RT-AC 1900P at Best buy

[Darcy]

Getting so difficult to pick routers now. Eero, Luma and Plume make it even harder. I'm still using a RT-AC66R believe or not. Still holding up pretty good but I'm getting the itch for something new.

 

[sfx2000]

Sfx might be right on this one. The codes are out there and anyone can make optimization if not to every aspect (as some are closed source but most are vanilla linux). Maybe vendors like Asus share a bigger responsibility..

There is a reason why I'm preaching more RAM, more Cores...

The next 18-24 months - it'll all be clear - 11ac is pretty much done - we've built a 20 story building, but we're only occupying the first 2-3 floors of it...

Most of the consumer AP's on the market right now - they will fall short - spectrum to some extend, but it's more about the number of clients and how we manage them.

Mark my words here - you'll find them to be true 2 years down the road...

 

[SoCalReviews]

I'll be waiting for the Candy Crush and Angry Birds router apps.

 

[Darcy]

So what is next?

 

[sfx2000]

I'll be waiting for the Candy Crush and Angry Birds router apps.

You can wait for that...

The wireless problem is solved for the most part - there's some cruft to clean up with regards to Wave 2 11ac, but for the most part, it's done...

The challenge moving forward is how to manage dozen's of IOT things inside your network, along with maintaining a good level of service across all the clients.

The current state of Consumer Router/AP's isn't going to do very well there...

18-24 months from now, you'll be buying a new router/ap in any event as a reaction...

 

[Darcy]

So Luma, Eero and Plume are headed in the right direction?

 

[sfx2000]

So what is next?

If I were a betting man - I would say 11ah and BTLE/BT5.0... along with more non-self-served services to support IoT..

And I don't bet without knowing the odds... and I think the odds are in my favor here.. enough so that I'm putting my future job on it.

 

[sfx2000]

So Luma, Eero and Plume are headed in the right direction?

they solve a problem - in the end, they're not very much different except in how they're implemented - and all three vendors have good approaches - so the market will sort them out..

who will be accepted into Gryffindor?

 

[L&LD]

So Luma, Eero and Plume are headed in the right direction?

Not in my opinion. Not with current models.

 

[Darcy]

If I were a betting man - I would say 11ah and BTLE/BT5.0... along with more non-self-served services to support IoT..

And I don't bet without knowing the odds... and I think the odds are in my favor here.. enough so that I'm putting my future job on it.

11ah operates in the 900MHz frequency band and can easily penetrate walls but from a bandwidth perspective it only delivers up to around 40Mbps from what I've read. So with that said I guess you would have multiple AP's throughout the house? Would that be faster than the traditional one router approach that's out now?

 

[sfx2000]

11ah in 900MHz band is generally intended for the Internet of Things kind of devices - they don't need huge bandwidth, and the RF propagation, as you mention, punches nicely thru walls and things - so the clients don't need as much power in the first place.

I wouldn't expect desktop/handheld devices to leverage much into 11ah, as we have 11n/11ac for that...

 

[Darcy]

11ah in 900MHz band is generally intended for the Internet of Things kind of devices - they don't need huge bandwidth, and the RF propagation, as you mention, punches nicely thru walls and things - so the clients don't need as much power in the first place.

I wouldn't expect desktop/handheld devices to leverage much into 11ah, as we have 11n/11ac for that...

So will all of that be incorporated into one unit? 11ah and 11ac? Or will the Internet of things make you have 2 separate units?

 

[sfx2000]

So will all of that be incorporated into one unit? 11ah and 11ac? Or will the Internet of things make you have 2 separate units?

Could go either way - for consumer oriented devices, it's adding another radio (cost) - so I think the first gen will probably connect to the main router via ethernet or 11n...

 

[thiggins]

L&LD, SFX, SoCal: Knock it off. Take your personal crap somewhere else. Not here.

 

[thiggins]

Official word from ASUS:

[The RT-AC1900P] is a BBY exclusive at the moment and is available now. New CPU, internal design changes, and improved power amplifier for increased coverage over the AC68U.

 

[Lola]

Official word from ASUS:

Mr Higgins are you going to review that router anytime soon?

 

[thiggins]

Mr Higgins are you going to review that router anytime soon?

Sample requested. Not sure when review will be.

 

[Farns]

So are there any plans for this model to start getting new Merlin (Beta) builds? I have a N66U and I'm leaning toward grabbing this to hold me over until the BCM4908 routers are available and at a reasonable price(certainly under $300). The 600MHZ single core in mine just doesn't handle OpenVPN as well as I would like.

 

[RMerlin]

So are there any plans for this model to start getting new Merlin (Beta) builds? I have a N66U and I'm leaning toward grabbing this to hold me over until the BCM4908 routers are available and at a reasonable price(certainly under $300). The 600MHZ single core in mine just doesn't handle OpenVPN as well as I would like.

Asus confirmed last night that the RT-AC1900P uses the same firmware as the RT-AC68U.

 

[sfx2000]

Asus confirmed last night that the RT-AC1900P uses the same firmware as the RT-AC68U.

Good to know - and with Tim's comment below

[The RT-AC1900P] is a BBY exclusive at the moment and is available now. New CPU, internal design changes, and improved power amplifier for increased coverage over the AC68U.

Makes sense - probably to do some cost management, and some of the components on the RT-AC68U series are probably getting scarce, as it's an older design, so digging into the parts catalog, put something that works just as well, and get a product out at a good pricepoint - AC1900 class is more than enough for most folks...

Very smart play..