Nighthawk Mesh Extenders AX6000 Mesh Extenders WiFi 6 Mesh Extenders 8-stream Mesh Extenders WiFi Mesh Extenders Mesh Extenders The Nighthawk® AX8 8-Stream WiFi 6 Mesh Extender creates a powerful whole home mesh WiFi with your existing WiFi. Enjoy a better connected home experience and extend faster WiFi to the farthest corner of your home with blazing-fast speeds up to 6Gbps. 8-stream WiFi provides more available bandwidth for all devices in the WiFi network. Performance Linux operating systems supported Yes Mac operating systems supported Yes Windows operating systems supported Yes Ethernet LAN data rates 10,100,1000 Mbit/s BeamForming Yes Data transfer rate 6000 Mbit/s Type Network repeater Antenna Antenna type Internal Network Security algorithms 128-bit AES, AES Modulation 1024-QAM Wi-Fi band Dual-band (2.4 GHz / 5 GHz) Wi-Fi standards 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac), Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Wi-Fi Yes Networking standards IEEE 802.11k Ports & interfaces