We measured the Nighthawk X8 at 56% higher than its cousin the Netgear R8000 and ASUS RT-AC3200 router. We then measured the power draw from each router at the wall with our P3 International P4400 Kill-A-Watt electric usage monitor.īenchmark Results: It is quite apparent that the Netgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300 is very power hungry under idle conditions. To measure idle usage, we reset each wireless router to the default settings and plugged them with no devices connected to them. I’ve done a fair amount of research into this problem and a lot of people in the ATT and Netgear forums seem to have similar problems but no solution that I found.Power consumption by your homes electronic devices continues to be a very important issue so we have made an attempt to present some simple power consumption tests on the various routers that we had. I have been struggling to get gigabit bandwidth through the R8500 and am running out of things to try. All my speed tests are done through and I’ve replaced all the necessary cables to Cat6. If I put the BGW210 in IP Passthrough mode the speeds out of the R8500 are 230/230 through LAN. But when wired directly into the BGW210-700 I easily get 900/900. I get similar numbers when wired into the LAN port of the R8500. ATT Fiber just came to our neighborhood and we upgraded to their gigabit 1000/1000 plan which has been pretty awesome so far!Ĭurrently my network goes like this: Fiber from the wall -> ATT fiber box -> ATT modem/router (BGW210-700) -> 8 port unmanaged Netgear switch (mainly using this switch to connect my pc/plex server because I can't get gig speeds out of the Nighthawk) -> Nighthawk X8 R8500 (In AP mode).Īll of my wireless devices are connected to the R8500 and I can get about 300/300 on the 5ghz R8500 network. My family just upgraded from Comcast where we were getting 175/5, which was pretty terrible for Plex remote streaming and our plan to cut the cord. u/RoweDent created this awesome resource on network theory
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