We’ve recently brought you a review of an Asus gaming routerwhich attracted attention with RGB backlighting. Today we will look at another router from this company that is unique in another field. This is one of the first WiFi 6 routers or those that support the new 802.11 ax standard. Let’s take a look at what improvements the novelty brings and what real differences you will see compared to 802.11 ac routers used so far.
Methodology of testing
The aim of the tests is to demonstrate real transfer speeds between the router and the client in a panel house environment, not in laboratory conditions. This means that there are many other WiFi networks in the area and, during the 10-meter test, the signal has to pass through to the third room, with the individual rooms being separated by reinforced concrete walls but with open doors.
Upload and download tests are performed using the TamoSoft Throughput Test app, where we focus on the results of TCP upload and TCP download. The router is connected to our test bench for graphics cards via 1-gigabit connection and serves as a server. The client is a Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop with Intel WiFi 8265 802.11ac and AX200 802.11ax. The second client is an iPhone XS Max. The transfer takes exactly a minute. All tests are performed twice and the results are an average of both measurements.
The USB transfer tests are again performed on the Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop with the help of an external Samsung T5 SSD which is connected to the router via USB and serves as a network storage. Subsequently, a large 10 GB+ video file is written to and read from this storage.
