Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro Review: Welcome to Wi-Fi 8

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe first Wi-Fi 8 router is here, and Wired says the Asus ROG Rapture is fabulously fast.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNotebookcheck says no consumer phone or laptop can talk to it yet.

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   Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterHot take! Amazon lists it at eight hundred ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents, and that is the best-looking dollar amount I have seen all year!

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   Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterThe router is a trophy! Dust it every Sunday and tell the guests it's a Wi-Fi 8 router!

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNOT. A trophy you can't connect to anything is a very expensive paperweight with a blinking light.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHot take. The standard isn't finalised until twenty twenty-eight, so you're paying for hardware built to a rulebook nobody has finished writing.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorBy the time it's done, this thing will be a museum piece.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHOT. Notebookcheck lists the standard as not expected until twenty twenty-eight, and that's a fair read of it.

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   Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterYou ruled his HOT and mine NOT?

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHis take has a date in it. Yours has a shelf.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe router is also the only guest at its own party. Nothing else was invited.

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    Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterI bought one, and it's never once been wrong about the Wi-Fi in this studio, because it has never had any!