Trendnet Begins Shipping AC3200 Tri Band Router (TEW-828DRU) to North America

[[Coi] Mr.CLuBBeR]

A new flagship

Trendnet unveiled a new flagship router -- AC3200 Tri Band / TEW-828DRU -- at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas back in January, but at the time, it wasn't available. Now it is, or soon will be once stores update their inventories. Trendnet tells us the TEW-828DRU is now shipping to North America and North America only, promising strong performance in busy connected homes.
As always the case with wireless routers these days, the advertised performance metric -- in this case, AC3200 -- is a combination of the separate bands. The TEW-828DRU is a tri-band router with up to 1,300Mbps available on the AC1 band, up to 1,300Mbps on the AC2 band, and up to 600Mbps on the N band.
If you add the three together, you arrive at 3,200Mbps, though be advised that you can't combine all three. Nevertheless, the rated speeds are on the high end, and having two separate AC bands to play with is a welcome convenience as AC-capable devices become more commonplace.
The TEW-828DRU also sports four Gigabit LAN ports, USB 3.0 port, USB 2.0 port, one guest network per band (with option for Internet access only), beamforming support, 1GHz dual-core processor to optimize network throughput, parental controls, and OpenVPN support.
You can find the TEW-828DRU online going for between $250 and $320ish.
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