Transferring Files with High-Speed and Wi-Fi Capabilities

I want to transfer that file back onto the network drive and as you can see the transfer speeds even higher now ranging at around 60 megabytes per second to transfer the file back on to the hard drive and that was all being done over the network. Now, let's go on and cover the Wi-Fi speeds as well as the app that this router has.

The router has its own dedicated app if we download the nighthawk app on the App Store and it's also available on Android as well. Right here you'll connect us to the router as long as we're on the Wi-Fi network of the router and we can check out the Wi-Fi settings, the device lists so we can check out what devices are currently on our network.

In the app, you can even access the Wi-Fi networks tab and then let's say select 2.4 gigahertz press on share Wi-Fi with QR code and then whenever you have any guests come to your house and they're like hey what's the Wi-Fi password you can pull out this QR code they can scan it and they'll be on the network in seconds without having to type in any password or even find the network in the Wi-Fi list. So, this is an awesome feature very very simple but it can be very useful and you can even print that QR code and stick it on a wall if you want to.

I've ended up doing this a little QR code right next to my light switch so if anyone comes around and you want to connect to the Wi-Fi network just scan the QR code and boom you're on the Wi-Fi network. Let's go ahead and cover the Wi-Fi speeds and the Wi-Fi performance and the Wi-Fi range.

We're currently maybe like two meters away from the router, I'm gonna hit go on the Spit test app and this will probably be yeah there were your 10 millisecond ping over Wi-Fi the download speed 69 a couple megabits per second lower than we had on the wired connection and then the upload speed coming ups around 18 megabits per second. There so very very good Wi-Fi speed on the router when you're around two meters away from me when there's no obstacles in the way.

And that's kind of what you expect really but if I go as far away as I can in my home let's see how the Wi-Fi performance does then, follow me as I go as far as I can from my home and this is kind of gonna be like not really a house tour to be honest there's you're not really gonna see anything at all but we're going to go over into my mom's bedroom I suppose just get as far away as we can right so we're in the other corner of the house right now.

I'm gonna run another speed test, so let's just hit go and I can show you how good the Wi-Fi for performances there we go still 10 millisecond ping this speed is still the exact same. We're as far away as we can be like there are so many obstacles doors in the way it doesn't really care at all this other Wi-Fi speeds of this router are absolutely amazing I have been outside on the other end of my road and I still have Wi-Fi and that's probably because the router is on my windowsill and it's kind of like projecting the Wi-Fi outside but that's still fantastic.

You can be so far away from your home and you can still have Wi-Fi. I mean if that's not a good router I don't know what it is. So, if in your home you have really really bad Wi-Fi speeds and the Wi-Fi range just sucks this router will solve just about all those problems as the Wi-Fi performance is probably one of the best things about the router.

This just really really good like the first time I got it I was very very impressed like I walked outside one time and I still had Wi-Fi I'm like wait a minute do I actually have Wi-Fi? Ran a speed test and it was more or less the exact same speeds. I mean that's just great really but I think that's gonna be it for my review of the router.

I hope you've enjoyed watching it, I hope you've learned some things about the router, the Geo filter, the quality of service thing, and my favourite feature the network map and seeing what devices are currently like on your networking stuff. I think that's going to be it for today's video thank you very much for watching massive to knit gear for hooking me up with this amazing router right here. I've had an awesome time using n I will continue to use this router for probably many years to come so thank you very much for watching and hope to see you in another video soon goodbye.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello my qtek block today we're gonna be taking a look at the Netgear XR 500 Nighthawk pro gaming Wi-Fi router so this is a gaming router and I've been using it for roughly two months now and before we even begin this little review of the Arats from my experience using it over the past two months this router was sent to me for free thanks to Netgear so massive shout out to them they also sent me some merch and if you do want to go check out my unboxing video of this router and all the merch that they sent me as well I'll leave a link in the description down below to that video or you can pressingly card in the top right hand corner right there to check out the unboxing video and if you want to buy one of these trousers yourself after you watch this review maybe you'll be convinced to like them I need one of these I'll leave a link in the description to the Amazon page of this router using genius links so if you're on the u.s. you'll take it to the amazon.com store if you're on the UK we'll take it to the Amazon or UK store and so on and so forth for all other countries that have Amazon itself taking a quick look at the router packaging right here here's the front side so the packaging of the router itself is like super fancy very very well done and it's kind of like very aggressive I suppose as well so there's the packaging of the router but you know this isn't the unboxing video we already pretty much cover be packaging and the unboxing experience of this router so today we're gonna be reviewing it and my experience using it over the past two months so before we actually begin reviewing the router itself I do want to show you my current network setup and how I'm using it in my own setup right so here we have my current now I think setup and where it all begins right here we have a phone line extension this is not a master socket that I've plugged the router into unfortunately the master socket in the house is actually on the other end of the house so that kind of sucks but this Thor line extension here running from me master socket in the house is actually very good as my internet speeds are still fantastic despite my rat's are not being plugged into the master socket so I've got a micro filter right here that's plugged into the phone line and this converts the signal to a ADSL modem as well as the or landline phone of course I don't have a landline phone at the moment so I'm not really using that other port but I do have an ADSL modem and that's how I would get internet so moving on I have my modem right here that it's connected via a twisted pair ADSL cable right here this is the modem that my ISP gave me it's the BT Smart Hub so I've kind of got the BT Infinity two internet service will be doing some speed tests on both of these devices right here later on video but for now this is my bt hub router and if you're wondering how exactly this is all set up so I've got my ADSL cable running from my micro filter into my modem right here so there's a little broadband icon right there and my ADSL cable plugs into that and I'm currently on using one portal II back of the modem and a despot one so I'll go cats have an Ethernet cable running from port 1 to the Internet port at the back of the net year router and I'm only using one Ethernet port from the back of the wrath wrath moment and that is going straight to my PC so I believe I've got like if 5 meter cat 7 uplink Ethernet cable running from the router to my PC and that cable unfortunately runs down here I am planning on cable managing this and changing it all up in the future the cable then continues on through this plastic cable channel along with like a million ugly cables and it runs behind my radiator and subwoofer and then all the cables run up my table leg and into the back of my PC right there so that's my current networking setup with the router and modem and my a DSL filter and stuff I'll leave link to all the Ethernet cables or the twisted-pair ADSL cables the micro filter everything in my networking setup will be linked in the description down below as well in case you do want to kind of like replicate my setup here let's go ahead and run a quick speed test on my PC I only connected to the Norwich server the P I'm guessing will probably be around ten six nine maybe we'll see area eight milliseconds ping and then the download speeds are always very very consistent same with the upload speeds this will probably slowly climb up to probably 75 ish megabits per second and then the upload speed will slowly creep up to roughly 19 probably near eighteen and a half right so those are my current internet speeds with the BT Infinity two internet service I've been really Beatty is B for count up to two years now it's so far it's been an awesome time there's never really any internet fault at least from my experience with them over the past three years it's just been great my internet never really cuts off and the speeds are very consistent all the time as there's no throttling going on these speeds are also the fastest I can get in my area I can't upgrade to like a better is people like a faster internet connection as where I live there's only F TTC and ADF so I suppose ft DC is a fibre to the cabinet here in the UK so yeah there's a green cabinet at the top of my road that has a fiber connection going to it and from there it's a copper connection going from that green cabinet which is roughly 80 meters away from my home maybe one day they'll roll out FTTP all over the UK they probably won't though as it is very costly I suppose running fibre lines to everyone's homes so at the moment I'm just happy with my FTCC connection in the past my internet used to be much much worse than this the ping was roughly 35 m/s the download speed was like 6.5 and the upload speed was 0.6 or 0.5 megabits per second it was awful I think a couple times it took me like a full day to upload a YouTube video and this was years ago by the way now it takes me like half an hour at most right so now we've taken a look at my internet speeds and my current networking setup let's go and take a look at the Netgear gaming dashboard powered by duma OS right so we hop on to router login comm and here gonna want to type in your username and password and you set all these details up in the errata setup and you can check out my unboxing video I think I might have shown it there okay so we're in the net do muestra now here is the dashboard tab that we're currently on we can see our internet status I will CPU usage of the router this router does have two cores running at 1.7 gigahertz the wireless status at the moment 2.4 gigahertz and 5 gigahertz both of these bands are currently enabled you can see the network name password and the channels that it's currently operating on here and you can add all these settings in the settings area there but we'll cover that later on here this is probably one of the coolest features of the router you can have a network map and all the devices that are currently online offline and on what bands they're currently on and whether they're like via LAN you know it's awesome so if we begin from the modem right here we have our modem icon right here and we go from modem via an ethernet cable to the router which is the Netgear one then from the router we can see what devices are currently connected via the 2.4 gigahertz band and that's my HS 100 smart plug my smart light bulb from tp-link my iPhone and that's just been disconnected we also have a smart plug a surge protector then a bunch of other stuff here and currently through LAN is my PC that is the only device connected via ethernet which is my PC right here then if you go over to the 5 gigahertz band I believe that's my Amazon echo no-parent we have an unnamed device here as well not entirely sure what is probably like a smart plug or something and then we can even see all the devices that were online on the network at one point but they are currently offline so we have my friends MacBook my other friends and hack broke my friends I found my mom's laptop and then you know it's a whole bunch of other stuff this is probably my favorite feature of the router at least for me as I can see like a visual representation of like what's connected to my network like on what bandits on am you know what's been on my network in the past and stuff and let's say for example you suspect that maybe like one of your neighbors is stealing your Wi-Fi for whatever reason you could find their device on that's only five gigahertz band right here let's say it's the unnamed device here I'm going to sure what this is but if you don't want it on your network you could block the connection entirely and you can even delete it blocking yeah I'm guessing will forever disable it so whenever they try to connect to your network they'll be blocked and nothing will work so if you do find a device that's like stealing your Wi-Fi and you don't want it to just block it and you'll be all good on the network monitor tab you can see the bandwidth usage per device so you can see the upload and download speed usage of every single device on your network and what's using it the most and then of course at the top here we also have the total usage tab for upload and download it's awesome and over here we can t have a graph showing you the like current network usage moving on we have system information this is also just a general tab mainly about like the router nothing too exciting here I suppose once again be CPU usage the RAM usage of the router what's can only using it we have currently a quarter of a gigabyte free we have flashing your session noticed a bunch of stuff here I'm guessing most of these things you don't really care too much about if we go over to the quality of service this is where you can prioritize traffic on your network per device once again so if we scroll all the way down here we have traffic prioritization right here so I've currently set up my PC to prioritize the source engine now you may be wondering what is the source engine so if we press on device if we select my PC for example we press Next then we can select a game right here so there's world of warcraft the Warcraft 3 Unreal Engine which is pub G source engine goes under the csgo dota 2 I'm guessing most of the valve games to be honest you have Skype overwatch League of Legends Guild Wars and a bunch of other games and if for whatever reason you don't your game on here you could go over to the Advanced tab and type in the ports of the game that you want to prioritize traffic for so let's say you want to prioritize fortnight traffic you'd have to google the fortnight ports and then type them into here so over here we have the bandwidth allocation for upload as well as download now we can adjust this per device so my PC is right here so what I could do is I could drag the prioritization or yes the bandwidth allocation primarily to my PC so I could take like 100% of the bandwidth I suppose and prioritize all the traffic to me first and I can just press update distribution and after a few seconds this will update there we go up here we also have the anti buffer block now I've currently set mine up to 90% download and 90% upload now what this will do is prevent random pink spikes in your games if so let's say for example you're playing csgo at the moment and someone in the other room launches Netflix and suddenly you're Pink Sheets up to a couple hundred m/s and you're kind of screwed because you're gonna be lagging and you're not going to be performing as well as you would be so enabling anti buffer blow will prevent random ping spikes in your game and allow you to play at a constantly low ping all the time no matter what's going on on the network is this a very unique and useful feature of this router and it's one of the main selling points of it is if you do have a lot of people on your network and you constantly experience pink spikes this router might be a good investment as it might prevent random pink spikes and allow you to constantly have a good ping no matter what's going on elsewhere in your network now let's go ahead and cover the geofilter tab so I'm guessing this is primarily for people who play on consoles and you can restrict your map right here to like how far away you connect to a server yes so let's say like you're playing Call of Duty and you press like search game I guess and you can adjust the distance here to how far away the server will be so this feature here might be very useful if you let's say you like you're in the UK and you don't want to be connecting to like a US or let's say like an Australian server as if you do connect to one of those servers your ping is gonna be through the roof but enabling this feature and setting the distance to let's say only Europe there we go your problem has been solved you will never ever be connected to a server outside of the range that you've set on this geofilter map and finally let's go ahead and cover the USB storage and the ready share storage there I've actually been using myself and I'm very glad it's something that they're out of support so if we head over to my router I'll plug in a 1 terabyte external hard drive and we'll be able to access it and set it all up on my PC within seconds right so here we have my hard drive I'm just gonna plug it into USB port 1 right there right so if we go into file explorer and we go onto this pc go onto WD 1 terabyte and here we yeah we're on the network and what I can do is I can go over to like an older video and I can show you a quick speed test of like the local network so I've just copied a video file from my network and I'm currently pasting it on to my SSD and it's transferring it at around 40 45 megabytes per second over the network so that's a fantastic speed right there as it is like a local network so you're not really limited by light your internet connection as opposed and there we go we've just transferred a hot gig file from the network drive to my SSD I want to transfer that file back onto the network drive and as you can see the transfer speeds even higher now ranging at around 60 megabytes per second to transfer the file back on to the hard drive and that was all being done over the network now let's go on and cover the Wi-Fi speeds as well as the app that this router has and yes it does have its own dedicated app if we download the nighthawk app on the App Store and it's also available on Android as well right here you'll connect us to the router as long as we're on the Wi-Fi network of the router and we can check out the Wi-Fi settings the device lists so we can check out what devices are currently on our network and then in the app you can even access the Wi-Fi networks tab and then let's say select 2.4 gigahertz press on share Wi-Fi with QR code and then whenever you have any guests come to your house and they're like hey what's the Wi-Fi password you can pull out this QR code they can scan it and they'll be on the network in seconds without having to type in any password or even find the network in the Wi-Fi list so this is an awesome feature very very simple but it can be very useful and you can even print that QR code and stick it on a wall if you want to and that's actually what I've ended up doing this a little QR code right next to my light switch so if anyone comes around and you want to connect to the Wi-Fi network just scan the QR code and boom you're on the Wi-Fi network let's go ahead and cover the Wi-Fi speeds and the Wi-Fi performance and the Wi-Fi range I suppose so we're currently maybe like to meet away from the router and I'm gonna hit go on the spit test app and this will probably be yeah there were your 10 millisecond ping over Wi-Fi the download speed 69 a couple megabits per second lower than we had on the wired connection and then the upload speed coming ups around 18 megabits per second there so very very good Wi-Fi speed on the router when you're around 2 meters away from me when there's no obstacles in the way and that's kind of what you expect really but if I go as far away as I can in my home let's see how the Wi-Fi performance does then so follow me as I go as far as I can from my home and this is kind of gonna be like not really a house tour to be honest there's you're not really gonna see anything at all but we're going to go over into my mom's bedroom I suppose just get as far away as we can right so we're in the other corner of the house right now I'm gonna run another speed test so let's just hit go and I can show you how good the why for performances there we go still 10 millisecond ping this speed is still the exact same we're as far away as we can be like there's so many rules obstacles doors in the way it doesn't really care at all this other Wi-Fi speeds of this router are absolutely amazing I have been outside on the other end of my road and I still have Wi-Fi and that's probably because the router is on my windowsill and it's kind of like projecting the Wi-Fi outside but that's still fantastic you can be so far away from your home and you can still have Wi-Fi I mean if that's not a good router I don't know what is so if in your home you have really really bad Wi-Fi speeds and the Wi-Fi range just sucks this router will solve just about all those problems as the Wi-Fi performance is probably one of the best things about the router this just really really good like the first time I got it I was very very impressed like I walked outside one time and I still had Wi-Fi I'm like wait a minute do I actually have Wi-Fi I ran a speed test and it was more or less the exact same speeds I mean that's just great really but I think that's gonna be it for my review of the router I hope you've enjoyed watching it I hope you've learned some things about the router the Geo filter the quality of service thing and my favourite feature the network map and seeing what devices are currently like on your networking stuff I think that's going to be it for today's video thank you very much for watching massive to knit gear for hooking me up with this amazing router right here I've had an awesome time using n I will continue to use this router for probably many years to come so thank you very much for watching and hope to see you in another video soon goodbyehello my qtek block today we're gonna be taking a look at the Netgear XR 500 Nighthawk pro gaming Wi-Fi router so this is a gaming router and I've been using it for roughly two months now and before we even begin this little review of the Arats from my experience using it over the past two months this router was sent to me for free thanks to Netgear so massive shout out to them they also sent me some merch and if you do want to go check out my unboxing video of this router and all the merch that they sent me as well I'll leave a link in the description down below to that video or you can pressingly card in the top right hand corner right there to check out the unboxing video and if you want to buy one of these trousers yourself after you watch this review maybe you'll be convinced to like them I need one of these I'll leave a link in the description to the Amazon page of this router using genius links so if you're on the u.s. you'll take it to the amazon.com store if you're on the UK we'll take it to the Amazon or UK store and so on and so forth for all other countries that have Amazon itself taking a quick look at the router packaging right here here's the front side so the packaging of the router itself is like super fancy very very well done and it's kind of like very aggressive I suppose as well so there's the packaging of the router but you know this isn't the unboxing video we already pretty much cover be packaging and the unboxing experience of this router so today we're gonna be reviewing it and my experience using it over the past two months so before we actually begin reviewing the router itself I do want to show you my current network setup and how I'm using it in my own setup right so here we have my current now I think setup and where it all begins right here we have a phone line extension this is not a master socket that I've plugged the router into unfortunately the master socket in the house is actually on the other end of the house so that kind of sucks but this Thor line extension here running from me master socket in the house is actually very good as my internet speeds are still fantastic despite my rat's are not being plugged into the master socket so I've got a micro filter right here that's plugged into the phone line and this converts the signal to a ADSL modem as well as the or landline phone of course I don't have a landline phone at the moment so I'm not really using that other port but I do have an ADSL modem and that's how I would get internet so moving on I have my modem right here that it's connected via a twisted pair ADSL cable right here this is the modem that my ISP gave me it's the BT Smart Hub so I've kind of got the BT Infinity two internet service will be doing some speed tests on both of these devices right here later on video but for now this is my bt hub router and if you're wondering how exactly this is all set up so I've got my ADSL cable running from my micro filter into my modem right here so there's a little broadband icon right there and my ADSL cable plugs into that and I'm currently on using one portal II back of the modem and a despot one so I'll go cats have an Ethernet cable running from port 1 to the Internet port at the back of the net year router and I'm only using one Ethernet port from the back of the wrath wrath moment and that is going straight to my PC so I believe I've got like if 5 meter cat 7 uplink Ethernet cable running from the router to my PC and that cable unfortunately runs down here I am planning on cable managing this and changing it all up in the future the cable then continues on through this plastic cable channel along with like a million ugly cables and it runs behind my radiator and subwoofer and then all the cables run up my table leg and into the back of my PC right there so that's my current networking setup with the router and modem and my a DSL filter and stuff I'll leave link to all the Ethernet cables or the twisted-pair ADSL cables the micro filter everything in my networking setup will be linked in the description down below as well in case you do want to kind of like replicate my setup here let's go ahead and run a quick speed test on my PC I only connected to the Norwich server the P I'm guessing will probably be around ten six nine maybe we'll see area eight milliseconds ping and then the download speeds are always very very consistent same with the upload speeds this will probably slowly climb up to probably 75 ish megabits per second and then the upload speed will slowly creep up to roughly 19 probably near eighteen and a half right so those are my current internet speeds with the BT Infinity two internet service I've been really Beatty is B for count up to two years now it's so far it's been an awesome time there's never really any internet fault at least from my experience with them over the past three years it's just been great my internet never really cuts off and the speeds are very consistent all the time as there's no throttling going on these speeds are also the fastest I can get in my area I can't upgrade to like a better is people like a faster internet connection as where I live there's only F TTC and ADF so I suppose ft DC is a fibre to the cabinet here in the UK so yeah there's a green cabinet at the top of my road that has a fiber connection going to it and from there it's a copper connection going from that green cabinet which is roughly 80 meters away from my home maybe one day they'll roll out FTTP all over the UK they probably won't though as it is very costly I suppose running fibre lines to everyone's homes so at the moment I'm just happy with my FTCC connection in the past my internet used to be much much worse than this the ping was roughly 35 m/s the download speed was like 6.5 and the upload speed was 0.6 or 0.5 megabits per second it was awful I think a couple times it took me like a full day to upload a YouTube video and this was years ago by the way now it takes me like half an hour at most right so now we've taken a look at my internet speeds and my current networking setup let's go and take a look at the Netgear gaming dashboard powered by duma OS right so we hop on to router login comm and here gonna want to type in your username and password and you set all these details up in the errata setup and you can check out my unboxing video I think I might have shown it there okay so we're in the net do muestra now here is the dashboard tab that we're currently on we can see our internet status I will CPU usage of the router this router does have two cores running at 1.7 gigahertz the wireless status at the moment 2.4 gigahertz and 5 gigahertz both of these bands are currently enabled you can see the network name password and the channels that it's currently operating on here and you can add all these settings in the settings area there but we'll cover that later on here this is probably one of the coolest features of the router you can have a network map and all the devices that are currently online offline and on what bands they're currently on and whether they're like via LAN you know it's awesome so if we begin from the modem right here we have our modem icon right here and we go from modem via an ethernet cable to the router which is the Netgear one then from the router we can see what devices are currently connected via the 2.4 gigahertz band and that's my HS 100 smart plug my smart light bulb from tp-link my iPhone and that's just been disconnected we also have a smart plug a surge protector then a bunch of other stuff here and currently through LAN is my PC that is the only device connected via ethernet which is my PC right here then if you go over to the 5 gigahertz band I believe that's my Amazon echo no-parent we have an unnamed device here as well not entirely sure what is probably like a smart plug or something and then we can even see all the devices that were online on the network at one point but they are currently offline so we have my friends MacBook my other friends and hack broke my friends I found my mom's laptop and then you know it's a whole bunch of other stuff this is probably my favorite feature of the router at least for me as I can see like a visual representation of like what's connected to my network like on what bandits on am you know what's been on my network in the past and stuff and let's say for example you suspect that maybe like one of your neighbors is stealing your Wi-Fi for whatever reason you could find their device on that's only five gigahertz band right here let's say it's the unnamed device here I'm going to sure what this is but if you don't want it on your network you could block the connection entirely and you can even delete it blocking yeah I'm guessing will forever disable it so whenever they try to connect to your network they'll be blocked and nothing will work so if you do find a device that's like stealing your Wi-Fi and you don't want it to just block it and you'll be all good on the network monitor tab you can see the bandwidth usage per device so you can see the upload and download speed usage of every single device on your network and what's using it the most and then of course at the top here we also have the total usage tab for upload and download it's awesome and over here we can t have a graph showing you the like current network usage moving on we have system information this is also just a general tab mainly about like the router nothing too exciting here I suppose once again be CPU usage the RAM usage of the router what's can only using it we have currently a quarter of a gigabyte free we have flashing your session noticed a bunch of stuff here I'm guessing most of these things you don't really care too much about if we go over to the quality of service this is where you can prioritize traffic on your network per device once again so if we scroll all the way down here we have traffic prioritization right here so I've currently set up my PC to prioritize the source engine now you may be wondering what is the source engine so if we press on device if we select my PC for example we press Next then we can select a game right here so there's world of warcraft the Warcraft 3 Unreal Engine which is pub G source engine goes under the csgo dota 2 I'm guessing most of the valve games to be honest you have Skype overwatch League of Legends Guild Wars and a bunch of other games and if for whatever reason you don't your game on here you could go over to the Advanced tab and type in the ports of the game that you want to prioritize traffic for so let's say you want to prioritize fortnight traffic you'd have to google the fortnight ports and then type them into here so over here we have the bandwidth allocation for upload as well as download now we can adjust this per device so my PC is right here so what I could do is I could drag the prioritization or yes the bandwidth allocation primarily to my PC so I could take like 100% of the bandwidth I suppose and prioritize all the traffic to me first and I can just press update distribution and after a few seconds this will update there we go up here we also have the anti buffer block now I've currently set mine up to 90% download and 90% upload now what this will do is prevent random pink spikes in your games if so let's say for example you're playing csgo at the moment and someone in the other room launches Netflix and suddenly you're Pink Sheets up to a couple hundred m/s and you're kind of screwed because you're gonna be lagging and you're not going to be performing as well as you would be so enabling anti buffer blow will prevent random ping spikes in your game and allow you to play at a constantly low ping all the time no matter what's going on on the network is this a very unique and useful feature of this router and it's one of the main selling points of it is if you do have a lot of people on your network and you constantly experience pink spikes this router might be a good investment as it might prevent random pink spikes and allow you to constantly have a good ping no matter what's going on elsewhere in your network now let's go ahead and cover the geofilter tab so I'm guessing this is primarily for people who play on consoles and you can restrict your map right here to like how far away you connect to a server yes so let's say like you're playing Call of Duty and you press like search game I guess and you can adjust the distance here to how far away the server will be so this feature here might be very useful if you let's say you like you're in the UK and you don't want to be connecting to like a US or let's say like an Australian server as if you do connect to one of those servers your ping is gonna be through the roof but enabling this feature and setting the distance to let's say only Europe there we go your problem has been solved you will never ever be connected to a server outside of the range that you've set on this geofilter map and finally let's go ahead and cover the USB storage and the ready share storage there I've actually been using myself and I'm very glad it's something that they're out of support so if we head over to my router I'll plug in a 1 terabyte external hard drive and we'll be able to access it and set it all up on my PC within seconds right so here we have my hard drive I'm just gonna plug it into USB port 1 right there right so if we go into file explorer and we go onto this pc go onto WD 1 terabyte and here we yeah we're on the network and what I can do is I can go over to like an older video and I can show you a quick speed test of like the local network so I've just copied a video file from my network and I'm currently pasting it on to my SSD and it's transferring it at around 40 45 megabytes per second over the network so that's a fantastic speed right there as it is like a local network so you're not really limited by light your internet connection as opposed and there we go we've just transferred a hot gig file from the network drive to my SSD I want to transfer that file back onto the network drive and as you can see the transfer speeds even higher now ranging at around 60 megabytes per second to transfer the file back on to the hard drive and that was all being done over the network now let's go on and cover the Wi-Fi speeds as well as the app that this router has and yes it does have its own dedicated app if we download the nighthawk app on the App Store and it's also available on Android as well right here you'll connect us to the router as long as we're on the Wi-Fi network of the router and we can check out the Wi-Fi settings the device lists so we can check out what devices are currently on our network and then in the app you can even access the Wi-Fi networks tab and then let's say select 2.4 gigahertz press on share Wi-Fi with QR code and then whenever you have any guests come to your house and they're like hey what's the Wi-Fi password you can pull out this QR code they can scan it and they'll be on the network in seconds without having to type in any password or even find the network in the Wi-Fi list so this is an awesome feature very very simple but it can be very useful and you can even print that QR code and stick it on a wall if you want to and that's actually what I've ended up doing this a little QR code right next to my light switch so if anyone comes around and you want to connect to the Wi-Fi network just scan the QR code and boom you're on the Wi-Fi network let's go ahead and cover the Wi-Fi speeds and the Wi-Fi performance and the Wi-Fi range I suppose so we're currently maybe like to meet away from the router and I'm gonna hit go on the spit test app and this will probably be yeah there were your 10 millisecond ping over Wi-Fi the download speed 69 a couple megabits per second lower than we had on the wired connection and then the upload speed coming ups around 18 megabits per second there so very very good Wi-Fi speed on the router when you're around 2 meters away from me when there's no obstacles in the way and that's kind of what you expect really but if I go as far away as I can in my home let's see how the Wi-Fi performance does then so follow me as I go as far as I can from my home and this is kind of gonna be like not really a house tour to be honest there's you're not really gonna see anything at all but we're going to go over into my mom's bedroom I suppose just get as far away as we can right so we're in the other corner of the house right now I'm gonna run another speed test so let's just hit go and I can show you how good the why for performances there we go still 10 millisecond ping this speed is still the exact same we're as far away as we can be like there's so many rules obstacles doors in the way it doesn't really care at all this other Wi-Fi speeds of this router are absolutely amazing I have been outside on the other end of my road and I still have Wi-Fi and that's probably because the router is on my windowsill and it's kind of like projecting the Wi-Fi outside but that's still fantastic you can be so far away from your home and you can still have Wi-Fi I mean if that's not a good router I don't know what is so if in your home you have really really bad Wi-Fi speeds and the Wi-Fi range just sucks this router will solve just about all those problems as the Wi-Fi performance is probably one of the best things about the router this just really really good like the first time I got it I was very very impressed like I walked outside one time and I still had Wi-Fi I'm like wait a minute do I actually have Wi-Fi I ran a speed test and it was more or less the exact same speeds I mean that's just great really but I think that's gonna be it for my review of the router I hope you've enjoyed watching it I hope you've learned some things about the router the Geo filter the quality of service thing and my favourite feature the network map and seeing what devices are currently like on your networking stuff I think that's going to be it for today's video thank you very much for watching massive to knit gear for hooking me up with this amazing router right here I've had an awesome time using n I will continue to use this router for probably many years to come so thank you very much for watching and hope to see you in another video soon goodbyehello my qtek block today we're gonna be taking a look at the Netgear XR 500 Nighthawk pro gaming Wi-Fi router so this is a gaming router and I've been using it for roughly two months now and before we even begin this little review of the Arats from my experience using it over the past two months this router was sent to me for free thanks to Netgear so massive shout out to them they also sent me some merch and if you do want to go check out my unboxing video of this router and all the merch that they sent me as well I'll leave a link in the description down below to that video or you can pressingly card in the top right hand corner right there to check out the unboxing video and if you want to buy one of these trousers yourself after you watch this review maybe you'll be convinced to like them I need one of these I'll leave a link in the description to the Amazon page of this router using genius links so if you're on the u.s. you'll take it to the amazon.com store if you're on the UK we'll take it to the Amazon or UK store and so on and so forth for all other countries that have Amazon itself taking a quick look at the router packaging right here here's the front side so the packaging of the router itself is like super fancy very very well done and it's kind of like very aggressive I suppose as well so there's the packaging of the router but you know this isn't the unboxing video we already pretty much cover be packaging and the unboxing experience of this router so today we're gonna be reviewing it and my experience using it over the past two months so before we actually begin reviewing the router itself I do want to show you my current network setup and how I'm using it in my own setup right so here we have my current now I think setup and where it all begins right here we have a phone line extension this is not a master socket that I've plugged the router into unfortunately the master socket in the house is actually on the other end of the house so that kind of sucks but this Thor line extension here running from me master socket in the house is actually very good as my internet speeds are still fantastic despite my rat's are not being plugged into the master socket so I've got a micro filter right here that's plugged into the phone line and this converts the signal to a ADSL modem as well as the or landline phone of course I don't have a landline phone at the moment so I'm not really using that other port but I do have an ADSL modem and that's how I would get internet so moving on I have my modem right here that it's connected via a twisted pair ADSL cable right here this is the modem that my ISP gave me it's the BT Smart Hub so I've kind of got the BT Infinity two internet service will be doing some speed tests on both of these devices right here later on video but for now this is my bt hub router and if you're wondering how exactly this is all set up so I've got my ADSL cable running from my micro filter into my modem right here so there's a little broadband icon right there and my ADSL cable plugs into that and I'm currently on using one portal II back of the modem and a despot one so I'll go cats have an Ethernet cable running from port 1 to the Internet port at the back of the net year router and I'm only using one Ethernet port from the back of the wrath wrath moment and that is going straight to my PC so I believe I've got like if 5 meter cat 7 uplink Ethernet cable running from the router to my PC and that cable unfortunately runs down here I am planning on cable managing this and changing it all up in the future the cable then continues on through this plastic cable channel along with like a million ugly cables and it runs behind my radiator and subwoofer and then all the cables run up my table leg and into the back of my PC right there so that's my current networking setup with the router and modem and my a DSL filter and stuff I'll leave link to all the Ethernet cables or the twisted-pair ADSL cables the micro filter everything in my networking setup will be linked in the description down below as well in case you do want to kind of like replicate my setup here let's go ahead and run a quick speed test on my PC I only connected to the Norwich server the P I'm guessing will probably be around ten six nine maybe we'll see area eight milliseconds ping and then the download speeds are always very very consistent same with the upload speeds this will probably slowly climb up to probably 75 ish megabits per second and then the upload speed will slowly creep up to roughly 19 probably near eighteen and a half right so those are my current internet speeds with the BT Infinity two internet service I've been really Beatty is B for count up to two years now it's so far it's been an awesome time there's never really any internet fault at least from my experience with them over the past three years it's just been great my internet never really cuts off and the speeds are very consistent all the time as there's no throttling going on these speeds are also the fastest I can get in my area I can't upgrade to like a better is people like a faster internet connection as where I live there's only F TTC and ADF so I suppose ft DC is a fibre to the cabinet here in the UK so yeah there's a green cabinet at the top of my road that has a fiber connection going to it and from there it's a copper connection going from that green cabinet which is roughly 80 meters away from my home maybe one day they'll roll out FTTP all over the UK they probably won't though as it is very costly I suppose running fibre lines to everyone's homes so at the moment I'm just happy with my FTCC connection in the past my internet used to be much much worse than this the ping was roughly 35 m/s the download speed was like 6.5 and the upload speed was 0.6 or 0.5 megabits per second it was awful I think a couple times it took me like a full day to upload a YouTube video and this was years ago by the way now it takes me like half an hour at most right so now we've taken a look at my internet speeds and my current networking setup let's go and take a look at the Netgear gaming dashboard powered by duma OS right so we hop on to router login comm and here gonna want to type in your username and password and you set all these details up in the errata setup and you can check out my unboxing video I think I might have shown it there okay so we're in the net do muestra now here is the dashboard tab that we're currently on we can see our internet status I will CPU usage of the router this router does have two cores running at 1.7 gigahertz the wireless status at the moment 2.4 gigahertz and 5 gigahertz both of these bands are currently enabled you can see the network name password and the channels that it's currently operating on here and you can add all these settings in the settings area there but we'll cover that later on here this is probably one of the coolest features of the router you can have a network map and all the devices that are currently online offline and on what bands they're currently on and whether they're like via LAN you know it's awesome so if we begin from the modem right here we have our modem icon right here and we go from modem via an ethernet cable to the router which is the Netgear one then from the router we can see what devices are currently connected via the 2.4 gigahertz band and that's my HS 100 smart plug my smart light bulb from tp-link my iPhone and that's just been disconnected we also have a smart plug a surge protector then a bunch of other stuff here and currently through LAN is my PC that is the only device connected via ethernet which is my PC right here then if you go over to the 5 gigahertz band I believe that's my Amazon echo no-parent we have an unnamed device here as well not entirely sure what is probably like a smart plug or something and then we can even see all the devices that were online on the network at one point but they are currently offline so we have my friends MacBook my other friends and hack broke my friends I found my mom's laptop and then you know it's a whole bunch of other stuff this is probably my favorite feature of the router at least for me as I can see like a visual representation of like what's connected to my network like on what bandits on am you know what's been on my network in the past and stuff and let's say for example you suspect that maybe like one of your neighbors is stealing your Wi-Fi for whatever reason you could find their device on that's only five gigahertz band right here let's say it's the unnamed device here I'm going to sure what this is but if you don't want it on your network you could block the connection entirely and you can even delete it blocking yeah I'm guessing will forever disable it so whenever they try to connect to your network they'll be blocked and nothing will work so if you do find a device that's like stealing your Wi-Fi and you don't want it to just block it and you'll be all good on the network monitor tab you can see the bandwidth usage per device so you can see the upload and download speed usage of every single device on your network and what's using it the most and then of course at the top here we also have the total usage tab for upload and download it's awesome and over here we can t have a graph showing you the like current network usage moving on we have system information this is also just a general tab mainly about like the router nothing too exciting here I suppose once again be CPU usage the RAM usage of the router what's can only using it we have currently a quarter of a gigabyte free we have flashing your session noticed a bunch of stuff here I'm guessing most of these things you don't really care too much about if we go over to the quality of service this is where you can prioritize traffic on your network per device once again so if we scroll all the way down here we have traffic prioritization right here so I've currently set up my PC to prioritize the source engine now you may be wondering what is the source engine so if we press on device if we select my PC for example we press Next then we can select a game right here so there's world of warcraft the Warcraft 3 Unreal Engine which is pub G source engine goes under the csgo dota 2 I'm guessing most of the valve games to be honest you have Skype overwatch League of Legends Guild Wars and a bunch of other games and if for whatever reason you don't your game on here you could go over to the Advanced tab and type in the ports of the game that you want to prioritize traffic for so let's say you want to prioritize fortnight traffic you'd have to google the fortnight ports and then type them into here so over here we have the bandwidth allocation for upload as well as download now we can adjust this per device so my PC is right here so what I could do is I could drag the prioritization or yes the bandwidth allocation primarily to my PC so I could take like 100% of the bandwidth I suppose and prioritize all the traffic to me first and I can just press update distribution and after a few seconds this will update there we go up here we also have the anti buffer block now I've currently set mine up to 90% download and 90% upload now what this will do is prevent random pink spikes in your games if so let's say for example you're playing csgo at the moment and someone in the other room launches Netflix and suddenly you're Pink Sheets up to a couple hundred m/s and you're kind of screwed because you're gonna be lagging and you're not going to be performing as well as you would be so enabling anti buffer blow will prevent random ping spikes in your game and allow you to play at a constantly low ping all the time no matter what's going on on the network is this a very unique and useful feature of this router and it's one of the main selling points of it is if you do have a lot of people on your network and you constantly experience pink spikes this router might be a good investment as it might prevent random pink spikes and allow you to constantly have a good ping no matter what's going on elsewhere in your network now let's go ahead and cover the geofilter tab so I'm guessing this is primarily for people who play on consoles and you can restrict your map right here to like how far away you connect to a server yes so let's say like you're playing Call of Duty and you press like search game I guess and you can adjust the distance here to how far away the server will be so this feature here might be very useful if you let's say you like you're in the UK and you don't want to be connecting to like a US or let's say like an Australian server as if you do connect to one of those servers your ping is gonna be through the roof but enabling this feature and setting the distance to let's say only Europe there we go your problem has been solved you will never ever be connected to a server outside of the range that you've set on this geofilter map and finally let's go ahead and cover the USB storage and the ready share storage there I've actually been using myself and I'm very glad it's something that they're out of support so if we head over to my router I'll plug in a 1 terabyte external hard drive and we'll be able to access it and set it all up on my PC within seconds right so here we have my hard drive I'm just gonna plug it into USB port 1 right there right so if we go into file explorer and we go onto this pc go onto WD 1 terabyte and here we yeah we're on the network and what I can do is I can go over to like an older video and I can show you a quick speed test of like the local network so I've just copied a video file from my network and I'm currently pasting it on to my SSD and it's transferring it at around 40 45 megabytes per second over the network so that's a fantastic speed right there as it is like a local network so you're not really limited by light your internet connection as opposed and there we go we've just transferred a hot gig file from the network drive to my SSD I want to transfer that file back onto the network drive and as you can see the transfer speeds even higher now ranging at around 60 megabytes per second to transfer the file back on to the hard drive and that was all being done over the network now let's go on and cover the Wi-Fi speeds as well as the app that this router has and yes it does have its own dedicated app if we download the nighthawk app on the App Store and it's also available on Android as well right here you'll connect us to the router as long as we're on the Wi-Fi network of the router and we can check out the Wi-Fi settings the device lists so we can check out what devices are currently on our network and then in the app you can even access the Wi-Fi networks tab and then let's say select 2.4 gigahertz press on share Wi-Fi with QR code and then whenever you have any guests come to your house and they're like hey what's the Wi-Fi password you can pull out this QR code they can scan it and they'll be on the network in seconds without having to type in any password or even find the network in the Wi-Fi list so this is an awesome feature very very simple but it can be very useful and you can even print that QR code and stick it on a wall if you want to and that's actually what I've ended up doing this a little QR code right next to my light switch so if anyone comes around and you want to connect to the Wi-Fi network just scan the QR code and boom you're on the Wi-Fi network let's go ahead and cover the Wi-Fi speeds and the Wi-Fi performance and the Wi-Fi range I suppose so we're currently maybe like to meet away from the router and I'm gonna hit go on the spit test app and this will probably be yeah there were your 10 millisecond ping over Wi-Fi the download speed 69 a couple megabits per second lower than we had on the wired connection and then the upload speed coming ups around 18 megabits per second there so very very good Wi-Fi speed on the router when you're around 2 meters away from me when there's no obstacles in the way and that's kind of what you expect really but if I go as far away as I can in my home let's see how the Wi-Fi performance does then so follow me as I go as far as I can from my home and this is kind of gonna be like not really a house tour to be honest there's you're not really gonna see anything at all but we're going to go over into my mom's bedroom I suppose just get as far away as we can right so we're in the other corner of the house right now I'm gonna run another speed test so let's just hit go and I can show you how good the why for performances there we go still 10 millisecond ping this speed is still the exact same we're as far away as we can be like there's so many rules obstacles doors in the way it doesn't really care at all this other Wi-Fi speeds of this router are absolutely amazing I have been outside on the other end of my road and I still have Wi-Fi and that's probably because the router is on my windowsill and it's kind of like projecting the Wi-Fi outside but that's still fantastic you can be so far away from your home and you can still have Wi-Fi I mean if that's not a good router I don't know what is so if in your home you have really really bad Wi-Fi speeds and the Wi-Fi range just sucks this router will solve just about all those problems as the Wi-Fi performance is probably one of the best things about the router this just really really good like the first time I got it I was very very impressed like I walked outside one time and I still had Wi-Fi I'm like wait a minute do I actually have Wi-Fi I ran a speed test and it was more or less the exact same speeds I mean that's just great really but I think that's gonna be it for my review of the router I hope you've enjoyed watching it I hope you've learned some things about the router the Geo filter the quality of service thing and my favourite feature the network map and seeing what devices are currently like on your networking stuff I think that's going to be it for today's video thank you very much for watching massive to knit gear for hooking me up with this amazing router right here I've had an awesome time using n I will continue to use this router for probably many years to come so thank you very much for watching and hope to see you in another video soon goodbye\n"