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Huawei WiFi AX3 ushers in the era of Wi-Fi 6 to your home or business Thursday, 13 May 2021 10:30 Huawei WiFi AX3 ushers in the era of Wi-Fi 6 to your home or business
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Mobile and networking manufacturer Huawei has released a powerful and affordable 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 router with greater bandwidth, more connected devices, lower latency and lower power consumption than the previous WI-Fi generation devices - the Huawei WiFi AX3.
The unit will also boost the signal of Huawei Wi-Fi 6 smartphones but isn’t limited to Huawei devices, nor to Wi-Fi 6 devices, by any means. Your older hardware will still connect to the AX3, as will your modern non-Huawei Wi-Fi 6 devices, giving you maximum flexibility to leverage the improvements it offers without leaving your existing equipment behind.
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It seems like only yesterday that Wi-Fi 6 routers really started to hit the market, and that’s true the first products trickled out in late 2018, and the new 802.11ax standard is only now going mainstream. But the FCC has opened up the 6 GHz band to unlicensed use, so router manufacturers are taking the ax protocol to that band with new Wi-Fi 6E hardware. But are you missing out by not upgrading? We took one of the first Wi-Fi 6E routers, the tri-band Asus ROG Rapture GT-AXE11000, for a spin to find out.
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Ultimately this is, first and foremost, a gaming router. The Rapture GT-AXE11000 is part of Asus’ Republic of Gamers line of products: a series of devices and peripherals designed specifically to separate gamers from their money as efficiently as possible. It comes with a glut of features to that end, and a lot of them are blessedly easy to use. Pre-configured settings, for instance, give players custom port-forwarding rules for many of t
The Linksys Hydro Pro 6E is a tri-band wireless router that can connect to the newly liberated 6GHz radio band. It delivers good 6GHz throughput, but its 2.4GHz performance is merely adequate.
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The Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 ($599.99) has the distinction of being the very first router we’ve tested that can tap into the 6GHz radio spectrum, making it the first true tri-band router we’ve seen. Powered by the latest Wi-Fi 6 E technology and an optimized CPU, this unique-looking router is loaded with features including multi-gig LAN and WAN capabilities, link aggregation, a beefy quad-core processor, and cyber threat protection powered by Bitdefender. At $600, it’s one of the most expensive consumer routers out there, but it’s also one of the fastest. Granted, Wi-Fi 6E client devices are few and far between, but if you’re an early adopter looking to future-proof your network, the RAXE500 won t disappoint.