Asus EA-AC87 CANCELLED?

[cc666]

I am on B&H watch for this product. Just received this, this am:

Dear Customer
Thank you for your interest in the following item:

ASUS EA-AC87 5 GHz Wireless AC 1800 Media Bridge/Access Point
(B&H # ASEAAC87)

You are receiving this message because you asked to be notified when this item becomes available. We regret to inform you that this item has unfortunately been discontinued. Please check back on our website for similar or possible replacement items.

We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

UNREAL! I want a refund. Asus personal in the forum please advise why this is cancelled in the US

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[VANT]

quantenna bug ?
Asus should also cancel AC87u

 

[pepeEL]

I agree also AC87U

 

[VANT]

a one year after 87u has been released still is buggy, and 5GHz band is useless....

 

[thiggins]

I have no inside information on this. But I would guess, ASUS finally got tired of waiting for Quantenna MU-MIMO code. NETGEAR sure did, hence the R7500v2

 

[doc octopus]

thanks ASUS, 150 euros thrown in the toilet.

ps: in europe is available nearly everywhere

ps2: the price is very high for a bridge wifi only 5ghz

 

[Haggster]

a one year after 87u has been released still is buggy, and 5GHz band is useless....

Is that really the case? I have to say that I'm using 87u's 5GHz daily for serious work and it works reliably and fast. It just used to create problems in relation to mobile devices, which are now fixed, except for the fact that it won't let a mobile device's wi-fi adapter sleep.

And regarding MU-MIMO code: It still has to be proven that the BCM MU-MIMO solution will perform any better than the Quantenna one (once it has been activated in a couple of months from now).

There do not seem to be too many advancements on the 802.11ac side of things in the newer chipsets released by Quantenna's competitors either, as according to the specs, even the 88u will e.g. still only support 80MHz wide channels.

I just assume that the EA-AC87 was cancelled due to lack of demand.

 

[JohnNerd]

My AC87U rocks on the latest FW. No problems at all. Even 5 GHz works like a charm. No battery drain on my tablet, S6 and S4 either.

 

[Haggster]

My AC87U rocks on the latest FW. No problems at all. Even 5 GHz works like a charm. No battery drain on my tablet, S6 and S4 either.

You are lucky because you're using Samsung devices which all support 5GHz DFS channels. All my 5GHz capable mobile devices (if we don't call a laptop a "mobile" device) are Androids - Nexus Android to be specific - and those happily ignore all DFS frequencies.

I had a friend over a couple of weeks ago who had an old Samsung Tab from a couple of years ago and he was able to connect to my 5GHz (which is using DFS) without problems. </off topic>

 

[zoon]

Google has finally added DFS support with Marshmallow 6.0.

My Nexus 6 works like a charm on Channel 112 in the EU and so does my Chromecast v2. Not sure about the other Nexus Models though but Nexus 5 HW should support it.

 

[RMerlin]

thanks ASUS, 150 euros thrown in the toilet.

Why is that "thrown in the toilet"? If you had pre-ordered it, your retailer shouldn't have accepted payment for it yet. And in the odd case they did, they are legally bound to issue you a refund if they aren't going to ship the product.

 

[RMerlin]

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/asus-ea-ac87-cancelled.27601/

Would be nice getting any official confirmation. Could simply be that B&N decided to drop it from their own inventory, or that Asus is only pulling out of one specific market.

 

[Haggster]

Google has finally added DFS support with Marshmallow 6.0.

My Nexus 6 works like a charm on Channel 112 in the EU and so does my Chromecast v2. Not sure about the other Nexus Models though but Nexus 5 HW should support it.

That's amazing, very happy to hear that! Will update my 5GHz capable Nexus 7 soon. Hope that my Nexus Player will finally connect to the DFS channels as well then. The only problem might be the 9; I've got one and I've heard the hardware is not DFS capable (I guess it cannot scan if there's any radar on those channels). But well, enough off-topic discussion for now

 

[sfx2000]

I have no inside information on this. But I would guess, ASUS finally got tired of waiting for Quantenna MU-MIMO code. NETGEAR sure did, hence the R7500v2

Could be a lot of different things - something as simple as a product portfolio review and cleaning up overlapping products - esp. since Asus it moving into the 2016 product lineup that seems to be very focused on MU-MIMO enabled AC2350 (AC2400?) products on the upper end.

I don't read much more into that - would have been interesting to see the EA-AC87 in the AP mode compared to where things were with the RT-AC87U, but I guess we'll never know.

 

[sfx2000]

RMerlin in another thread pointed out that this might be market/channel specific, or that the vendor may have pulled the product from the catalog...

 

[thiggins]

Would be nice getting any official confirmation. Could simply be that B&N decided to drop it from their own inventory, or that Asus is only pulling out of one specific market.

Checking with ASUS in progress.

 

[sfx2000]

Checking with ASUS in progress.

There's two threads wrapped around this topic, so any updates - can you share w/both, or perhaps merge the threads?

 

[VANT]

Would be nice getting any official confirmation. Could simply be that B&N decided to drop it from their own inventory, or that Asus is only pulling out of one specific market.

ASUS@SG says that is EA is still avaible, and he not now about this...

 

[thiggins]

No news yet from my ASUS contact

 

[nagle3092]

Maybe just a market issue.