NETGEAR Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR1000: Gaming Features

September 23, 2020 Matt Mills Gaming, Hardware 0

The near future of Wi-Fi networks in our homes goes through Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) networks. For some years now, the main manufacturers have been launching high-end wireless routers with this new standard to take advantage of all its advantages. The manufacturer NETGEAR has launched a new router with the high performance Wi-Fi 6 standard aimed at gamers, its name is NETGEAR Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR1000. Do you want to know all the details of this new Wi-Fi router for gamers?

Main features of this gaming router

The NETGEAR Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR1000 is a WiFi 6 router with innovative software, designed to offer gamers the best possible connection and gaming experience. Regarding its main characteristics, we find a router designed with:

The reduction of ping in our online games, since we have an optimized firmware specifically designed for this.
A great AX5400 class WiFi 6 connectivity, which will allow us to obtain great wireless performance in both frequency bands.
Powerful 1.5 GHz three-core processor to improve performance in our online games.
DUMAOS 3.0, the brain of this router, an operating system for the gaming-oriented router so that we can get the most out of it.
NETGEAR Armor to protect home local network security.

Here you have the presentation video of the Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR1000

Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR1000 Router Specifications

We are going to start talking about the wired Ethernet part of this model. The best thing for your compression is that we see the back of the Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR1000.

This model has five Gigabit Ethernet ports, one for WAN and four for LAN. In addition, it has a USB 3.0 port, a power button and a reset button. The main processor of this router has NAT acceleration, and its firmware incorporates this feature, therefore, we can achieve high transfer rates for the Internet. Furthermore, it also supports VLANs on the Internet WAN and even VLANs per port to provide IPTV services.

As for the wireless part of this router, it comes equipped with 4 external antennas and it is WiFi 6 (802.11ax). It is a simultaneous dual band model with AX5400 WiFi, so we can achieve a speed of up to 574Mbps in the 2.4GHz band, and a speed of up to 4.804Mbps in the 5GHz band. This new router incorporates OFDMA and MU-MIMO technologies that help reduce jitter and network latency. It should also be noted that it has 160 MHz channel width support that doubles our actual speed on the 5GHz band, ideal for having twice the speed on gaming PCs and laptops that support this feature. Lastly, the firmware supports the WPA3 security protocol, the latest available security standard.

Regarding security, it has:

Hybrid VPN to protect it with a flexible VPN client.
Denial of service (DoS) attack prevention.
Double firewall protection (SPI and NAT).
NETGEAR Armor an advanced cyber threat protection technology for our home network and its devices.

As for the CPU, it consists of three cores at 1.5 GHz for better performance in games, virtual reality, 4K transmission, smoother navigation and better performance in the high-performance USB 3.0 port. On the other hand, it has 256 MB of flash memory and 512 MB of RAM. If you want to consult all the specifications you can consult them here .

The DumaOS 3.0 firmware, the core of this router

DUMAOS 3.0 offers us an intuitive graphical user interface, the panel can be fully customized with geographic filter panels, network monitoring, device management and quality of service. The first interesting function is Geo Fencing , thanks to it we can customize and filter the game servers to enjoy the most satisfactory experience possible.

Another is Bandwidth Allocation (QoS) that allows us to prioritize gaming devices and allocate bandwidth by device or application. This is an important function, as we want no computer or program to consume most of the bandwidth while playing. Thus, we avoid lag and we can distribute our connection appropriately.

The next panel is the Ping Heatmap , with which we can ping our favorite game servers to see connection quality on a world map.

However, the NETGEAR Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR1000 has another series of panels:

Connection Benchmark : to test the speed, ping and performance of our connection.
Network Monitor – Checks the bandwidth and determines what is causing the lag.
Ad blocker : block unwanted ads and sites on our devices.

Obviously we are facing a high-end router and therefore it will have a price according to it. Right now we can find it on Amazon for a price of € 359.99. We recommend you visit our analysis of other Nighthawk Pro Gaming routers: