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ASUS Shows Off its First Gaming Grade WiFi 7 Routers
ASUS at the 2023 International CES showed off its first gaming-grade next-generation WiFi 7 (802.11be) routers. These include the ASUS RT-BE96U dual-band WiFi 7 router under the company's main marquee, and the ROG Rapture GT-BE98, which the company says is the world's first quad-band WiFi 7 gaming router. The RT-BE96U features two 10 GbE ports, and has a total network switching bandwidth of 19 Gbps. The router includes a 6 GHz frequency band with 320 MHz radio band and 4096 QAM, which doubles the data-rate over WiFi 6E. The router supports WiFi 7 MLO (multi-link operation), allowing data-transmissions to span multiple frequency bands at the same time. The WLAN module also supports Multi-RU punctuating that works to reduce channel interference. The ROG Rapture GT-BE98 supports nearly all the features of the RT-BE96U, but with a quad-band radio setup, with peak switching bandwidth of 25 Gbps. Besides these, the router gets the distinctive ROG product styling, several game-specific QoS optimizations, game console optimizations, and Aura RGB LED setup that can sync with your PC's Aura setup over network.
33 Comments on ASUS Shows Off its First Gaming Grade WiFi 7 Routers
plastic shape, names, price?!
I just bought a Wi-fi 6 router a couple of months ago, didn't think i'd need a 6E, and now there 7 coming. Meanwhole, PCIe5 still populated by pcie4 hardware :rolleyes:
Nightmares from asus prometheus attacks no way man :fear:
Old twisted pairs connection doesn't work for faster speeds, and the internet providers require direct optic fibre to the client.
We don't even mention the large advantages of passive networks over optic fibres.
Don't buy it. Problem fixed.
I think its suffice to say that I don't think any of us actually need a wifi router "of this magnitude".
Is it supposed to look like this (the port):