Amped Wireless Updates AC1900 Routers, Packs 8 Radios

[exfileme]

Amped Wireless has revealed its next-generation Wireless AC hardware.

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[RealBeast]

Nice to see more high end AC routers, but where are the 3 antenna USB AC wireless adapters to make use of these and other high end units?

 

[unempit]

Hmmm. "Gigabyte wired ports".

 

[dgingeri]

"Hmmm. "Gigabyte wired ports"."

Easy mistake to make. He's even corrected it already.

 

[RealBeast]

Hmmm. "Gigabyte wired ports".

Good proofreading skills, but of course even a networking neophyte knows that he meant gigabit, as there are no consumer products with ports exceeding gigabit, and will not be for a long long time.

 

[razor512]

It sucks that none of these companies seem to be wanting to make 3 stream dual band wiifi adapters

802.11ac uses multiple 433.3 mbit spatial streams, each having around a 50% performance overhead, thus a top real world performance of about 200-216mbit/s per stream.

A 3 stream 802.11ac card can offer about 600-650mbit/s of real world performance if multiple connections are made (e.g., downloading from a local FTP server using a download accelerator such as downthemall).

the asus ac68 still seems to be the only 3 stream 802.11ac wifi adapter and due to the lack of competition, it is overpriced, and has driver issues.

 

[jasonelmore]

Both the Range Extender and the AC Router are the same product. the only difference is what default settings you get.

They've been doing this for years, they just need one SKU and let the setup wizard do the rest.

 

[remixedcat]

Interesting.... a 4x4 would be a Broadcom based config and Amped has gone with Realtek SoCs for thier other hardware! That would be cool if they switched or Realtek now has 4x4 MIMO

 

[unempit]

"Good proofreading skills, but of course even a networking neophyte knows that he meant gigabit, as there are no consumer products with ports exceeding gigabit, and will not be for a long long time."

True. My attempt at sarcasm was too subtle. Oh, and "...five Gigabyte wired ports..." is still there in the article. "Gigabyte" reminded me of the motherboard manufacturer.

 

[Guilherme Franco]

the asus ac68 still seems to be the only 3 stream 802.11ac wifi adapter and due to the lack of competition, it is overpriced, and has driver issues.

You also have Netgear R7000

 

[chuckchurch]

This sounds a lot like marketing hype. You can't sell a device that exceeds the FCC limits on power output combined with antenna gain to my knowledge. However, if anyone can make a wireless router that works with my flakey Galaxy S4 running 4.3, I'd love it to death!!

 

[tsumeone]

Guilherme Franco, the R7000 is a router - not a wifi adapter.

 

[danwat1234]

I wonder how low the power consumption will be/wall wart size.