Netgear R7900
Netgear R7900 -100NAS (Nighthawk X6)
Availability: now
Manuf (OEM/ODM): Foxconn U12H315 T00
FCC approval date: 05 October 2015
(Est.) release date: 22 June 2015
(Est.) initial retail price (in USD): $250
Country of manuf.: China
Series: AC3000
Type: wireless router
FCC ID: PY314200264
IC ID: 4054A-14200264
PCB ID: U12H315T00
Power: 12 VDC, 5 A
Connector type: barrel
CPU1: Broadcom BCM4709A0 (1.0 GHz, 2 cores)
FLA1: 128 MiB134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br /> (Macronix MX30LF1G08AA-TI)
RAM1: 256 MiB268,435,456 B <br />2,097,152 Kib <br />262,144 KiB <br />2,048 Mib <br />0.25 GiB <br /> (Samsung K4B2G1646Q-BCK0)
Expansion IFs: USB 3.0
USB ports: 1
Serial: yes, 4-pin header, internal, populated, 3.3V TTL
WI1 chip1: Broadcom BCM43602
WI1 chip2: Broadcom BCM43602
WI1 802dot11 protocols: an+ac
WI1 MIMO config: 3x3:3
WI1 antenna connector: none
WI2 chip1: Broadcom BCM43602
WI2 802dot11 protocols: bgn
WI2 MIMO config: 3x3:3
WI2 antenna connector: none
ETH chip1: Broadcom BCM4709A0
Switch: Broadcom BCM4709A0
LAN speed: 1GbE
LAN ports: 4
WAN speed: 1GbE
WAN ports: 1
abgn+ac
Additional chips
2.4GHz Front End Module;Skyworks;SKY85309-11;;3;
5GHz Front End Module;Skyworks;SKY85710-11;;3;
5GHz Front End Module;Skyworks;SKY85712-21;SKY21, 85712, 416S5;3;
3-lane, 3-port PCIe Gen2 Switch;PLX;PEX8603;PLX, PEX8603-AB50NI G, 1413, 3306D, TAIWAN;1;
Stock bootloader: CFE
Stock FW OS: Linux
Default SSID: NETGEARXX (35 addl. devices)
Default login user: admin
Default login password: password
admin:password credentials used by 423 additional devices
of which 304 are Netgear devices
802dot11 OUI: none specified
| FCC ID | |
|---|---|
| Netgear R8000 | PY314200264 |
| CPU1 brand | WI1 chip1 brand | WI2 chip1 brand | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netgear R7900 | Broadcom | Broadcom | Broadcom |
| Netgear R7900P | Broadcom | Broadcom | Broadcom |
For a list of all currently documented Broadcom chipsets with specifications, see Broadcom.
- • 2x 1300 Mbps - 2x 3-stream 802.11ac device (433Mbps per stream),
- • 450 Mbps - max. PHY rate for the 40MHz wide 2.4GHz channel = 3000 Mbps class
Nighthawk X6 - AC3000 Tri-Band Router
This is yet another artificially limited Costco exclusive model.
- In this case, the R7900 is a R8000 with 256QAM disabled
- on the three stream 2.4GHz radio limiting its maximum
- theoretical speed to 450Mbps instead of 600Mbps.
Also, the USB 2.0 port was removed for the R7900.
While not really represented well in the infobox, this is a tri-radio device
- - all radios (2x 5GHz [an+ac], 1x 2.4GHz [bgn]) used are BCM43602
- (FullMAC) is supported in the mainline Linux kernel by brcmfmac
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