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Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 router review

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Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 router review

We’re not surprised that Asus has delivered the first Wi-Fi 8 router. The company has been ruling the router roost recently and notably broke the 3,000 Mbps transfer-rate barrier with its AI-enhanced, ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI Wi-Fi 7 gaming router. That’s old hat now that its functionally-identical Wi-Fi 8 sibling, the Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro, is here. Or is it?

Wi-Fi 8 (also known as 802.11bn) is expected to be officially ratified in late 2028. By the time you read this, at least four routers will have hit the market, but no laptops (or other devices) are in sight. But, that shouldn’t matter.

We've spent some time in the last year testing top-tier Wi-Fi 7 set-ups, and seeing they can be faster than some 10 Gbps wired connections, so why do we need another Wi-Fi generation? However, unlike previous generations, Wi-Fi 8 isn’t about delivering more speed, it’s about delivering a more-reliable signal (including more-robust uploading), to new and old devices alike, in crowded Wi-Fi environments, over greater distances, in real-world environments.

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This should particularly benefit networks with numerous IoT and smart-home devices; gamers who require reliable, very-low latencies; people in high-density apartment blocks; industrial facilities filled with metal and RF interference; and streamers uploading live footage.

Aficionados will know that the technologies used to manifest these advances are denoted by a smorgasbord of acronyms and Wi-Fi 8 doesn’t disappoint...


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