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Linksys Designs an Inoffensive, Good-Looking Router

This is precisely the amount of aesthetic intrusion I want

By Rain Noe - January 19, 2021

in Object Culture

It's almost as if Linksys' designers read that "Why are WiFi Routers So Darned Ugly?" post. If you look at what their routers used to look like…

…and the stuff that's on the market these days…

…the design of their new AXE8400 Wi-Fi 6E System, just unveiled at CES, looks like a breath of fresh air:

The press release doesn't mention a single thing about the understated design, but I want to thank the designers for demonstrating that rarest of qualities in current ID: Restraint. This is precisely the amount of aesthetic intrusion I want from a router.

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Ross V

3 years ago

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Sony designed the PS5 like a router, now Linksys designs a router like an xbox. The cycle is complete

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B Delta

3 years ago

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Man, I checked in on Core for the first time in a while to see if you guys started posting any decent content again... guess not.

Poorly researched post, as was the "Why are WiFi Routers So Darned Ugly?" post you reference, which didn't include this or any other decent looking routers/mesh systems. It's like doing a post called "Why are chairs ugly?" and posting a few images of ugly chairs only.

Linksys has used this aesthetic since 2017. They gave you this "breath of fresh air" about 4 years ago - this is just a new Wifi 6E variant. The press release probably doesn't mention the understated design because it's not even remotely new, actually a bit dated.

This message was brought to you by a "darned nice looking" Google Nest Wifi System.

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N G

3 years ago

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Breath of fresh air, or hurricane of losing market share to Google?

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Jeff Spencer

3 years ago

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Here's hoping the top half doesn't glow blue-white 24/7 as soon as you plug it in.

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Doctor Shields

3 years ago

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This is clearly the other other new Xbox.

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