[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-tp-link-routers-start-at-4499-in-early-black-friday-deals":10,"sections":45},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":34,"tags":35,"sources":40,"feedback":44,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":44,"total_tokens":44},13054,"tp-link-routers-start-at-4499-in-early-black-friday-deals","TP-Link Routers Start at $44.99 in Early Black Friday Deals","Amazon's early Black Friday sale cuts TP-Link prices by up to $102, but Wi-Fi 7 still costs far more than a $54.99 Wi-Fi 6 router.","Amazon has marked down seven TP-Link routers ahead of Black Friday (November 27), with sale prices starting at $44.99 and a top saving of $101.99.\n\nThree are compact travel routers that share a hotel connection across your devices. The Roam 6 AX1500 is $44.99 (was $59.99), the Roam 6 AX3000 is $55.98 (was $79.99), and the Wi-Fi 7 Roam 7 BE3600 is $87.99 (was $119.99). All three support VPN connections. Rated top speeds run 1.5Gbps, 3Gbps and 3.6Gbps, in that order.\n\nThe home models are the Archer AX21 V5 AX1800, a Wi-Fi 6 router rated at 1.8Gbps, at $54.99 (was $89.99). The tri-band Wi-Fi 7 Archer BE700 is $248 (was $349.99) and the BE770 is $299.99 (was $369.99). Both have 6GHz support, EasyMesh and 10Gbps WAN ports. The Wi-Fi 7 Deco BE25, built for mesh setups, is $99.98 (was $129.99).\n\nThe discounts are uneven. They run from 18.9% on the BE770 to 38.9% on the AX21, which gets the deepest cut of the group. That widens the gap between old and new standards. The cheapest Wi-Fi 7 home-oriented unit here, the Deco BE25, costs $44.99 more than the AX21, or 82% more. At list prices the gap was $40, or 44%. The comparison is imperfect: the Deco is a mesh unit, the source does not say how many come in the listing, and it is dual-band. Within the travel line, the Roam 7 costs $32.01 (57%) more than the Roam 6 AX3000 for about 20% higher rated speed.\n\nThe same effect shows up higher up. The BE700 and BE770 were $20.00 apart at list and are $51.99 apart now, so the step up to the BE770's 18Gbps rating (versus 15Gbps) costs about 2.6 times what it did. Neither the AX21 nor the Wi-Fi 7 units are guaranteed to be at their lowest price of the year, and the pricing can change.","[\"tp-link\",\"routers\",\"black-friday\",\"wi-fi-7\"]","2026-11-13T14:30:00.000Z","2026-11-13T22:33:28.130Z","2026-11-13T22:34:22.065Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Fix the misattributions: the advice to check prices comes from Lifehacker's Black Friday FAQ, not Amazon (\"the retailer's own advice\"), and the claim that the AX21 handles streaming and video calls is Lifehacker's description, not \"the listing says\"; attribute both correctly or drop them. The arithmetic (39%, $20 vs $52 gap, seven routers) checks out.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"The closing analysis calls Wi-Fi 7 at $87.99 and $99.98 a 'modest premium' over the $54.99 AX21, but that is roughly 60% to 82% more, and it compares travel and mesh units against a home router. Recompute the premium, drop or properly qualify the 'cheap newer standards' claim, and state the real gap in dollars and percent.","deals",[36,37,38,39],"tp-link","routers","black-friday","wi-fi-7",[41],{"name":42,"url":43},"Lifehacker","https:\u002F\u002Flifehacker.com\u002Ftech\u002Ftp-link-wi-fi-routers-amazon-early-black-friday-2026?utm_medium=RSS",0,{"sections":46},[47,52,57,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101,106,111],{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"AI","ai",7151,"2026-11-13T11:05:00.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Security","security",1134,"2026-11-13T15:20:00.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":34,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Deals",656,"2026-11-13T15:00:00.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Policy","policy",624,"2026-11-13T13:58:05.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",372,"2026-11-13T14:37:16.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Hardware","hardware",339,"2026-11-13T15:23:48.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Science","science",232,"2026-11-13T12:00:40.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Software","software",173,"2026-11-13T15:05:54.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Startups","startups",160,"2026-11-12T17:31:47.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",127,"2026-11-11T19:00:44.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"General","general",120,"2026-11-13T11:33:19.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"Gaming","gaming",109,"2026-11-13T10:00:00.000Z",{"name":107,"slug":108,"count":109,"latest_published_at":110},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":112,"slug":113,"count":114,"latest_published_at":115},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]