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TP-Link today announced the availability of the Archer AX5400 Pro, and as the name suggests, it comes with a 2.5GbE Multi-Gig WAN port. Since the Deco XE75 Pro, TP-Link has been releasing the “Pro” version of existing Wi-Fi broadcasters with the support for Multi-Gig as the sole apparent upgrade. While …
The TerraMaster T6-423 is supposed to be a much more advanced NAS server compared to the previous F2-223. Among other things, it has six drive bays and two NVMe slots, rivaling the DS1621+, Synology’s latest consumer-grade server of the same capacity. But the extra drive bays are exactly this new …
The new EnGenius ECW336 Cloud Managed Access Point, released late last year, is easily one of the most expensive APs on the market. Its $850 launch price makes the previous $600 ECW230 seem affordable. Since then, its street cost has come down, but it’s still prohibitively expensive to those wanting …
In many ways, the ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 Pro is the upgrade to ASUS’s GT-AX11000 that came out more than three years ago. If the latter is ASUS’s first step into Wi-Fi 6, the new router is its final hardware in this Wi-Fi standard. It seems that way, anyway. And to …
This is the ASUS RT-AXE7800 vs. NETGEAR RAXE300 matchup I promised in the review of the former. Asus’s latest Wi-Fi 6E router is the answer to the NETGEAR’s counterpart, whether or not anyone wants to admit it. Sharing the exact same Wi-Fi specs and processing power, the two seem to …
The RT-AXE7800 is not ASUS’s first Wi-Fi 6E Tri-Band router—far from it. Before this, the company already had the GT-AXE11000, ZenWiFi ET8, GT-AXE16000, and ZenWiFi Pro ET12. But the new router still manages to be unique. Its hardware specs remind me of the NETGEAR RAXE300, and its appearance brings back …
The Orbi RBK860 series—first unveiled on October 11, 2022, as a 3-pack model RBK863S—is the latest member of NETGEAR’s popular Orbi family of purpose-built mesh Wi-Fi systems. With Wi-Fi 6E on the rise and Wi-Fi 7 around the corner, I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out to be the …
