Netgear R7900

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Nighthawk X6 - AC3000 Tri-Band Router
Netgear R7900.jpg
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Platform
BrandModelRev
Netgear R7900-100NAS
FCC ID
IC ID
Board ID
U12H315T00
Type
wireless router
Series
Nighthawk X6
CPU1
Broadcom BCM4709A0
CPU1 Type
ARMv7 Cortex-A9
CPU1 Speed
1.0 GHz ( 2 cores )
Flash1 Chip
Macronix MX30LF1G08AA-TI
Flash1 Size
128 MiB134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br />
RAM1 Size
256 MiB268,435,456 B <br />2,097,152 Kib <br />262,144 KiB <br />2,048 Mib <br />0.25 GiB <br />
RAM1 Chip
Samsung K4B2G1646Q-BCK0
ETH chip1
Broadcom BCM4709A0
Switch
Broadcom BCM4709A0
Ethernet Port Count
1-1GbE-WAN
4-1GbE-LAN
Wired Standard
IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab

802dot11 OUI: none specified

Stock bootloader
CFE
Stock FW OS
Linux
Expansion IF types
USB 3.0
USB ports
1
USB Hub Compatible
Untested
Power
12 VDC, 5 A
Connector type
barrel
Serial Port (UART)
yes, 4-pin header, internal, populated, 3.3V TTL

Additional chips
2.4GHz Front End Module;Skyworks;SKY85309-11;;3;
5GHz Front End Module;Skyworks;SKY85710-11;;3;
5GHz Front End Module;Skyworks;SKY85712-21;SKY21, 85712, 416S5;3;
3-lane, 3-port PCIe Gen2 Switch;PLX;PEX8603;PLX, PEX8603-AB50NI G, 1413, 3306D, TAIWAN;1;

Other

Default SSID: NETGEARXX (35 addl. devices)
Default login user: admin
Default login password: password
admin:password credentials used by 420 additional devices
of which 301 are Netgear devices

Manuf/OEM/ODM
Foxconn U12H315 T00
3rd Party Firmware Support
OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs)
, FreshTomato • (List | DLs)
Retail
FCC approval date 05 October 2015
(Est.) release date 22 June 2015
(Est.) initial retail price (in USD): $250
ASIN B0106N5OOW Flag of the United States.svg
Country of manuf China
Radio 1
Chip1
Broadcom BCM43602
Wireless interface OUI
none specified
Antenna Connector Type
none specified
MIMO status
3x3:3
Wireless Standard
IEEE 802.11a/n/ac
802.11ac
up to 1300 Mbps
802.11n
up to 450 Mbps
802.11a
up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency
5 GHz
Radio cor_rev
40
Radio 2
Chip1
Broadcom BCM43602
Wireless interface OUI
none specified
Antenna Connector Type
none specified
MIMO status
3x3:3
Wireless Standard
IEEE 802.11a/n/ac
802.11ac
up to 1300 Mbps
802.11n
up to 450 Mbps
802.11a
up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency
5 GHz
Radio cor_rev
40
Radio 3
Chip1
Broadcom BCM43602
Wireless interface OUI
none specified
Antenna Connector Type
none specified
MIMO status
3x3:3
Wireless Standard
IEEE 802.11b/g/n
802.11n
up to 450 Mbps
802.11g
up to 54 Mbps
802.11b
up to 11 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency
2.4 GHz
 FCC ID
Netgear R8000PY314200264
 CPU1 brandRadio1 chip1 brandRadio2 chip1 brand
Netgear R7900BroadcomBroadcomBroadcom
Netgear R7900PBroadcomBroadcomBroadcom

For a list of all currently documented Broadcom chipsets with specifications, see Broadcom.

For a list of all currently documented Netgear device with specifications, see Netgear.

1300 Mbps - 3SS 5GHz 802.11ac (80MHz chan.) backhaul,
1300 Mbps - 3SS 5GHz 802.11ac (80MHz chan.),
450 Mbps - 3SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan., 256-QAM) = AC3000 class


Overview

This is yet another artificially limited Costco exclusive model. In this case, the R7900 is a R8000 with 256QAM disabled on the three stream 2.4GHz radio limiting its maximum theoretical speed to 450Mbps instead of 600Mbps. Also, the USB 2.0 port was removed for the R7900.

While not really represented well in the infobox, this is a tri-radio device - all radios (2x 5GHz [an+ac], 1x 2.4GHz [bgn]) used are BCM43602 (FullMAC) is supported in the mainline Linux kernel by brcmfmac

See also: Netgear R8000 and Foxconn

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