The Nighthawk X10 Smart WiFi router combines a 1.7 GHz Quad Core processor — the fastest processor in a home router
pfSense hardware combo's say hi. This isn't anything ground breaking.
and Quad-Stream Wave 2 WiFi architecture, plus next generation high speed 802.11ad WiFi, supporting wireless speeds up to 7.2 Gbps.
Wave2-generation WiFi has been utilized in many other access points for a good while now. Wave2 wifi is 802.11ac, which caps out around 3.5Gbps.
802.11ad wifi is
EXTREMELY high in the radio spectrum. 60 Ghz to be exact. This spectrum right now is legitimately marketing banter.
The latest MU-MIMO technology supports simultaneous streaming, while 160 MHz doubles WiFi speeds to mobile devices. Four patent-pending external Active Antennas amplify Nighthawk X10 WiFi signals to maximize range and throughput.
Here's the thing, when you up the routers/access points bandwidth spectrum, you're literally crowding out the other wifi channels. I set my access point here in the house to 80Mhz, you can see how wide of a channel it has become...
You think 2.4 Ghz spectrum is overcrowded already? Wait until the 80 and 160 mhz channel bandwidths becomes the default normal setting in the 5Ghz bands. 2.4 bands are already hell when it comes to some AP's using 40mhz of spectrum over the 20mhz. Where i live at is mainly rural, so i don't have 9001 different wifi access points clogging up the 2.4 and 5ghz spectrums.
NETGEAR Nighthawk X10 is also the industry’s first router designed for the home market that includes a 10Gigabit port, which supports a fiber connection.
I guess they're an industry first for the home markets...? 10Gbps is nothing new in the networking world. Now if this netgear has SFP rather an ethernet port, I
will be impressed.
The router is priced at $499.99.
Wat.
