They are not the same really two very different routers with similar hardware and as to 5Ghz difference its negligible for most people, and that may change with driver updates, who knows. Along with R-Apps (router apps) with more to be added, and the R7800 does not have these features because its not for the gaming market even though its called a gaming router, but as a router for set and forget with great range and speed its one of the very best, along with Voxels firmware. Both are great routers but one had a very different QoS more granular control and many gaming features like a Geo Filter, and a cloud list of games that's updated and a DPI engine that recognises gaming traffic so you diont even have to have QoS on all the time if you dont need it. Can't say the same for the 32X, couldn't get the HDD to be seen at all across the network.what a waste.Īs of now, I've been waiting for a router of this caliber to be made and finally it has 's a keeper.Ĭlick to expand.I wish you would stop saying you get back to the same stuff, you don't, its all been changed slightly and with no fly out menus, aslo you have added what Voxel has said abot old packages but you neglect every time to talk about what's new. In addition, Ive attached a 1GB HDD to the back of the XR500 and all my content can be see across my network. This one router got me interested in Netgears other products and I added the EX8000 Extender and it has complimented the whole home mesh network(having a dedicated 5ghz backhaul helps greatly) and giving me even more WiFi coverage and I've attached the Arlo Pro base station to it, and now I have 4 WiFi cams running in HD.absolutely phenomenal!!! In the past I found Netgear's FW buggy and not stable, but the XR500 FW and SW compliments it's HW. When Netgear announced the XR500 and the use of Netduma it peaked my interest and when it arrived and when configured ontu my network ALL wired and wireless clients have been playing very nice with this router. Last router was the Linksys WRT32X, although it was good it lacked a good software. I've tested so many routers thru the years from Asus, Linksys, D-link and Netgear. I've had the XR500 since February and it has exceeded all my expectations.

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