Like its Nighthawk brothers, the X10 uses the Netgear “Genie” app to help users configure their router’s settings. Software Hey Netgear? 2007 called, it wants its user interface back At just a little over 6.5″ inches wide, short of 9″ long, and 4.1lbs the X10 is also one of the smallest and lightest high-performance routers we’ve ever seen, and comes with the standard four-bracket setup on the back of the unit in case you want to hang it from a wall to get it out of the way. I’d say of all the routers in the Nighthawk line this is undoubtedly the most mature looking of the bunch, and my new favorite to gawk at as well. It looks about how you would expect a router to look, with four standard antennas sticking out from a black-on-black half-plastic/half-mesh shell that’s actually quite a bit more reserved than most of its other Nighthawk counterparts (the X6 especially so). On the one hand, while the design of the Netgear Nighthawk X10 isn’t bad by any stretch of the imagination, there’s not all that much “good” about it, either. It’s tough to find a router these days that really breaks away from the mold, or challenges what we should think of when we have the image of a high performance networking device in our heads. Wireless Router, Access Point, Bridge, Media Serverĭesign The X10 is the sleekest and smallest of the Nighthawk family yet

The Netgear Genie app can’t compete with Linksys Smart WiFi.

Extensive list of top-end hardware and features.

Summary: The Netgear Nighthawk X10 has every futuristic bell and whistle you could conceive of, but the Genie app is still stuck decades in the past. I’m sure it does well with Speed & Distance Tests.īut will all this fancy technology and a subtle-but-commanding exterior design be enough to justify its eye-wateringly high price? Keep reading on in my Netgear Nighthawk X10 Review to find out! Or, you could take a look at our Actiontec GT78WN Wireless N ADSL modem router review. With the latest in 802.11ad WiFi antennas that can handle an insane 4.6Gb per secdon throughput, this is not a router for the faint-hearted, or even the average consumer at that. The Netgear Nighthawk X10 is a hypercar among hatchbacks and four-door sedans, a $1.8 million Ferrari that plans to share the roads with $20,000 KIAs.

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