New Asus RT-N66U Router

[wpte]

The value of it is too high in my opinion, i guess i will wait until a price drop.

ASUS RT-N66U ULTRA-THIN ROUTER, 802.11A/B/G/N, DUAL BAND SUPPORT [RT-N66U] - 239.56$

http://www.pccanada.com/viewitem.asp?id=35647

That's around 172.74 euro...
In the beginning the RT-N16 had the same price pretty much

[hggomes]

Noup, 239$ when it comes to europe it stays almost the same price 239€ ~ with taxes, convert 94.22$ from the RT-N16 and see how many € are, 69€ can you buy it that price? No you can't RT-N16 costs in Europe 100€ ~

RT-N66U will cost more than 200€ i bet 220-230€

[wpte]

Noup, 239$ when it comes to europe it stays almost the same price 239€ ~ with taxes, convert 94.22$ from the RT-N16 and see how many € are, 69€ can you buy it that price? No you can't RT-N16 costs in Europe 100€ ~

RT-N66U will cost more than 200€ i bet 220-230€

RT-N16 is 82,90 euro at the moment over here, and they have been lower in the past

[hggomes]

RT-N16 is 82,90 euro at the moment over here, and they have been lower in the past

Anyway 82.90 is not 69€ bahh. You will see when it come out don't expect less than 200€. RT-N16 has a great price in your country, are you talking about store or retailer? Where you buy that price? Here the lowest price is 94€, like i said before is the same as 94 dolars. It was always like that, at least in my country.

[wpte]

Anyway 82.90 is not 69€ bahh. You will see when it come out don't expect less than 200€. RT-N16 has a great price in your country, are you talking about store or retailer? Where you buy that price? Here the lowest price is 94€, like i said before is the same as 94 dolars. It was always like that, at least in my country.

true, but it's not that much more

I primarily use this dutch site when buying computer parts. not only they have news and a forum, they also have a pricewatch. many webshops are signed up with it since its also a very good way to make money themselves

http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/242860/asus-rt-n16.html

it's the biggest tech site in the Netherlands, and every month they get 3.5 million unique visits, from a country that has only ~16 million people

[hggomes]

Yeah i we have a site like that here too, its a price compare web site.

I don't know if you noticed this "ASUS RT-N66U ==> ULTRA-THIN <== ROUTER, maybe this is the "other" RT-N66U and price either.

What would be you guess about the price of it then?

[wpte]

Yeah i we have a site like that here too, its a price compare web site.

I don't know if you noticed this "ASUS RT-N66U ==> ULTRA-THIN <== ROUTER, maybe this is the "other" RT-N66U and price either.

What would be you guess about the price of it then?

Sounds like a black diamon version?
dunno

I mean these prices are just from sites that can pretty much ask anything for it because they know people want it
In the end, I do expect it to be around 150 euro for a start, the black diamond one.

The ROG label makes everything more expensive tho. Still there is no info about the actual perks of getting an ROG version. (apart from the 1GB ram guess)
It might be even possible that asus is giving us 2 designs to choose from
who knows

[hggomes]

Here's some pics:

http://klseet.com/index.php?option=c...114&Itemid=105

[wpte]

Here's some pics:

http://klseet.com/index.php?option=c...114&Itemid=105

It's black actually
No way I believe those presentations sheets with the troughputs
Anyway, on the bottom of the post it says it will be released 11th of december

[hggomes]

Awesome pictures:

http://vr-zone.com/articles/exclusiv...ter/13760.html

http://forums.vr-zone.com/networking...ck-knight.html

Now the router has 128MB great Maybe when it comes out has 64MB... LOL

First tests:

with beta firmware:
LAN to WAN - 510mbps
WAN to LAN - 548mbps
2.4ghz down - 56mbps
5ghz down - 89mbps
no time to test vpn

What a disapointment, RT-N56U has almost the double benchmarking with Ralink CPU 500MHZ or even Linksys E4200 with same same CPU from RT-N16 (BCM4718), weird stuff. :S

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wirel...owall=&start=1

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wirel...owall=&start=2

[wpte]

well... it's still beta firmware.
according to the broadcom specs the hardware nat should be able to reach ~900mbits
wifi sounds solid.
lol, and that fan is just epic

dd-wrt developers still confirm it's 256MB ram tho

[hggomes]

well... it's still beta firmware.
according to the broadcom specs the hardware nat should be able to reach ~900mbits
wifi sounds solid.
lol, and that fan is just epic

dd-wrt developers still confirm it's 256MB ram tho

It could be but, RT-N16 is not BETA and the performance its alot worse than E4200 or even E3200 (same hardware but with less RAM) :S So...

And according to the Broadcom CPUs work at xxx Mhz and at the end they are always capped / slower frequency.

[wpte]

It could be but, RT-N16 is not BETA and the performance its alot worse than E4200 or even E3200 (same hardware but with less RAM) :S So...

They have different kernels and drivers...
TheMir0n also worked on something called FastNat (originally made by broadcom). It speeds up the lan-wan a lot: http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/wiki/News

fast-nat module (originally from Broadcom, use 'nvram set misc_fastnat_x=0' to disable it)

it has some compatebility issues tho, but most of them should be fixed

[wpte]

The RT-N66U also appeared on icecat: http://www.icecat.nl/index.cgi?langu...p_text=rt-n66u
Only the logistical data has been imported.
Funny thing is that a dutch shop sells it for 135 euro: https://maxict.nl/product/3288267/as...50mbit-gigabit
That online shop is considered to be relative expensive (averagely) compared to other stores here
Going to ask them when they expect it to arrive

[hggomes]

http://forums.vr-zone.com/networking...ck-knight.html

mine fw ver: 3.0.0.2.52
connect via serial@115200
Quote:
/ # cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 255416 kB
MemFree: 220668 kB
Buffers: 4304 kB
Cached: 13240 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 7748 kB
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HighFree: 109844 kB
LowTotal: 124344 kB
LowFree: 110824 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 3560 kB
Mapped: 3276 kB
Slab: 7984 kB
SReclaimable: 904 kB
SUnreclaim: 7080 kB
PageTables: 376 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 127708 kB
Committed_AS: 9604 kB
VmallocTotal: 1015800 kB
VmallocUsed: 4760 kB
VmallocChunk: 1009088 kB
Quote:
/ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type : Broadcom BCM5300 chip rev 1 pkg 0
processor : 0
cpu model : MIPS 74K V4.9
BogoMIPS : 299.82 => ?!!?!?!!
wait instruction : no
microsecond timers : yes
tlb_entries : 64
extra interrupt vector : no
hardware watchpoint : yes
ASEs implemented : mips16 dsp
shadow register sets : 1
VCED exceptions : not available
VCEI exceptions : not available

unaligned_instructions : 2
dcache hits : 2147483648
dcache misses : 4245397407
icache hits : 2147483648
icache misses : 734764798
instructions : 2147483648
Quote:
/ # uname -a
Linux (none) 2.6.22.19 #304 PREEMPT Wed Sep 21 19:18:57 CST 2011 mips GNU/Linux
Quote:
/ # cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

31 0 256 mtdblock0
31 1 32384 mtdblock1
31 2 18178 mtdblock2
31 3 13184 mtdblock3
31 4 128 mtdblock4
/ # [1:init_main +625] main loop signal/state=14
[1:init_main +932] main loop signal/state=14
[1:init_main +1239] main loop signal/state=14