Asus brings Wi-Fi 7 to its tri-band ROG gaming router

Posted by
Check your BMI

A picture of the top of the Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE19000, which has eight antennas arrayed around it, two on each side, along with a ROG logo and a transparent section on its squarish top.
The ROG Rapture GT-BE19000 is an ’80s retro-future headcrab. | Image: Asus
toonsbymoonlight

Asus announced three new Wi-Fi 7 products today, including a tri-band ROG Rapture GT gaming router, a dual-band router, and a new Wi-Fi 7 USB adapter.

The ROG Rapture GT-BE19000 has a familiar ’80s retro-future look shared by predecessors like the quad-band GT-BE98, along with most of the same specs, including two 10Gbps and five 2.5Gbps ethernet ports. It also supports 320MHz channel bandwidth on the 6GHz band, which unlocks much higher throughput (although you’ll need a 2Gbps or higher connection to your ISP for that to shine).

Image: Asus
The ROG Rapture GT-BE19000 has seven ethernet ports.

Since the GT-BE19000 uses Wi-Fi 7’s multilink operation feature, you can connect a supported device to the 6GHz and…

Continue reading…