802.11ac

Ignition Design Labs announced its PORTAL router now supports mesh Wi-Fi. IDL said its "enterprise-grade" Mesh 2.0 "dynamic smart mesh" technology "consistently outperformed first generation static-Mesh solutions, such as Eero and Luma, with up to 10x faster speed, 4x greater coverage and 3x...

The AC2300 Nighthawk R7000P is a 3x3 Broadcom-based version of NETGEAR’s classic Nighthawk R7000, supporting MU-MIMO and maximum link rates of 1625 Mbps at 5 GHz and 600 Mbps at 2.4 GHz. Running off a 1 GHz dual-core processor, the R7000P wireless router also includes five GbE ports (four LAN...

ZyXEL’s Nebula line of networking products centralizes deployment, management and monitoring of remote networking hardware for small and medium businesses and managed service providers. The line includes 802.11ac access points, security gateways and Gigabit Ethernet switches that are cloud...

Ubitquiti Networks added two new access points to its family of enterprise grade Wi-Fi networking devices. The new APs are the UniFi AC Mesh and UniFi AC Mesh Pro. Both APs are designed for easy integration into indoor and outdoor installations, and are 802af PoE compatible devices that can be...

Broadcom recently announced the BCM4366E, a new 4x4 wireless radio SoC to be used in upcoming MU-MIMO routers, gateways, and set top boxes. Aside from serving up current wireless AC services, the BCM4366E adds a couple of new Wi-Fi technologies to boost performance, including: RangeBoost –...

Linksys today announced the WRT3200ACM, the latest in the company’s line of WRT routers. The WRT 3200ACM is a simultaneous dual-band MU-MIMO router that is the first to support contiguous 160 MHz bandwidth channels in 5 GHz. Because 160 MHz bandwidth uses eight 5 GHz channels--typically all...

The soon to be released NETGEAR WAC740 is an AC2600 class MU-MIMO 4x4 AP that will have maximum wireless link rates of 600 Mbps at 2.4 GHz and 1.7 Gbps at 5 GHz. With the WAC740, SMB customers can opt for either using a bonded connection to the access point’s two Gigabit ports, or use its...

TP-LINK's AC1200 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Archer C5 V2 is a very different router than the original. Read on SmallNetBuilder

I recently posted in the Asus 1900P topic about asking the difference between v1 and v3 hardware. Well, the reason I was looking for a new router (because I assumed it was my routers fault) is because I'm at my whits end trying to resolve a big problem with my home network and the new router...

Catching up with its competitors, ZyXEL has released its own AC2600 MU-MIMO dual-band router, the Armor Z2 (model NBG6817). Qualcomm-based AC2600 class routers were the first to have working MU-MIMO and now ZyXEL is jumping into the AC2600 market. ZyXEL's NBG6815 AC2200 class MU-MIMO router...

The Amped Wireless REC44M is a MU-MIMO enabled AC2600 Wi-Fi range extender in a fairly large wall-plugged format. As MU-MIMO devices become more common, manufacturers are moving to mainstream the technology, incorporating it even into wireless extenders. Linksys and Netgear are are already...

If you've been wondering whether Qualcomm would let Broadcom have the market for tri-radio routers all to itself, you now have the answer. Today at Computex 2016, the company announced its tri-radio 802.11ac platform. Both are built around Qualcomm’s IPQ40x9 802.11ac SoC, introduced last...

Linksys today announced the start of shipment for three MU-MIMO products announced at January's CES 2016. The EA9500 AC5400 Tri-Band Wi-Fi Router with MU-MIMO is Linksys' new big-boy router. It's based on Broadcom's 4x4 MU-MIMO enabled radio and three-radio XStream architecture. The two 5 GHz...

eero announced it has secured a $50 million round of growth funding led by Menlo Ventures with "significant participation" by Index Ventures. This investment brings eero's total VC funding to $90M+. The funding will be used to expand distribution, provide customer support and add employees...

Amped Wireless today announced the availability of its RTA1300M ARTEMIS High Power AC1300 Wi-Fi Router with MU-MIMO that was unveiled in January at CES 2016. When the ARTEMIS was announced in January, it had 3x3 2.4 GHz and 2x2 5 GHz radios. In this announcement, both radios are now 2x2. The...

Ignition Design Labs today launched the Kickstarter campaign for its Portal Wi-Fi router that was previewed at CES 2016. Portal is a QCA-based AC2350 / 2400 class router with working MU-MIMO. Its main claim to fame, however, is IDL's FastLanes™ technology that provides access to the 5 GHz...

Updated - Ubiquiti Networks has decided the challenges of battling for market share in the enterprise Wi-Fi space aren't enough. Today, it announced the creation of its "consumer electronics innovation laboratory" Ubiquiti Labs and launched its AmpliFi Wi-Fi system. AmpliFi combines...

I've literally spent *hours* carefully combing through the data on SNB. I have now cancelled two separate router orders (which is quite unlike me) upon coming across new information. The more data I came across today, the more confused I became, as many articles (and recommendations by its...

I currently have a 80 MHz SISO 802.11ac setup (laptop - AP - NAS), so 433 Mbit/s max (in reality ~ 200 Mbit/s), and I want to double it by upgrading both the router and the laptop with mini PCIe Wi-Fi 802.11ac cards that support 160 MHz wide channels. I don't care about MIMO and MU-MIMO, since...