Netgear rolls out three pricey new Wi-Fi 7 Nighthawk routers

Netgear announced 3 caller entries to its Nighthawk Wi-Fi 7 router postulation today: the RS600, RS500, and RS200. The institution says each 3 routers, which scope successful terms from $229 to $499, volition beryllium disposable today.

The 2 pricier options, the $499 RS600 and the $399 RS500, are precise similar: some are tri-band routers with 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz wireless connections. They each connection 320MHz transmission bandwidth connected the 6GHz band, which tin mean overmuch higher throughput to a Wi-Fi 7 instrumentality — a chiseled vantage since these devices are starting to go much commonplace. All 3 of Netgear’s caller routers enactment Multi-Link Operation (MLO), which could payment Wi-Fi 7 devices by offering much stable, little latency connections that are cardinal for gaming oregon VR applications.

Of the 2 higher-end options, the RS600 gets you the champion wired connections; it has a 10Gbps ethernet larboard for connecting to your ISP and different to nonstop information to your network, with 3 further gigabit ethernet ports for different devices. The RS500 offers the aforesaid configuration, lone with 2.5Gbps ports alternatively of 10Gbps. 

The much humble $229 RS200 lacks a 6Ghz set but is equipped with the aforesaid ports arsenic the RS500. That means you won’t spot the aforesaid superfast wireless throughput of its higher-priced siblings — it’s intelligibly meant to beryllium the fund option. You tin find overmuch cheaper Wi-Fi 7 routers, though, including the $99 TP-Link Archer BE3600, which offers akin specs astatine a important discount.