Netgear R8000P

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Nighthawk X6S - AC4000 Tri-band WiFi Router
Homepage	Product page
Support	Support page
Wikipedia	Netgear
WikiDevi.wi-cat.ru	Netgear R8000P
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Status Unknown
OpenWrt	Supported
Tomato any flavor	Status Unknown
Gargoyle	Status Unknown
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	Netgear R8000P -100NAS
FCC ID	PY316400363
Board ID	U12H359T00_NETGEAR
Type	wireless router
Series	Nighthawk X6S
CPU1 Y	Broadcom BCM4906
CPU1 Type	ARMv8 Cortex-A53
CPU1 Speed	1.8 GHz ( 2 cores ) 64-bit
Flash1 Chip	Spansion S34ML01G200TFI00
Flash1 Size	128 MiB 134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br />
RAM1 Size	512 MiB 536,870,912 B <br />4,194,304 Kib <br />524,288 KiB <br />4,096 Mib <br />0.5 GiB <br />
RAM1 Chip	Samsung K4B4G1646E-BYK0
ETH chip1	Broadcom BCM4906
Switch	Broadcom BCM4906
Ethernet Port Count	1-1GbE-WAN 4-1GbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab
802dot11 OUI: none specified
Stock bootloader	CFE 1.0.38 BCM94908
Stock FW OS	Linux 4.1.27
Expansion IF types	USB 3.0, USB 2.0
USB ports	2
USB Hub Compatible	Untested
Power	19 VDC, 3.16 A
Connector type	barrel
Serial Port (UART)	yes
Flags: MU-MIMO, acqam, VHT160, Link Aggregation
Additional chips 2.4GHz Power Amplifier IC;Qorvo (RFMD);RFPA5218;3Q, WRJA;3; 5GHz Front End Module (FEM);Qorvo (RFMD);QPF4519;QPF4519, 58ZE;6;
Other
Default SSID: NETGEARXX (37 addl. devices) Default login user: admin Default login password: password admin:password credentials used by 428 additional devices of which 307 are Netgear devices
Manuf/OEM/ODM	Foxconn U12H359 T00 LF
3rd Party Firmware Support	OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs)
Retail
FCC approval date	09 March 2017
(Est.) release date	18 August 2017
(Est.) initial retail price (in USD):	$300
Newegg	N82E16833122711
ASIN	B072LZZZXB
Country of manuf	China
Radio 1
Chip1	Broadcom BCM4365E
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	3x3:3
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11a/n/ac
ac-QAM	up to 1625 Mbps
802.11ac	up to 1300 Mbps
802.11n	up to 450 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	5 GHz
Radio 2
Chip1	Broadcom BCM4365E
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	3x3:3
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11a/n/ac
AC-QAM	up to 1625 Mbps
802.11ac	up to 1300 Mbps
802.11n	up to 450 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	5 GHz
Radio 3
Chip1	Broadcom BCM4365E
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	3x3:3
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11b/g/n
N-QAM	up to 750 Mbps
802.11n	up to 450 Mbps
802.11g	up to 54 Mbps
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	2.4 GHz
FCC ID Netgear R7900P PY316400363 Netgear R7960P PY316400363
CPU1 brand Radio1 chip1 brand Radio2 chip1 brand Netgear R8000 Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom Netgear R8000P Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom

For a list of all currently documented Broadcom chipsets with specifications, see Broadcom.

For a list of all currently documented Netgear devices with specifications, see Netgear.

• 1x 750 Mbps - 3SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan., 1024-QAM),

• 2x 1625 Mbps - 3SS 5GHz 802.11ac (80MHz chan., 1024-QAM) = AC4000 class

Overview

Netgear Board ID: U12H359T00_NETGEAR

See also: Netgear R8000, Netgear R8500 and Foxconn

Links of Interest

Review

• Nighthawk X6S AC4000 Tri-band WiFi Router On Technoxy

Forum threads

• NETGEAR Nighthawk X6S - MU-MIMO, Alexa Support on SNB forums
• Netgear R8000P AC4000 on KoolShare forums (Internal photos)
• Netgear R8000P on iXBT forums (CFE bootloader 1.0.6 -> 1.0.8)

Flashing

Flashing OpenWrt

On the OpenWrt ToH (techdata entry)
On the OpenWrt Wiki

Target: bcm4908
Subtarget: generic
Package architecture: aarch64_cortex-a53
Supported Since Commit
Support started version: 21.02.0
Current supported version: 24.10.4

LAN Hardware: Broadcom BCM4906
WLAN Hardware: 2x Broadcom BCM4365E
Installation method(s):
CFE web recovery, see git-commit

git • >>

bcm4908: enable Netgear R8000P bootloader image This enables building BCM4908 "raw" image that can be flashed using bootloader web UI. It requires serial console access & stopping booting by the "Press any key to stop auto run". It's easy to build vendor like CHK image but it can't be safely flashed using vendor UI at this point. Netgear implements method called "NAND incremental flashing" that doesn't seem to flash bootfs partition as provided. Above method seems to update vmlinux.lz without updating 94908.dtb. It prevents OpenWrt kernel from booting due to incomplete DTB file. Full Netgear R8000P support can be enabled after finding a way to make vendor firmware flash OpenWrt firmware including the 94908.dtb update.

JTAG-Serial Info

Serial

CFE boot >> •

R8000P Platform Boot Code V1.0.8 CFE version 1.0.38-161.122 for BCM94908 (64bit,SP,LE) Build Date: Thu Mar 23 17:26:07 CST 2017 (laider@cpe2rd-s3) Copyright (C) 2000-2015 Broadcom Corporation. Boot Strap Register: 0x6fc42 Chip ID: BCM4906_A0, Broadcom B53 Quad Core: 1800MHz Total Memory: 536870912 bytes (512MB) Status wait timeout: nandsts=0x50000000 mask=0x40000000, count=0 NAND ECC BCH-4, page size 0x800 bytes, spare size used 64 bytes NAND flash device: , id 0xeff1 block 128KB size 131072KB pmc_init:PMC using DQM mode pmc_init:7 0 ffbd043b 344033c Board IP address  : 192.168.1.1:ffffff00 Host IP address  : 192.168.1.100 Gateway IP address  : Run from flash/host/tftp (f/h/c)  : f Default host run file name  : vmlinux Default host flash file name  : bcm963xx_fs_kernel Boot delay (0-9 seconds)  : 1 Boot image (0=latest, 1=previous) : 0 Default host ramdisk file name  : Default ramdisk store address  : Default DTB file name  : Board Id  : R8000P Number of MAC Addresses (1-64)  : 10 Base MAC Address  : 00:10:18:00:00:00 PSI Size (1-128) KBytes  : 128 Enable Backup PSI [0|1]  : 0 System Log Size (0-256) KBytes  : 0 Auxillary File System Size Percent: 0 flow memory allocation (MB)  : 14 buffer memory allocation (MB)  : 16 DHD 0 memory allocation (MB)  : 0 DHD 1 memory allocation (MB)  : 0 DHD 2 memory allocation (MB)  : 0 WLan Feature  : 0x00 Please update nvram setting in CFE if possible! dhd param1 value 0xe00000 in device tree larger than nvram value 0x0. Use device tree value! Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 Linux version 4.1.27 (laider@cpe2rd-s3) (gcc version 5.3.0 (Buildroot 2016.02) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 15 14:56:11 CST 2018 CPU: AArch64 Processor [420f1000] revision 0 Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU0 alternatives: enabling workaround for ARM erratum 845719 PERCPU: Embedded 16 pages/cpu @ffffffc01ffd4000 s26304 r8192 d31040 u65536 Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 122112 Kernel command line: coherent_pool=1M cpuidle_sysfs_switch PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 439364K/495616K available (5340K kernel code, 321K rwdata, 1744K rodata, 244K init, 436K bss, 56252K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) CFE> web info: Waiting for connection on socket 1. CFE> tftpd enter ui_cmd_tftpd Start TFTP server Loading : ... Finished loading 46137422 bytes Check board id fail: image board id (U12H359T00_NETGEAR), on-board id(▒▒▒▒▒▒▒)

See also

List of Costco Exclusive Wireless Devices

List of Netgear Nighthawk Products

• Netgear R7900
• Netgear R8000
• Netgear R7900P
• Netgear R7960P
• Netgear R8000P