A single router is judged on its band plan and its port speeds, not on a class number · review
The only router on this shelf that publishes the processor inside it and the channel width behind its class figure — and the only one here with a USB socket.
The short conclusion The only router on this shelf that explains itself rather than labeling itself: a processor, a stream count, a channel width and a USB socket, with the modem requirement stated plainly. The VPN it advertises in its title is the one thing it never specifies.
Two figures on this page appear on no other listing on this shelf, and both explain things a class number cannot.
The first is in the description: a 1.7 GHz quad-core processor, offered for concurrent real-time work — streaming, gaming, audio and video calls at the same time. A router is a small computer, and what decides whether it stumbles when twenty devices are busy is that computer rather than the radios. Ten listings sit on this shelf and this is the only one that names the chip’s speed and core count at all.
The second is 160 MHz channel support, also in the description. The intro to this section says each Wi-Fi generation brings a wider channel, and the width is half of where a class figure comes from: AX3000 at four streams is reached with 160 MHz channels and is not reached with 80. A page that publishes the width is publishing the condition on its own headline, and nothing else here does.
The class figure is AX3000, up to 3 Gbps, dual-band, with four streams named in the description as an AX4 four-stream design. The second bullet gives the Wi-Fi 6 claim and the description adds that Wi-Fi 6 is 2.7 times the speed of the previous standard — a multiplier against a named baseline, which is better than one against nothing. No IEEE clause number appears, so 802.11ax is left to be inferred, as on the other NETGEAR here.
The fifth bullet gives four 1G Ethernet ports for computers, consoles and players. The title adds a USB 3.0 socket and built-in VPN. The USB socket is the only one on this shelf: it is what turns a router into a place to leave a drive for the household, and no other listing here has one. The VPN is named in the title and nowhere specified — no protocol, no client-or-server distinction — where the TP-Link on this shelf names OpenVPN and PPTP.
The third and fourth bullets are unusually direct about what the unit is not: it does not include a built-in cable modem, a separate modem with coaxial inputs is required, and it connects to an existing modem and replaces the Wi-Fi router. Compatible with any provider up to 1 Gbps including cable, satellite, fiber and DSL — which is also a ceiling stated, since a connection faster than a gigabit would meet the WAN socket before it met the radios.
The first bullet gives coverage up to 2,000 square feet for up to 25 devices. That is the largest coverage figure of the three routers on this shelf, and a coverage figure on a single router is the least standardized number on any box — the intro to the mesh shelf of this site says so, and there at least the nodes justify it. Here it is one box and a claim.
At $97.00 and 1,080 g (38.1 oz) this is the most expensive and heaviest of the three American routers here, and 288 by 237 by 120 mm (4.72 in) makes it the largest.
Priced at roughly $97 on the American Amazon store the day this page was checked.
Every figure in this section is what Keepa held on the day this page was last updated. Stock and prices move without warning.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 7 October 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Wi-Fi generation | Wi-Fi 6 — stated in the title and in the second bullet, with the description adding that it is 2.7 times the speed of the previous standard |
|---|---|
| IEEE designation | Not published on the listing — neither 802.11ax nor any other clause number appears, so the generation is given only by its marketing name, as on the other NETGEAR router here |
| Stated class figure | AX3000, up to 3 Gbps, dual-band — stated in the title and in the second bullet. The description adds the condition that explains it: 160 MHz channel support, which is what a four-stream AX3000 needs. It is the only listing on this shelf to publish a channel width |
| Band count | Two — the title gives dual-band gigabit internet. No 6 GHz band is claimed |
| Stream count | Four — the description names an AX4 four-stream design. It is the only stream count published on this shelf |
| WAN port speed | Not published as a separate rating — the fourth bullet gives compatibility with any provider up to 1 Gbps, which is a ceiling on the socket rather than a rating of it. No WAN port is counted apart from the four LAN ports |
| LAN port speed | 1G — stated in the fifth bullet for all four sockets |
| Port count | Four 1G Ethernet ports — stated in the title and in the fifth bullet. Whether a fifth WAN socket exists is not stated, although the third and fourth bullets describe connecting to an existing modem |
| USB ports | One USB 3.0 — stated in the title. It is the only USB socket published on this shelf, and it is what allows a drive to be shared across the household from the router itself |
| Antenna arrangement | Not published on the listing — no antenna count and no statement of internal or external appears, on a unit measuring 288 by 237 by 120 mm (4.72 in) |
| Amazon reference | B0DK7RVXHP |
| EAN | 0606449159561 |
A router is a small computer, and what decides whether it slows down with twenty devices busy is that computer rather than the radios. The description gives a 1.7 GHz quad-core, and no other listing on this shelf names a chip at all.
A four-stream AX3000 figure is reached with 160 MHz channels and not with 80. Publishing the width is publishing the condition on the headline, which this is the only listing here to do.
The title says built-in VPN and the page never says which. The TP-Link router on this shelf names OpenVPN and PPTP, so the comparison cannot be made from this page alone.
A busy household wanting a router that will not stumble under load, with a drive left on the USB socket.
Details checked on October 7, 2026.
Amazon reports what buyers took in the month before this page was last checked: at least 500.
The figure is a floor, rounded by Amazon, and read through Keepa — it says what buyers picked, not what a maker claims.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for network and storage gear and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
Wi-Fi 6 · 802.11ax named · AX3000 badge over 2976 Mbit/s published · two bands rated · AiMesh extendable · no socket published
The only router in this group to print an 802.11 designation, and one of the several to leave every Ethernet socket uncounted.
Best for: A household with Wi-Fi 6 clients that intends to add a second mesh-capable unit from the same maker later.
Wi-Fi 6 · AX3000, about 3000 Mbps stated · 160 MHz and 1024-QAM · seven of ten lines unpublished · not one socket counted
A Wi-Fi 6 router that describes its processor down to the core and never mentions a single Ethernet socket.
Best for: A buyer choosing on the radio side and the VPN feature list, who will confirm the socket count with the seller before ordering.
≈ $50
Wi-Fi 6 · 2.4 Gbit/s stated, exactly 1800 plus 600 · DSL modem built in · VoIP and DECT · not one Ethernet socket counted
The only router here with a modem and a telephone exchange inside it, and the only one whose headline figure is exactly the sum of the two rates printed beneath it.
Best for: A household on a DSL line that wants the modem, the telephony and the radios in one box rather than three.
