AC3200 Review yet?

[hackintoshsr]

Anyone have this router?

Kind of wondering if they ironed out all the 5ghz wonkyness of the AC87.

 

[coastal_carolina]

I've been searching everywhere too. I ordered the 87U from Amazon and it's expected to arrive today. More than likely I'm going to just ship it back and keep the 68U I got last week.

Would be interested to see some initial impressions of the Asus 3200 though.

But am I willing to wait 6 or 8 months for Asus to get the firmware stable on it, hmmmmm......

 

[thiggins]

Jeez, Louise, man. They haven't shipped review units yet.

The AC3200 is a completely different animal than the RT-AC87. The AC3200 uses 3x3 Broadcom AC radios; the AC87 uses Quantenna 4x4.

 

[Balthazar-B]

Jeez, Louise, man. They haven't shipped review units yet.

The AC3200 is a completely different animal than the RT-AC87. The AC3200 uses 3x3 Broadcom AC radios; the AC87 uses Quantenna 4x4.

Didn't NewEgg begin shipping units to customers only today?

 

[coastal_carolina]

Didn't NewEgg begin shipping units to customers only today?

Amazon shows a few week wait for delivery, maybe they started shipping to early pre orders though. It looks like newegg has started shipping.

 

[hackintoshsr]

Jeez, Louise, man. They haven't shipped review units yet.

The AC3200 is a completely different animal than the RT-AC87. The AC3200 uses 3x3 Broadcom AC radios; the AC87 uses Quantenna 4x4.

Yeah mine is shipping from newegg today. Looks like Asus forgot about the reviewers .

I wasn't asking in a sense of hardware differences, just a general sense of "is my 5ghz going to work this time?"

 

[System Error Message]

the ac3200 should be more reliable than the ac87u. The ac3200 is more like a competitor to the netgear r8000. Both use the same CPU, both use 3 processors to handle wifi, both bond wifi links to handle more clients. I just hope that asus lets us use their 3 smaller ARMs since they are binary compatible with the CPU otherwise the term petacore would be seriously inaccurate.

I hope RMerlin gets his firmware for it fast, i want to bond ethernet ports on it by modifying the linux network config files to handle a total of 3 seperate 3x3 AC links from 2 devices by connecting them all with switch.

They just arent available in the UK yet .

 

[cmillar6]

Given how fast Asus like to release routers these days I'm just wondering whats next from Asus this year after the AC3200. It seems like the newer technology has exhausted itself for the time being.

 

[System Error Message]

wireless ad wont make it to routers, rather it seems like the successor to the old infrared. It will be a while though before something better comes up.

 

[Engineer]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320218&Tpk=N82E16833320218

Newegg - in stock - $299.99

 

[RMerlin]

Given how fast Asus like to release routers these days I'm just wondering whats next from Asus this year after the AC3200. It seems like the newer technology has exhausted itself for the time being.

8x8, and 4x4 with 160 MHz channels will probably be the next platforms. See the recent CES announcement to see what manufacturers will be working with over the next 6-10 months.

The fun part will be to see if 160 MHz compatible clients will ship before or after the MU-MIMO clients that are still not available for last year's products.

 

[System Error Message]

Thats the problem, MU-MIMO requres clients that support it. Wireless devices that ship with wave 1 AC wont be able to utilise it and there are already a lot of embedded devices that already have wireless AC in them.

Looking at it i think i'd prefer having 2 3x3 or 4x4 streams to support multiple AC devices not to mention the possibility of bridging without having to worry about available bandwidth.

 

[thiggins]

No 160MHz products yet. The routers announced at CES were mainly 4x4 MU-MIMO based on Qualcomm chipsets. D-Link's were a standard Broadcom AC3200 (shipping now) and 4x4 MU-MIMO and 4x4 three radio based on Broadcom's new chipset.

 

[RMerlin]

No 160MHz products yet. The routers announced at CES were mainly 4x4 MU-MIMO based on Qualcomm chipsets. D-Link's were a standard Broadcom AC3200 (shipping now) and 4x4 MU-MIMO and 4x4 three radio based on Broadcom's new chipset.

No announced routers yet, but SoC manufacturers demoed/introduced chipsets capable of 160 MHz, such as Broadcom's BCM4366, and Quantenna's new 8x8 solution. That's why I assume that these will be the new platforms used in products 6-10 months from now.

 

[thiggins]

Doubtful you'll see any of that stuff in 6 months. If it does show up, it will really be rushed to market.

 

[RMerlin]

Doubtful you'll see any of that stuff in 6 months. If it does show up, it will really be rushed to market.

Would that be something new to you?