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The EBA63 is not a huge deal in terms of Wi-Fi. In fact, it’s rather dated in specs, supporting the mid-tier AX3000 Wi-Fi 6. However, it’s the first standalone access point of ASUS’s new ExpertWiFi family and features Power over Ethernet (PoE), something previous hardware of the same specs, such … Continue Reading
The ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Pro quad-band Wi-Fi 7 router is a sizable step up from the RT-BE96U. It represents the ROG gaming family and has everything the older cousin has, plus four extra Multi-Gigabit ports and a ton of gaming-related features. Here’s the bottom line: The GT-BE98 Pro is definitely … Continue Reading
If you’ve been looking for the perfect router to carry on the go and can’t justify the NETGEAR M6 Pro‘s agonizing $1000 price tag, the ASUS RT-AX57 Go AX3000 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 Travel Router, first announced in the last days of 2023 and recently available for purchase, is the much-needed … Continue Reading
I always believed the ASUS RT-AX88U Pro would be my last Wi-Fi 6 router review. Then, the ExpertWiFi EBR63 happened. Unveiled in the first days of 2023 and available almost a year later, this new router represents an entirely different product line of ASUS, the ExpertWiFi. It’ll be the first … Continue Reading
On January 4, 2023, ASUS unveiled its new ExpertWiFi product line. After unsurprisingly missing the initial availability target, initially set for “the first quarter of 2023, ” the networking vendor is finally shipping the ExpertWiFi EBR63 standalone router. There will soon be more hardware options, including those supporting Wi-Fi 7. … Continue Reading
The RT-BE96U is ASUS’s first Wi-Fi 7 router but far from the first of its type. Yet, it turned out to be the most exciting among its peers in my experience. It has the most to offer, including a real Wi-Fi 7 experience, though, like the rest, still lacks some … Continue Reading
Some two years after the release of the RP-AX56U range extender, ASUS finally made available the better version, the RT-AX58U. This brief take will compare the two and help you decide which to get. But if you are in a hurry, the RP-AX58U is an easy pick, considering it comes … Continue Reading
The ROG Rapture GT6 would make the most interesting hardware in ASUS’s ZenWifi canned mesh family, except it’s not a ZenWifi. Instead, ASUS touted it as “the first ROG mesh WiFi system optimized for gamers”. But you can consider it a marriage between the company’s ZenWifi approach and its standalone … Continue Reading
