The TP-LINK Archer C3200 has an interesting symmetric chassis and sports no less than six antennas, three of which being dual-band and the remaining three single-band:
Both LEDs and interface buttons can be spotted in the frontal area of the router:
From left to right, we’ve got the Power LED, the one for the 2.4GHz band, the one for the first 5GHz band, second 5GHz band, one LAN activity LED, a WAN activity LED, WPS LED and also separate LEDs for the USB interfaces:
The hardware buttons are for turning Wi-Fi On/Off, to enable WPS but also for turning the LEDs on or off:
Besides the ventilated top, we get ventilation grills on each side too:
The interfaces of this router are located in the back and here we will get to see from left to right a Reset button, an USB 2.0 port, a WAN port, four LAN ports, an USB 3.0 port, the Power button but also one DC-IN port. These are color-coded, can be identified easily and have enough spacing between:
There is no surprise that the bottom layer of this router also presents itself as a ventilation grill:
Each lateral features a small rubber foot:
Here is how the Archer C3200 does look when it is ready for operation; each wireless band is driven by a different co-processor and the system is accompanied by a dual-core 1GHz processor: