Wi-Fi 6 routers

All the big router manufacturers have Wi-Fi 6 routers available already, or are due to launch them imminently. For example, Asus’s RT-AX88U is the company’s first Wi-Fi 6 router. It’s dual-band and offers up to 6,000Mb/s of Wi-Fi throughput, along with four antennas, and eight LAN ports.

Asus also has the gaming-oriented ROG Rapture GT-AX11000, a tri-band router that can keep one 5GHz band dedicated to gaming. There’s also the Asus AiMesh AX6100 Wi-Fi System, which is a mesh Wi-Fi system that can cover the whole home.

As one of the biggest names in networking, it’s no surprise that Netgear is going all-out on Wi-Fi 6, and the company has a number of Wi-Fi 6 routers already available. The Netgear Nighthawk AX8 (RAX80) offers eight streams of wireless connectivity, 160MHz channel support, and 6,000Mb/s throughput over two bands. It also looks like something you’d expect a Sith to fly around in.

The Netgear Nighthawk AX12 (RAX120) ups the ante with 12 Wi-Fi streams, plus Alexa and Google Assistant support, and Netgear claims it’s the most powerful router the company has ever produced.

Netgear is also updating its excellent Orbi mesh Wi-Fi system to support Wi-Fi 6, which the company claims will offer gigabit speeds across the entire mesh network, with the ability to handle 12 streams at once, along with MU-MIMO and OFDMA support.

D-Link was early to the Wi-Fi 6 game, launching a number of devices back in 2018. It’s also got a new

Wi-Fi 6 router, the D-Link DIR-X6060.

TP-Link has a few Wi-Fi 6 routers, too, including the Archer AX6000, Archer AX11000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi Gaming Router, and the Deco X10 Mesh Wi-Fi System.