Netgear R8300

Overview

 * • 2x 2165 Mbps - 2x 4-stream 802.11ac device (80MHz 5GHz, 1024QAM),
 * • 1x 600 Mbps - max. PHY rate 802.11n (40MHz 2.4GHz, 64QAM) = 5000 Mbps class

802.11ac Tri-Band Quad Stream Gigabit

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 BCM4366 (FullMAC)

This is an artificially limited Costco exclusive model.
 * In this case, the R8300 is a R8500 with NitroQAM (1024QAM) and TurboQAM (256QAM)
 * disabled on the four stream 2.4GHz 802.11n radio limiting its maximum theoretical
 * speed to 600Mbps instead of 1000Mbps. Also, the USB 2.0 port was removed for R8300.

Product features

 * Get fastest speeds available up to 5.0 Gbps
 * Tri-band Wi-Fi delivers more Wi-Fi to more devices
 * Quad Stream delivers up to four data streams per Wi-Fi band
 * 4 active and 4 internal antennas to amplify and maximize range
 * 6 Gigabit Ethernet ports, aggregate two for fast file transfers
 * Smart Connect intelligently selects Wi-Fi band for every device
 * MU-MIMO for simultaneous streaming of data to multiple devices
 * Dynamic QoS prioritizes bandwidth by application and device

Specifications

 * CPU: Broadcom BCM47094 @1.4 GHz (DualCore ARM Cortex A9)
 * Memory: 128 MB Flash (NAND) and 512 MB RAM (DDR3)
 * WLAN: 2x 4T4R AC BCM4366 + 1x 4T4R N BCM4366
 * DualBand, NitroQAM 5 GHz (2x 2165Mbps), 2.4 GHz (600Mbps)
 * Seven (7x GbE) 10/100/1000 Mbps ports: 1x WAN & 6x LAN
 * LACP: Dual Gigabit Ethernet Port Aggregation (LAN1+LAN2)


 * USB: 1x USB 3.0 port
 * Dimension:: Dimensions::316 mm x 264 mm x 61 mm (WxHxD)
 * Weight: Weight::1680 g