We live in a rural area with limited high speed Internet options. After suffering for months with our phone company's dismal DSL service: maybe 2.5 Mbps download speed, and CONSTANT service drops during the day, we took a chance with our cable TV provider. We have had the same Cable TV company for over 9 years, with no signal problems and so, felt that it was the best option. At the time, Cable was offering up to 100 Mbps, up from their previously advertised service of 60 Mbps. We are not heavy online users, but do have 2 cellphones, 2 tablets, a wireless laptop and a cabled desktop, and it's just two of us in the house. I researched cable modem/routers and decided on this unit for its dual-band gigabit capability, its wireless signal strength and the fact that it was stated to be compatible with our cable service provider. Well, true to form Netgear delivered on all counts!. When I was a Network ADM, I always chose Netgear switches for their ease of integration, 5 minutes or less from in the box to in service. Same with this modem/router. I had it all set up for the Cable installer, so when he came he just had to check the signal strength and then provision it with the main office and we were up and running. The BEST part is that now I routinely run speed tests and get 114Mbps download speeds. The unit has been in place over a week and no issues or problems as yet. We have a 3600 SF house and the range is excellent. Thank you Netgear, for hitting this one out of the park for us!

*UPDATE: November 2017 (4 months after purchased/set-up)Lowering my stars down by 1 (so 4 out of 5 now)Okay--it poops out (internet goes black out, no connection) occasionally out of nowhere when all the below things are happening at ones:1. My cousin comes over and plays Overwatch on my laptop on a WIRED connection to a gigabit router2. I'm playing my Xbox One X, specifically, Destiny 2 on a WIRED connection to a gigabit router, while my 4K TV is connected WIRED.3. My girlfriend is streaming 4K Netflix shows via our Smart TV (over wifi) WHILE working remotely using her company laptop4. I have 4 Wifi Security Camera and it's capturing movements on 2.4Ghz band5. We have 6 phones total connected to our 5Ghz band as well as 2 tablets connected to our 2.4 Ghz bandI'm not sure why, but this happened twice since I bought it on July 2017, and I had to unplug the coaxial cable (not just the simple unplug and plug the power, wait for 30 seconds thing--that didn't work). No big deal as long as that method works, but it's still quite annoying. It probably can't handle all of that devices and stuff, considering it's an AC1600. Coverage is still good nonetheless.-----------------------------------ORIGINAL: July 2017Pretty good! Saves me $120/year from leasing the Xfinity cable modem/router. I wish I have gotten the ones with antenna for my apartment to get a better range as I set up ones with antenna (netgear nighthawk ac1900) to my parents 4,000+ sq. ft home and their connection is supreme when I was able to control the direction of the antenna. Overall though, still has a nice coverage if you live in a two bedroom 980+ sq. ft apartment

EDIT (September 9, 2016)Netgear has surpassed any expectations I could ever have. As you can see below, I had a bunch of connection issues with the router when I first bought it. They reached out to me, went through a whole slew of diagnostics, and sent my family a new router that fixed most of our issues. Things were still not 100%, though, and I continued to work directly with an engineer (not just a CS rep!) to find the exact source of the problem, which likely turned out to be interference in our home. We came up with a gameplan, Netgear shipped me yet ANOTHER router for free to try, and boom, 100% internet functionality. I didn't pay a dime for any of the new routers or for any of the shipping.Through thick and thin, Netgear assisted me and wouldn't stop helping until my issues were fixed. I can't recommend buying from them enough. Hopefully this saga shows how important it is to buy from good companies, and Netgear is one of them.NOTE: I left the old reviews up just to show people what I went through and how committed Netgear was to patiently helping me with my issues. Thanks again, Netgear.------------------------------EDIT (July 7, 2016):After working extensively with Netgear, including having one of their engineers work through problems with me for over a month and sending me a brand new router overnight, most of our issues have been rectified. We're now at 95% functionality and my wife and I are much happier with our purchase. There's just a few more kinks to work out, and Netgear is still helping us with them. Their service is second to none for sure and they've gone above and beyond to help us.------------------------------This has been a frustrating experience to say the least. My wife and I bought this to replace our Comcast router and save ourselves from long-term rental fees, but I was hesitant to do it as finding a reliable router is tough and our Comcast router was working fine. Turns out my fears were justified.It worked just fine for about 2 weeks, but then it started randomly dropping connection with devices. The devices work just fine and still show full wifi signal, and the router itself shows no signs of breakage and all the proper LEDs are lit, yet here we are, unable to maintain an internet connection for more than 10 minutes at a time.We tried troubleshooting. It doesn't automatically switch channels to lesser-filled channels, so we manually put it on a channel that only we are on. Still get dropped connections. We thought too many devices being connected may be confusing it, so we dropped it down all the way to a single device, and that device got dropped within 10 minutes. We did this with multiple devices, and they all got dropped as well. The worst thing is, when multiple devices are connected and are all working just fine, only one or two will randomly lose connection while the others continue chugging along. It's totally random and unrepeatable.Overall, for a couple that has heavy internet demands and requires stability and consistency in their connection, this router gave us everything but. Its performance is inconsistent, it constantly drops our devices while showing no signs of trouble, and now we're stuck with it because Amazon's return policy on this "router" is only 30 days. Call me crazy, but I wish I were blowing 10 bucks a month on a Comcast rental router. At least it worked.DO NOT BUY.