ASUS showed off a new flagship router in CES 2014: the AC87U

[snowComet]

Less than a year ago ASUS announced the AC68U AC router, now in CES 2014 ASUS is already showing the new flagship router that support Wave 2 of 802.11ac: AC87U.

 

AC87U looks like the AC68U, but instead of a 3x3 router like AC68U, AC87U is a 4X4 AC2300 router, powered by Quantenna’s latest and highest performing 4×4 MU-MIMO chipset QSR1000. It support advanced beam forming to further improve on range and connectivity with supported wireless adapters.

It support  600 Mbps on IEEE 802.11n 2.4 GHz (40MHz, 4T4R,) and 1700 Mbps on IEEE 802.11ac 5 GHz (80MHz, 4T4R ) .

 

Price and release date is still unknown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://pcdiy.asus.com/2014/01/rt-ac87u-the-ultimate-router-4x4-mu-mimo-ces-2014/

 

http://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_RT-AC87U

[kuddlesworth9419]

If only I cared about wireless internet.

[EChondo]

If only I cared about wireless internet.

Hell if I only cared about ASUS.

[zip2k4]

moar antennas moar better?

 

jokes aside, hope it's a lot better than 68U

[ChillKyle]

Nice router. But I wish they would release this in a modem model.

[wpirobotbuilder]

This is great for families with 3+ laptops in a home as well as smartphones and tablets, especially as wireless AC becomes more widely adopted.

 

I wish they would invest more into making 10 Gb networking equipment cheaper, but there isn't as much potential there yet. Perhaps once higher resolution video takes off there'll be more incentive.

[WildTurtle]

Good luck finding a client that can actually use 1.7Gbps on the 5 GHz band or even 600 Mbps on the 2.4 GHz band, you will probably need to buy two of these and make one a bridge to ever deliver that kind of throughput to a client.

[spartin503]

I think that 802.11ac is great, but with my internet speed I still can't saturate wireless n. But if fibre became avalible where I live I would probably get an ac router, but I just don't see that happening anytime soon.

[ZetZet]

I have 50/50 connection at the moment and I see no reason to upgrade. I will probably upgrade to 100/100 when 4k comes along, but even then Wireless N is enough in my tiny apartment. Too early for AC.