have any body heard of this model. Asus RT-AC68A
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Why not one more?
https://www.asus.com/Networking/RT-AC68UF/
Or two?
https://www.asus.com/Networking/RT-AC1900P/
https://www.asus.com/Networking/RT-AC68UF/
Or two?
https://www.asus.com/Networking/RT-AC1900P/
SoCalReviews
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Amazon still sells the RT-AC68U but as of the time of this post the price isn't discounted much considering what the RT-AC68A was listed at for pre-orders. The recent run of AC68P sales at BB seems to have ended too. The demand must be strong for these routers. Were they flushing out old inventory in anticipation of new inventory or new variations for these models? I guess we will have to wait until the end of April to see what happens with the pricing of the AC68 series of routers.
sfx2000
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Wonder is this was a market test to see what price level the market will bear for AC1900 class devices now that they're not the latest/greatest hot solution...
(but AC1900 is still the best bang for the buck, no matter what vendor/OEM)
SoCalReviews
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What? A 1.4 Ghz dual core processor in the RT-AC1900P
Now I'm getting excited about this!
SoCalReviews
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To be honest it sucks but there is always the older firmware on older devices... as long as they don't go knocking on anyone's door... I've read that they've been known to do that in the past.
What? A 1.4 Ghz dual core processor in the RT-AC1900P
Now I'm getting excited about this!
Per https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Broadcom, 4 routers have the 1.4GHz BCM4709C0. The Asus AC5300, AC88U, the DLink 885L and the 895L. And now the AC1900P. I wonder who will be selling this one, and when.
Older firmware will no longer be an escape route in the near future. That's all I can say...
Starting to suspect that Asus scrapped the RT-AC68U rev C1 that was supposed to be on shelves in February, and are going with this one instead. The photos and the fact it's a BCM4709C0 would fit.
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Is it not true that Asus is already using compliant power levels right now ? What more can they do lower it even further after June of this year ? Gees pretty soon wireless routers will be useless.
L&LD
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No, not useless; compliant.
What they can do has been stated. They will remove the ability to adjust power levels (via closed source code).
Lock them at hardware level, prevent users to use older FW versions, etc...
SoCalReviews
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Geez and you'd think that the those of us who already bought and paid for our open source firmware based wireless routers with our hard earned money actually owned them... and had control over what went on them. I guess we were wrong. A govt. entity actually secretly controls our router, what firmware goes on it and decides what is best for us. Silly us.
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SoCalReviews
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I realize this is a big brother type of question so answer at your own discretion... When was it too late not to upgrade to the latest "locked" firmware version? For security, bug fixes and other reasons most responsible owners upgrade their firmware to the latest version... right?Nothing is forcing you to upgrade to firmware to the 'locked' versions.
AFAIK, the current output levels are already compliant, so I don't see why they would reduce that.
