Black Bird

Take one look at the design and you would immediately see that the Nighthawk means business. With it’s angular shape and futuristic design, this totally black router totally screams “gamery” to all that looks at it. Four MI-MO antenna can be attached to the router, with the antennas using a standard screw in design, which means it’s easily replaceable. A row of white status LEDs glows menacingly at the front, of which you can turn them off if you find them too bright at night. At the rear, four LAN ports and one WAN ports, all rated at Gigabit Ethernet can be found.

Total Connection

Powering the router is Duma OS. Colours aside, the UI is intuitive and easy to use, with a quick status of the router being the main focus that can easily be navigated with a mouse button.

Have you ever joined an online gaming session, and then you find out to your dismay that the server is located quite far away, leading to high latency and lag? Well the Nighthawk can help you by geo-filtering the servers that you can join, making sure that you are only joining server that are close to you.

Best Router Around

The NIghthwak XR500 is not only the best gaming router that we tested, but the best router period. With the intuitive and easy to use Duma OS, the high-speed Wi-Fi as well as the great connectivity control options, it is certainly is a great router. There is only one problem though, and that is the price. At around RM1.4K, that is nearly the price of a decent graphic card. We foresee only the most hardcore of gamers are willing to open their wallet for a router. But if you can afford one, well you are certainly paying for the best there is out there.

(Text by: Din)