Netgear Nighthawk RS200

It doesn’t fully deliver the Wi-Fi 7 dream, but this mid-price router is surprisingly fast and capable

DARIEN GRAHAM-SMITH

SCORE PRICE £167 (£200 inc VAT) from amazon.co.uk When I first heard about the Nighthawk RS200 router, I was genuinely excited. Wi-Fi 7 has so far tended to be an expensive luxury: Netgear’s flagship Nighthawk RS700S router cost a whopping £800 when introduced (see issue 353, p76), and even the cutdown Nighthawk RS300 still came in at a fairly hefty £300 (see issue 361, p72). But with the RS200 shaving another £100 off that, Wi-Fi 7 is finally getting down to sensible prices. Unfortunately, my excitement was quickly overtaken by concerns about how the cost saving has been achieved. If there’s one big innovation that defines Wi-Fi 7, it’s MLO – the multi-link operation mode that can increase bandwidth and improve reliability by letting devices connect across the 2.4GHz, 5GHz…

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