
Active Antennas are super cool, and should prove useful for very spacious homes or small businesses. Sure, it is overkill for many, but NETGEAR deserves major kudos for pushing the envelope and improving home networking technology overall. This is the type of hardware that makes tech geeks like me giddy. Active Antennas effectively compensate for the low power of Wi-Fi devices to provide a more symmetrical connection for both receiving and sending wireless signals, which contributes to improving overall range and speed at long range".īe still, my heart. They eliminate loss in signal strength and avoid any additional noise during transmission. Unlike typical antennas that simply relay the Wi-Fi signal received from your devices to the router, Active Antennas amplify the Wi-Fi signal within the external antenna itself. The popular networking company further explains, "Nighthawk X8 boasts a total of eight antennas, four internal and four patent-pending external Active Antennas - the industry's first - that boost the wireless range of the Nighthawk X8. All told, the Nighthawk X8 pushes wireless performance and range to an extreme that is required for enabling your increasingly always-on networked life", says NETGEAR. It also supports more wired connections with six Gigabit Ethernet ports including two that can be aggregated for faster file transfers. It is powered by an extremely powerful 1.4GHz dual core processor for faster connections the industry's first, patent-pending Active Antennas to boost range and three Wi-Fi bands with quad-streams, 1024 QAM, and MU-MIMO capable for the fastest Wi-Fi speeds.

"Engineered from the ground up with a stylish modern design, the Nighthawk X8 is performance perfected with the new Wave 2 AC Wi-Fi.
