Razer Announces the Sila Gaming Grade Wi-Fi Router

[E-curbi]

Tried many Razor products, all failed in a very short time, I'll pass.

Guess I'll say this again, maybe it will help someone decide or look into a new purchase.

Had great experiences with Razer mousing mats. The aircraft aluminum Razer Manticore was outstanding for me from 2012 to 2017. Now rocking the New Razer Invicta Mercury Edition in white, prefer hard mats, not soft. Soft mats are too darn slow and sluggish, my work desk surface by itself is faster.

I prefer a nice low-latency high speed mousing mat. lol

Technically superior surfaces for getting work done with Logitech MX Master 2S and MX Vertical mice. Like out of this world smooth and slick, some engineering buddies think I'm exaggerating, then they try the combo, and WOW!

Logitech MX Master 2S + Razer Invicta (4 colors available) + you must clean the surface with Isopropyl-based hand sanitizer daily = A mousing experience you've only dreamed of.


I'm only a seldom gamer but yea the Razer Invicta Mercury works extremely well with Doom 2016 also.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Interested to see a new addition in the "too expensive to justify" segment, goes right along with my asus AC5300 (bought it in a pinch because firmware was screwy on my AC3200) Once you get to the 100$ price point on routers, there really is no improvement on the router part, however they do add in little things here and there like the extra wifi radios on the Asus "spider" line of routers.

I wouldn't fully agree with that. You tend to get much better hardware around the $200 and then it's diminishing returns.
If you use your router for anything beyond just connecting a few devices via Wi-Fi to it, a bit higher-end hardware makes a huge difference.
Things like VPN performance is 100x better if your router has a decent SoC in it.
Obviously if you use things like the storage features on your NAS, this is also where you often see a big improvement on higher-end hardware. Not something I do, but still.
I'm really pleased with my Netgear R7800 as it's given me 100% up-time 24/7/365, well, except for when I update the firmware, which they've been quite decent at pushing out too. I guess that has been one advantage of getting a premium router and they have in fact added features over time, most impressively DFS band support.

Let's see if Razer manages to support this product, as pushing out updates as needed is not something I see them doing. Also a reason why I stay away from any ISP provided hardware, as they tend to be terrible in terms of providing updates.

 

[GC_PaNzerFIN]

Could there be a reason other brands have visible large antennas and many of them?

No, who cares about performance when you have looks!

 

[TheLostSwede]

It might be using Rivet's software, as they apparently support various Qualcomm Atheros router SoCs - https://www.rivetnetworks.com/products/access-points/network-processors/

 

[timta2]

Unless it's Apple , funny thought, just maybe it's a Apple with a few alterations.

Probably just some one else copying Apple's bad idea's again.

Apple was a very early adopter and trendsetter of WiFi technology and was probably designing wireless routers before your favorite company was.

 

[hat]

Back to the router... "But where are the antennae? antennaa? "

Already have enough square boxed shapes in the office, this router from Linksys with blue LEDs looks more Batman, more Dark Knight to me.

Internal antennas. I've seen plenty of other routers, and even owned one, that didn't have external antennas.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Razer ... hell NO! i want a quality router (even from the OEM brand that does it for Razer) at a correct price (even from the OEM brand that does it for Razer before they up the price due to black and green scheme and logo )

seriously they need to stop with that introduction... "Razer , the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers"

Internal antennas. I've seen plenty of other routers, and even owned one, that didn't have external antennas.

yep my Thomson router (who has 4 ethernet port ...) has internal Antennas (i got it since ... mmmmhhh 5 yrs now iirc

you must clean the surface with Isopropyl-based hand sanitizer daily = A mousing experience you've only dreamed of.

that's actually a nightmare ... my Alumic or my Siru don't need so much cleaning ... once per month is enough ... but that's 30 time less than that one ... (price? just for laugh )

 

[Arjai]

I am a NetGear user, No problems ever! Well except for now, With 6 computers on the rack below it, it get's a bit warm. I have ordered a couple of fans to help keep it, and the computer's cooler. One for attaching below the router, another to put on the window sill, to blow across the whole rack.

Since I got the 6 doing WCG, it has overheated a couple of times and I have had to reboot it to regain connection.

 

[hat]

Too easy if you have a USB port:

 

[GreiverBlade]

right now ... i am thinking the design is not so bad ... if it weren't for that green fleck on the top of the router


the OEM is "Ignition Design Labs" ? if yes, then they should to standalone product (with 4 lan port tho ), if they don't have already done it, i'm sure the would meet a great success