Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro Review: Welcome to Wi-Fi 8

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Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro Review: Welcome to Wi-Fi 8

Buy Now Multiple Buying Options Available $900 at Amazon $900 at Asus Save this story Rating: 8/10 Open rating explainer WIRED: Very fast. Very reliable. Great range. Loads of multi-gig ports. Useful gaming features. No subscription required. TIRED: Enormous. Wi-Fi 8 isn’t finalized.

立即购买 提供多种购买选项 亚马逊售价 $900 华硕官网售价 $900 收藏此文 评分：8/10 查看评分说明 优点：速度极快，非常可靠，覆盖范围广，配备大量多千兆端口，实用的游戏功能，无需订阅。 缺点：体积巨大，Wi-Fi 8 标准尚未最终确定。

Wi-Fi 8 hasn’t fully arrived, and we’re even further out from Wi-Fi 8-compatible devices to come out in the real world. But I’ve already gotten a taste of the future of wireless connectivity. I tried out Asus’s first quad-band Wi-Fi 8 gaming router, ahead of the final certification of the latest Wi-Fi standard. The router is based on the latest draft spec of Wi-Fi 8, so it will be updated as the standard approaches final certification. The only way I could test the benefits of Wi-Fi 8 was to connect together two of these bad boys.

Wi-Fi 8 尚未完全普及，距离现实世界中出现兼容 Wi-Fi 8 的设备还有很长一段路要走。但我已经提前体验到了无线连接的未来。在最新 Wi-Fi 标准最终认证之前，我试用了华硕首款四频 Wi-Fi 8 游戏路由器。该路由器基于 Wi-Fi 8 的最新草案规范，因此随着标准接近最终认证，它将获得更新。我测试 Wi-Fi 8 优势的唯一方法是将两台这样的“猛兽”连接在一起。

After a couple of weeks of testing, there’s no denying the Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro is an impressive bit of kit with many extras you don’t get from other manufacturers, including a year of NordVPN service. The firmware has also been surprisingly reliable for me, unlike first-generation Wi-Fi 7 Asus systems, which took several updates to reach stability. But most folks shouldn’t be thinking about Wi-Fi 8 yet, and this router costs $900, a hefty early adopter tax.

经过几周的测试，不可否认的是，Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro 是一款令人印象深刻的设备，它提供了许多其他制造商无法比拟的额外功能，包括一年的 NordVPN 服务。对我而言，其固件的可靠性也令人惊讶，这与第一代 Wi-Fi 7 华硕系统不同，后者需要多次更新才能达到稳定。但大多数人现在还不必考虑 Wi-Fi 8，而且这款路由器售价 900 美元，这是一笔昂贵的早期采用者费用。

Bigger and Better The Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro is enormous, with eight adjustable but permanently affixed antennas. It’s around 14 inches square and 9 inches tall with the antennas and looks like a giant dead mecha spider. It doesn’t fit comfortably in any of the usual spots I have my router, and it makes absolutely no attempt to blend in. It does look cool, though, with a translucent window that shows off some internal components and a big Aura RGB ROG logo offering seven color lighting effects.

更大更好 Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro 体积巨大，配有八根可调节但永久固定的天线。它大约 14 英寸见方，加上天线高约 9 英寸，看起来像一只巨大的死机甲蜘蛛。它无法舒适地放置在我通常放置路由器的任何位置，而且它完全没有试图融入环境。不过，它看起来确实很酷，半透明的窗口展示了部分内部组件，巨大的 Aura RGB ROG 标志提供七种灯光效果。

There are advantages to all this real estate. The advanced thermal design, with multiple heatsinks and channels for airflow, allows the router to operate at top performance reliably over the long term without a noisy fan. It remained silent and cool to the touch throughout my month of testing. There’s also space for a generous array of ports, including a 10Gbps WAN/LAN, a 10 Gbps LAN, four 2.5Gbps (one WAN/LAN), one 1Gbps LAN, a USB 3.2 Gen1, and a USB 2.0 port. You can even use link aggregation on the two 10 Gbps ports (y’know, just in case you need a 20 Gbps conduit).

这种巨大的空间占用也有其优势。先进的散热设计，配备多个散热片和气流通道，使路由器能够在没有嘈杂风扇的情况下长期可靠地保持最高性能运行。在我一个月的测试中，它始终保持静音且触感凉爽。它还有空间容纳大量的端口，包括一个 10Gbps WAN/LAN、一个 10Gbps LAN、四个 2.5Gbps（其中一个为 WAN/LAN）、一个 1Gbps LAN、一个 USB 3.2 Gen1 和一个 USB 2.0 端口。你甚至可以在两个 10Gbps 端口上使用链路聚合（你知道的，以防你需要 20Gbps 的传输通道）。

Inside, you’ll find Broadcom’s BCM 6718 Wi-Fi chip, featuring a 2.6GHz quad-core processor, 256 MB of Flash memory, and 2 GB of DDR4 RAM. This is a quad-band router, so you have the usual 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, alongside two 6 GHz bands. I don’t want to drown you in spec soup here, but these are all 4 x 4 with OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access), 4096-QAM, and maximum-width channels, so we’re talking theoretical top speeds of 1.3 Gbps for the 2.4 GHz band, 5.6 Gbps for the 5 GHz band, and 11.5 Gbps for each of the 6 GHz bands.

在内部，你会发现博通的 BCM 6718 Wi-Fi 芯片，配备 2.6GHz 四核处理器、256MB 闪存和 2GB DDR4 内存。这是一款四频路由器，因此除了常见的 2.4GHz 和 5GHz 频段外，还有两个 6GHz 频段。我不想在这里用参数淹没你，但这些频段均为 4x4，支持 OFDMA（正交频分多址）、4096-QAM 和最大宽度信道，因此我们谈论的是 2.4GHz 频段 1.3Gbps、5GHz 频段 5.6Gbps 以及每个 6GHz 频段 11.5Gbps 的理论最高速度。

Further and Faster Of course, you never get maximum speeds in real life, but the speed of the Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro does not disappoint. You can reasonably expect up to 3 Gbps in the same room, around 1 Gbps through a wall, and I was still able to pull 350 Mbps at the bottom of my thick-walled old home’s garden. Comparing my upgrade pick of the best Wi-Fi routers, the tri-band Wi-Fi 7 Asus RT-BE96U, the GT-BN98 Pro proved slightly faster at all distances and longer-range across the board on every band.

更远更快 当然，在现实生活中你永远无法达到最高速度，但 Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro 的速度并没有让人失望。在同一个房间里，你可以合理预期达到 3Gbps，穿过一堵墙大约能达到 1Gbps，即使在我那座墙壁厚实的老房子的花园尽头，我仍然能获得 350Mbps 的速度。与我升级首选的最佳 Wi-Fi 路由器——三频 Wi-Fi 7 华硕 RT-BE96U 相比，GT-BN98 Pro 在所有距离和每个频段的更长距离上都表现得稍快一些。

Multi-Link Operation (MLO), enabling you to connect devices on multiple bands simultaneously, seems to be maturing since its buggy debut with Wi-Fi 7. It enabled close-range speeds close to 5 Gbps in my tests, but that’s using a second Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro as a client (most Wi-Fi 8 devices, when they arrive, won’t manage that). Bear in mind that I can’t test the Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) support yet, which cross-checks with licensed services in the area so your router can boost power for increased range and coverage on the 6 GHz band.

多链路操作 (MLO) 允许你同时在多个频段上连接设备，自其在 Wi-Fi 7 中首次出现并伴随故障以来，似乎正在走向成熟。在我的测试中，它实现了接近 5Gbps 的近距离速度，但这使用的是第二台 Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro 作为客户端（大多数 Wi-Fi 8 设备在上市时将无法做到这一点）。请记住，我还无法测试自动频率协调 (AFC) 支持，该功能会与该地区的许可服务进行交叉核对，以便你的路由器可以提高功率，从而增加 6GHz 频段的范围和覆盖范围。

Wi-Fi 8 isn’t primarily about higher speeds. It aims to improve stability and reliability with a raft of features that compensate for local interference and reduce latency for important tasks like gaming. The Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro boasts adaptive Quality of Experience and device optimization, automatically recognizing gaming devices and streams and giving them priority. With four gamers online in my home, from two gaming PCs, a MacBook, and a PS5, it was smooth and plain-sailing all the way.

Wi-Fi 8 的主要目的并非追求更高的速度。它旨在通过一系列功能来提高稳定性和可靠性，这些功能可以补偿本地干扰并减少游戏等重要任务的延迟。Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro 拥有自适应体验质量和设备优化功能，可自动识别游戏设备和流媒体并给予优先权。我家中有四名玩家同时在线，包括两台游戏 PC、一台 MacBook 和一台 PS5，整个过程非常流畅且顺利。

Added Value Asus is always among my top brands for routers and mesh systems, in no small part because the company eschews the subscription model and offers a ton of additional value through features and services that other manufacturers want to charge you a monthly fee for. That includes robust security software, in-depth parental controls, and VPN support (you can redeem a year of NordVPN service with this router). There’s also real-time traffic monitoring and a traffic analyzer.

附加价值 华硕始终是我心目中路由器和网状网络系统的顶级品牌之一，很大程度上是因为该公司摒弃了订阅模式，并通过其他制造商需要每月收费的功能和服务提供了大量的额外价值。这包括强大的安全软件、深入的家长控制和 VPN 支持（你可以用这款路由器兑换一年的 NordVPN 服务）。此外还有实时流量监控和流量分析器。