ASUS Black Diamond 600 Review
9 Dec
The ASUS Black Diamond (model no. RT-N56U if you’re trying to find it on the compare wireless routers page) is a feature rich wireless router, and one of the better ones from ASUS. It gives you plenty of options, and is a wireless router ideal for a handling a lot of connections from different people and devices, all at once.
Here are the basic specifics.
- Wireless Speed: 300 Mbps
- Port Speed: 1 Gbps
- Dual Band: Yes
- USB Slots: 2
ASUS Black Diamond 600 Review
So as you can see it’s got just about everything you could want from a high end wireless router. About the only thing it’s really missing is 450 Mbps over wireless, but most people wont miss that speed anyway, and it does manage a full 1 Gbps on the wired connection, so if you ever really need a lot of speed, there is always an ethernet cable.
One of the stand out features of the ASUS Black Diamond is the 2 USB slots. Printers are a popular device to hook up to wireless routers, as are external hard drives. With 2 USB slots, you have the option of connecting both devices at the same time, increasing the functionality of the wireless router. And even if you don’t have a use for 2 USB slots just yet, it’s a nice feature to have for the future. The ASUS Black Diamond also comes with some fairly good user interface software for getting those USB connected devices running.
Beyond that, the ASUS Black Diamond has all the basic wireless router functionality, like a good QoS interface to give bandwidth priority to gaming, for instance, that you would want from a wireless router. And of course dual band is there as well, for connecting your other devices, like Wi-Fi enabled TVs.
All in all, the ASUS Black Diamond is a really solid contender in the high end wireless router market.
If you want to see how the ASUS Black Diamond compares to other wireless routers, head over to the compare wireless routers page.
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