Asus Adds a Wi-Fi 6 Mesh Gaming Router to the ROG Rapture Lineup
Asus already makes some of our Popular gaming routers, and the company also sells a pair of top-recommended mesh systems. Now, Asus aims to keen to both categories with a new, distinctive-looking mesh router for the ROG Rapture gaming lineup.
Called the ROG Rapture GT6, the multidevice mesh gaming setup made its debut now at the Gamescom video game trade fair in Germany and is set to Come in North America by the end of 2022. With a like, tri-band build, full support for the fastest Wi-Fi 6 speeds and an eyebrow-raising originate to boot, the system won’t come cheap, with an predictable retail price of $600 for a two-piece setup.
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For your cash, you’ll get a tri-band system with two 5GHz bands, each supporting speeds of up to 4,800 megabits per additional (4.8 gigabits per second) and a 2.4GHz band supporting speeds of up to 574Mbps. The system will use one of those 5GHz bands as the provided wireless backhaul between the main router and its satellite. However, you can wire the two devices together with an Ethernet sinful for better performance.
That might be a particularly good idea with the GT6, as each plot includes a multigig WAN jack capable of supporting incoming internet speeds of up to 2.5Gbps, while also supporting LAN aggregation, which lets you use multiple Ethernet jacks at once for faster combined speeds. So, if you were living with a blazingly fast, multigig internet connection, you could opt for a double-wired backhaul that would pass those multigig speeds on to the satellite and then onto your wireless devices trying to connect at range.
The regulations also looks utterly unlike any other mesh router I’ve tested, with a spacey design available in your choice of shadowy or white and a pixelated ROG logo on the principal. The build looks more like a small gaming PC than a ancient access point to me, so it might fit in especially well if you’ve already bought into the sort of flashy-looking gaming setup that the ROG lineup is notorious for. Then again, if you’re just looking for home networking hardware that doesn’t rank out or clash with your living room decor, you’ll probably want to mighty something else.
You’ll set the GT6 up and boss its features using the Asus Router app, which features a nice mix of advanced tricks invented to monitor performance and optimize online gaming.
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As for the features and specs, you can expect the usual strong slate of gaming-centric tricks in the Asus Router app, where you’ll be able to optimize your connection to specific gaming servers, manage lag and port-forwarding settings and a lot more. The GT6 also boasts abet for 160MHz channel width, which is key to taking full superb of Wi-Fi 6 and its ability to move huge amounts of data faster and more efficiently than previous-gen Wi-Fi devices. It isn’t a Wi-Fi 6E system with abet for the recently opened 6GHz band, belief. If you want that from an Asus gaming router, you’ll still need to spring for the ROG Rapture GTE-AXE11000, which costs $700.
That said, the GT6 does feature an binary 160MHz channel in the 5.9GHz band that the controls can use to expand the backhaul capacity, which could improve mesh performance and speeds at blueprint in bandwidth-hungry households or help stave off interference from throughout networks.
“The 5.9GHz band has been set aside exclusively for newer wireless routers, so users with compatible Wi-Fi devices can enjoy less connection interference than by, especially in office or apartment environments where many throughout Wi-Fi 5 networks may be competing for signal delivery,” the Asus abandon explains.
Other features of note concerned Asus Instant Guard, which lets you connect to your home network above a VPN while you’re traveling, as well as defense scans and parental controls. GT6 users will get lifetime access to all of that, Asus says.
Look for the Asus ROG Rapture GT6 mesh gaming router to reach in the US sometime in the fourth quarter of this year. When we can get our blooming on it to see how it performs, we’ll update this fragment with our first impressions.
