In comparison, the Linksys WRT1900AC had an almost 60% jump in power consumption. What is interesting is that both the ASUS RT-AC3200 and Netgear R8000 had similar power spikes (of around 10%) when running under load as well. Under load, the R8500 uses about 10% more power than when it is at idle. Each router was connected to our P3 International P4400 Kill-A-Watt electric usage monitor and the results are plotted below:īenchmark Results: Under load, the Netgear R8500 uses 21.5 Watts of power making it the most consumptive router we have tested. We did multiple instances of large packet sizes (5 GB) to keep the processors on each device busy. The way we measured the power draw at load is that we started multiple instances of LAN Speed Test, our application to test the routers wireless throughput speeds. Prior to flashing, the stock firmware will let me get 500-675 Mbps. Searched all over the DD-WRT forums and Googled for the last 2-3 days with nothing solid.
#NETGEAR R8500 FULL#
We were curious to see if there were any power differences between these networking devices at idle and when they are under full load. Im getting really slow WiFi speeds on 2.4GHz and 5.1GHz after flashing over to DD-WRT. In the above chart we have examined how each of these devices do when they are idle, but for power users who are using Bittorrent, playing online games, or who have busy small office, their routers are almost always in constant use.
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All three of these routers are Tri-Band routers with the only difference being in the Active Antennas the Nighthawk X8 has introduced.įor the most part, when people start using these routers into their network, they really dont think about the power usage. We measured the Nighthawk X8 at 56% higher than its cousin the Netgear R8000 and ASUS RT-AC3200 router. We then measured the power draw from each router at the wall with our P3 International P4400 Kill-A-Watt electric usage monitor.īenchmark Results: It is quite apparent that the Netgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300 is very power hungry under idle conditions. To measure idle usage, we reset each wireless router to the default settings and plugged them with no devices connected to them. Netgear R8500 Nighthawk X8 AC5300 Smart Tri band WiFi Router 4x External Active. (*) Highly technical term for device incompatibility.Power consumption by your homes electronic devices continues to be a very important issue so we have made an attempt to present some simple power consumption tests on the various routers that we had. Netgear R8500 Nighthawk X8 AC5300 Tri-Band WiFi Router for just 469.00. If it works, you'll have very good evidence that the ONT's and router's Ethernet MACs don't "like each other.(*)" And you may have a reasonable workaround that doesn't involve sticking another router in the network.
#NETGEAR R8500 SERIES#
A switch can isolate Ethernet MAC incompatibilities. Which NETGEAR NAS devices will work with the R8500 port aggregation feature All of our NETGEAR ReadyNAS devices with two Ethernet ports such as model RN100/200/300/500/700 desktops series and ReadyNAS RN2000/3000/4000 rack-mount series support port aggregation. Being new in the firmware tinkering area, I followed the peacock instructions religiously.
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I have read the peacock thread and all stickies on this board. Of course, don't plug anything else into it. Posted: Mon 4:08 Post subject: Help - Netgear R8500 No WiFi in DD-WRT: Hello DD-WRT, I need some help to get my Netgear R8500 working again. If the cables are fine, you could try putting a switch between the ONT and Nighthawk. You'd be amazed at how often issues like this turn out to be a bad cable that was assumed to be fine. Make sure you test with different Ethernet cables, just in case there is something odd with one of your cables. It's clear the Ethernet link is the issue. It's been this way for a few years, so that Nighthawk post for 2017 was probably written before Verizon improved their system.
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You can simply unplug one router and plug in another and Verizon's system now handles it nicely. Further, the need to do a release when swapping routers is no longer needed. If you can't get an Ethernet link, the router can't pull an IP address. The DHCP release/renew process has nothing to do with this issue.