A digital research firm SUPERDATA, worldwide esports market was valued at $1.5 Billion in 2017.
According to SUPERDATA, “At $1.5 billion for 2017, global esports revenue will grow 26 percent by 2020 as it attracts an even more mainstream audience. This increase will be fueled by a viewership projected to grow 12 percent each year and a swelling number of third-party investments.”
Ride on the strong growing trend, ASUS has developed a series of gaming routers (GT-AC5300, RT-AC5300, RT-AC88U and RT-AC86U) that built-in with WTFast – Gamer Private Network (GPN). You may find more detail about WTFast from the official website.
WTFast, this advanced feature can be easily found under Game Boost option tab. As a gamer, it is very likely to face high ping and result lag. I do understand how frustrated and annoyed it could be and I know every second counts. The result of the games could easily be changed every second should any of the above situations happened. ASUS feel you! Hence, ASUS found a solution for you. By enable the WTFast, this gaming router will automatically select the most efficient route for your game packets in order to reduce the ping drop and packets loss. On top of that, it also allows to reserve CPU/RAM usage for gaming and guess what, I know what are you concern the most! Don’t worry, this is Free-for-life on this device (1 subscriber / router).
What hardware specification inside RT-AC88U (AC3100):
Broadcom BCM4709C0 1.4GHz, 2 core, Flash 120MB, RAM 512MB, 4×4 MU-MIM0, USB3.0 x 1 USB 2.0 x 1, 8 Giga LAN ports and 1 WLAN port. More details please visit ASUS Official website.
You can find many expert reviews from the internet such as Smallnetbuilder, IGN, wegotserved, APC Magazine, HotHardware, CNET, PCMag. Therefore, This article will focus more on features, based on firmware version 3.0.0.4.384.10007.
1) Guest Network – This feature allows you to set a specific access time for your guests and will be automatically turned off after the set access time. Also, this latest firmware provided a special function which let you to have the authority to set the bandwidth limit to a specific guest network. As a result, it restricts your guest to utilize majority of your existing bandwidth. 
2) Adaptive QoS – Normal home routers in the current market as shown below (D-Link as an example) required you to create rules in order to run the QoS. This is an old way and it takes longer time to get the results. However, RT-AC88U offers clean and easy way to configure by just a simple click and apply.
Also, all ASUS routers provide an additional function – Bandwidth Limiter. This function enables you to limit a specific client’s bandwidth by selecting the client MAC address and key in the download & upload bandwidth. As a result, you can restrain your clients being occupied too much of bandwidth and ensure all the clients can fairly enjoy the speedy network. 
Beside that, ASUS RT-AC88U could perform an unique task – Web History, which allows you to monitor your clients’ activities and their access history / records. This function can rarely be found in other home routers and it is definitely an added value for ASUS RT-AC88U. Nevertheless, this Web History cannot be saved at this juncture. The history log keeps only for certain timeframe and the logs will be overwrote.
3) Traffic Analyzer – ASUS RT-AC88U allow you to conduct the network traffic analysis and present you the results in graph / diagram. You can find out the Top 5 clients or applications that utilised the highest usage of network. You can sort the data by daily, weekly or monthly according to your needs and requirements.
In a nutshell, ASUS RT-AC88U is a performance router which furnished with ton of features that could benefit your daily life. Stay tune and we will further discuss the functions in future articles. Thank you for spending time with me. As sharing is caring – you are welcome to share this article with anyone who needs this.