Furthermore, when we turned on the QoS to manage the congestion of the simultaneous video streams, it worked against us, and the game became completely unplayable. Adding in the 8K video congestion with the QoS reduced our fps to 23.4, with the game freezing, as indicated by the zero minimal frame rate. The frame rate was nearly identical with the QoS enabled. When we did the first wireless test, even without any of the videos playing, we could only play the game at 32.5 fps. The issues begin with our Ethernet tests, generally thought of as the fastest and most stable way to play a game. The firmware that we conducted the testing on is 3.0.0.4.386.49533. We also had to perform some additional testing to confirm our conclusions. To say that we are disappointed with the gaming performance of the Asus GT-AXE16000 would be an understatement as a flagship ROG router. When gameplay drops below 30 frames per second, it is quite noticeable and quickly progresses to unplayable as it drops even further. Gaming generally uses a low amount of bandwidth but needs a high priority for that traffic to avoid stutters and freezes. We also report the dropped frame rates of the first 8K video to see how well a router can deal with a saturated network congested with video streaming traffic and gaming. We then toggle on the QoS to allow the router to prioritize the gaming traffic. Next, we add ten 8k videos to simulate loading up the network with congestion (chosen to saturate our 300 Mbps cable-based broadband connection). For this test, we run the game Overwatch at 1080p (fully updated to the latest version) and take metrics, including in-game latency and frames per second (FPS). We next put the Asus GT-AXE16000 through our network congestion testing, which is designed to test the QoS settings of the router. Here, the near test gets us throughput of 914.1 Mbps, and the 30 feet far test dropped this to a still speedy 509.7 Mbps. The 5 GHz band yielded solid results as well, with even faster throughput than with the 2.4 GHz testing. When we increased the distance to 30 feet away on a higher floor of the router, the speed dropped off quite a bit to 72.2 Mbps. On our 2.4 GHz near test, with the client positioned 5 feet away, the throughput measured at 123.6 Mbps. Still, the throughput is solid for this router, but not record-setting. This card is Wi-Fi 6, meaning that it lacks Wi-Fi 6E so we cannot test the 6 GHz throughput which promises faster speeds with less interference. First we tested the wireless throughput with our wireless client, an Asus ROG laptop featuring an Intel AX201 wireless card. We ran the Asus GT-AXE16000 through our usual suite of network benchmarks.
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