Asus has Wi-Fi 6 routers compatible with PlayStation 5

Asus offers Wi-Fi routers for ideal gaming on PlayStation 5

Next-gen consoles coming this week might be the biggest leap in recent times and attract record interest. As for other gaming, the Internet will likely be much more important with these consoles (e.g. games will be distributed mostly through downloads). As this will make the connection more and more important, Asus has now come up with a range of Wi-Fi 6 routers that aim to be a perfectly fit for the Sony PlayStation 5.

PlayStation 5’s wireless adapter supports the latest Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard, so it will be able to make use of a router that supports Wi-Fi 6 for faster game downloading or content streaming (be it from the Internet or from a home NAS). Thanks to improved connection performance, you should see improvements when using Wi-Fi for online and multiplayer gaming., too In addition, the signal range and thus quality at a given distance is supposed to improve.

The highest theoretical connection speed for Wi-Fi 5 was just 1733 Mb/s, but with Wi-Fi 6, the console can communicate significantly faster and reach wireless speed of over 4800 Mb/s. Asus recommends the Asus RT-AX82U and Asus RT-AX86U routers for use with PlayStation 5, which offer maximum speeds of up to 5400 Mbps and 5700 Mbps.

Wi-Fi 6 doesn’t just bring higher data throughput. Even if your connection isn’t as fast as those maximums, for example, the new standard should always perform better than Wi-Fi 5 thanks to some of the improvements to communication that have been added to the standard. Wi-Fi 6 allows a router to communicate with up to eight devices at once using MU-MIMO technology, which is double compared to the previous standard.

In addition, it is important that the new Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication method can significantly improve the actual quality and speed of service, which is in practice impacted by the operation of other devices in the network. Those can usually lead to blocking of game’s traffic and increased packet latencies – which is critical for gaming. But thanks to OFDMA, a Wi-Fi 6 wireless network can handle the traffic bound to multiple clients in parallel, so that the game doesn’t have to wait, for its turn when mobile phone’s or some other device’s traffic is currently in process. With OFDMA, packets that do not require the maximum connection speed that would use all subcarriers can now run in parallel, and the game packet will therefore have a lower latency in critical situations that could interfere with gaming.

Asus RT-AX86U

Asus RT-AX86U

Of the two mentioned routers that Asus recommends as ideal companions for the Sony PS5 console, the Asus RT-AX86U represents the more powerful SKU. It offers throughput of up to 4804 Mb/s on the 5GHz band, and when using the 2.4GHz band, its 861 Mb/s are added. This combines to the 5700 Mb/s advertised as the theoretical maximum speed of this router. The device has three external and one internal antenna (integrated in the motherboard’s PCB), supports 3×3 MIMO using the 2.4 GHz band and 4×4 using 5 GHz. It is powered by a 1.8 GHz quad-core SoC.

Asus RT-AX86U

The router also has a dedicated Ethernet port for gaming devices or PCs. This port has priority in the router, so when connecting a gaming PC or console to it, its packets will automatically take precedence over other devices in the network. However, prioritization can also be controlled using a mobile app (in which you can also turn on game mode for mobile devices if you game on those).

Internet connection can employ coupling, combining two 1Gbps interfaces to achieve up to 2.0 Gb/s transfer speed. However, the router also has one 2.5Gb/s port (for 2.5Gb/s Ethernet 2.5GBASE-T), which can be used either for local devices but also for WAN (internet connection). There are also four 1Gbps RJ-45 ports for local devices, and the router also has two USB 3.0 ports.

Rear ports on Asus RT-AX82U. The AX86U also has an RJ-45 for 2.5Gb/s Ethernet

Asus RT-AX82U with RGB illumination

In addition, Asus also offers the RT-AX82U router with four external antennas, which offers a slightly lower maximum theoretical speed of 5400 Mb/s. Using the 5 GHz band, it supports 4×4 MIMO and can develop the same speed up to 4804 Mb/s. But when it comes to the 2.4GHz band it is a bit weaker, it supports 2×2 MIMO and a maximum speed of 574 Mb/s.

Ethernet options are also more limited. There is no support for 2.5Gb/s Ethernet, only for 1Gbps. And also the WAN connection is limited to 1Gbps, it is not possible to use teaming for 2.0 Gb/s as with the previous router.

Asus RT-AX82U

The specialty of this router is that it has RGB LED illumination that can be controlled with Asus Aura RGB technology, similar to PC.

ZenWifi mesh networking

Asus also offers routers that support Wi-Fi 6 on the principle of so-called mesh networking for PlayStation 5, which places multiple routers around the apartment and these communicate dynamically and automatically with each other so that coverage of the area is as fast and stable as possible. This solution should be more flexible and transparent than the traditional way of using primary routers and Wi-fi repeaters.

Asus ZenWifi XT8

This series is called Asus ZenWifi XT8 (featuring Wi-Fi 6), compared to the older generation ZenWifi CT8, which only offers Wi-Fi 5.

English translation and edit by Lukáš Terényi


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