Asus brings Wi-Fi 7 to its tri-band ROG gaming router

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Asus announced three caller Wi-Fi 7 products today, including a tri-band ROG Rapture GT gaming router, a dual-band router, and a caller Wi-Fi 7 USB adapter.

The ROG Rapture GT-BE19000 has a familiar, 80s retro-future look shared by predecessors similar the quad-band GT-BE98, on with astir of the aforesaid specs, including 2 10Gbps and 5 2.5Gbps ethernet ports. It besides supports 320MHz transmission bandwidth connected the 6GHz band, which unlocks overmuch higher throughput (although you’ll request a 2Gbps-or-higher transportation to your ISP for that to shine).

The ROG Rapture GT-BE19000 has 7 (7) ethernet ports.

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Since the GT-BE19000 uses Wi-Fi 7’s multi-link cognition feature, you can link a supported instrumentality to the 6GHz and 5GHz set astatine the aforesaid clip for accrued throughput, little latency, and much stability.

Asus’ different caller router is the comparatively humble dual-band RT-BE86U. It’s Wi-Fi 7, truthful it tin enactment multi-link cognition crossed the 2.4GHz and 5Ghz bands. It besides has a 10Gbps WAN larboard for connecting to your modem oregon fibre ONT, on with 4 2.5Gbps ethernet ports for wiring up your gaming PC and whatnot.

A representation of the Asus RT-86U from the front. It’s black, has a reddish chevron-shaped portion astatine the bottom, and 3 antennas jutting from the top.

The RT-86U, a dual-band Wi-Fi 7 router.

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A representation of the USB-BE92, which is angular, black, and longer than wide, with futuristic lines and a ROG oculus logo connected it.

Stick this successful your PC and download with it.

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Finally, Asus announced the ROG USB-BE92, an outer USB Wi-Fi 7 card. It connects utilizing USB-A oregon USB-C, and Asus says it should enactment with Windows 10 oregon 11 PCs retired of the container — conscionable plug it successful and go. It’s an casual mode to adhd Wi-Fi 7 to a machine erstwhile you’ve upgraded to a Wi-Fi 7 router, unlocking features similar MLO for amended stableness and faster throughput.

Asus didn’t denote immoderate merchandise dates oregon prices for these devices.

Wi-Fi 7 is the adjacent mentation of Wi-Fi to travel Wi-Fi 6E. Like Wi-Fi 6E, the protocol works connected the 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz bands, and it’s backward-compatible with devices that precede it. Wi-Fi 7 promises higher throughput, with features similar 320MHz transmission bandwidth (twice what’s offered connected Wi-Fi 6E), Multi-Link Operation (which combines bands into a 1 for greater throughput and much stablility), and improved interference handling.

More Wi-Fi 7 routers person deed the marketplace and prices are opening to travel down, though it’s inactive aboriginal days. Even if your devices don’t enactment it yet, you whitethorn payment from Wi-Fi 7 mesh systems, which volition beryllium capable to instrumentality vantage of the features listed supra for faster, much unchangeable wireless backhaul connections betwixt nodes.

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