Review Asus RT-BE88U Wi-Fi 7 router review: Skipping the 6 GHz band

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The Asus RT-BE88U skips the 6 GHz band but picks up other Wi-Fi 7 enhancements

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[Dementoss]

Too few people have the gear necessary to make use of 6GHz WiFi, so try to fix that moving up to 7GHz WiFi, which almost nobody can use yet...

I'm wondering how that was seen to make sense, except as a means to fleece early adopters?

 

[Makaveli]

Too few people have the gear necessary to make use of 6GHz WiFi, so try to fix that moving up to 7GHz WiFi, which almost nobody can use yet...

I'm wondering how that was seen to make sense, except as a means to fleece early adopters?

i'm siding on the fleecing.

 

[Kondamin]

$100 to expensive.

 

[kasala]

when did $350 become the threshold for "Value pricing" for a consumer orientated device?

 

[Kondamin]

when did $350 become the threshold for "Value pricing" for a consumer orientated device?1

1 x10G Ethernet and the rest are 2.5G
those still tend to be expensive.

Not that I don't agree with you it's much to expensive for that gimped wifi 7

 

[Amdlova]

Have rgb?

 

[usertests]

Too few people have the gear necessary to make use of 6GHz WiFi, so try to fix that moving up to 7GHz WiFi, which almost nobody can use yet...

I'm wondering how that was seen to make sense, except as a means to fleece early adopters?

Wi-Fi 7 does not mean 7 GHz. There is no 7 GHz band available for Wi-Fi. It's a 6 GHz band with some channels near 7 GHz, but it's the same as Wi-Fi 6E:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11be

List of WLAN channels - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

There are small improvements in each standard that have nothing to do with the bands used or the headline top speeds. They probably don't help older devices though.

Wi-Fi 8 apparently adds bands around 42, 60 and 71 GHz for line-of-sight only. But it's not finalized yet.

 

[ThomasKinsley]

I must be spoiled rotten with ethernet because every time I see a router review, it's well over $200. Now $350 is considered a value buy.

 

[67Matt99]

Rather odd to be promoting something that isn't even widely available(7Ghz) to something (6Ghz) that it barely available and to call it a bargain price.
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