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Using my iPad Pro and the TP-Link Tether app to get the Archer AX6000 online and distributing data took all of five minutes. That’s significantly more expensive to operate than the Linksys MR9600’s $6.80. It adds up to estimated annual power bills of $11.30. When it was doing nothing, it used the same 9.9 watts of power as when it was furiously moving data back and forth. It was disappointing to note that the Archer AX6000 lacks a power-saving idle mode. While this was going on, the videos came through without skips, freeze ups or out of synch audio. While one of the systems streamed YouTube video and another played Internet radio, the third machine played Spotify music and the fourth one moved data onto and off of a networked RAID system. It stood up well to our four-system saturation test that uses a Macbook Air, iPad Pro, Dell XPS 15 and an HP Elitebook. When the signal had to travel upstairs to a bedroom, the system registered 667.3Mbps upstairs, about what the RAX80 and MR9600 provided.Īfter using the Archer AX6000 for more than a week of email, Web surfing, video watching and online gaming, it delivered reliable bandwidth. The RAX80 managed 30 percent more bandwidth at 1.077Gbps. It fell short of the mark when we tried to move data through a wall, with 738.0Mbps of throughput.

By contrast, the Nighthawk RAX80 delivered 20.8Mbps at that distance. The Archer AX6000’s range was 85-feet and it missed out on a throughput reading at our terminal distance of 90-feet. The Archer AX6000’s throughput dropped off to 149.9Mbps at 75-feet, where it barely beat out the Nighthawk RAX80’s 142.3Mbps but was second best next to the MR9600’s 227.0Mbps. As expected, the bandwidth available fell off with distance. The Archer AX6000 delivered 396.4Mbps at 50-feet, making it the leader of the Wi-Fi 6 pack at middle distances compared to the Linksys MR9600 (at 363.3Mbps) and the Nighthawk RAX80 (at 277.1Mbps). In other words, it provides a nice speed boost compared to Wi-fi 5 (802.11ac) routers, as seen in our Netgear Nighthawk AC2300 (RS400) review (at 566.7Mbps) or TP-Link Archer C2300 review (at 682.3Mbps). This falls short of the Netgear Nighthawk RAX80’s 1.389Gbps of throughput, but surpassed the Linksys MR9600’s 822.0Mbps at the same distance.

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Using Ixia’s ixChariot’s network simulation software in a 100-year old house, the Archer AX6000 performed satisfactorily, peaking at a maximum throughput of 884.4Mbps with the receiving device set up 15 feet from the router. TP-Link Archer AX6000 review: Performance The Archer AX6000 can handle 2.5Gbps WAN input from some of the newer broadband modems and aggregate two LAN ports for a peak flow of 2Gbps but limits you to using two specific ports for aggregation. On the downside, it’s a tight fit for the top row of four networking ports, making the cables frustratingly hard to remove.Īll of the networking ports can handle gigabit per second data flow, making it the router to get if you have lots of wired accessories, like printers, scanners and networked hard drives. That’s twice as many as the Linksys MR9600 and three more than the Nighthawk RAX80. The Archer AX6000 also has eight LAN connectors, arranged in two rows of four ports. So long as you don't mind the alien looks, this might strike a healthy balance between raw speed and a reasonable price.TP-Link outfits the router with both a single USB 3.0 and a USB C port, for connecting to a printer or external hard drive. It's definitely more expensive than a typical home WiFi router, but that's decidedly less expensive than some tri-band WiFi 6 routers. The Archer GX90 will be available through Amazon (not as of this writing) and other outlets for $250. This also happens to be a solid router for general use with a 2.5Gbps Ethernet jack (plus four 1Gbps jacks), two USB ports and support for mesh networking through TP-Link's OneMesh-capable devices. Improved OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiple access) modulation is meant to reduce lag, and a 1.5GHz quad-core processor (TP-Link doesn't name it) helps juggle heavy traffic. You can expect some of the other familiar tricks to improve gaming performance.

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An accelerator also spots and fine-tunes streams for games it recognizes, such as the Call of Duty series or League of Legends, while a dashboard provides stats on your playtime to help pinpoint problems.

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The company has unveiled an Archer GX90 router that offers not just WiFi 6 speeds (virtually required at this stage), but a dedicated 4.8Gbps 'Game Band' to keep your play sessions free of interference from other local network transfers. TP-Link knows WiFi gaming routers are as hot as ever, and it's determined to keep up by offering a string of high-end features without going completely over the top.

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