Port Forwarding Spectrum Router For Plex

NOTE - this is not an easy to use product, it is not intended for the average computer user, some degree of technical know-how is required! I have a small but busy network in my house. I work out of the home, and there are 4 people online all day every day gaming, watching movies, and generally abusing the internet bandwidth. In recent years with broadband in my area breaking the 30 meg range, I started noticing something. I wasn't getting the speeds advertised to me by my cable company. At first, when the speeds were advertised at 40 or 50 megs, I just assumed I was getting it on a bad day when I came back with 35 meg speed tests (cable internet does fluctuate after all). But now a days I'm told I have a 90 meg line, and I still only get 35 megs max on a good day. I'm a programmer, but I'm not much a network guy, so I started going out and researching it a bit. Turns out despite having a gigabit switch, the biggest bottleneck will be the NAT throughput... how fast your router can redirect packets from the outside of your network to the ip addresses in your local subnet. Sure enough, all the consumer routers out there have really low throughput, or in the case of mine ALSO had the issue of overheating constantly which also hurt it. I continued researching, found this little guy (srsly, the size of this thing is amazing), and noted that users were getting several hundred megs NAT throughput, if not near gigabit speed through it. Well over my 90 meg line. So I snatched one up, as well as an Wi-Fi Access Point (decided separate the two) and sure enough my speeds went to what is advertised to me. My ONLY complaint is that the model I got (the ER-X) had a bug in the firmware version that made the 'port forwarding' wizard not work. You can still set it up using actual NAT destinations (which port-forwarding really is a wrapper around). It's just really annoying to stare at the 1 click port-forwarding wizard when you're writing you firewall rules.

Super fast speeds. UI is a little complicated for port forwarding, faster gaming. The blast package thing is cool until they want you to purchase more. But once everything up and running as I have it paired with zenpro towers for mesh system.

Both ethernet and wifi have been great. I finally was able to setup port forwarding and static ip rules with no issues. Also love the traffic analyzer in the GUI.

This router is a great router combo at an affordable cost. Works well with Spectrum!

Worked great. We will be forwarding them on to a different country for the next eclipse.

I upgraded my router from spectrum base model to this lovely nighthawk.. I was noticing lagging and traffic usage was slowing my spectrum router down.. the nighthawk router help my speeds by 200 mps but lowered my ping and can use all my devices without lag spikes! Most get in modem and routers

Works for my use case connecting to the serial port on a router.

Great switch from the standard router you would rent from Spectrum. Was having issues connecting 2.4ghz devices to the basic router from them. Bought this and didn’t realize how slow my WIFI was with their router. With the AX4200 my wifi speed is amazing, videos stream better than ever, gaming is much easier and I can now connect my Roomba to my wifi. No complaints so far! Their NETGEAR app also has a ton of features, albeit many that I might not use. However, it is nice to have those options! Thank you!

Purchased the nighthawk modem/router combo for my spectrum internet service and it easily provides Wi-Fi to 4 phones,3 tvs streaming,a printer,Wi-Fi cameras and a MacBook This is a great product and the set up is simple

I did a lot of research on different router alternatives. I wanted to replace my stock Spectrum router to something with better range and speed. The reviews did not lie. It was a very easy setup and the speedtests confirmed what I needed and my entire home is now engulfed in wifi coverage.