Nighthawk Vdsl Adsl Modem Router Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

Long story short although not perfect the Nighthawk X4S D7800 is the best ADSLVDSL modemrouter in our charts and since it comes with an abundance of features and is also priced right (inside the EU that is) it gets our Platinum Award.

As expected however when there are so many wireless capable devices inside a household (or even at the office) you will need a router capable of supplying all of them with good quality signal.

Unfortunately for people looking to get their hands on a powerful modemrouter there are really just a handful of models capable of doing so including the Nighthawk X4S D7800 AC2600 WiFi VDSLADSL Modem Router by Netgear which weve been using in our lab for almost 2 weeks now.

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Under the hood of the Nighthawk X4S D7800 we find 512MB RAM, 128MB flash ROM and a quad-core network processor by Qualcomm Atheros (IPQ8064 model) which combines a powerful, dual-core Krait CPU (1.4GHz) for control plane and applications, with a dual-core 730MHz Network Subsystem (NSS) to accelerate packet processing.

The X4S D7800 also supports several technologies including MU-MIMO (multiuser, multiple input, multiple output standard), 256-QAM over 802.11nac, Beamforming (focuses signal wherever connected devices are located), dynamic QoS, DLNA and VPN and is fully compatible with ADSLADSL2ADSL2VDSLVDSL2 lines.

In terms of connectivity the Nighthawk X4S D7800 offers two USB 3.0 ports, eSATA port, four Gigabit Ethernet Ports with auto-sensing technology, WAN auto-sensing Gigabit port and one DSLVDSL port.

On paper Netgear has what we think is one of the best VDSLADSL modemrouters in the market today and all thats left is for us to see if thats really the case.

SpeedTest may not be the most accurate way to test internet connection speeds since variables change all the time from our ISP to the ISPs of the servers SpeedTest makes use of but the same can be said for every single way one can test internet speed.

Bottom line whatever the results always remember that they may not be 100 on the spot.

To somehow help our results we also record the connected downstreamupstream values each modemrouter is able to get into our charts (reboot the modemrouter 6 times to get the average upstreamdownstream value).

So once again we will be using the networking benchmark by Passmark (v.8), the QCheck by Ixia and ATTO 2.47 (since April 2015) to test such devices the same exact way we test Powerline adapters and ModemRouters.

Since we need to test new features and specifications all routers are benchmarked with their highest available wireless standardband (5GHz in this case).

Our systems are outfitted with Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB PCIe SSDs, AC1200 USB adapters (we expect new AC1900 ones soon) and CAT7 cables and are placed 15m away from the router with 3 concrete walls between them while each test is repeated a total of 6 times after which the average scores are recorded into our charts.

Nighthawk Vdsl Adsl Modem Router Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

Both systems have Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 installed with all the updates until the 2nd of November 2016.

It didnt do as well in our ADSL connection tests but these tests are never 100 accurate (they could come really close to 100 if only we could test every single modemrouter each time we do one such review something which is really not possible) and so we never put too much weight on them.

WiFi and wired performance along with available features is what we check whenever we test a modemrouter and as clearly seen in our charts and web interface screenshots the Nighthawk X4S D7800 has nothing to fear from even from the more advanced AC3200 compatible routers.

Also It did come to my attention that some users report low USB 3.0 performance with the D7800 but after doing some quick Crystal Disk Mark tests we recorded sequential read and write speeds of over 60MBs and although I admit this number could be higher its not really what Id call bad for a modemrouter (we may add USB performance charts in our results in the near future).

Honestly however although pricing in the USA is quite high and somewhat unexpected inside the EU the D7800 is priced very nicely especially if you take into account its wireless performance and available features.