I asked Asus about their alien spaceship-like router. Its ROG pedigree runs beyond gaming.

“Whoa.”

That was my first reaction when I witnessed Asus’ Republic of Gamers division announce the ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI Wi-Fi router. It looked unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, especially for a router. I’ve attracted plenty of eyeballs in my work cafe while working on the RGB show that is the massive ROG Strix Scar 18 gaming laptop, but passing over that aesthetic formula on a networking gear feels like an over-the-top engineering muscle-flexing. 

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Plus, an asking price of $900 made it even more of an enigma for me. This won’t be the first alien spaceship-esque router Asus ROG has offered. But the Rapture GT-BE19000AI takes things to a whole other level. Before I could dig into the review, I sat down with Juan J. Guerrero, Partnerships Manager at Asus (NA), to understand what the outlandish router is all about, and whether it can go

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