, among other online gaming and the streaming of content.
The router can in theory reach speeds of up to 1733Mbit/s on the 5GHz frequency, composed of four 433Mbit/s connections, and 600Mbit/s on 2.4 GHz, consisting of three 200Mbit/s connections, for a total throughput of approximately 2,33 Gbit/s. That speed is higher than a lot of other wi-fi ac routers on paper offer, thanks to the support for multi-user multiple input multiple output, or mu-mimo. The Wave 2 technology from Quantenna provides support for mu-mimo.
The router also has a Qualcomm-soc IPQ8064, with two Krait cores, which are both 1.4 GHz work. The performance of the router according to AnandTech to compare with that of the Asus RT-AC87, which is also on Quantenna’s Wave 2 chipset, but there are some differences. Where the X4 over the Qualcomm IPQ8064 processor, running the Asus on Broadcom BCM4709A. In addition, the X4 both an esata-interface and two usb 3.0 ports, which the Asus with a usb 2.0 and a 3.0 port.
The support for 4×4 mu-mimo for higher wi-fi speeds and more stable connections, but Netgear adds yet another function for efficient operation. The router has a list of devices and apps that the allocation of bandwidth can be arranged. Apps and programs that make use of buffering, such as YouTube and Netflix, are given a higher priority than apps and programs that use less bandwidth. Users can see the list updating itself, according to Anandtech.
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