This should be enough time to get the extender set up and operating reliably, but it falls short of what the others provide.īig, expensive and worth every penny, Netgear's $180 Nighthawk X6S Tri-Band Extender leads the pack in data speed and range.
Like other Netgear products, the X6S extender includes 24/7 support, but for only 90 days. The X6S extender comes with a one-year warranty, half as long as TP-Link's coverage. Happily, the X6S can pass its signal on to another X6S extender in a mesh-like arrangement for larger homes. On the downside, the antennas can be neither aimed at the target area nor replaced with higher performance ones. Inside, the X6S has a quad-core processor and six amplified antennas that can add up to 2,500 square feet of coverage, according to Netgear.
Netgear's Nighthawk X6S is an up-to-date 802.11ac specs extender that uses beam-forming and Mu-Mimo techniques to satisfy a family with many connected devices. The X6S stayed connected for a full day, used 6.2 watts of power and was cool to the touch. That throughput was plenty for 4K videos and music. In my older home, the X6S was able to extend the network as far as 168 feet, and yielded more than 150Mbps for my outdoor grilling area that's 50 feet from the extender's position. Netgear’s X6S blew the competition away with the best performance for an extender we've seen. Add in a couple walls, and that declines to only 316.8Mbps. The next best performance was from the Linksys Max-Stream RE7000 at 219.5Mbps, more than 50 percent lower. The X6S's performance was spotlighted in our mock home network, where the X6S's signal traveled across 30 feet, through a wall and up a floor, delivering 338.5Mbps of bandwidth. MORE: Best Wireless Router - Routers for Strong, Long Range Wi-Fi Both of these results are about 20 times the level of which the tiny and much less expensive Coredy E300 was capable. It moved 472.6 Mbps in our 75-foot test (where the extender is 100 feet from the router), 11 percent more throughput than the TP-Link RE650. Using Ixia's iXChariot software in our Utah test facility, the X6S delivered a peak of 526.1 Mbps of data in our straight-run 50-foot test (in which the extender is 100 feet from the router), marginally higher than the TP-Link RE650's 523.9Mbps. The X6S blew the competition away with the best performance for an extender we've seen.
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