In less than a year, the development of smart routers can be described as booming, the domestic millet, 360, Thunderbolt, Huawei, Baidu and other giants have launched or will launch a variety of tall smart routers, some of which have been tried and done related evaluations, the other day, we have received a foreign goods - netgear (Netgear) Nighthawk R7000 AC1900 intelligent wireless router. When you unpack it for the first time, the Netgear R7000 will give you a very pleasant impression, the R7000 looks like the F117 Nighthawk fighter is as sharp as the angle, which may be why the Netgear R7000 is named "Nighthawk".
Netgear is the world's oldest provider of enterprise-level network products, Netgear R7000 smart router is an upgrade of R6300 V2, the core of R7000 uses 1GHz BCM4709 dual-core processor, with 128M Flash ROM and 256M RAM running memory, 5 Gigabit Ethernet ports (1 WAN extranet interface, 4 intranet LAN interfaces), Built-in USB3.0 interface, support 5G 802.11AC wireless protocol, through wireless spread spectrum technology, Netgear R7000 in the 2.4G wireless band up to support 600M transmission rate, in the 5G band is the highest support for 1300M transmission rate, the two wireless bands can provide users with a total of 1900M transmission rate. At the same time, netgear R7000's 3 external antennas use converged beam technology to provide faster connection speed and better coverage for indoor wireless transmission, and the R7000 is outstanding in the competition of gigabit-class wireless routers with the best performance.
On the back of the R7000 box can be seen "Nighthawk" is specially designed for games, high-definition video and mobile devices these big data traffic applications, these applications not only require the wireless router transmission speed to be fast, but also require the wireless signal is strong and stable, Netgear R7000 is through the best hardware configuration and a variety of unique technologies to meet the user's needs for intelligent wireless routers. R7000 uses the new Ruidong antenna technology, which can quickly expand wireless signals, reduce interference and blind spots, improve overall wireless performance, and allow users to experience high-speed downloads, high-definition videos and smooth gaming enjoyment.
Lei Technology received this Netgear R7000 is the U.S. sales version, the U.S. regulatorY agency FCC for wireless equipment transmission power supervision is very strict, the wireless network equipment sold in the United States will not be like many domestic manufacturers to emphasize the effect of through the wall and blindly improve the wireless transmission power, although there are N more "brick family" in the country to emphasize that the high wireless transmission power will not have an impact on the human body, but Xiaobian still has reservations about the views of the "brick family". Xiaobian home is used in a large domestic factory production and use of high-end routers, the wireless transmission power of the router has been set to the highest, but there are always several locations in the home due to too many partition walls and cause wireless signals in these places are very poor, browsing a news often have to wait a little while to complete the text display in the mobile phone, in order to test Netggear R7000, these days at home will R7000 side by side with the domestic router placed together, let R7000 as a wireless router at home, The signal of these locations is now much better than the original domestic router, not only browsing news websites, but also watching videos online will no longer have the problem of disconnection.
Open the Netgear R7000 package, which contains 1 router, 1 power adapter, 1 network cable, 3 paddle-shaped polybeam antennas, and 1 copy of the instruction manual and warranty card. 100V - 240V power adapter supports global voltage, output voltage 12V, current 3.5A, output power of 42W, which is the maximum output power seen on the router, this power is enough to provide two USB-connected external mobile hard disks at the same time, but also can estimate that the power consumption of R7000 will definitely be much higher than other routers.
In order to solve the problem of heat dissipation, Netgear R7000 in addition to the relatively large volume, in the bottom and on both sides of the dense heat dissipation holes can allow air flow for passive heat dissipation, and the same use of BCM 4709 main chip Xiaomi top router is the use of cooling fans for active heat dissipation, but if the router is placed in the bedroom will produce a certain amount of noise.
The main interface of Netgear R7000 will display some basic functions of the router, and some functions that are not common to ordinary routers such as ReadyShare, guest network, parent restrictions and other functions can be displayed or called on the main interface. As a router positioned at the enterprise level, there are VPN, QOS, DDNS and other special functions in the advanced settings, but the QOS function is a bit retarded, can only limit the bandwidth of the entire router and can not limit each independent IP device, R7000 firmware in the DDNS function only supports two foreign service providers, which is very inconvenient for domestic users.
Well, such a tall and large router should also test whether the signal is better than the wireless router used by Xiaobian? Xiaobian put R7000 together with the router that is being used at home, chose a location where the WiFi signal is always not good because of the two walls, use WirelessMon to detect the signal strength, the wireless SSID used by Xiaobian is "ST01", the same location, Netgear R7000 2.4G signal is 26dB higher than the wireless route used by Xiaobian, higher than so much really unexpected by Xiaobian, the 5G band is worse due to the high frequency through the wall, But the signal is also significantly higher than the 2.4G "ST01" 16dB. The role of netgear R7000's cluster antenna technology can be seen from the signal field strength table.
The notebook wireless card used by Xiaobian only supports 54G A/B/G
The connection Netgear R7000 only supports 54G rates up to a maximum, and the following figure shows the upstream and downstream data detected by IxChariot:
Data when the upstream and downstream transmissions are enabled in the same input:
Impressions about netgear R7000 router:
It can be said that the Netgear router is designed according to the Thinking of the Americans, and the hardware configuration of the R7000 smart router is very thick, but its firmware is somewhat unsatisfactory in China. This kind of hardware strong tall router does not support the QOS function of independent IP, does not support domestic DDNS service providers, and does not have BT and Thunderbolt downloads... Such as the functions required by player-level users, these problems for people who have played third-party router firmware for ten years, Netgear R7000 router original firmware does provide some less functions. Fortunately, many products of Netgear routers have been supported by third-party router firmware, and such high-end routers are of course also in the ranks of support.
As Netgear's enterprise flagship router, the hardware configuration of R7000 is the top of all smart router products on the market, and the 600M+1300M wireless rate supported by R7000 can at least meet the requirements of many users for wireless networks in the next 5 years.