Netgear NETGEAR RAX50-100NAR Nighthawk 6-Stream AX5400 WiFi 6 Router, Black (Renewed)

4 4 out of 5 stars | 1,318 ratings

Price: 69.99

Last update: 01-02-2025


About this item

Coverage up to 2,500 sq. ft. for up to 25 devices.
Fast AX5400 Gigabit speed with WiFi 6 technology for uninterrupted streaming, HD video gaming, and web conferencing
Connects to your existing cable modem and replaces your WiFi router. Compatible with any internet service provider up to 1Gbps including cable, satellite, fiber, and DSL
Plug in computers, game consoles, streaming players, and more with 4 x 1G Ethernet ports Share a storage drive with any connected device and create a personal cloud storage to access from anywhere using the 1 x 3.0 USB port
NETGEAR Armor protects your family's WiFi with an automatic shield of security across all your connected devices with a 30-day free trial

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Top reviews from the United States

  • Jesse Powers
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great features and specs for the price
    Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2024
    Works great so far, I'll make an updated review if that changes, the router was delivered in a non-branded brown cardboard box but otherwise is like new. Power cables, antennas and manual in the box. Security seems great with built in firewall, VPN (extra charge) malware and virus protection built right in to the RAX50. Great speeds, wifi speed is faster than my old modem/router. Latency seems improved both wired and wireless. Wasn't a huge fan of the setup process needing to be done through the app and no obvious way to do it through the browser on my PC. Maybe I couldn't find it? *Price for the Netgear Armor security is an annual subscription at $100/year for standard, $150/year for "plus" not discounted. But it's optional subscription after the free trial. Subscription services like this are very anti-consumer.
  • Jerry
    5.0 out of 5 stars RAX40 Fast WiFi 6, Stronger Security with WPA3
    Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024
    Replaced an older model Netgear R6700v3 WiFi5 ac, WPA2. Used 4 WiFi networks (including 2 guest networks) to keep PCs, smartphones, smart TVs, and security cameras on separate WiFi channels, no SSID broadcast, each with strong unique passwords.
    WPA3 provides stronger security than older WPA2. Supports mixed network of WPA2/WPA3 WiFi n,ac,ax devices.
    Set up as wireless access point (AP) since I already have a DSL modem/router.
    Tip: I used free NirSoft WiFiInfoView software to select different WiFi channels with little or no interference from neighbors WiFi signals.
    Tip: I created WiFi network names ending in _nomap to opt out of listing in Google WiFi directory.
    Works fine. Saved money buying refurbished. Keep old router as a backup or e-cycle properly.
    Note: LEDs do not flicker during WiFi activity, are always on. I prefer flicker to show activity.
    IP address was set to 10.0.0.1, common in business, was expecting 198.162.1.1. 0r 192.168.0.1.
  • AANT
    4.0 out of 5 stars So far good
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2024
    Amazon renewed router is working like new. I removed one star because the isolation feature of guest network is disabled in AP mode. So guests can see my other devices in network and the option to turn off is disabled. This is the second AP i have connected to main router ..all netgear.. the other AP router supports guest isolation.
  • Brett Johnson
    1.0 out of 5 stars Good hardware, garbage spyware/firmware, works mediocre as WiFi6 WAP
    Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2022
    Edit: After installing adguard home on my network and browsing the output, it became clear what a network hog and spyware repository this piece of garbage is, so I removed one of the stars, it's going in the trash bin, and I'll never buy another Netgear product again. It's *CONSTANTLY* pinging home to multiple netgear IP addresses, and when I say constantly, I mean like thousands of times per day. This diseased contagion is off my network for good.

    First off, the hardware works pretty great, especially for the temporarily discounted price! But I despise the slow, buggy, intolerably annoying firmware. This irritating device *REQUIRES* you to install a privacy-invading phone app, create a netgear account, register your device with them, and only *then* does it allow you to set up the device, and only in the most minimal way. Once you go through the annoyance above, you no longer need the netgear account or phone app, unless you ever need to hard-reset the device. The direct web interface is adequate to set the device up as a WAP (which is why I bought it), but I would not want to use this thing as my main router. The firmware is far too limited, slow, and poorly implemented for it to be a useful router. At the time I bought, it was the cheapest device I could find capable of being a WiFi6 WAP, and it eventually works well in that regard once the irritation of setting it up is over. As an aside/warning, if you set this thing up as a WAP, you'll want to set up a static IP address in the firmware. I didn't, and when I connected it to my network, it obtained 3 different DHCP addresses with 3 different MAC addresses, and abandoned them all, then eventually obtained a final one it stuck with. But it only gave the DHCP server its hostname for the first attempt. So, my DNS server thinks the hostname I gave it points at the first attempt, which is abandoned. It took me some sleuthing to find the actual IP address. Also, once you set it to WAP mode, the amazingly incompetent firmware won't allow you to change any networking settings, so you can't change it to have a static IP then.

    Speaking of DNS, once you do get it set up, if you use the DNS name to access it "RAX35" by default, the device immediately redirects your browser to some netgear site. Only by typing in the raw IP address can you access the router config interface. I sort-of solved this by adding a CNAME to my DNS server to point "www<dot>routerlogin<dot>com" back at the router's name, and using that DNS name to access it, but that's a kludge at best.
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    Brett Johnson
    1.0 out of 5 stars Good hardware, garbage spyware/firmware, works mediocre as WiFi6 WAP
    Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2022
    Edit: After installing adguard home on my network and browsing the output, it became clear what a network hog and spyware repository this piece of garbage is, so I removed one of the stars, it's going in the trash bin, and I'll never buy another Netgear product again. It's *CONSTANTLY* pinging home to multiple netgear IP addresses, and when I say constantly, I mean like thousands of times per day. This diseased contagion is off my network for good.

    First off, the hardware works pretty great, especially for the temporarily discounted price! But I despise the slow, buggy, intolerably annoying firmware. This irritating device *REQUIRES* you to install a privacy-invading phone app, create a netgear account, register your device with them, and only *then* does it allow you to set up the device, and only in the most minimal way. Once you go through the annoyance above, you no longer need the netgear account or phone app, unless you ever need to hard-reset the device. The direct web interface is adequate to set the device up as a WAP (which is why I bought it), but I would not want to use this thing as my main router. The firmware is far too limited, slow, and poorly implemented for it to be a useful router. At the time I bought, it was the cheapest device I could find capable of being a WiFi6 WAP, and it eventually works well in that regard once the irritation of setting it up is over. As an aside/warning, if you set this thing up as a WAP, you'll want to set up a static IP address in the firmware. I didn't, and when I connected it to my network, it obtained 3 different DHCP addresses with 3 different MAC addresses, and abandoned them all, then eventually obtained a final one it stuck with. But it only gave the DHCP server its hostname for the first attempt. So, my DNS server thinks the hostname I gave it points at the first attempt, which is abandoned. It took me some sleuthing to find the actual IP address. Also, once you set it to WAP mode, the amazingly incompetent firmware won't allow you to change any networking settings, so you can't change it to have a static IP then.

    Speaking of DNS, once you do get it set up, if you use the DNS name to access it "RAX35" by default, the device immediately redirects your browser to some netgear site. Only by typing in the raw IP address can you access the router config interface. I sort-of solved this by adding a CNAME to my DNS server to point "www<dot>routerlogin<dot>com" back at the router's name, and using that DNS name to access it, but that's a kludge at best.
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  • KB
    5.0 out of 5 stars Immediately triple download speed
    Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2022
    I spent several hours focusing on issues with my mobile connection speed - both wireless and mobile data. It was discovered that my account wasn't set up for the 5G service correctly. Once that was fixed, I still could not get 5G or Wifi-6 to register on my phone. Although I never had trouble with internet service (200 mbps speed), I couldn't get the mobile speed or connectivity where it should be while using home wifi. After doing my own research, I purchased this refurbished Wifi-6 router as a next step. It was my final step, since my connectivity immediately went to Wifi-6, using 5GHz rather than 2.4GHz, and the connection speed jumped to an average of 500 Mbps. The internet speed test clocks the download speed at 231 Mpbs. Higher than my service plan. The router is also incredibly easy to set up with mobile access to instructions and prompts. If you have an older router, and a fast internet service, you are not getting all you are paying for. This router delivered major improvement for me, instantaneously.
  • Jimmy L Miller
    5.0 out of 5 stars Netgear quality including security features
    Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2024
    This is my second one purchased, due to my cat damaging the first. Ease of setup is great. Very good quality. I purchased a returned refurbished one. Works flawlessly

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