Is 2013 the year of 802.11ac WiFi chips? The new standard is implemented on many motherboards, as well as more and more routers, like Asus model holds for the moment, promising up to 1900 Mb/s with its new Asus RT-AC68U Wireless Router.

Asus made announcements during Computex Taipei 2013 by launching a router that embraces the new 802.11ac standard. The Taiwanese states that the three antennas in it would generate 1900 Mb/s of bandwidth by adjusting both frequency ranges usually dedicated to WiFi (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) with 1300 Mb/s on one side and 600 Mb/s on the other.

Note that no details were given about who was the provider, or any further technical details (size of channels used, flow rates measured in shared access, etc) about this new router, registered under the reference RT-AC68U.


At random, we will retain the news made by Broadcom, one of the first manufacturers to propose a complete SoC for domestic routers, and describes an operation based on two controllers in the market: one operates the band of 2.4 GHz operated by WiFi 802.11n, while the other works on the 5 GHz band by pure 802.11ac.

The price of the RT-AC68U is not yet been disclosed. Asus has decided to embrace the movement of 802.11ac without delay in all cases, since it also provides a (PCE-AC66) Expansion card for desktop PCs, as well as modules involving 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0 on its new motherboards Maximus VI.