Netgear Nighthawk RS300

The first affordable Wi-Fi 7 router is fast today, with promise for more in the future, but don’t rush to buy

DARIEN GRAHAM-SMITH

SCORE PRICE £250 (£300 inc VAT) from amazon.co.uk Wi-Fi 7 has been slow to catch on, but now that new laptops are regularly arriving with built-in support for the new wireless standard (officially dubbed 802.11be), it might finally be ready to hit the mainstream. If that’s so then the Nighthawk RS300 has arrived at the ideal time. It’s the first Wi-Fi 7 router we’ve seen with a remotely sensible price tag, undercutting Amazon’s Eero Max 7 (see issue 352, p68) by a cool £300 and slashing more than 60% off the cost of Netgear’s own Nighthawk RS700S (see issue 353, p76). Despite the relatively low price, the RS300 offers a decent specification. The legacy 2.4GHz network runs at 700Mbits/sec, while the 5GHz radio is rated at 2.9Gbits/sec and the 6GHz band claims a nippy…

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