ASUS Shows off New High Performance Routers

[SKYMTL]

To many, ASUS is one of the leaders in the router market with several marquee products already under their belts. At CES 2012, the upcoming RT-N66U dual-band Gigabit Wireless Router and the ASUS EA-N66 dual-band wireless Ethernet adapter were both shown off.

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[JD]

Too late, especially since 802.11ac is coming for 2012. Why bother with 802.11n anymore!

It does look like an extremely solid consumer router though.

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by JD

Too late, especially since 802.11ac is coming for 2012. Why bother with 802.11n anymore!

It does look like an extremely solid consumer router though.

It took a damn long time for N to get out of draft I don't see .ac being used that quickly that soon. And a lot of people don't even use N fully yet.

G and N are still widely used and I would say G more than N

[Inik]

I changed to N last year haha

[JD]

Originally Posted by enaberif

It took a damn long time for N to get out of draft I don't see .ac being used that quickly that soon. And a lot of people don't even use N fully yet.

G and N are still widely used and I would say G more than N

True, but the rumored price on this is close to $200 if I recall. Not really worth spending more than $100 on a router IMO.

And I think we'll see 802.11ac come up pretty quickly, since it's offering gigabit speeds now, it'll greatly improve upon HD streaming. The way TV's are going, being so thin, I think we need to ditch cables and have strictly wireless streaming between devices. Cables/connectors add too much "baggage" to LED/OLED TV's.

[SKYMTL]

AC will take a LONG time to get any traction. The routers may support it but unless you're planning on grabbing a new notebook, etc right away too, it will be totally lost.

[Behemoth-]

I got an Asus RT-16n past summer, noticed that it wasn't quite enough for Blu ray streaming so I turned WiFi back off. By the time we get decent Wifi, something like 4K or whatever will be out and it will already be outdated.