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The Asus ZenWifi Pro ET8 starts at $530 for two, and Netgear’s souped-up quad-band Orbi is an eye-watering $1,500 for a three-pack.

Given how rare quad-band 6E routers still are, the Asus ROG Rapture GT-AXE16000 is perhaps unsurprisingly on the expensive side, and is set to cost $649 when it goes on sale later this quarter.

But compared to Netgear’s quad-band Orbi system, which costs the better part of $1,500 for a three-pack of the mesh routers, Asus’ router looks almost affordable.

Asus’ latest router is the ROG Rapture GT-AXE16000, and it says it’s the “world’s first quad-band Wi-Fi 6E gaming router.”

Quad-band routers, as their name suggests, broadcast a total of four wireless bands for connectivity.