Review Asus ROG Rapture GT-AXE16000 Review: Quad-Band Wi-Fi 6E Growing Pains

[Admin]

The Asus GT-AXE16000 router has top specs and a 6 GHz frequency. While the throughput was impressive, network congestion testing concerned us.

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[Dread13]

If not that one, which one would you advice to buy? I was thinking to get one of these routers for my gaming setup, but seeing it's poor QoS I'm open to alternatives

 

[dimar]

Wait for Wi-Fi 7. Hopefully all ports will be 5GbE

 

[jonathan1683]

Did you guys not test the 10gbe throughput? That's all I really wanted this router for.

 

[siborg99]

It sounds incredibly like the QoS is doing the polar opposite of what it should be doing, given that the results seem to show a drop in gaming performance with it engaged.

 

[anscarlett]

Wait for Wi-Fi 7. Hopefully all ports will be 5GbE

Wifi 7 is at least 3 years away, ratification isn't expected until at least 2024 and it'll take at least another year to get products into stores.

 

[anscarlett]

Firmware 3.0.0.4.386.49533 is quite old, I've been running 3.0.0.4.386.50168 for over a month

 

[arcanekand]

If you are in the market for a travel router you could look at the "gl.inet gl-axt1800" it's fairly cheap and portable (it runs off of a 5v USB-C connection) and has built in ad blocking(AdGuard home). Since it runs OpenWrt, there are tons of plugins you can find in the advanced admin interface (including QoS plugins) The advanced interface is more complicated than ASUS's UI but more customizable as a result. As well as wifi6E, all in a small portable package.

 

[wunshot]

Did you guys not test the 10gbe throughput? That's all I really wanted this router for.

Mine is arriving today, and that's the only reason I bought it. I'll report back once I've tested it.

 

[wunshot]

I don't understand how the router affected the FPS of the game overwatch unless you were playing it over Google stadia or some other network based virtualization platform.

 

[boby1]

Mine is arriving today, and that's the only reason I bought it. I'll report back once I've tested it.

Dude, what happened? How's the 10Gb ports performance? That's exactly what I am also considering this router for.

 

[RGSPro]

I have no idea why this article talks about fps and not latency?

 

[shaolin95]

Wow this website has gone downhill BIG TIME