Wednesday, May 4th 2016
ASUS Intros the Monstrous PCE-AC88 PCIe Wireless Adapter
ASUS announced its flagship PCI-Express wireless networking adapter, the PCE-AC88. The card is the first in the market to offer dual-band 4x4 AC3100 Wi-Fi, with speeds of up to 2.1 Gbps at 5 GHz, and 1 Gbps at 2.4 GHz. It takes advantage of 4x4 NitroQAM (1024-QAM) to offer such speeds. A 3x3 adapter would serve 1.3 Gbps. The PCE-AC88 includes a set of four antennae that you can directly attach to the card (ideal for to use the card as a WLAN client), as well as an external, router-looking module for the antennae, letting you use your card (your machine) as a WLAN router, using the included software. The card features a PCI-Express 2.0 x1 bus interface. The company didn't reveal pricing or availability.
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BTW, last week I've replaced my infamous PCE-N53 with some no-name Ralink-based adapter (bought on PC junkyard for $3) and it worked out of the box in Win10/Ubuntu/FreeBSD while keeping connection @ steady 300Mbit/s.
No connection drops, no random ping increases or lost packets, no headaches. Just lacks the 5GHz band.
Ok, I read it.... sound's cool. A flagship NIC though, haha.... I guess you could call it that though.
I think somebody's watching too much Star Trek.... It's probably me, actually.
No mention of price tho. Im guessing it's ~100$/100€+ considering AC68 was ~70€