Netgear EX7500 Nighthawk X4S Wifi Mesh Extender
Netgear offers new wifi mesh extender – Nighthawk X4S wireless mesh extender, as known as Netgear EX7500 wireless AC2200 with single wifi name.
What this product does
When you don’t like to upgrade or replace your existing high speed wireless router with new wireless mesh wifi system such as Orbi pro mesh wifi system or Asus Lyra mesh wifi system due to cost consideration, today you can just add mesh wifi extender to allow you extend the network with the same one wifi name so you still keep your existing router SSID name and password. Netgear introduces Nighthawk x4s mesh wifi extender to extend the wifi coverage in a taste of mesh wifi system. You may connect to any third party wireless ac router, it’s like what Ubiquiti offers with Ubiquiti mesh point HD.
Fastlane3 technology
Netgear EX7500 as known as Nighthawk X4s mesh wifi extender is designed with Fastlane3 technology that creates dedicated 5Ghz wifi link to your wireless router separate to your extender wireless network to the clients. So you don’t sacrifice half of your wifi extender network to the clients. This technology is nearly the same as today’s mesh wifi system, except that you keep your home wireless router and add the mesh wifi extender.
Seamless roaming
Unlike traditional wireless range extenders in general such as previous model Netgear EX7300 extender the same wall plug model or TP-link RE650 AC2600 range extender, Nighthawk X4s wifi mesh extender works in a single wifi name (SSID name). With a single SSID name your mobile devices can roam seamlessly moving from room to the other sides of the home with the same network name. It supports 802.11k standard to allow your devices with 802.11k compatible to roam seamlessly.
Three band
Nighthawk X4s wifi mesh extender is a three band wireless mesh extender with one 5Ghz band is dedicated for connecting to the router, it delivers high speed of up to 2.2 Gbps total bandwidth, two 866Mbps @5Ghz band and up to 400Mbps @2.4Ghz band and is designed with wall-plug model like Ubiquiti Amplifi mesh point.
Nighthawk X4s mesh wifi extender
Highlights
- Based on wireless AC2200 with combined speeds of up to 2.2Gbps (400Mbps @2.4Ghz; 866Mbps @5Ghz and 866Mbps @5Ghz)
- FastLane3 technology to create dedicated 5Ghz link to the router
- Smart roaming from room to room seamlessly
- Create one wireless name (same SSID name) for all within the room, keep your existing wifi name and password
- Connect universally to the wireless AC router
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The Netgear EX7500 mesh wifi range extender can only work with wireless AC routers, or any wireless ac gateway such as Surfboard SBG6950ac2 wireless cable modem gateway. Any third party wireless router can connect seamlessly to this Nighthawk X4s mesh wifi extender.
Netgear vs Ubiquiti
Now let’s compare this product Netgear EX7500 (aka Nighthawk x4s) mesh wifi extender with its competing product offered by Ubiquiti – the Ubiquiti Amplifi mesh point HD which is typically paired with its router Ubiquiti Amplifi HD home wifi system.
Universal
See on the following spec comparison table between the two products. Ubiquiti is originally paired to Ubiquiti amplify home wifi system for much better performance. However, you may also connect to any third party wireless router, same as what you can do with Nighthawk.
Dedicated band
Nighthawk is a three band mesh extender with one of its band is dedicated for backbone connection to the router and the other two band is dedicated for clients. Ubiquiti doesn’t work like that, no dedicated link.
Wifi speeds
Another difference is the number of band each of the product offered. Nighthawk x4s is a three band while Ubiquiti is a two band mesh point. Technically Nighthawk x4s is more superior than Ubiquiti.
See more detail on the following comparison table.
Table 1 Netgear Nighthawk x4s vs Ubiquiti
| Model | Nighthawk X4s Mesh extender | Ubiquiti Amplifi mesh point HD |
| Wifi technology | AC2200 three band mesh extender | AC1750Mbps dual band with 3×3 MIMO |
| Wifi speeds | two 866Mbps @5Ghz band and up to 400Mbps @2.4Ghz band. | Up to 1,300Mbps @5Ghz band and up to 450Mbps @2.4Ghz band |
| Dedicated link | Fastlane3 technology 5Ghz dedicated link to the router | No |
| Universal connection to the router | Yes, to any third party wireless ac router | Yes, connect to Ubiquiti Amplifi HD mesh system or any third party router |
| Price | $159.00 | $129.00 |
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