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ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AXE16000 Quad-Band Wi-Fi 6E Wireless Router $1090 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AXE16000 Quad-Band Wi-Fi 6E Wireless Router $1090 Delivered @ Amazon AUAffiliate
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MauTauAja on 15/07/2023 - 20:20 amazon.com.au (1012 clicks)
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Been eying this Wifi 6E router for awhile

World's first quad-band WiFi 6E gaming router – Ultrafast WiFi 6E (802.11ax) quad-band WiFi router boosts speeds up to 16000 Mbps

New 6 GHz frequency band – Wider channels and higher capacity delivers higher performance, lower latency, and less interference

Expanded coverage – The exclusive ASUS RangeBoost Plus improves signal range and overall coverage

Flexible AiMesh configuration – Dedicated 5 GHz or 6 GHz backhaul using ASUS AiMesh routers for more flexible device options

Dual 10G ports – Enjoy up to 10X-faster

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  • 0 0 0 on 15/07/2023 - 20:23
    +46

    Can probably get a few ethernet cables pulled through walls by a cabler for that kind of money.

    • MuddyClear on 15/07/2023 - 21:47
      +4

      Agree. Probably more suited to rental properties. Then again if you had that kind of money you probably wouldn’t be renting…

      • Springfield on 16/07/2023 - 08:19
        +4

        @craving Ethernet is always better than WiFi the only reason it was not in video you linked is the Fire TV cube does not support gigabit ethernet natively.

        • craving on 16/07/2023 - 09:03
          +4

          I'm not saying it isn't, it's not the only answer which some would like to suggest. There's a place for everything. Brushing off a deal simply because it doesn't suit a certain person/s is selfish. This is a good price, especially for an Aussie stock, which normally hovers around the $1500 mark.

          There's a place for technology. If people don't like devices at their place that's their choice but the joke is on them.
          Having your house wired can have benefits but you 'can't' do without a good reliable router. A router can be moved around. Wires can't, you're stuck with it and if you decide you want an extra connection and has to call him back for whatever reason, good luck with getting him back without the call-out fee. Unfortunately, a good router comes with a price. But hey I thought this place is Ozbargain and if the price falls below drastically over the regular then it is worthy of a mention. Those people who don't like it then they can go and look elsewhere.

          It's not only about gaming, or the number of devices you have or whatever stupid things people like to think of. It is about needing a good reliable router. If it has to be powerful then so be it. Why do people drive a V8, why do people drive in a $100k car when they can do with a $30k car etc?

          Some people only look at it from a single point of view. They're not thinking out of the box. And they don't like to hear facts. I take the negs in stride, bring them on if that's what it takes to bring sense into them. Some people would be happy to spend $800+ on a monitor and thousands of dollars to spend on a PC for a single person use yet something for a 'whole (growing) family' gets knocked down. It's unfortunate Ozbargain is populated with these kinds of people, many are just copycats, without giving much thought but I guess like everything else we have to live with it.

          I know many of those people who agree the only way to go is to spend your money on wires they have double standards.

          To answer your question about Firecube does not support gigabit ethernet, I'm more than sure, not because Amazon forgot to tell the designers, or they made a mistake. It's because they know 'most' people would use it wirelessly.

          • Paccers on 16/07/2023 - 16:51

            @craving: You can't move the router without being able to patch it in to something that gets it back to the ISP/NBN demarcation point though. So if that isn't directly in to the ISP modem or NBN NTD, the house has to be wired with data ports that provide that bridge back to that location.

            Also define reliable, more power does not equal better reliability in Wi-Fi.

        • theguyrules on 16/07/2023 - 11:17
          +2

          My midrange Sony 4K TV from 5 years or so ago cheaped out on their Ethernet. It's only 100mbps so the wifi is heaps faster in our case.
          Only example of that I have though.

          • Sarvok on 01/08/2023 - 14:36

            @theguyrules: Even their upcoming 2023 flagship OLED A95L still only has a 100 Mbps ethernet port, it's ridiculous especially when you consider that Sony's own movie streaming service Bravia Core can reach up to 80 Mbps for video bitrate alone that with other overheads needs a 115+ Mbps connection.

  • Budju on 15/07/2023 - 20:30

    Lol

  • glenncol on 15/07/2023 - 20:35
    +10

    What are they eeeffing smoking at that price?

    • MuddyClear on 15/07/2023 - 21:51
      +1

      These “gaming” routers charge a ridiculous premium. Maybe someone in the know can explain why this is the case as I doubt they are significantly faster?

      • DangerNoodle on 16/07/2023 - 08:25
        +1

        From my perspective, I considered these since there's cat 6 ethernet cables running through my wall. I could use this and run dual 2.5gbps wired backhauls to my zenwifi xt8 mesh setup. But it wasn't cost effective since I don't max out the available bandwidth of my current mesh network, even with a lot of smart appliances.

        Benefit of this would be if you have a gaming computer with a beefy 4x4 wifi setup you could connect to this at 4800mbps rather than standard 1000mbps ethernet, but I find ethernet still has better latency. Might be useful for households with multiple wireless devices that want lower latency connecting to the router? Or if you have lossless Bluray rips on a NAS for use on multiple devices around the house simultaneously you could benefit from the bandwidth. Or maybe if you want to edit video directly from an SSD NAS connected over wifi?

        I think for most people, a zenwifi mesh setup would be more beneficial in terms of range boosting

        • craving on 16/07/2023 - 09:22

          Completely agree with your opinion. It doesn't suit everyone but if you have a big house with many devices doesn't mean this is out of consideration.

          • DangerNoodle on 16/07/2023 - 10:37
            +1

            @craving: Yup yup. The other thing I forgot to mention is that this may be more suitable for people who want the full bandwidth of the router since it seems like all 16000mbps is available for wireless connectivity from a single access point.

            On my zenwifi XT8 (cost like half the price of this on an Amazon sale), it theoretically has 13200mbps of wireless bandwidth if you use each node appropriately. But if you run it with a wireless backhaul setup, you lose 4800mbps from each node for the backhail so the wireless bandwidth free to use for your devices is 1800mbps per node, 1200mbps of which is on the 5ghz band.

            I run a wired backhaul setup on mine with a 1000mbps connection between the two so it frees up all the bandwidth between devices and the nodes, but I do get throttled data transfer rates in some circumstances. Like I've had a laptop connected to one node at 4800mbps and my desktop connected to another node at 4800mbps, but the max transfer rate was capped at 1000mbps since that was the cap of my ethernet backhaul.

            You wouldn't have these issue with a single access point with 16000mbps of wireless bandwidth like this Asus. And with the two 10gig ports on this unit you could run a 10gig backhaul between two of these in mesh mode and not deal with the issues I've had.

  • mmcs on 15/07/2023 - 20:36
    -3

    Inflation at its best

  • PeppaCat on 15/07/2023 - 20:42
    +1

    wifi 7 router is out…
    the only difference I feel between wifi 5 and wifi 7 is the router price….

    • stephendt on 15/07/2023 - 21:09
      +21

      Not quite. The difference between WiFi 5 and WiFi 7 is two.

  • Hypermajoris on 15/07/2023 - 21:00

    At this price… just wait for Li-Fi to go domestic

  • Travelbug on 15/07/2023 - 21:00
    -1

    I use STARLINK. Only disadvantage is the amount of ethernet cable to connect to the satalite.

  • Akin87 on 15/07/2023 - 21:37
    +2

    Wait for wifi 7

    • tharlow on 15/07/2023 - 22:45
      +1

      I’m jumping on Wi-Fi 6S

  • Mahogany Granger on 15/07/2023 - 21:58
    +5

    Autobots assemble

    • tharlow on 15/07/2023 - 22:46
      +2

      Scares all the spiders out of the house

  • warzonevi on 15/07/2023 - 22:39
    +4

    I have the gt ax11000 and love it. Have had it for many years now no issues even with dual wan at times. Have it connected to a pair of zenwifi ax and 0 wireless issues in my double story house. I do have one of the nodes via WiFi the other via lan. Lots of features. If I had the money to spend at the moment I'd buy this but the RBA has told me to stop spending so here I am dreaming of this instead

    • tharlow on 15/07/2023 - 22:43
      +3

      Incoming RBA governor is saying let’s go! Apparently inflation only hurts the poor, so this is the fastest way to ensure the next generation is the fittest ever

  • tharlow on 15/07/2023 - 22:40
    +1

    Bought one so OzBargain will load a microsecond faster

  • abs898 on 15/07/2023 - 23:12
    +1

    Bought one, now how do I get some actual good internet in Australia?

  • Wibbleman on 15/07/2023 - 23:33
    +10

    This is a great example of something most people don’t need. Seriously, who is able to utilise anything in a home network at that speed.
    It’s catering for gamers with some ROG branding but a serious gamer is going to connect a network cable for lowest latency and performance and who knows if any of the tricked out gaming features work in Oz.
    You will not be able to download anything any faster than your internet connection.
    Target market is:
    * people with a stupid number of devices trying to share bandwidth (won’t make your internet faster)
    * people with excess $$ looking to say my wifi is bigger than yours
    * people with their own plex servers at home streaming video content between many devices within the home (not internet).

    • sachk on 16/07/2023 - 00:39
      +1

      You'd have to have a relatively small house with a very large number of devices, all with very good WiFi 6E support and be using very large (>500Mbps) bandwidths on each device for a single one of these to make sense. I'm not sure there's any quad band WiFi 6E devices at all.

  • Nilfunds on 16/07/2023 - 05:42
    +4

    nice to see routers catching up on GPU prices, well done boys

  • cuteboy on 16/07/2023 - 07:39

    For that kind of money I would rather buy a UDM Pro and UniFi access point.

  • Boba on 16/07/2023 - 09:17

    I'd spend half the money on a GT-AX11000. Not quite as fancy as this but does most of what you need.

  • DarkOz on 16/07/2023 - 10:39

    For over $1k maybe Asus and DJI could team up and make this double up as a drone too.

  • SilentH on 16/07/2023 - 11:56
    +1

    You should be good with this for 5-10 years.

  • GTR12 on 16/07/2023 - 14:41
    +3

    I have one of these, but I paid $1299 on release day from PLE.

    I have about 35 devices always on (smart lights and cameras) all from OzB.

    Dual WAN is great, especially for FTTP.

    Any questions, just ask.

  • zol on 16/07/2023 - 16:32

    Same price at Centrecom
    https://www.centrecom.com.au/asus-rog-rapture-gt-axe16000-qu…

  • mousie on 16/07/2023 - 16:48

    Where is the bargain

  • 1r4n14n on 16/07/2023 - 17:06
    +1

    Considering Netgear's Tri-Band WiFi 6E AXE11000 router costs the same price, I think it's a good deal.

  • dfg555 on 16/07/2023 - 20:47
    +2

    i just find the comments funny of the people being pissed off how costly this is

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