Netgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300

The Netgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300 was launched in 2015 and is a AC5300 class router.

The router comes in at a weight of 1.68 kg and dimensions of 316 x 264 x 61 mm.

Mobile networks are not supported.

The router has built-in VPN support. VPN support allows you to pass all of your internet traffic through a VPN service. Depending on the service, this could hide your location, encrypt your data, and better protect your devices against security threats.

The coverage is supported by 4 x 2 dBi (internal) 4 x 3 dBi (external) antennas. Whilst antennas may assist in range, additional antennas tend to help more with ensuring devices can simultaneously connect to the router. They can help avoid interference, along with helping increase signal strength to devices within the usable range.

The Wifi standards offered are IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac and they're offering connection speeds of 1000 + 2167 + 2167 Mbps.

Security protocols offered by the Netgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300 are WEP WPA WPA2.

You're looking at 6 x 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN (local area network) connection ports, with 1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps WAN (wide area network) ports available.

It's powered by a Broadcom BCM47094 @ 1.4 GHz processor, and contains 512 MB of ram.

The power supply is a 19 V / 3.16 A power supply.

The router supports the IPv4 IPv6 protocols.

The Default IP to login to the admin area of the Netgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300 is 192.168.1.1.

You can log in to the router by using the username "admin" and the password of "password" provided it hasn't been changed.