NETGEAR Nighthawk Smart Wi-Fi Router, R6700 - AC1750 Wireless Speed Up to 1750 Mbps | Up to 1500 Sq Ft Coverage & 25 Devices | 4 x 1G Ethernet and 1 x 3.0 USB Ports | Armor Security

The media could not be loaded. It works as good as hot spotting my Iphone. But the ATT signal at my house isn't great. I leave mine plugged in all the time, with the battery out. That is the only way I get a strong enough signal to work the way I want. I leave the cover off and have a small cooling fan going on it all the time. I also have an external antenna hooked up to it all the time. If I don't do all of this, it won't work. I also have to check on it every few days because I get spam messages to the phone number that goes to it. If I don't delete the messages or it won't work. When I purchased this, ATT didn't have a wireless router like they do now. That might work better than this, but I paid a lot for this and I am making it work. I have a lake place that has a better ATT signal and it works better out there. When I have a good ATT signal I can have 10 different wifi items hooked up. When the signal is not good, I have to go around and turn off Wifi on a few things, until I get enough signal to run what I want.

Had this router for 7 years now... it's still working, but I think it's time for an upgrade

I installed 2 of these routers to upgrade my home network. 1st unit as a Router and the 2nd as an Access Point. My research said the R6700 was one of the best access points also.WIRED PERFORMANCE:-- Ive installed the R6700 router with 4ea D-Link unmanaged 1G switches to reach all the locations in my home and sometimes cascaded the switches and everything works great. (I mention cascading switches because in the past I have had issue when cascading switches but not issues with this setup)-- BETTER WIRED PERFORMANCE: I have a 8 wireless camera security system that uses its own wireless Network Video Recorder and some of the cameras have poor signal so now switched them over to the wired 1G backbone. A marked improvement in the video update and even the control on the Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ) cameras is instantly responsive-- GREAT STATUS LIGHTS: The Ethernet port activity lights are great because they have different colors depending on the speed of the network connection. This is really handy when installed a mix of 100M and 1G links so you can tell if things are connected as you planned.WiFi PERFORMANCE:-- The Nighthawk replaced a 13 year old wireless router (D-Link 605L) using only a 2.4Ghz wireless network.-- SAME 2.4G PERFORMANCE: When comparing speeds from my normal laptop wireless location I have not noticed any real improvement in the signal strength nor the connection speed for the old router to the new R6700 at 2.4G.-- GREAT 5G Performance. When comparing 2.4G to 5G there was typically at 70% improvement in throughput speed from the same laptop.-- FLEXIBLE CONFIGURATION: Once can turn off the wireless totally or just the 2.4G or the 5G. This is just a nice feature to lower your wireless risk footprint say if you only use 2.4G.ROUTER CONFIGURATION:-- EASY SETUP: It was easy to setup the router. In my case I set up the R6700 to match the configuration of the D-link it replaced so I did not have any issues with all the other devices in the house connecting.-- It went fairly smoothly, but on my laptop I did have to delete the original connection and reconnect to get it to work.-- VERY SOPHISTICATED: It has some very sophisticated configuration possibilities all of which I will never use.-- There are 3 levels of configuration with each level allowing more and more complex and detailed setups.-- I was surprised that to turn off the 5G wireless I had to drill down to the 3rd level to find that config. Seems like that would be a very basic config setting.-- I really love the display that provides several indicators to give one an instant view of the health and operation of the unit.COULD BE BETTER:-- NEEDS MOUNTING TABS: I do wish it had some mechanical mounting capability to secure to a shelf or mount vertically on a wall but its simply a shelf item. With all the cables hanging off the back there is some weight there that wants to pull the Nighthawk off the shelf.-- STATUS LIGHT ORIENTATION: The status lights are best viewed when looking down on the R6700. When straight its difficult. It would have been better if the lights were mounting at a 45 degree so they could easily be viewed straight on as well.UPDATE: I purchased a 2nd R6700 and installed in the same network above as an access point. It was easy to set up using a fixed IP and the 5G performance was better than 2X the 2.4G network. And of course the 1G Ethernets are great as I have several security cameras running over the network.

Upgrading my mom's router from an older Linksys Wireless n router to this R6700.So far, signal coverage and speeds are great, but only a months use so far. In that time no need for a single reboot and no dropped connections and portable devices re-connect with no issues.She pays Comcast for 100Mbps, and whether wired or wireless(ac) at the furthest point in her apartment, she is getting 120Mbps (her old wireless n was getting 30 Mbps wireless on a good day, usually 13-15Mbps). When on wireless n, it drops to 35-50Mbps (still better than her old one).Setup was ok, I just don't like apps to set up, I like doing it on a computer, and this tries to force you into using an app. I understand the simplistic approach, but getting to advanced settings is a little weird at first.I also like that it allows me to turn off all the lights (except the power) because this sits on a dresser in my mom's room, and would be very bright if they were all on (several bright white LED's on there, as well as a few amber). The single power LED is also a little bright, but not too bad. I may still put a piece of tape over it.I am still trying to figure out why they put the USB on the front of the unit instead of the back? Just weird to have a USB stick or cable run out of the front of it instead of the back with all the other cables. I guess if you insert and remove the USB a lot it makes sense, but for a USB drive that is always in, not so much. In my case I am not using the USB, so not a huge deal, but if I was, it would be more of an annoyance. At least they did put in a USB 3.0, seems some companies are still putting USB 2.0 on these fast routers for some reason.1/2 star off for the front mounted USB.The big issue I have with this router is not being able to set both the 2.4 ghz and 5 ghz networks to the same SSID.Really? I have been doing this for years on multiple routers with no issues. It makes it so much simpler to setup networks. Why?This seems to be a common complaint on some Netgear routers, and if I had know beforehand it was an issue, I may not have purchased it. The Amazon description says this has Smart Connect, but do not see anywhere to enable it (apparently it is available on other models on description page, but not the 6700).I almost installed DD-WRT on it because of this limitation set by Netgear, but since it is at my mom's and I don't know the reliability of this yet, I passed (for now). I may still put DD-WRT on it in the long run just because of this though.4 month update:Still working great. Have not restarted it once except for power outages.Unit has remote feature that I can check status and adjust settings from my home network to my mothers home, works great for that (does require an account with Netgear and their app though).The issue with naming 2.4 and 5ghz different is not as big a deal since once the home setup was done at her house (her phone, my phone, her tablet, her laptop, and a wireless extender), I have not had to mess with it. I set up her guest network only on 2.4, so she can share that with who she needs to, and the name and password are written down for her to give out. While still an annoyance, not a deal breaker and not enough for me to switch it to DD-WRT like I had contemplated. If at my house, I probably would, but that is because I like to mess with stuff like that. For my moms setup, not needed and just simpler as is.I added a star since it was not as big an issue as I first thought, so only 1/2 star off for that, and 1/2 star off for USB on front.