The front of the router is home of the status LED lights responsible for Power, Internet, 2.4GHz and 5GHz band, two USB 3.0, an eSata, four LAN LEDs and the last two are actually buttons (masquerading as LEDs), one for turning the WiFI ON and OFF and the other is for WPS Push N Connect. If you don’t have enough space, the Nighthawk X4 can also be wall-mounted (being VESA compatible) and if you don’t want the LEDs to be visible, you can turn them off at a touch of a button. The four antennas are specifically labelled from 1 to 4 in order to be attached in their dedicated spots and failing to do so will result in the antennas facing the wrong way (but it’s quite hard to overlook this aspect, because the labels are printed on an yellow background, thus easily attracting attention). Sure, it isn’t a boring design at all, it steered clear from the bug-like design of the LINKSYS WRT1900ACS, but adopted the menacing robot-like aspect (with its tiny hands and legs). Just like the R7000, the new R7500 will fit right in if you have a modern-type furniture setup, but undoubtedly will attract attention, because it has quite a large footprint and it’s not discrete in any way. The plastic case may seem a bit bulkier than the previous instalment because of the four detachable antennas, but in reality it only measures 11.22 x 7.26 x 1.97 inches and it weighs 26.4 ounces.
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UPDATE (): Netgear has released a firmware to fix the recent arbitrary command injection vulnerability that affected the Nighthawk X4 R7500.ĭesign NETGEAR Nighthawk X4 looks very similar to the R7000, featuring the same angular design (reminding us of the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth plane), with a fingerprint-repellent black matte and with the same sturdiness we were accustomed, no matter the amount of connected cables. IMPORTANT: NETGEAR didn’t make a clear distinction between version 1 and version 2, meaning that if you buy it online, you just have to see what you get, otherwise, you can just look on the package for the “Now with MU-MIMO” phrase.
So, how well has it improved and how does it fare against other similarly equipped routers from the competition? Let’s have a look.
A few months ago, the X4 received an important hardware update, NETGEAR catching up with the latest technology available on the market.
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