ASUS Unveils Wi-Fi 7 Wireless Gaming Router RT-BE86U with Expected September Release

TapTechNews July 15th news, according to the dynamics of Xiaohongshu user KoolShare and Chiphell user weskylixiaofeng, ASUS展示展示了 Wi-Fi 7 wireless gaming router RT-BE86U at the BilibiliWorld 2024 exhibition held last weekend.

In fact, this model also appeared on ASUS' support page a little earlier on July 9th:

RT-BE86U continues the classic vertical design of ASUS' 86U family and is equipped with three external antennas, with a smaller footprint.

In terms of specifications, this wireless router is equipped with a 16nm process Broadcom quad-core 2.6GHz CPU and 2GB DDR4 memory, supporting Wi-Fi 7 dual-band 6800M.

For interfaces, RT-BE86U has one 10G wired network port and four 2.5 network ports, and is equipped with two Type-A interfaces including one USB3.0 (TapTechNews note: the other USB port is expected to be USB2.0).

ASUS RT-BE86U supports up to 5 SSIDs and has features such as intelligent WAN port detection, exclusive gaming ports, and priority forwarding of game data. In addition, it is also equipped with AI functions such as Network Shield, Free Networking, and Intelligent Scene Acceleration.

ASUS officially stated that the RT-BE86U gaming router is expected to be launched in early September.

For reference, the initial price of the higher-spec RT-BE88U is $1999, while the initial prices of the previous generation RT-AX86U/RT-AX86U Pro are both $1599.