The brand also presents a new service to optimize the performance of a mesh network in online video games.
It is Netgear’s turn to present its novelties for 2022. The network equipment specialist today unveils its new router, the Nighthawk RAXE300. The most attentive will certainly have noticed the resemblance to the Nighthawk RAXE500, the current spearhead of the brand; it is more or less an extremely similar product, but with slightly lower performance and with a lower price.
Like its spiritual father, the RAXE300 is a 6E tri-band Wi-Fi router, the ultimate in current standards. This means that it will be able to use the usual 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, but also the famous 5 GHz band which makes this new generation so promising.
According to Netgear, these three bands allow the router to achieve a cumulative speed of 7.8 Gbps across the network. The builder also specifies that the signal should be robust enough to cover a home of approximately 230 m². What to afford a premium category connection even in the most remote rooms. In addition, this very solid Wi-Fi network will be supported by four Ethernet ports, a 2.5 Gbps WAN port and a USB-C socket.
But to afford this beautiful machine which now sits second in the ranking of Netgear routers, you will have to put your hand in your pocket. Admittedly, we are no longer at the level of the $ 600 (~ € 532) of the RAXE500, but the 300 version will still cost around $ 400 (~ € 354). The price to pay to have this new Wi-Fi 6E standard which will gradually establish itself as the new standard.
Orbi Game Booster: when mesh networking rhymes with stability
Netgear also took the opportunity to bring Orbi, its mesh Wi-Fi network system, to the fore. The manufacturer has unveiled Netgear Game Booster, a new service that optimizes Orbi’s performance to benefit from foolproof stability and imperceptible latency in video games.
This will notably go through the Network Priority function. This system, comparable to that already existing with certain competitors, quite simply allows part of the bandwidth to be reserved for a user. A good way to avoid a rollback infuriating when the youngest launches his favorite 4K stream!
Game Booster also offers other options that are not unnecessary, but more anecdotal. One can quote the scan of your direct environment, which makes it possible to identify the precise place where the latency is weakest. Game Booster also embeds a network-wide ad blocker.
This service will be launched in the first quarter of 2022. Obviously, it will already be necessary to have an Orbi mesh network to use it; Gizmodo specifies that the Orbi tri-band 750 and 850 models will be the first to support Game Booster. From there, that service should be accessible directly from the dedicated Orbi app, for around $ 50 (~ € 44) per year.
