ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 router review -
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So let us have a closer look at the product, packaging first of course.
The ASUS GT-AX11000 comes in a colorful red/black package. Next to the router, you'll find an Ethernet cable, power adapter, a manual, instruction CD and a whopping eight antennas.
Everything is packaged rather nicely and extensively, hardly any chance of damage during transport and unboxing it is quite an experience all by itself. Interesting enough, the router cannot be wall mounted, so there are no brackets or plugs to attach the router to the wall. BTW I am getting greener these days and so it pains me to see each antenna wrapped in its own plastic bag. Even the adapter has its own plastic wrap.
Above, you can see an overview of the hardware included. The router has been equipped with powerful hardware (for a router) such as a quad-core 1.8 GHz processor, 256 MB flash storage and 1 GB of RAM memory as well as USB 3.1 ports (Gen1, thus 5 Gbps). The router, as stated, comes with 1024MB of DRAM memory. This much is needed among others for IPv6 - the IPv6 stack is likely loaded completely into memory. It's a small computer slash server on its own really. The router is Wi-Fi Certified for:
- 802.11a : 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54 Mbps
- 802.11b : 1, 2, 5.5, 11 Mbps
- 802.11g : 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54 Mbps
- 802.11n : up to 600 Mbps
- 802.11n (1024 QAM) : up to 1000 Mbps
- 802.11ac (1024 QAM) : up to 4333 Mbps
- 802.11ac : up to 3466 Mbps
- 802.11ax (2.4GHz) : up to 1148 Mbps
- 802.11ax (5GHz) : up to 4804 Mbps
The unit is equipped with eight adjustable and removable antennas. The separate antennas are located on the outside of the router, above is a picture with the antennas you need to mount.
You can direct the antennas at any angle, to squeeze out that last bit of performance in an upper floor corner. An ethernet cable is included as well as the power adapter (doh).
Here we have the unit with antennas installed. Dead in the center at the top, a mesh for venting, in the middle the Asus logo. That one is RGB lit, we recommend you disable it as routers are active 24/7 and, as such, the three (RGB) LEDs do consume power.
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