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The ASUS ROG STRIX GS-BE18000 tri-band Wi-Fi 7 gaming router was first available at select retailers on May 20, 2025, together with the TUF-BE9400. However, it wasn’t what it was intended to be at launch due to various reasons. Among those, the support for Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC), the 6GHz … Continue Reading
The RT-BE58U—a.k.a. RT-BE3600 for those who shop at Best Buy—is ASUS’s third dual-band Wi-Fi 7 standalone router, and the most modest out of the pack, compared to the previous RT-BE88U and RT-BE86U. However, it has enough for a home with Gigabit-class broadband. Here’s the bottom line: The ASUS RT-BE58U is … Continue Reading
The Archer BE700 is another confusing option among TP-Link’s existing soup of Wi-Fi 7 routers. It’s a BE15000 router, which means, according to the way TP-Link has released its hardware, there’s a chance you’ll find an Archer BE15000, which would be the same hardware with a different model name. In … Continue Reading
The Archer GE650, first announced at CES 2025, is in many ways the lesser version of TP-Link’s first Wi-Fi 7 gaming router, the Archer GE800. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The new router is much more compact while delivering a similar experience as far as Wi-Fi is concerned … Continue Reading
Among popular networking vendors, Ubiquiti has a unique approach, UniFi, that suits users across all demographics, from novices to enterprises. If you’ve never heard of Ubiquiti before, you didn’t miss much. Coinciding with the official availability of Wi-Fi 7, UniFi has only recently (since early 2025) become exceptionally relevant to … Continue Reading
If you find NETGEAR’s Nighthawk RS200‘s $200 price tag a bit too high, the Nighthawk RS100 is a worthy alternative that costs $50 less. As the name suggests, this is the entry-level router. However, for those happy with dual-band Wi-Fi 7 who have modest bandwdith needs, it might be the … Continue Reading
Amazon today announced the eero 7 and eero Pro 7, adding them to the eero Wi-Fi 7 family, which already includes the eero Max 7 mesh router and eero 7 Outdoor access point. These new products are both mesh routers—they each can work as a standalone router, or you can … Continue Reading
Judging from the model names, you might think the ASUS RT-BE92U BE9700 tri-band router is simply the Wi-Fi 7 version of the previous Wi-Fi 6 RT-AX92U. That’d be reasonable. After all, the RT-BE86U is the latest variant of the RT-AX86U, and the RT-BE88U is the latest in the RT-XX88U lineage. … Continue Reading
