In the eyes of digital enthusiasts, Netgear is definitely the belief of high-end routers, and as one of the leading brands of high-end WiFi in the United States and even the global market, Netgear's strength is undoubted.
NETGEAR accounts for 45% of the global market share in AC1800 and above specification products, and in the US market, NETGEAR's market share is also as high as 44.9%, which is a huge gap with its competitors (about 20% share), firmly controlling the mid-to-high-end market, and the position of the first echelon is unshakable.
In recent years, Netgear has seized the demand for broadband upgrades in the Chinese market, continued to make efforts in high-end product lines, and expanded to the field of smart home, and achieved good results, entering the top ten in the domestic market share, but it is undeniable that the high pricing still has a great impact on sales in China, and can only be relegated to the third echelon.
In the past, NETGEAR has been focusing on the high-end router market with ultra-high speed and high stability signals above 1700Mbps, with prices of more than 600 yuan, but in the Chinese market has made a compromise, in addition to the original high-end Orbi series, XR series and R series products, it has also launched a JNDR 3000 and R6120/6020 at a price of 100-250 yuan. Among them, the Orbi series belongs to the distributed routing series of Netgear, and like other brands, it is positioned at the highest end, and is divided into SRK60/RBK53/RBK50/RBK40/RBK30/RBS50 and RBS30 from high to low, mainly in the maximum transmission rate, antenna and memory number.
R series is the current main series of Netgear, named according to the R four-digit number, the larger the number, the better, if the number is the same, the positioning with the P suffix is higher than the positioning without the suffix, such as R7000P is slightly higher than R7000. R8 and R9 start with tri-band routing, and R6 and R7 start with dual-band routing. The XR series is a competitive specialized product, mainly optimized for game latency and other aspects, and there is currently only one XR500, positioned between R9 and R8.
In the CR (Consumer Reports) evaluation, Netgear R7000 received the highest evaluation in terms of short-range data throughput and ease of setup, ranking third, and it is also one of the 4 wireless routers recommended by CR.
Although R7000 is not currently the flagship product of Netgear,But it is still equipped with a high-end Broadcom chip,256MB memory 128MB flash memory has been able to meet all kinds of discerning enthusiasts,And the leading EA7500The price is similar,The main parameters are basically the same,The difference is that EA7500 uses a slightly lower positioningMTK chip,2.4G signal is slightly weaker,But it supports R7000MU-MIMO function,If you don't value this function, You can consider the R7000, or you can also consider the R7000P, which is positioned a little higher.
As an upgraded version of R7000, the maximum transmission rate of R7000P has been upgraded from 1900Mbps to 2300Mbps, and the rest of the configuration has basically not changed.
Among the only three three-band routers in Netgear, R8500 is worth buying. From the configuration point of view,R8500 is not the lowest,But the price is the lowest of the three,Compared with R8000P, each has its own advantages,Both use Broadcom chips,It's just that the main frequency of the R8500 chip is slightly lower,There are two fewer antennas,But it is superior in the maximum transmission rate and the number of LAN ports,The price is slightly lower than R8000P,It is the highest positioningR9000Less than half,Users who pay attention to cost performance can choose。
