Netgear R8500 Product Data Sheet - Page 5

Nighthawk™ X8-AC5300 Smart WiFi Router Dynamic Quality of Service (QoS) Data Sheet R8500 If you like gaming and streaming videos, then you can benefit from Dynamic Quality of Service (QoS). Dynamic QoS automatically prioritizes bandwidth to latency sensitive applications like online gaming and video streaming by recognizing application and device information as well as bandwidth needs. Dynamic QoS will also ensure that lower priority applications like file downloads will never get completely stopped. Applications have same priority Automatically recognizes & prioritizes applications High Priority Medium Priority Low Priority Netflix Download Facebook Spotify Game Game Netflix Spotify Facebook Download Traditional WiFi Dynamic QoS Powerful Dual Core 1.4GHz processor for faster processing Basic WiFi routers use simple single core processors to connect WiFi devices to the Internet. Nighthawk X8 delivers Tri-band WiFi, quad-stream performance on each band, Multi-User MIMO capable, has 6 Gigabit LAN ports with Port Aggregation, and dual USB interfaces to connect external USB storage. Using a single core processor would cause severe performance issues as various processes compete for CPU power. That's why the X8 utilizes a powerful 1.4GHz dual-core processor to separate processes and prioritize high performance WiFi connections to get maximum combined WiFi speeds of up to 5.3Gbps. This is performance perfected! Single Core Processor Dual Core 1.4GHz Processor X X X X X X XX X Typical Router 600Mbps 1.4GHz 1.4GHz Nighthawk X8 WiFi USB X Wired X X XX XX PAGE 5 OF 11