Netgear’s latest Nighthawk Pro Gaming router cuts lag 93%

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 17, 2020
Updated June 19, 2025
4 min

Netgear is launching a new router for gamers that attacks one of the biggest problems for gamers during the pandemic — lag. The networking company’s $350 Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR1000 WiFi AX5400 Router aims to reduce lag, or interaction delays, for console and PC gamers.

During the last six months of the pandemic, I’ve been particularly annoyed with the slowness of the internet when it comes to playing multiplayer games like Call of Duty: Warzone. I’ve tried a few different solutions to the problem that I’ll write about in an upcoming column. Meanwhile, this router could be one of my keys to victory in Warzone.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.