Nighthawk BE12000 WiFi 7 Tri-Band Router RS500

I bought this router because my old router was about to lose its support. I'm very happy with the speed this router gives me. I have fiber so I did not need a modem. The speed increased about 3x 👏👏👏 The setup was easy for someone that is mostly illiterate when electronics are involved. I have placed my stamp of approval on this product.

Was too difficult to setup. R7900 - Nighthawk X6 AC3000 Tri Band WiFi Gigabit Router was plug and play - much better!

Worse range than my last router, spotty service in and around the house. Disappointed at the value

Purchased this Nighthawk router to replace the one I purchased in 2019, which reached its "end of life" and was no longer receiving any security updates. Was fairly easy to install with the phone app. The only hiccup was that my old network and new network had the same name and so I actually had to finish the install using the desktop version on the NETGEAR website. It came with a free wall mount kit when I included a certain keyword on the checkout page, but it turns out I didn't need it since my Ethernet cables were too short and I was simply swapping out my old router for this new one, and I was using all 4 Ethernet cable plug-ins. I do like that this router has a vertical orientation rather than a horizontal one like my old router since it now takes up less space on my media closet shelf than my old router did.

It's been well over a week now and still waiting to have my armor subscription transferred to this new router. Why should I have to call support open a ticket and wait weeks with still no updates. I should be able to just do this online. Completely useless waste of my time. I should have just changed to a different manufacturer when my RAX120 was no longer supported.

Once the router is up and running, it is fast and has great range. It is covering my entire 2700 square-foot house easily. However, the set up was very buggy. I am transferring from an older Netgear router, and my old app would refuse to allow me to press the button to activate a new router, even though the button was on the screen. I ended up having to uninstall the old router and disable it in the app, then plug in the new router and wait for a few minutes for the app to detect it. Then the app told me to connect the Ethernet to the modem, which was already connected, so I disconnected and reconnected it and that froze the whole thing so I had to unplug my modem and router and reset everything again. Also, when the router was getting set up the app still got frozen in a portion that said “may take a moment” for 1hr+ and I had to force kill it and restart, they need to put reasonable (5 min max) timeouts on their setup times.

Great router, sleek and easy to configure. It is much better to configure directly into the web UI rather than the app, since you can drill down into more settings than the app, of course you need to know what you are doing, because if not, it will be difficult. it has been running for about 10 days, doing what we needed to do: balance the network traffic, since we do not have much of high speeds in this block

My home network needed an upgrade to Wi-Fi 7. With 4 people relying on Internet access for work video conferences, gaming and streaming, my older router was at its limit. A number of devices in the house are wired (two offices and the family room, and basement TV's), so the wireless connection is hosting laptops, phones, tablets, gaming and bedroom TV's. Happy to say all are working exceptionally well - no buffering or delays. The app is nice too, just wish they'd make it easer for people with experience to bypass the elongated app setup process. The only down side to this router's operation (and most home routers for that matter) is it only has 4 Ethernet ports so I have a managed switch next to it to tie in my hardwired connections.

Everything works great. I upgraded my R6700 router because coverage was running out, so I was familiar with setting up a Netgear Nighthawk router. I had to update my password in order to logon to the app, but everything went pretty smooth after that.

I love this router. I was using an older Nighthawk router, but it was capped by a 450mbps internet port, while I have 2.5gbps internet. I wish I would have gotten a version higher, so I could future-proof my connection, because my ISP is promising 10gbps rollout over the next few years. I don't want to go through the hassle of return, so I'll just upgrade again in a few years. One thing some of my family noticed was that the range was not quite as good as before, but the speed and stability was greater.