![]() ![]() Instead, the focus of this piece will be on the differentiating aspects in the Nighthawk X8. Wi-Fi aspects have been covered in our D-Link and Asus router launch articles, and I won't go into detail here. ![]() The setup is capable of using 1024 QAM (Broadcom-proprietary NitroQAM, works only with clients having Broadcom Wi-Fi receiver chipsets) to boost performance. Unlike the announcements from other vendors, the R8500 is available for purchase today.Īs a recap, the tri-band Wave 2 XStream platform integrates two 4x4 5 GHz radios (at 2.1 Gbps each) and one 4x4 2.4 GHz radio (at 1 Gbps). Today, Netgear is announcing the Nighthawk X8 (R8500) based on the second generation XStream platform. Netgear was conspicuously silent about their plans with the new platform, even though they were the first vendor to come out with a product based on XStream Gen 1 - the Nighthawk X6 (R8000). Unfortunately, none of these announcements came with a concrete ship date. Early last month, we also had Asus announcing the RT-AC5300U with the 4x4 tri-band XStream configuration. At the same time, D-Link also announced the DIR-895L AC5300 router based on that platform. At the 2015 CES, Broadcom updated their XStream product portfolio with the BCM4366, a 4x4 MU-MIMO capable radio that could work along with the BCM47094, a dual-core Cortex-A9-based network processor SoC. The first generation XStream platform used a 3x3 configuration for each band, and lacked Wave 2 features such as MU-MIMO support or 160 MHz channels. I have my router setup with a thumb drive as per the standard settings of formatting and creating an /opt mount on the drive.Broadcom's XStream platform has enjoyed quite a bit of success in the Wi-Fi router market despite its high cost. I have tried about 100 different tutorials going from 2011 to 2016 with no success. I have tried to get mdns-repeater working with no success (keep getting permission denied) - I have also tried to install entware-ng version of avahi, but that seems to just die off after about a minute - and it never "reflects" the packets between the 2 subnets. I need to share mDNS traffic between the 2 subnets to allow full access within the LAN. My network is Apple-centric - 3 Apple TV's used for media streaming AND HomeKit AND AirPlayĬanada is on br0 - which is 192.168.1.x/24 All of this works flawless by design and my users with a simple switch of which WiFi network they are on, are able to just connect to the services needed. The purpose of this was to provide me simplicity for my home users to switch between Canadian and US content. There are 2 that use the WAN (vlan2) to access the internet and the 3rd which uses a VPN connection. I have a network setup at home that provides 2 (technically 3) SSID's. ![]()
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