Netgear announces Nighthawk AX12 high-end $599 Wi-Fi 6 router

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/19/2019 04:38 PM | source: | 11 comment(s)

Netgear has announced a new high-end router today, it supports Wi-Fi 6, the brand-new AX Wi-Fi standard; and second, it’s a tri-band model, meaning it’s capable of delivering much more data at once.

The router that seems to have flown out of the Star Wars Deat Star is a 12-stream AX11000 Wi-Fi router powered by a quad-core 1.8GHz processor, offering 10.8GBps Wi-Fi (throughput) speeds and a 2.5G multi-gig ethernet interface as either a LAN or WAN. For mobile devices, the new router supports Gigabit Wi-Fi, as well as interface-free channels with dynamic frequency selection. The router includes a single 2.4GHz band and dual 5GHz bands, with all three bands including 4x4 antenna arrays. Wired connectivity is high-end as well: the router supports up to 2.5 Gbps connections and includes five Gigabit Ethernet ports for networking.

802.11ax Dual Band WiFi (AX6000)
2.4GHz AX: 4x4 (Tx/Rx) 1024 QAM 20/40MHz, up to 1.2Gbps
5GHz AX: 8x8 (Tx/Rx) 1024 QAM 20/40/80/80+80MHz, up to 4.8Gbps
Backwards compatible with 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi

For the wired side of all things internet, the unit has five-gigabit ethernet ports, two ports can be combined for link aggregation. In addition, there is a full port on it that can handle up to 2.5 Gb/s.In addition to the Ethernet ports, there is 2x 3.0 USB on it. It’ll sell for a whopping $599 and is to be available in May 2019, but is up for pre-order now.

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Undying
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#5651626 Posted on: 03/19/2019 04:39 PM

Looks like a space ship.

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#5651636 Posted on: 03/19/2019 05:03 PM

For that excessive price and futuristic design, I hope it provides an fps boost altogether with some latency reduction in internet connected sessions and/or online gaming experience !

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#5651645 Posted on: 03/19/2019 05:17 PM

I hope it allows me to exterminate the New Republic

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#5651699 Posted on: 03/19/2019 06:52 PM

Looks like a space ship.

More specifically it looks like Kylo Ren's Command Shuttle.

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#5651701 Posted on: 03/19/2019 06:52 PM

Looks like a space ship.

hope it allows me to exterminate the New Republic

Good! Your hate has made you powerful. Now, fulfill your destiny and take your father's place at my side!

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#5651711 Posted on: 03/19/2019 07:08 PM

It is a bit upsetting that the ethernet port got downgraded. The product’s website still says it features a 5Gbit port:

https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/RAX120.aspx

By the way this is one of the first (if not the first) wireless routers that supports WPA3.

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#5651735 Posted on: 03/19/2019 07:45 PM

Add 1-2 10Gb ports and I'm a potential buyer, even if the price was a bit higher.

I don't understand how you can sell a high end networking device like this which doesn't feature at least 1 10Gb (or even 5Gb) port.

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#5651748 Posted on: 03/19/2019 07:56 PM

For that price, you can have a pFsense box, an AC Ubiquity AP with MIMO and PoE.
And awesome features and speed. Did I mention that all that you can control to your liking?

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#5651843 Posted on: 03/19/2019 11:11 PM

Did I mention that all that you can control to your liking?

This.. this sentence just caused my brain to get stuck in an infinite loop.

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#5651895 Posted on: 03/20/2019 02:13 AM

^That reminds me never to post from a smartphone with autocorrect going loco.

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#5651905 Posted on: 03/20/2019 02:51 AM

I have yet to encounter a WiFi6 device.

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