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.

[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.

[hggomes]

RT-N66U may not have a BCM4706 but a BCM5300(3) instead, looking to these linux line:

system type: Broadcom BCM5300 chip rev 1 pkg 0

http://www.broadcom.com/collateral/p...003-PB00-R.pdf

[hggomes]

RT-N66U should perform almost the same since HW specs are almost the same.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wirel...outer-reviewed

USB transfer could be better, but we will see it soon.

[wpte]

Looks good to me.
I'm impressed by the wifi speeds

and to be honest... 11MB/s isn't that bad either. What I want to see is the EXT3 performance tho, it's more lightweight I guess.
So far the speed still slightly topped over my expectations, so I can't wait
Seems like the supplier was wrong about the release date tho, the stores still say 1-2 weeks after 1-2 weeks

[hggomes]

I guess that depends, im using a Atheros Mini-PCI Express on my Atom Router and its running just fine in range and speed. If you use the same chip of a router i guess it dont make a difference on a ATOM.

[!gm]

Preview with PCB and WebIF Photos

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

(and horrible RAM confusion-discussion)

[!gm]

NO FAN!!!!!


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