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Hello, I noticed in your review of the Asus ROG GS-AX5400 router that your ping times and upload speeds in wired mode were not so good. It seems as though the internet uplink with which it was tested is limited. It might have been better if you'd tested it in a corporate setting with faster upload speeds and better latency. That way, we could see what the limits are on the router.
I had to replace a Netgear router that was surprisingly bad with Wi- Fi speeds, even though its wired performance was good. By having your internet upload as the bottleneck, we’ll never know whether the Wi-Fi has a decent performance both up and down.
Thanks as always for an informative and entertaining magazine. It was nice to see your article about quiet builds; that’s one of my main areas of interest. The DDR 5 article was great, too. I love to see this kind of stuff because it helps me at work. Believe it or not, on our Dell servers, 850GiB/s NVME’s are stateof-the-art—and those are the latest R640s! So the stuff you present is definitely a look into the future for me. The gaming gear is always leading edge.
–M.
Schwager
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, ZAK STOREY, RESPONDS: You raise some interesting points there, and I have to agree with you. It’s one of the reasons why we’ve shied away from networking reviews over the years. Future is, understandably, wary about letting us plug routers into its networks directly. At our main offices, we have a separate “review” network upon which most of the Maximum PC machines are situated. Last time I checked, we still weren’t allowed to pop routers on it for any length of time, due to potentially opening up security holes. Our IT department has always been strict on that.