
The EAX80 has one advantage that few competing extenders have: it works on a single network. Wi-Fi 6 provides the best performance– fast speeds, low latency, and great bandwidth. The Netgear EAX80 also supports 802.11ax, the newest wireless networking technology (Wi-Fi 6). If you’re using a slow or ancient router from your Grandma’s attic, your extender’s speed will be slow too.

I should also add that we tested this extender with the ASUS RT-AX88U, which is a great router. And it’s so fast that you won’t ever get stuck joining a game lobby or loading a match. With this extender, you can download a 150 GB video game in about an hour. The EAX80 extender achieved speeds as fast as 436.34 Mbps on Wi-Fi and 811.59 Mbps on Ethernet at five feet on the 5 GHz band. This is an adequate range to cover all the floors of big homes, enough to provide you strong signal in your “gaming attic” or “gaming dungeon” in the basement. Our top-performing Wi-Fi extender for online gaming is the Netgear EAX80 since it fast, significantly increased our speed, and works on a single network.ĭuring our tests, the EAX80’s range on Wi-Fi was 65 feet and 75 feet on Ethernet.
