TP-Link announces (and ships!) its first 802.11ac tri-band router, the Archer C3200

Paper launches have become all too common in the router industry. A company announces a new product and basks in the uncritical news coverage before seeding eval units with reviewers like us. These early press opinions are invariably uncritical because the manufacturers haven’t given reviewers anything to benchmark. That typically comes a week or two later. So