NETGEAR Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR300 AC1750 Dual-Band Gigabit WiFi Router – XR300-100PES

Engineered for Optimized Gaming Performance

Take total control of your network and completely transform your online competitive experience with the NETGEAR Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR300 Router. Designed specifically to overcome the frustrating networking bottlenecks that gamers face daily, this router utilizes state-of-the-art software to elevate your gameplay. By drastically reducing lag spikes and ensuring reliable, high-quality local connections, the XR300 keeps you securely in the game. It allows you to deeply personalize your networking environment via an incredibly intuitive gaming dashboard, where you can view real-time bandwidth utilization by specific devices, monitor ping stability, and tweak a multitude of other parameters seamlessly on the fly.

Guarantee Local Game Hosts with Geo-Filter

Distance is the natural enemy of low ping. The XR300 defeats this obstacle using its innovative Geo-Filter technology. This unique feature directly fixes your gaming lag by allowing you to manually limit the geographical distance to multiplayer servers or other specific players. You are empowered to guarantee local connections by creating custom blacklists of high-ping servers or whitelists of your preferred local hosts. By forcing the game to match you locally, the XR300 essentially eliminates distance-induced latency, giving you the split-second advantage needed for high-stakes, fast-paced competitive gaming.

Best-in-Class Quality of Service (QoS) and Network Monitoring

Stop letting other household devices ruin your gaming sessions by clogging up the internet. The XR300 employs a Best-in-Class Quality of Service (QoS) system that instantly prioritizes gaming devices and expertly allocates bandwidth across your entire network. This intelligent distribution eliminates lag caused by queuing at the ISP network. You maintain absolute authority to control the maximum upload and download speeds permitted per device, preventing sudden lag spikes when someone else starts streaming or downloading large files. Working hand-in-hand with QoS, the built-in Network Monitor allows you to actively check for bandwidth-hogging devices in real time, immediately identifying and mitigating whatever is causing lag on your connection.

Reliable Connectivity and Advanced Beamforming+ Technology

Unlike standard household WiFi routers that inefficiently blast wireless signals in all directions, the XR300 utilizes advanced Beamforming+ technology. This enables the router to communicate dynamically with connected devices, directly focusing the WiFi signal to wherever your smartphone, tablet, or laptop is located. Boosting both speed and range for 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies, this explicit and implicit beamforming provides an industry-leading, highly reliable connection that remains locked-in even as you move around your home. For those who demand the ultimate stability of a wired connection, the router comes fully equipped with five ultra-fast Gigabit Ethernet ports—one WAN and four LAN—delivering uncompromising multi-gig data transfer capabilities directly to your gaming consoles and PCs.

Powerful Processing Core and Robust Network Security

At the heart of the XR300 Nighthawk Pro Gaming Router lies a formidable dual-core 1.0GHz processor, engineered strictly to handle heavy payloads without breaking a sweat. This processor guarantees full-packet processing offload, meaning there is zero load on the CPU even during intensive Ultra-HD 4K video streaming and heavy local gaming. Complimenting this massive power is an unwavering commitment to your digital safety. The router maintains high-level network security through double firewall protection (SPI and NAT) and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack prevention. It also offers secure VPN support for safe remote access, ensuring your online privacy and family safety remain flawlessly intact across your entire network.