NETGEAR Netgear's first gaming gaming wireless router has landed in Hong Kong market, NETGEAR online flagship store price 2,588 Hong Kong dollars, or about 2,099 yuan.
XR500 full name of Nighthawk Pro XR500, Nighthawk Pro product line extends from the original Nighthawk series to NETGEAR sub-brand identity in the hot global gaming market.
Netgear introduced the router during the CES 2018 exhibition. The XR500 supports the 802.11ac Wave2 AC2600 high-speed Wi-Fi specification and provides 4 + 1 GbE Ethernet interfaces. The hardware configuration and specially designed Firmware core, the main ultra-low network latency and rich gaming optimization function.
Hardware part, XR500 adopts Qualcomm scheme, equipped with 1.7GHz dual-core processor / 512MB RAM / 256MB flash memory, 802.11ac Wave2 dual-band AC2600 high-speed wireless network, support 4 stream MU-MIMO transmission, 256QAM and 5GHz DFS extension channel connection ability.
The physical interface provides 4 + 1 GbE-level ethylene network interface, and USB 2.0 / 3.0 a total of 2 expansion interface.
The XR500 is also the world's first wireless router equipped with DumaOS firmware and was newly developed by Netduma and designed specifically for gaming connection optimization with three key features:
1, exclusive Geo Filter function: PS4 and Xbox One and other game console players can freely control the connection distance, to ensure that the boot pairing is forced to lock in the local high-speed connection range.
PC gamers can also monitor Ping values for popular gaming servers such as Call of Duty, Destiny 2, FIFA 18, MADDEN plus, etc. to help tune the line to improve connection quality and whitelist to reject players with high latency Set function.
2, advanced QoS function: to provide bandwidth allocation and anti-buffering mechanism, with deep packet inspection capabilities, can take the initiative to identify the game packet give priority.
3, network analysis Monitor: Import enterprise-depth packet inspection, for all home networking devices, network applications for analysis and provide real-time network usage charts to help identify the home occupied bandwidth device, and can be directly pulled into QoS control.
