TP-Link Sets a New Standard in Gaming Connectivity With Revolutionary Archer BE19000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Gaming Router

[TheLostSwede]

TP-Link, a leading global provider of consumer and business networking products, today announced availability of the highly anticipated, 2023 CES Innovation Award Honoree, Archer GE800 BE19000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Gaming Router. Designed for gaming enthusiasts, the Archer GE800 sets the stage for a new era of gaming performance with jaw-dropping tri-band speeds of up to 19 Gbps†, two 10 Gbps ports, and game-acceleration features that redefine gaming experiences.

The Archer GE800 is the ultimate choice for power-players seeking to elevate their gaming experience with revolutionary Wi-Fi 7 technology. With advanced capabilities like reduced latency and enhanced stability, Wi-Fi 7 creates a superior gaming environment for a more responsive and immersive experience. Offering Wi-Fi speeds of up to 19 Gbps across three bands and 12 streams, supported by dual 10 Gbps and quad 2.5 Gbps wired ports, every device receives unparalleled bandwidth.




Stay immersed in intense battles with advanced acceleration for gaming devices, applications, and game servers. This tech works together to stabilize connections, minimize lag, and unlock blazing-fast speeds through a WTFast Gamers Private Network (GPN). Gamers can unlock additional insights and conquer the competition with a powerful game panel that displays network status, router performance, RGB settings, and accelerated games and gear in real time at a glance.

All this power is housed within an eye-catching, sleek, high-performance launchpad design. Equipped with smooth multicolor RGB lighting and an optimized antenna layout, the Archer GE800 ensures quality connections, emitting an electrifying atmosphere into any game room, pulsing with the energy of victory.

To ensure total security while gaming online, the Archer GE800 is fully equipped with TP-Link HomeShield and a series of built-in services to provide comprehensive antivirus protection. Eliminate Wi-Fi dead zones with EasyMesh compatibility that allows any EasyMesh-compatible access point to be added to the network to deliver even more consistent coverage.

Pricing & Availability
The TP-Link Archer GE800 BE19000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Gaming Router has an MSRP of $599.99 and is now available on Amazon with a limited-time launch promotion at $499.99.

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[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Needs a red plasma ball in the middle, for reasons.

 

[dirtyferret]

I went to buy one and they asked me for a clearance code. I used an older code but it checked out

 

[Onasi]

Eye catching? Sure. Sleek? I don’t know about THAT TP-Link.
Also, active cooling, huh? Guess the Wi-Fi 7 chipsets are fairly new and do run hot, but it’s a dealbreaker, IMO. Potential noise and a point of failure.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Also, active cooling, huh? Guess the Wi-Fi 7 chipsets are fairly new and do run hot, but it’s a dealbreaker, IMO. Potential noise and a point of failure.

It's not so much that the SoC gets much hotter, it's more of an issue with cooling the power amplifiers for the WiFi signal and with more and more radios...
Also, 10 Gbps Ethernet outputs some extra heat as well.

 

[Chaitanya]

Eye catching? Sure. Sleek? I don’t know about THAT TP-Link.
Also, active cooling, huh? Guess the Wi-Fi 7 chipsets are fairly new and do run hot, but it’s a dealbreaker, IMO. Potential noise and a point of failure.

I suspect its for the 10Gbps NICs and not so much for Wifi7 chipset.

 

[Onasi]

@TheLostSwede @Chaitanya
Come to think of it - probably. All pro-grade 10 Gig switches I’ve seen were active cooled.
Still, this seems like an overkill for… 99% of consumers? And marketing it towards gamers is even sillier - bandwidth is not particularly important for online games, it’s all about latencies.

 

[_JP_]

Does $600 mean that TP-Link will actually support it for more than a couple of years or 3 months after "Rev. 2.0" comes out, or is that for ever other product they make that costs less?

Good thing OpenWRT and DD-WRT exist and the community makes quick work of the firmware.

 

[TheLostSwede]

@TheLostSwede @Chaitanya
Come to think of it - probably. All pro-grade 10 Gig switches I’ve seen were active cooled.
Still, this seems like an overkill for… 99% of consumers? And marketing it towards gamers is even sillier - bandwidth is not particularly important for online games, it’s all about latencies.

TP-Link and Trendnet have five port passive ones, but those are the only ones I know of.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Combo?

Aren't they Shared instead of Combo? Weird name.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Does $600 mean that TP-Link will actually support it for more than a couple of years or 3 months after "Rev. 2.0" comes out, or is that for ever other product they make that costs less?

Good thing OpenWRT and DD-WRT exist and the community makes quick work of the firmware.

Except OpenWRT is supporting less and less new hardware. All Broadcom hardware is off the table, which means most Asus routers and I'm sure plenty of TP-Link hardware as well.
Qualcomm is partially supported. The best bet is to get something with MediaTek hardware if you want to run OpenWRT.
I just wish OpenWrt would make a modern, "simple" UI.

 

[Chaitanya]

@TheLostSwede @Chaitanya
Come to think of it - probably. All pro-grade 10 Gig switches I’ve seen were active cooled.
Still, this seems like an overkill for… 99% of consumers? And marketing it towards gamers is even sillier - bandwidth is not particularly important for online games, it’s all about latencies.

That gamer aesthetic and marketting aside this can be a very good router for content creators with 3x 10Gbps ports for connecting NAS and PCs but also with fast wifi for those who want to access their files wirelessly. Also its a shame it wont be cheaper than buying dedicated switch(there is decent selection of 8 port switches with mix of 2.5 and 10Gbps ports at sub $200 price point) and buying a fast wireless access point.

 

[bonehead123]

Well, for those prices, any price really, the only place TP stuff belongs is next to or in the crapper, and the fact that it resembles a Darth shuttle makes it even less attractive and an auto-no-buy for me

 

[Double-Click]

^ You really won't like the prices/offerings from Netgear, Linksys etc then for WiFi 7.
I've been eye-balling the BE75 / BE1700 2-piece mesh set from these guys ($650), compared to others where are well over four figures.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

10Gbps ports are a great touch, but they both should have been 10GBASE-T instead of one being SFP+....I don't want to hear it.....10GBASE-T hardware is now every bit as cheap as SFP+ hardware so that's not an advantage anymore, and tour typical home user wants to use CAT6a, not fiber and they're not running DACs through their walls....not to mention costly transceivers.

**Edit: Checked on their web page and it looks like one is 10GBASE-T and the other is a RJ45/SFP+ "combo" (that's what it calls it on their webpage) so I'm guess that means if you use the RJ45 port, rhe SFP is disabled and vice versa.

That gamer aesthetic and marketting aside this can be a very good router for content creators with 3x 10Gbps ports for connecting NAS and PCs but also with fast wifi for those who want to access their files wirelessly. Also its a shame it wont be cheaper than buying dedicated switch(there is decent selection of 8 port switches with mix of 2.5 and 10Gbps ports at sub $200 price point) and buying a fast wireless access point.

There are only 2x 10Gbps ports....one is 10GBASE-T and the other is a 10GBASE-T/SFP+ port....the product page specifies it as a "combo port" so my guess is that you can only use EITHER the SFP or the RJ45, but not both

 

[TheLostSwede]

^ You really won't like the prices/offerings from Netgear, Linksys etc then for WiFi 7.
I've been eye-balling the BE75 / BE1700 2-piece mesh set from these guys ($650), compared to others where are well over four figures.

The RS300 is "only" $330. No 10 Gbps ports though.

Netgear Introduces New Additions to Industry-leading WiFi 7 Lineup of Home Networking Products

NETGEAR, Inc., the leading provider of innovative and secure solutions for people to connect and manage their digital lives, today expanded its WiFi 7 mesh and standalone router lines with the new Orbi 770 Tri-band Mesh System and Nighthawk RS300 Router. NETGEAR's most affordable WiFi 7 products...

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[Neo_Morpheus]

Where have i seen this before?

 

[_JP_]

Except OpenWRT is supporting less and less new hardware. All Broadcom hardware is off the table, which means most Asus routers and I'm sure plenty of TP-Link hardware as well.
Qualcomm is partially supported. The best bet is to get something with MediaTek hardware if you want to run OpenWRT.
I just wish OpenWrt would make a modern, "simple" UI.

Broadcom is evil and that does not surprise me.
Qualcomm ought to do better then, because their SDK is based-off OpenWRT, last I knew.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Broadcom is evil and that does not surprise me.
Qualcomm ought to do better then, because their SDK is based-off OpenWRT, last I knew.

It's obviously about how open they are with drives, which only MTK seems to be these days.
Everything is so f-ing proprietary and secret that I want to vomit sometimes.

 

[_JP_]

Everything is so f-ing proprietary and secret that I want to vomit sometimes.

Quite frankly, same.

"Obey industry standards? Sure, but won't tell you how so you cannot 'plug-in'.
Release documentation or tools to service once you stop supporting it commercially? Nope, patented stuff. Bugger off.
Follow sustainable guidelines? Yes, you buy new when released and do recycle your old one, thanks."

 

[Dr. Dro]

Not buying TP-Link ever again until they remove the whole spyware crap from the router

 

[Double-Click]

The RS300 is "only" $330. No 10 Gbps ports though.

Netgear Introduces New Additions to Industry-leading WiFi 7 Lineup of Home Networking Products

NETGEAR, Inc., the leading provider of innovative and secure solutions for people to connect and manage their digital lives, today expanded its WiFi 7 mesh and standalone router lines with the new Orbi 770 Tri-band Mesh System and Nighthawk RS300 Router. NETGEAR's most affordable WiFi 7 products...

www.techpowerup.com

Unfortunately I really need to move to a full-on mesh system rather than a dedicated router / adding nodes.
The BE1700 has 1x 10gig port, and this BE1000 just has 2.5s (and 6 vs 8 antennas per), so I could get that for $400 instead of $650.

Not buying TP-Link ever again until they remove the whole spyware crap from the router

Wait what?

 

[Dr. Dro]

Wait what?

TP-Link Said to be Sharing all Router Traffic with Third Party

This https://rog.asus.com/networking/rog-rapture-gt-ax6000-model/ It should be reasonably future proof, as long as you don't care about the 6 GHz band. Yes, it's big, clunky and fugly, but it's the first consumer router with two 2.5 Gbps ports. It's the most stable router I've ever owned. Never...

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After discovering this I put my trusty ASUS RT-AC68U back. Haven't even bothered upgrading my WiFi since.

 

[starfals]

I went to buy one and they asked me for a clearance code. I used an older code but it checked out

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LOL, good one

 

[jaszy]

Prob Qualcomm 1220. Design layout is mirror'd from BE800 in regards to ports. Maybe a revision of the original one launched last year?