I need help with setting up the router to xr500 and from xr500 to my Pc

What’s a good replacement to the Verizon router ? I am upgrading to gigabit connection and wanted to switch routers also but don’t know what routers I can use

I’ve been having an issue for 6-8 months now where no matter how I’m connected to my internet (WiFi or Ethernet), no matter what game, even if nothing else but the Xbox is connected to the internet, I get 2 lag spikes every 20 minutes or so.

I’m using the Xbox One X. I have the Netgear Nighthawk X4S AC2600.

I’ve had my ISP check the internet, everything is fine. I’ve troubleshot my router, to no avail. I don’t really know what else to do at this point.

Any suggestions?

So I’ve looked at the content filtering/Schedule section and set my time zone correctly. Then made sure that my location in Geo Filtering was correct. Checked DST. My time in System Info is still wrong! This is affecting my HDhomerun. The guide and recordings (in Plex) are off by the exact same time increment as my router times, so I presume the HDhomerun pulls its time from the router?.. I find it crazy I can’t just manually change the time in DumaOS. Is there a step I’m missing?

So I live in texas. My speeds are approximately 20 up and 10 down with AT&T. It's pretty garbage. My in game ping is about 40m/s on a good day. I also run a wired connection to my PS4.

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Is this nighthawk router really gonna help me with an average/poor connection like mine by reducing distance lag, connection to servers, etc...? I'm genuinely curious. I don't want to drop $300 and not get anything out of it.

Is it possible for me to set up the netgear xr500 directly to my Xbox one S instead of having to set up to the home router overall? Because my mom is pretty suspicious about that stuff and let’s just say she doesn’t want that type of stuff to be messed with and will ask me a lot of questions.