Which Wi-Fi Router Looks the Most Like an Evil Alien Spaceship?

Designs for gaming routers have gotten really. Familiar lately.

- By Michael Crider

Coverage. Speed. Latency. Security. All of these are important features of a Wi-Fi router (fave.co/3DXf5d0), and they’re all things we’ve disregarded for this article. Because the question of the day is, which modern router looks the least like a consumer electronics appliance, and the most like something that would menace the Rebel Alliance in the third act?

Gaming hardware in general has some weird aesthetics going on. Between the seas of black plastic and galaxies of RGB lights, an expensive gaming desktop setup looks like a rave in a NASA control center. But Wi-Fi routers in particular, with their multiple antennas and no real restrictions on size or shape, have proven an irresistible target for the more excessive kind of product designer.

So we present a ranking of the most spaceship-like Wi-Fi router designs. We’ve limited our selections to just one design from each major manufacturer (or else we’d be here all day), with absolutely no concern for their technical capabilities or overall quality. Nope, this is just a list of which routers look the most like an evil spaceship, from least evil spaceship-adjacent to most.

10. AMAZON EERO PRO 6