| ASUS RT-N66U Dual Band Wireless-N900 Gigabit Router |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Network | |
| Written by Steven Iglesias-Hearst | |
| Tuesday, 06 March 2012 | |
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ASUS RT-N66U Wi-Fi Gigabit Router Review
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Full Disclosure: The product sample used in this article has been provided by ASUS. Building on the success of the RT-N56, ASUS has been hard at work trying to create the next 'next-best' wireless router. Today, Benchmark Reviews brings you the ASUS RT-N66U Dual Band Wireless-N900 Gigabit Router. As you will see in the images that follow, the ASUS RT-N66U certainly looks the part and is different in that way from 99% of routers on offer today.
The RT-N66U has three high power external antenna to allow simultaneous 2.4GHz and 5GHz signals to run at up to 450Mb/s concurrently, this allows you to stream HD content to your media devices (5GHz) while you enjoy uninterrupted wireless internet (2.4GHz). On the box ASUS claim that the RT-N66U has "Leading giga-level throughput over 900Mb/s" but as with most claims this doesn't always come true, our testing threw out some good numbers but nowhere near ASUS' claims. The ASUS RT-N66U has two built in USB 2.0 ports that allow you to share printers and USB storage over LAN and WAN, and also allows you to share a 3G/4G internet connection. Before we get to the testing we will have a good look at the RT-N66U and its features, so without further hesitation let's move on.
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Comments
450Mbps in 2.4Ghz and 450Mbps in 5Ghz.
You can't put them together and say 900Mbps. That's where I quit reading your review btw.
Take your time in the future. It's obvious speed reading is not your thing.
on behalf of this new tech router, i ran two different laptops for copying couples files from two shared hard-drives and their speed come closed to 450....nbps
gotta test it yourself to reallize the different
I was wondering if you did any testing at 2.4Ghz, since 2.4Ghz has better penetration of solid objects, and can have better performance in some situations (walls and distance).
This review was ironically timed because I just installed an ASUS(PCE-N15) PCI card in my main machine (Mortal online uses a strange PVP prediction system that seems to give advantages to wireless lag in Melee situations (acts like a lag switch), for some reason).
But it only supports connections in the 2.4Ghz band. My router is a dual band router. Although my internet connection is maximum 8 Mbps, and the router is only 3' from the main machine, I'm wondering if I should return the PCI version and get the USB version you reviewed.
At this time I'm getting identical ping and transfer rates from my ISP as I do when I'm 100% wired. Any suggestions?
I was wondering how the N adapter would perform on the 2.4Ghz band.
I'm thinking that my setup is going to deliver no less speed than using the 5Ghz spectrum. Again, I'm not transferring information between any LAN.
#news.softpedia.com/news/CES-2012-ASUS-Reveals-EA-N66-Ethernet-to-Wi-Fi-bridge-246497.shtml
Has anyone located a source for these yet?
##facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150712472221414&set=pu.125555631413&type=1&theater
This quote gives me hope :)
"The ASUS RT-N66U has two built in USB 2.0 ports that allow you to share printers and USB storage over LAN and WAN, and also allows you to share a 3G/4G internet connection.!
Here is a zoomed in screen capture: #i945.photobucket.com/albums/ad297/hatchet_2009/ASUS_RT-N66U_3G-4G_WiMax.jpg
Feel a bit silly for not realizing that WiMax was the same thing as 4g, but you learn something every day.
Thanks in advance!!