A router with autonomously mobile antennas

Archer AXE200 Omni. © TP-Link.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, TP-Link presented a prototype router, the Archer AXE200 Omni, which has four antennas that autonomously deploy and rotate in search of the best possible signal. Beyond its mobile antennas, the Omni is a tri-band router with a 6GHz band (Wi-Fi 6E). It can handle maximum transfer speeds of up to 4.8 Gbps on the 5 and 6GHz bands, as well as speeds of up to 1,148 Mbps on the 2.4GHz band. The router has an ultra-high-speed WAN port for the wired connection capable of handling incoming speeds of up to 10 Gb/s, as well as an Ethernet port capable of handling up to 2.5 Gbps. Neither price nor availability date have been published. TP-Link also showed many other new routers to be released sometime in 2022, but none of them have antennas that move around, which takes away from the cool factor.

⇨ The Verge, Alice Newcome-Beill, “This TP-Link router automatically moves its antenna for the best Wi-Fi.”

2022-01-04