Netgear Nighthawk XR500 Gaming Router $299 - includes $50 GC (today only)

Starrbuck said:
They've been $219.99 for a while at Micro Center.

http://www.microcenter.com/product/...R500_AC2600_Dual-Band_Gigabit_Wireless_Router
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It looks cool, but being a new code base, it's full of problems. You can see it all over netgear's forums. It's almost as bad as the R7000 WRT one.

The R7800 is an excellent router and highly rated as far as consumer gear goes. Otherwise you are looking at expensive high end ASUS routers as a second choice. And they can be flakey too.

As much as I love my R7800, I cannot use any of it's remote capabilities like FTP, Management, and VPN due to known flaws which can be exploited. You are either Admin or Guest. And to restrict access you only get to use Admin. With services like FTP, that password is not encrypted.

You also have to use externally powered HDD for external storage, and preferably over USB. If you look at the compatibility list, Netgear only certifies external powered drives. Add to this the external drives power down on a regular basis causing windows "drive not found" errors as it times out.

There's also a problem with the logging feature. For some reason netgear can't be bothered to fix a simple truncation issue on log files. It should be a simple fix. They are calling a string format function, and an interrupt is getting thrown due to one of the data chips. This causes the process to swap out and the format instruction to cut off characters. They should mark the function as volatile to make sure this doesn't happen. But I guess they are worried the radio chip will drop characters if it isn't "read" right away.

Believe it or not this is the best router on the market that's mass consumer stuff. And the R7800's transfer speed and range is excellent. But overall, a sad state of affairs such basic things aren't working.
 
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