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Asus brought quite a few Republic of Gamers (ROG) products to Computex 2026. One announcement that might\u2019ve flown under the radar is that the company is giving the Wi-Fi 8 treatment to its head crabby ROG Rapture Wi-Fi gaming router series, with a forthcoming device called the Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN90 Pro.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve been following them, you\u2019ll know the ROG Rapture routers as massive, RGB-laden affairs that take up plenty of shelf space with their big, greedy footprints. They\u2019ve got eight antennas and an aggressively in-your-face top plate emblazoned with a shimmering ROG eye logo. Here, it\u2019s peeking out through pixel-like dots. A significant chunk of that top plate is clear plastic that lets you see what looks like some of the router\u2019s innards (lit by more RGB lights, naturally).<\/p>\n

Asus makes big claims on its website for this new 802.11bn gaming router, like that it will offer \u201cup to 2x faster higher median throughput\u201d or \u201cup to 34% lower latency\u201d (compared to what is unclear) when gaming\u2014it\u2019ll move more data at once and be more responsive, in other words. A graphic illustrates that the router can still put out a fairly stable 600Mbps stream versus the 200Mbps, unstable stream of another generic router at an unspecified distance. Asus also says the new router will feature \u201cup to 35% better heat dissipation\u201d compared to the Wi-Fi 6E-equipped ROG Rapture GT-AXE1600, which the company released in 2022.<\/p>\n

Unlike in TP-Link\u2019s announcement of its own Wi-Fi 8 router last week, Asus included some hard details about the ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro. It\u2019ll have seven ethernet ports: one gigabit LAN (for wiring up your laptops and such), three 2.5Gbps LAN, one 2.5Gbps LAN\/WAN (meaning it can either wire your devices or bring in internet data from your modem), one 10Gbps LAN\/WAN, and a 10Gbps \u201cdedicated gaming port\u201d that the company says automatically prioritizes gaming traffic. The two 10Gbps ports can be used in concert as one logical wired link, provided you have the equipment to take advantage of that.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s key to remember something here: Wi-Fi 8 isn\u2019t a finalized spec, and per Asus itself, that may not happen until 2028. That means if the BN98 Pro is released before then, there\u2019s no guarantee it\u2019ll carry with it all of the features that the spec will land on.<\/p>\n

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If none of that wets your whistle, Asus also announced a new Wi-Fi 7 router, the ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Pro Edition 20. It\u2019s a head crab, like its coming Wi-Fi 8 sibling, but with a gold-on-black aesthetic that includes \u201ca precisely applied gold metallic coating\u201d on the antennas that gives it \u201ca sophisticated metal-inspired texture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Leaving aside that \u201cmetal-inspired\u201d is a very silly thing to write, the gaming router looks kind of neat. The golden aesthetic combined with the hieroglyphic-adjacent ROG eye logo gives it almost an Egyptian vibe. If you think these routers are goofy things to behold, I super agree, yet I\u2019ve always appreciated how hard the company leans into the outrageous look.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to quickly run down the GT-BE98 Pro Edition 20\u2019s details, it has the same collection of ports as the GT-BN98 Pro, and the company makes similar Wi-Fi performance claims (like that it\u2019s 2.4x faster than\u2026 something). It even gets its own \u201cSignature Edition 20\u201d interface that, like the router, is gold and black, but otherwise looks like what you\u2019d expect if you\u2019ve ever gone to the web browser interface for an Asus router. I\u2019d assume it has more configuration options than you will ever need, something that is increasingly rare in this age of software hand-holding.<\/p>\n

For now, it\u2019s unclear when either of these products will arrive or how much they\u2019ll cost, although the company did say in January when it showed off a concept Wi-Fi 8 router that it would be shipping its first Wi-Fi 8 devices this year. We\u2019ve asked for more details and will update this if the company shares them.<\/p>\n

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