31 August 20151 September 2015NetworkBy Julian Duque

EnGenius ENS1750 Outdoor Access Point Review

If you have been following the wireless networking world then you must be familiar with the advancements manufacturers have made around the 802.11ac standard. It has been quite some time since Broadcom released the BCM4706 chipset which is found in most AC1750 units. To be exact, it entered the market in May 2012, more than three years ago, advertising a total 1,300 Mbit/s data transfer speed on the 5 Ghz band. But just because the AC1750 standard is not the latest it does not mean that it is useless. When EnGenius asked Benchmark Reviews to take a look at the EnGenius ENS1750 Outdoor Access Point featuring the aging AC1750 standard we were a bit skeptical at first, but that all changed as we went along our testing.

14 July 2015Manufacturer NewsBy News Reporter

NETGEAR AC1750 Smart WiFi Router Introduced

The next generation in AC1750 Smart WiFi Routers offers great value as it is packed with features and the latest technologies to boost performance and range for faster streaming and gaming at home NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTGR) (www.netgear.com), a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers, today expanded its portfolio of Smart Routers with theNETGEAR AC1750 Smart WiFi Router (R6400) (www.netgear.com/r6400). A new design that includes high power amplifiers, external antennas and Airtime Fairness®, combined with implicit and explicit Beamforming, boosts this router’s WiFi performance at long range by up to 80 percent over the previous-generation NETGEAR AC1750 Smart WiFi Router, the R6300. Packed with user-friendly features such as new remote network management via the […]

9 January 2014Manufacturer NewsBy News Reporter

TP-LINK AC1750 Enterprise Dual Band WiFi Access Point Launched

TP-LINK, a global provider of networking products, today announced its first AC1750 Enterprise Dual Band WiFi Access Point with Power over Ethernet (PoE), the EAP320. This AP supports the latest 802.11ac standard, providing up to 1750Mbps of available bandwidth with simultaneous 2.4GHz 450Mbps and 5GHz 1300Mbps. With the 802.11ac standard, the EAP320 can support an impressive number of bandwidth-intensive and latency-sensitive applications while its PoE capability allows for flexible deployment without the need to run additional electrical wiring. The intelligent centralized management system facilitates the configuration and management of multiple APs. A single AP is dynamically selected by the wireless controller which automatically distributes the network configuration to other APs in the WLAN, saving the hassle of manual synchronization. Automatic […]

30 August 201316 April 2018NetworkBy Bruce Normann

ASUS PCE-AC66 Wi-Fi AC1750 PCIe Wireless Adapter Review

The ASUS PCE-AC66 802.11ac wireless PCIe adapter is currently the only wireless adapter I know of, that allows you to experience the wonders of 3-Stream IEEE 802.11ac Wi-Fi. It won’t be the last, for sure, because the gains in wireless throughput are too good to pass up. There are several significant changes in the new 802.11ac standard, and upping the maximum allowable number of spatial streams is one of them. Theoretically, eight individual streams are supported by 802.11ac, but the new chips from Broadcom top out at three streams on a single IC. That’s enough to push 1.3Gbps across the airwaves on the 5GHz Wi-Fi band, which is probably where the consumer devices will stay. There are several wireless adapters on the market that are capable of handling two streams, but right now the PCE-AC66 is alone at the top of the 802.11ac heap, with three streams and the data rates to match.