When I saw Asus’ Blue Cave router, which was announced last May and is now going on sale, I assumed the unique carved-out shape must enable some innovative new way of amplifying Wi-Fi signals to better blanket a home.
But it turns out, it’s not for that at all. It’s just a hole in a square designed to look cool. And while I’m glad Asus went out on a limb and made a weird looking router, even Asus seems to acknowledge that it was a lot of work for nothing.
Just read this quote from Alsa Lo, networking product manager at Asus, describing the various hurdles engineers had to overcome just to put a purely aesthetic hole in a router:
Most high-performance routers use external antennas to get the best Wi-Fi performance. To achieve Blue Cave’s...
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https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/1/30/16952032/asus-blue-cave-router-with-hole-in-middle-now-on-sale
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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/01/listen-to-asus-describe-why-making.html
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