It was just announced by ASUS the soon launch of its new routerswhich will offer WiFi 7 technology. Specifically, the brand has announced the soon availability of the models TUF Little Tornado BE3600 and Little Pro BE6500. They will be among the first to hit the market with this new connectivity that offers new features in terms of connection speeds.
The new WiFi 7 standard It offers us higher transfer speeds, which will reach up to 36 Gbps. A new band is added natively, such as the 6 GHz band. In addition, the 320 MHz bandwidth and the 4096 QAM protocol are added, which allows greater data density.
New routers for gaming
The new ASUS routers belong to the TUF range, a range of products that is characterized by great features at a reasonable price. It would be the range of products below ROG, which is the company’s highest range.
As the most basic model we have the TUF Little Tornado BE3600 with a Broadcomm processor which has four cores with a frequency of 2.0 GHZ. Additionally, this router has a total of 1 GB of RAM and up to 256 MB of storage memory. This router offers advanced WiFi 7 functionalities such as the dual-band 4K-QAM and MLO system.
Regarding its design, it is inspired by drones, with open areas on the side to improve cooling. Regarding connectivity, it offers a 2.5G WAN/LAN port and a total of four Gigabit Ethernet ports. It also includes NetEase UU game acceleration technology to improve performance when playing online.
Then, we have the high-end TUF Little Tornado Pro BE6500 model that makes use of a more powerful Qualcomm quad-core processor running at 1.5 GHz. In addition, it is complemented by 1 GB of RAM and 256 MB of storage.
As in the previous case, this router has WiFi 7’s own dual-band 4K-QAM and MLO technology. Regarding the design, it is similar to the previous model, optimizing cooling as much as possible. It changes connectivity above all, since it offers a 2.5G WAN port and three LAN ports.
These two models promise solid performance and are designed to satisfy the needs of video game fans. It offers us wireless connectivity, great reliability and high speed. That both include WiFi 7 is a big step forward in networking technology, to support higher speeds, greater efficiency and better management of multiple device connections.
Prices and availability
As far as we know and according to the information, these routers will initially be launched in a few hours in China. Possibly, they will later be launched in other locations, but we do not have more information about the launch.
The TUF Little Tornado BE3600 router will have a starting price of about 45 euros (499 yuan). While the TUF Little Tornado Pro BE6500 model would have a base price of about 105 euros (799 yuan). It is possible that when they arrive in Spain they will be more expensive taking into account taxes and other elements that end up making the product much more expensive.