Netgear R7500

Netgear R7500 -100NAS v1
(Nighthawk X4)
Availability: now

Manuf (OEM/ODM): Delta Networks

FCC approval date: 10 June 2014
(Est.) release date: 03 September 2014
(Est.) initial retail price (in USD): $280
UPC: 606449104110 (UPC DB, On eBay)
Country of manuf.: China
Series: AC2350

Amazon image

ASIN
B00MRVJY5C (, On Amazon, On CCC)
multiple revisions of this device, use caution

Type: wireless router

FCC ID: PY314100258, PY314300288
IC ID: 4054A-14100258
PCB ID: 2976484100

Power: 12 VDC, 3.5 A
Connector type: barrel

CPU1: Qualcomm IPQ8064 (1.4 GHz, 2 cores)
CPU2: Quantenna QT3840BC
FLA1: 128 MiB134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br /> (Micron MT29F1G08ABBEAH4:E)
FLA2: 16 MiB16,777,216 B <br />131,072 Kib <br />16,384 KiB <br />128 Mib <br />0.0156 GiB <br /> (Brand? SPI)
RAM1: 256 MiB268,435,456 B <br />2,097,152 Kib <br />262,144 KiB <br />2,048 Mib <br />0.25 GiB <br /> (Winbond W631GU6KB-15 × 2)
RAM2: 128 MiB134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br /> (Winbond W631GG6KB-12)

Expansion IFs: USB 3.0, eSATA
USB ports: 2
SATA ports: 1
Serial: yes, internal, 4-pin header, populated, 3.3V TTL

WI1 chip1: Quantenna QT3840BC
WI1 chip2: Quantenna QT2518B
WI1 802dot11 protocols: an+ac
WI1 MIMO config: 4x4:4
WI1 antenna connector: RP-SMA
WI2 chip1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9880
WI2 802dot11 protocols: bgn
WI2 MIMO config: 3x3:3
WI2 antenna connector: RP-SMA

ETH chip1: Qualcomm IPQ8064
Switch: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8337
LAN speed: 1G
LAN ports: 4
WAN speed: 1G
WAN ports: 1

abgn+ac

Stock FW OS: Linux

TPFirmware supported: Voxel

Flags: DFS

Default SSID: NETGEARXX (35 addl. devices)
Default login user: admin
Default login password: password
admin:password credentials used by 424 additional devices
of which 304 are Netgear devices

802dot11 OUI: E4:F4:C6 (3 E, 3 W)
Ethernet OUI: E4:F4:C6 (3 E, 3 W)

	CPU1 brand	WI1 chip1 brand	WI2 chip1 brand
Netgear R7500	Qualcomm	Quantenna	Qualcomm Atheros
Netgear R7500v2	Qualcomm	Qualcomm Atheros	Qualcomm Atheros

For a list of all currently documented Qualcomm chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm.
For a list of all currently documented Qualcomm Atheros (QCA) chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm Atheros.
For a list of all currently documented Quantenna chipsets with specifications, see Quantenna.

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• 1733 Mbps - 4-stream 802.11ac device (433Mbps per stream),

• 600 Mbps - max. PHY rate for the 40MHz wide 2.4GHz channel = 2350 Mbps class

Nighthawk X4 - AC2350 Smart Wi-Fi Router

Product page  • Support page

"2976484100" appears to be silkscreened on the board.

See also: Netgear R7500v2, Netgear and Delta Networks

Note: There are currently multiple FCC IDs which purport to

be for the R7500: PY314100258 and PY314300288.

Per the FCC photos..

• The NAND flash is marked w/ 4EE17 NW360 (FBGA code NW360):

MT29F1G08ABBEAH4:E, 1Gbit SLC NAND

Hardware

According to these slides (referenced at the SmallNetBuilder link below),

this device is using a dual-core processor running at 1.4 GHz.

This would indicate that it is not using Broadcom's BCM4709,

but more likely a Qualcomm Atheros IPQ8064

(w/ a noted max. clock of 1.4 GHz, per Anandtech)

... or perhaps a Marvell Armada XP/375/385.

News

• Netgear Readies 4 Radio Router on DailyWireless
• Netgear AC2350 Router On The Way on SmallNetBuilder
• World premiere, Netgear Netgear R7500 AC2350 wireless router
  detailed evaluation of the box, comes teardown map on KoolShare

Forum threads

• How to open R7500 and connect the serial header to a Linux computer
• Mediatrek's thread (NETGEAR R7500 Nighthawk X4 AC2350 Router)
  on the SmallNetBuilder forums

Internal images on KoolShare

DDR3 SDRAM on Winbond

• Netgear R7500 on ChipHell

Reviews

• Tim Higgins review on SmallNetBuilder
• Review on FoxNetwork
• Review on iXBT.com (RU)
• Review on OpenITForum (PL)
• Andrew Van Til's review on Missing Remote