Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500

The Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 is a tri-band Wi-Fi 6E standalone router targeted at power users who need uncompromised single-router performance over a meshed system. Its three radios deliver a combined 10.8 Gbps of theoretical throughput, and a 10 Gigabit WAN/LAN port plus a Link Aggregation pair of Gigabit ports give it the wired headroom to actually exploit those wireless speeds.

Key features

• Tri-band Wi-Fi 6E: 1,200 + 4,800 + 4,800 Mbps (AXE11000 class)
• 1× 10 Gigabit WAN/LAN, 4× Gigabit LAN with Link Aggregation
• 1.8 GHz quad-core processor, 1 GB RAM
• Eight high-performance internal antennas with beamforming
• WPA3 security, Netgear Armor (powered by Bitdefender) malware protection
• OFDMA, MU-MIMO 4×4 on every band
• Mesh-extender compatible with EAX80/EAX20 satellites
• Dual USB 3.0 ports for shared storage and printers

Single Black configuration; pair with EAX80 satellite for whole-home coverage.