Asus RoG Rapture GT-AX11000

It catches the(glowing) eye, but the features will be over kill for most homes

SCORE PRICE £317 (£380 inc VAT) from scan.co.uk WI-FI 5 DOWNLOADS WI-FI 6 DOWNLOADS Gaming hardware is a specialist genre, but the Rapture attracted mainstream attention on its 2019 debut as one of the first widely available Wi-Fi 6 routers of any sort. It’s an eye-catching beast, with eight chunky aerials and a sinister glowing eye in the middle that can change colour to reflect network status, or just pulse decoratively. Inside, there’s a pair of 5GHz radios, which means you can connect a large number of Wi-Fi 5 clients with minimal contention issues – or form multiple Asus routers into an AiMesh network and then use the second radio for backhaul. Alternatively, gamers can choose to devote the second radio exclusively to gaming traffic, while other home devices go via the regular network. You get a few…

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