New Asus RT-N66U Router

[!gm]

I will also wait some time..

look the dropping price in the first month, the RT-N56U was available (here in Germany)

http://geizhals.at/de/?phist=593815&age=9999

edit: VR-Zone Article is online again

[aum1547]

i cant wait for this to be released in US. would love to see more updates here.

Available in US since December 29, 2011 - where else but amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-N-Ext...6152420&sr=1-1

[wpte]

aaaaaaaaaaannnnnnndddddd we have a product page: http://www.asus.com/Networks/Wireless_Routers/RTN66U/

it should be close

[!gm]

yesterday, this page was full of RT-N16 texts

haha and its still is: http://www.asus.com/Networks/Wireles...N66U/#features

[wpte]

JJ (someone from asus) is also reviewing the router:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYCnyOb5O4c

Mind that JJ can be a little incorrect (telling a prettier story than the reality)
on technical stuff now and then... he's a bit of a marketing man I guess

[hggomes]

Thanks. Ahahahahha "We can get 20mb/s Read and Write performance" (17m16s) I doubt it, maybe he is confusing with new Linksys E4200 V2 with Marvell CPU at 1.2GHZ :P

[wpte]

Thanks. Ahahahahha "We can get 20mb/s Read and Write performance" (17m16s) I doubt it, maybe he is confusing with new Linksys E4200 V2 with Marvell CPU at 1.2GHZ :P

Either way that's a lie, or they've changed some stuff... perhaps a separate usb controller?

[hggomes]

If they changed anything on the unit people who buy it would have 20mb/s benchmarks instead 11-15mb/s

Router is the same for everyone, i guess...

[wpte]

If they changed anything on the unit people who buy it would have 20mb/s benchmarks instead 11-15mb/s

Router is the same for everyone, i guess...

I guess... but it could be, they've also removed the fan.
In the end, the 200-300mbit/s speeds of wireless are also a tiny bit exaggerated.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/forum...8&postcount=52 just sayin'
and this is not even EXT3!

[hggomes]

I guess... but it could be, they've also removed the fan.
In the end, the 200-300mbit/s speeds of wireless are also a tiny bit exaggerated.

I think he wanna to say 200-300MBIT

You can read my comment on the video, if you wanna reforce idea :P

[!gm]

Lets hope his statements about the "specialized internal power-design" @3:03 are correct - the main thing I care about this is what "specialized" means. It still is USB 2.0 certified, right?

Well actually wireless transmission rate and wireless throughput differ due to technical reasons. They are advertising the router with 450 MBit/s. Thats the max. transmission rate you can get with 3 streams. The real throughput will be around 180 MBit/s. Think of overhead and stuff...

If the wireless client can only handle two streams, you'll just get 300 MBit/s transmission rate and around 120 MBit/s throughput.

Do you agree?
Source (german): http://www.elektronik-kompendium.de/...et/1102071.htm

[wpte]

Lets hope his statements about the "specialized internal power-design" @3:03 are correct - the main thing I care about this is what "specialized" means. It still is USB 2.0 certified, right?

Well actually wireless transmission rate and wireless throughput differ due to technical reasons. They are advertising the router with 450 MBit/s. Thats the max. transmission rate you can get with 3 streams. The real throughput will be around 180 MBit/s. Think of overhead and stuff...

If the wireless client can only handle two streams, you'll just get 300 MBit/s transmission rate and around 120 MBit/s throughput.

Do you agree?
Source (german): http://www.elektronik-kompendium.de/...et/1102071.htm

specialized design probably means a better power supply, so that harddrives can run directly on the router.

Yes I know that it's theoretical speed, but 200-300mbit/s seem very high. I guess that it's possible if you combine the speeds of both 2.4 and 5.2GHz but they can't be connected to at the same time by most wireless clients. So you'll end up with a basic 100 to 200mbit/s depending on the signal strenght and noise.
On that site they're also quite optimistic about speeds

[wpte]

got some exiting screenshots from asus!
upload:
download:

wireless stuff:
http://i.imgur.com/SifpE.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/h1MX8.jpg

good to be fan of the asus facebook page

[hggomes]

If i were you i wouldn't believe those kind of "benchmarks" at first sight, windows measures are always that way at the beginning it shows high transfers and then it starts dropping the transfer rate, and if you noticed those screen shoots were taken at beginning of transfer

I can do the same with RT-N16, transfer start at more than 20mb/s and then it goes to 7mb/s, nothing compared ah? I would believe it if measured with teracopy for example.

With this im not telling that is not true, what im saying is that probably it isn't accurate

If those measures are correct than it means ftp and http transfer rates would be similar and that would be awesome, crossing fingers.

[wpte]

I can do the same with RT-N16, transfer start at more than 20mb/s and then it goes to 7mb/s, nothing compared ah? I would believe it if measured with teracopy for example.

yeah, dunno... for me windows 7 first thinks it's low speed and then it increases...
what about the intel nas performance toolkit: http://www.intel.com/products/server...rf_Toolkit.htm
ah well asus marketing team is running like an oiled machine anyway