ASUS announced today the availability of their new RT-N15 wireless router.  It has four Gigabit wired ports and supports the 802.11n draft specs.

Noteworthy features include one-button security set-up and an integrated bandwidth priority menu.  The one-button security just launches the ‘WiFi Protected Setup’ wizard to guide you through the steps necessary to give your wireless network some needed security.  The ‘Bandwidth On Demand’ menu supplies you with the management controls to give certain tasks a higher priority than others.  Say for example that you have an FTP upload going on, your significant other is browsing the internet and downloading music, and you want to do some online gaming.  Through this menu you can set gaming network traffic to have the highest priority to keep your game lag-free.

The RT-N15 also throws in some interesting energy efficiency measures.  Network cable length is calculated and power to specific ports on the router is automatically adjusted to shave off some power usage depending on the length of the cable.  You can see by the diagram below that this could definitely save some power for routers that are located right next to the PCs plugged into them (my current set-up).

the RT-N15 cable length detection and power savings