Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro Review: Welcome to Wi-Fi 8
Source: Wired ·
The first Wi-Fi 8 router has arrived. This quad-band gaming beast from Asus is fabulously fast and feature-packed.
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Wi-Fi 8 hasn't fully arrived, and we're even further out from Wi-Fi 8-compatible devices to come out in the real world. But I've already gotten a taste of the future of wireless connectivity. I tried out Asus's first quad-band Wi-Fi 8 gaming router, ahead of the final certification of the latest Wi-Fi standard. The router is based on the latest draft spec of Wi-Fi 8, so it will be updated as the standard approaches final certification. The only way I could test the benefits of Wi-Fi 8 was to connect together two of these bad boys. After a couple of weeks of testing, there’s no denying the Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro is an impressive bit of kit with many extras you don’t get from other manufacturers, including a year of NordVPN service. The firmware has also been surprisingly reliable for me, unlike first-generation Wi-Fi 7 Asus systems, which took several updates to reach stability. But most folks shouldn’t be thinking about Wi-Fi 8 yet, and this router costs $900, a hefty early…
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