With the rise of the Twitch platform, Taiwanese manufacturer Asus has become one of the main companies that has provided the market with numerous high-end gaming routers. Most of them were released as part of the Republic Of Gamers flagship game line and belong to the highest price category. For example, the Asus ROG Rapture GT-AX11000, released in 2019, was one of the first Wi-Fi 6 routers with a triple link, a spare LTE receiver, and five gigabit LAN ports. The correct operation of this monster was provided by a performant 4-core processor, and the list of its main functions took up almost as much space as the biographies of the main characters from the League of Legends.


Key features of ROG routers include flexible traffic optimization and usage settings, additional 160 MHz bandwidth, port forwarding capability, parallel VPN, and many of Asus' own developments, including GameFirst, Game Boost and Game Radar features. As befits gaming devices, many routers are equipped with Asus Aura RGB lighting, which is very easy to learn to work in time with the rest of the computer illumination.

Realizing that not everyone needs expensive uber-class routers, in 2021 Asus arranged the ROG series with slightly simpler and much more affordable ROG GS routers with Wi-Fi 6. In terms of their capabilities, they are not much inferior to the model mentioned above, but they are made a little more simple. Fewer antennas, fewer input ports, narrower bandwidth. But there is the same LTE modem, a dedicated 160 MHz channel, Dual WAN balancing, support for MU-MIMO and a gigabit connection. Compared to earlier models, ROG GS routers have learned how to work with seamless MESH networks. Well, the icing on the cake is much more democratic price tags.