TP-Link’s first Wi-Fi 7 gaming router costs $600

The TP-Link Archer GE800 Wi-Fi 7 tri-band gaming router was archetypal announced successful precocious 2022 earlier making appearances astatine CES 2023 and CES 2024, alongside a bunch of Wi-Fi 7 laptops. It’s yet available starting today for $599.99, though those excited to upgrade instantly tin prevention $100 arsenic portion of a “limited-time motorboat promotion.”

Designed to instrumentality afloat vantage of the broader 6GHz wireless spectrum that Wi-Fi 6E archetypal had entree to, Wi-Fi 7 further increases speeds by doubling the maximum transmission bandwidth from 160MHz to 320MHz, allowing much information to beryllium transmitted.

The Wi-Fi 7 spec besides allows connections to span aggregate bands with a diagnostic called Multi-Link Operation (MLO). For example, a record tin beryllium downloaded connected the 6Ghz set astatine 1Gbps and connected the 5GHz set astatine 500Mbps, resulting successful combined download speeds of 1.5Gbps. TP-Link boasts the caller tri-band Archer GE800 tin execute wireless speeds up to 19Gbps by spreading information crossed the 6, 5, and 2.4GHz bands simultaneously.

Just support successful caput that you’ll request a Wi-Fi 7-compatible instrumentality similar the Google Pixel 8, the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, oregon precocious announced laptops similar the Razer Blade 16 oregon Lenovo Legion 7i to instrumentality afloat vantage of those speeds. None of the existent harvest of gaming consoles enactment Wi-Fi 7.

The Archer GE800 besides features a brace of 10Gbps ethernet ports and 4 2.5Gbps ports, with 1 serving arsenic a dedicated gaming larboard that prioritizes web postulation from a connected console, though the Xbox Series X / S and PS5 lone see gigabit ports. And due to the fact that each portion of gaming hardware needs to enactment connected an elaborate airy show, the GE800 features multicolor lighting that tin beryllium controlled from a desktop app sheet that besides provides insights connected router show and the presumption of the network.