Razer’s next piece of gaming hardware is a wireless mesh router for gamers

By Joe Osborne

Not content with slick gaming laptops and now even its own smartphone in the Razer Phone, the green-clad hardware maker has just unveiled its first-ever wireless router. However, it’s technically not solely Razer’s creation, but rather a collaboration with a hardware partner.

Ignition Labs, the networking hardware maker behind the Portal series of wireless mesh routers a la Google Wifi or Eero, has put its Portal mesh system in the hands of Razer for it to give the device the gamer-centric treatment. The result is the Portal by Razer.

The only visible difference between it and the original Portal router is that the “O” in the Portal logo is now a deeper green, natch. But, on the inside, there are quite a few enhancements that Razer promises will improve online experiences for gamers.

Wireless mesh that puts games first

The Portal by Razer is a dual-band 802.11ac wireless mesh system with an AC2400 rating (i.e. up to 600Mbps on the 2.4GHz band and up to 1,733Mbps on the 5GHz band), like all the others, but Razer claims to have introduced “patented congestion-busting technologies” designed to enable the fastest speeds and lower latency when in games.

For starters, Razer worked with Ignition Labs …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming