Netgear R8000

Overview

 * • 2x 1300 Mbps - 2x 3-stream 802.11ac device (433Mbps per stream),
 * • 1x 600 Mbps - max. PHY rate for the 40MHz wide 2.4GHz channel = 3200 Mbps class

While not really represented well in the infobox, this is a tri-radio device - all radios
 * (2x 5GHz [11an+ac], 1x 2.4GHz [11bgn]) used are BCM43602 (FullMAC)
 * BCM43602 is supported in the mainline Linux kernel by brcmfmac

"U12H315T20", "801726", and "GP REV 1" is silkscreened on the board.

Reviews

 * First look on SmallNetBuilder
 * Netgear Nighthawk X6 R8000 On HKEPC HardWare (CN)
 * Netgear Nighthawk X6 R8000 AC3200 on TweakTown
 * First look on iXBT.com
 * Review on FoxNetwork (RU)
 * Review on FoxNetLab (EN)
 * Review on OpenITforum (PL)

Forum threads

 * Netgear R8000 on the DD-WRT forums
 * Netgear R8000 support on OpenWrt forums

News

 * AC3200 Routers By July? on SmallNetBuilder
 * references this EXPreview (CN) article


 * MU-MIMO vs. XStream: Coming Battle for Wi-Fi Airtime on SmallNetBuilder
 * Doubles Wi-Fi Speed of Devices with Six Stream 802.11ac (Broadcom PR)
 * Announces the XStream platform (.. which seems to be BCM4709 + 3x BCM43602),
 * which is touted as 'Penta Core' (each 43602 radio embeds a small processor to allow
 * for FullMAC operation, 4709 remains the same dual-core Cortex A9 SoC it already was)


 * BCM4709 (1GHz dual-core Cortex A9 SoC) Product page
 * Broadcom Launches Enhanced 5G WiFi Video Streaming (Broadcom PR)
 * Announces the BCM43602 3x3 11ac PCIe SoC

GPL Info

 * On DD-WRT GitHub