In this video I take a look at the Netgear WAX610 WiFi 6 access point (AX1800) and, honestly, it’s a breath of fresh air after my somewhat disappointing experience with the WAX214. I’ve been running a pair of WAX610s for several days and I’ve had nothing but solid, reliable performance, which is exactly what I want out of an access point. I cover the hardware design, the LED indicators, the 2.5GbE uplink, and PoE (802.3at), and I show how quick it is to get it powered up and online. Then I spend most of the time in the local web UI, because I’m not doing the cloud-managed “Insights” thing. I don’t like cloud things, and you don’t have to use it—local management works fine (you mainly lose mesh features). I walk through firmware upgrade gotchas (manual upgrade first if you’re on older firmware), SSID setup (up to 8), WPA3/WPA2 options, VLAN tagging for home/guest, and the global radio settings like channel width. I also show monitoring pages (clients, logs, packet capture/ping), and I jump over to my HPE switch to show why I recommend leaving LLDP enabled—your switch can identify the APs, ports, and PoE negotiation details. Overall, the WAX610 gives me the configuration flexibility I expect and the reliability I was hoping for.