NETGEAR Nighthawk Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience29.8% of reviews
Neutral6.8% of reviews
Negative experience63.4% of reviews

~ Based on 1,348 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about NETGEAR Nighthawk

Is NETGEAR Nighthawk Safe?

NETGEAR Nighthawk - WiFi App appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for NETGEAR Nighthawk is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 709,184 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 708,183 App Store ratings for NETGEAR Nighthawk.

Is NETGEAR Nighthawk Legit?

NETGEAR Nighthawk - WiFi App appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for NETGEAR Nighthawk is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Mid app.

Such a mid app. Plus it’s a router. First thing you do is try and push an ad for your “armour security”. That annoyed me so much I turned the free trial off. Now, about the app itself: limited functionality in adjusting your router from the app, the app seems very focused on pushing subs, can’t rearrange the button locations (to get rid of “armour security”). But to be fair. I’ll never load the app up again now that the router is set up.
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Nighthawk M7 Ultra is not supported in setup

The 5G wifi model M7 Ultra is not even listed in the manual setup, the QR code does not work, and the admin password to change the firmware settings is hidden.
It is a farce and I should have kept my M5….

Connectivity

Terrible product

Apps

The TV streaming sites are not connecting. Everything says all connected but no streaming services.

Best of the best

I just removed my cable box and installed the nighthawk CM3000 with the RS300. Setup was a piece of cake working with this app. Even a tech dummy like me was up and running within 60 minutes.

Awful, awful products and service

I no longer have the energy to describe all the problems I have and frustration I feel with NETGEAR. Not even my anger provides me this. Their after-sales service does all it can to avoid helping you. I cannot recommend enough you look elsewhere for the products and services they sell.

Non fiable

L’application fonctionne comme bon lui semble et toujour difficultés avec mon routeur

Excellent product

Excellent product but the app could be better with more network details added

Pop-Ups Everywhere

The Nighthawk app has way too many pop-ups. Everywhere you navigate, a new window pops up in front of you, trying to sell you something. It’s ridiculous. I just want to manage my home network. Leave me alone!

Incredible

Thank you so much for having a competent app and router (unlike the last one of each I had, I’d like to name them but won’t). The only suggestion I have is it would be nice if in the list of connected devices it would show next to them what they were connected to (2.4,5,6) Other than that this is totally awesome!
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Good Luck

Worked during my initial setup. Now I get a continuous message of “Firmware is out of date: Go to routerlogin.net or routerlogin.com to update firmware” whenever I launch the app. Here’s the kicker, you go to either of those links, and to gain access to the App’s control panel in that site, the Blue Link literally states “Router login page is not displayed” as an active link that takes you right back to that very page. There are no other options. I called Netgear support, I was told to contact my ISP and have a reset completed from the ISP end. Then I must reboot my modem/router, delete and re-install the Nighthawk app and the firmware will update. Did this twice, still have all of the same issues. “They know nothing, John Snow.” The app and support are total garbage.
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Shocked at how well reviewed this is

Almost never functions as expected, remote reboot has literally never once worked, port forwarding is a disaster. Seems like all the reviews just mention set up ease. That’s the only reason it’s not a one star review. Next router will definitely not be a Netgear

Forced unpolished software

Is if Netgear in general wasn’t bad enough, they were limiting drastically what you can do with the user interface that you access through your browser by and by doing so forcing you to use this poorly made application that rarely works and makes it extremely hard to keep your network secure, almost as hard as their terrible routers
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App is trash

App never works always says please wait
It’s never accurate
Causes more problems then what it’s worth

Great

Best I’ve had, and simple to set up.

Horrible

Really terrible app

Horrible app

Terrible time connecting and running app. Worthless.

App runs slow

The app continuously runs slow, takes a while to load, and when I try to turn on or off WiFi for a device it doesn’t allow me. Gives me an error message “Sorry, that action failed”. It’s frustrating and very annoying. Needs better access control.

Los mejores

1000% los recomiendo

Connection

I have been working on connecting this Nighthawk router for literally hours. I hope I never have to do this again.