ASUS RT-BE96U WiFi 7 Tri-Band Router Review

[@spiralout112]

That intro was amazing!

[@sativagirl1885]

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[@cmoullasnet]

💯 We need a whole sci-fi series with APs. Ubiquiti 🛸, Asus 🚀 et al.

[@declanmcardle]

@@cmoullasnet Detach the saucer section Mr. LaForge...a Ubiquity AP7 goes flying across the room...

[@madness1931]

Finally, a router review that doesn't immediatly start talking about an "app", and actually reviews the product. Cheers Level1.

[@k9online]

Yeah, after my past two years at an ISP and working with dozens upon dozens of consumer routers, Asus was the last one standing insofar as not pushing app setup. They HAVE a (actually pretty decent) app but it wasn't required. TP-Link routers are also still like that, but their mesh systems basically force the use of an app. Asus ZenWiFi mesh is exactly like their routers, standard full featured web interface and setup. There are some more not so well known brands you can get online that are like this too but you don't usually find them in stores.

[@cldpt]

to be fair, consumer-facing products do benefit from having a simper experience such as that provided by a phone screen which everybody has easy access to, and can perfectly go through the basic stuff most users need. Mikrotik and Ubiquiti are good examples of companies making prosummer kit with very decent apps which showcase the best functionalities of their products to unsuspecting, non-techie users.

[@Harvester88]

@@k9online I just got the TP Link BE800 and outside of a few snafus, it's been a great experience. I came from an Asus Wifi 6 router and the home network is scorching, also, my airlink experience has been amazing.

[@christopho3255]

​@@k9onlineI just picked up the Asus Zenwifi XT9 to setup for my parents freshly installed fiber service. I'm hoping the stronger second 4X4 5Ghz band can connect well.

[@accrevoke]

@2:45, I use the power switch when i leave the house for weeks... i.e. on business trip. I tend to power off a lot of equipment when i need to leave for extended amount of time...

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

I have two dedicated switches in my power distribution box for that. One to power down the apartment completely for maintenance, one to power off everything except the fridge.

[@TheNoiseGOAT]

Exactly, did not understand the rant... We need power switches

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

@@TheNoiseGOAT yeah, but not ones you can easily accidentally press on equipment which should have long uptime.

[@Tsiikki]

@@TheNoiseGOAT My RT-88U has push button power with nice detent, which is 500 % better than that kind of lever.

[@TheNoiseGOAT]

@@BoraHorzaGobuchul I bet you're handling your router every single day of course

[@anthonyr.589]

The power switch is awesome. Dont ever change ASUS

[@EpicManTony]

Also if you do need to reboot you don’t accidentally drop the power cable behind a cabinet or stand.

[@FEARmeify]

ASUS sucks. They've been doing some shady stuff lately. Please change ASUS.

[@zehoo2]

I just lost a small amount of respect for him with his tirade against a very useful feature. The ability to power cycle the router without having to mess with the power cable. 😑Not everyone has rock solid internet.

[@POVwithRC]

​@@zehoo2If you lost respect over that difference of viewpoints, you never had any respect for him to begin with.

[@leexgx]

Log into router and restart?

[@dvdavid888]

Hope Wendell does a follow up on Asuswrt-Merlin

[@treighpedroche1516]

Anxiously waiting

[@SwirlingDragonMist]

I love the way your reviews are lightyears ahead of the other fluffy immaterial nonsense. Contextualizing the nat performance around teleconferencing and the 2gb is dare I say… Fantastical! Much appreciated!

[@twirre]

Loving the intro! Effects as advanced as early Star Trek

[@FrenziedManbeast]

I slapped a two port 2.5GbE NIC into an HP mini desktop with a 12th gen i3 in 2022 because multi-gig routers were astronomically expensive compared to my $160 solution. Wendell, is there any hope for a "forbidden AP?" Having to spend $700 for a WF7 AP for my house is beyond absurd, but I do live near multiple airports so getting away from 5Ghz would be lovely.

[@KingTroopa]

Yeah that $700 price tag ouch

[@zxcvb_bvcxz]

having done this with proper PCIe wifi cards (i.e AP cards from AsiaRF) I still wasn't faster than a Asus AX router. Not worth it if you want >=900 mbit IMO (I hit 700 with mine, 900 at further distance with Asus)

[@praetorxyn]

At least you can get the Unifi Wi-Fi 7 AP much cheaper than this.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

Not really. Most of the radios good for AP use are embedded so they come with a CPU and stuff to make an AP device

[@FrenziedManbeast]

@@praetorxyn You can, with the Unifi 7 AP the port is capped at 2.5GbE. You're honestly missing out on the promise of WF7's massive speed jump over 6/6E if you go this route, not to mention you're buying into an ecosystem. I like being able to run devices a la carte because I've been burned too many times with 'ecosystem stagnation'.

[@endykun]

This intro is the best thing I've seen in months....

[@LeJimster]

Wow. That router is massive. I've experimented in the past building my own routers, I can't remember the name of the software but I ran something linux based around 2006 (I remembered: IPCop) and then a few years later I built a pfsense router. I remember originally needing to do this because off the shelf home routers would often crap out when torrenting.

[@adriancoanda9227]

Yeah torrents are a thing of the past now, today you can also use your phone as a router, y mean out there are also lte routers, but the test wasn't with max function enabled y mean the nas functions weren't tested there you will see cpu up 😅

[@Skylord12345]

@@adriancoanda9227 with ads getting worse and worse by the day torrents have may a huge comeback. Hope to see you back on the seas!

[@MikeStavola]

​@@adriancoanda9227 Last I checked, torrents are still somewhat popular. Like, 1/10th of what it was 15 years ago, but it's still kickin'. Also remember that more than 50% of traffic consists of the actions of bots and spiders and SEO junk and spoofed views and clicks.

[@Jdmorris143]

I use the router power switch when the kids don't listen. They cry, I laugh, and then they listen.

[@_____alyptic]

Custom firmware as in Merlin-WRT? Also maybe the Power switch to help do the factory reset? Where you hold WPS or whatever before you flip it on. Could be easier than putting in the cable while holding the button

[@ArcadiyIvanov]

The production values are getting mindblowing! :D

[@cldpt]

Fun fact: Asus has been putting USB dongle-based WWAN support for a while now, nearly 2 decdes. I recall buying a router with this feature from them back in the late naughts. The tricky thing was getting a 2-3G dongle that would be supported from your ISP (usually the only place you could get one, because everything was SIMLocked then), as sometimes they wouldn't really play well with the protocol that would configure the SIM card and whatnot

[@zushiba]

I have an ASUS RT-AXE7800 and run my DNS through a pihole instance I have running on a used Chromebox CN60 running CasaOS. Works great!

[@dividion8102]

At 22:22 I thought he'd add, "Let's boldly take this router where no router has gone before." A missed opportunity, like routers passing in the night. :)

[@OsX86H3AvY]

I LOVE being able to connect my phone to my PfSense and my old OpenWRT routers for cell phone backup, that was just a HUGE thing for me (and with Spectrum you can use your Spectrum Mobile connection which is your neighbors WiFi then bridge it through your phone to the router and suddenly YOUR wifi is courtesy your neighbor and they dont even realize it :) :) :))

[@SpoonHurler]

But can it run Wing Commander though?

[@karaloop9544]

11:33 Good to see that the router is well protected against STDs.

[@MarkRose1337]

I still have a pair of WRT54GS with 8 MB of flash and 32 MB of RAM. That model was created specifically for tinkerers, after they shrank the resources of the original WRT54G (newer versions had less RAM and storage).

[@BGraves]

E-waste nowadays

[@MarkRose1337]

@@BGraves Pretty much. The 32 MB makes it difficult to run a modern kernel, and OpenWRT has stopped supporting them.

[@LapFox]

Back in 2015 I bought a WRT1200AC on an Amazon prime deal for about £90 with the intention of getting in to OpenWRT. I'm in the unfortunate camp of not being able to run any cables around my apartment so I'm trying to get the best performance I can in this noisy environment. With your experience in the OpenWRT community could you point me in the direction of any sources I should take a look at to get started?

[@MarkRose1337]

@@LapFox I haven't touched OpenWRT in well over a decade. I'd start with the site and ask questions in their forum.

[@BGraves]

@@LapFox if you are an early adopter of Wi-Fi 7 you get a whole set of frequency to yourself for the next few years.

[@amigatommy7]

I power cycle routers that are confused sometimes. Bought the "pro" version of this some time ago and will install in as a Mesh #1 next time I trip over it.

[@Pro720HyperMaster720]

3:00 Btw the power switch in the router is mandatory in some regions that’s why they always tend to have one

[@zaclu3420]

Was debating between BE96U and BE98, this video clear my mind. Thanks!

[@christianjones4691]

So what did you choose

[@zaclu3420]

@@christianjones4691BE96U fits my case along with Black Friday discount, are you debating between these 2?

[@MrFerisko]

My RT-AC68U that I had for ages now is still going strong. I was considering an upgrade, but seeing how fugly the ASUS router range became in last few years I might pass for another couple years. Or just look elsewhere. And yeah, if you want 4 2.5Gbps ports you got to upgrade to RT-BE98U. Which is even fuglier iteration of this.

[@adillpickle6762]

Why didn't you show us how to connect it? Do you connect to your ISP modem? After that do you have to change you username and password? A lot of taking but no demo or how to connect doesn't help us newbies

[@PsychoStreak]

Honestly, I'm on Team Power switch. I've been on enough support calls where I've had to talk users through unplugging their router and plugging it back in that a power switch would have been WONDERFUL. Plus it saves wear and tear on the barrel connector for the power brick. Maybe place that one somewhere less accident prone, but leave it there, ASUS. Everything needs a power switch that's easy to get to. Just in case.

[@ronwood5729]

that intro was redonkulous and i love it

[@Mr.Morden]

Reminds me of the Replicator robots from Stargate.

[@k9online]

WiFi 6E IS WiFi 6 + 6GHz - WiFi 7 is just a update to that standard. So it's confusing it took an update on any 6E device to operate on 6GHz. And basically how it works now is if it's a Broadcom device your only real useful option is Merlin (Asus-Wrt on Crack) or FreshTomato and for Qualcomm or MediaTek devices OpenWrt is still the firmware of choice. There are a few acceptations to this but for the most part where we're at. Asus-Wrt is based on the original Tomato firmware (which was based on Hyper-Wrt) and is pretty amazing for a consumer out-of-box router, though.

[@t00lshack]

Yeah NAT translation counts can impact CPU usage. BIt torrent is a "great way" to get large translation tables.

[@JayJayYUP]

Anything concerning bufferbloat?

[@GabrielTobing]

13:54 Dude exposing us all, wtf man XD

[@TheFrostySaucer]

Okay I’ve watched a few of your videos in the past and liked your stuff but wow that intro really did it for me.🤣🤣🤣🤣 absolutely amazing!

[@okiph]

dude you can find wifi 6 with 6Ghz and you can find wifi 7 just with 5Ghz so you need to double check the specific specs and not to assume automatically that the marketing of wifi 6 / 6E / 7 etc... are any indication of specific specs also you can find wifi 7 160MHz channel or wifi 7 320MHz channel

[@Bob_Smith19]

The entire market is a cluster fuck designed to confuse consumers. These aren’t enterprise devices where the people buying them know what to look for.

[@daymianhogue1634]

WiFi 6 isn't fully capable of 6ghz, there's no requirements for it, but some manufacturers and such are doing weird work arounds to Frankenstein it. WiFi 7 requires 6ghz as part of the specification... So someone is false advertising if they're doing "wifi 7 without 6ghz" But yeah looking into reviews and more details than just their wifi designation is always a good idea

[@mindshelfpro]

Does OpenWRT work on it?

[@h4rdcor31]

@level1techs, Do you know of a good way to test NAT states? I have some WFH users that consistently have call quality issues that we can't isolate and the section on NAT States sounds a lot like what I'm running into.

[@Kilraeus]

Best Review I have seen for SOHO routers, what i would have loved is some coverage of IPv6 differences. E.g. the state table size, NAT is no longer relevant, but firewall states are likely bulkier. Client address assignment, does it reliably send the RAs for clients to SLAAC or does it need to use dhcp anyway like some ubiquiti products

[@Jinxmann]

I'm loving the Star Trek inspired intro!

[@RUY2323]

Would you recommend the pro version over this one as the pro version is quad band

[@iRageGGB]

For $600+ I'd rather go with something like the Ubiquiti Dream Machine pro (DMP $380) and a Ubiquiti U7 Pro for an AP ($190) over an ASUS product. DMP is a quad core CPU @ 1.7ghz w/4GB of DDR4 RAM and It seems like it'd just be a better purchase over all. Total is still sub $600 and a better, likely more flexible system. The DMP is also more powerful, and has seemingly better protection packages (I haven't compared them side by side obviously) but it'd be interesting. Id like to see this ASUS router vs a small form factor PC running PFSense or something.

[@789know]

Also way better features set with Ubiquiti ecosystem. Asus ffs still doesn't have more advance wireless vlan settings even now. U can't set individual rule for each vlan

[@acubley]

The intro- "It's Wendell One, he's gone from geek to nerd!" [right there with him]

[@integer0verload948]

Wendel , how does this do with dual ISP WAN load balancing? Still lose a bunch of features?

[@LWRC]

@7:46 mega-bits not mega-bytes!!! There is a difference! The throughput speed coming from your ISP doesn't know how big a word is in the computer you are running!

[@Bob_Smith19]

The lack of VLANs bothers me. I’m still using a RT-AC88U. I want to upgrade but ASUS does not offer anything w/ comparable number of LAN ports let alone multiple 2.5gb connections and VLANs. Would be nice if I could do everything in one box but they always cut corners somewhere.

[@GabrielTobing]

6:14 Can you review the tp link be33000 (be95), because I heard that even parental controls is a subscription, which is like what??? Despite the extreme hardware I went to the asus GT-AXE16000 instead.

[@chrisbullock6477]

Wendell any substantial differences between having a Quad band Asus router over the more common Tri-Band that's been around for some years now

[@NatesRandomVideo]

Honey… someone gave Wendell caffeine again! 😂

[@Mike-wk2ip]

You said “If you don’t use this as a router, you effectively get dual 10Gb ports.” Does this mean that if you do use it as a router, you only have one WAN port? I’d like to use it in Dual WAN Load Balancing mode with my 2 ISPs (one cable, one fibre) and have a dozens of devices in my house and several family members working from home all day. Can you use it as a router with two ISPs using the Dual 10Gb WAN ports?

[@michaelmouton53]

The NAT address table (at 3,000) isn't really all that big. A $60 MikroTik HeX 5 (256MB RAM) can hold up to 225,280 entries, which is significantly more than the +- 65,536 max entries you can have on a public IP anyway. It's fine for most consumers I suppose, but at $700 with 2GB of RAM I think it should not be an issue to increase it.

[@chrisbullock6477]

Great insight Wendell and nice to see you looking into routers. I'm moving to a new place that can get Google Fiber, and am looking at purchasing the ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BE98 PRO First Quad-Band router if you could possible look at reviewing that one and maybe comparing any pros/cons between the two? And if not totally understand, I currently have the ASUS GT-AXE 11000 and looking to upgrade to GT-BE90 Pro and use my old one as a Mesh Router.

[@MainelyElectrons]

Perfect! I am so sick of my OpenMesh WiFi 5/AC AP and want something fast to replace it

[@EagleEye-MJG]

It was my understanding that the "Guest Network Pro" feature, creates multiple VLANs....no?🤔

[@789know]

But from what i know u can't really set some of the more advanced vlan rule like 1 way communication between vlan

[@GainingDespair]

Asus is kinda notorious for not supporting their devices, or only offering short lived support, they still sell routers new on Amazon right now which are end of life day 1 of ownership. It's not really just them either, many companies are like this, should be a crime. I get not ever device can be supported till the end of time but mandatory software support 1 year after last model sold should be required by law. At this point routers seem to be more disposable by design than a $100 smartphone, I refuse to replace my equipment biyearly, I mean I still have some GL iNet routers which are Chinese but 3 years old and still getting regular security updates. I don't like trusting Chinese equipment but they get updates, are supported by OpenWrt and reasonable priced for the specs.

[@adriancoanda9227]

Support will be paid only y mean if you would buy a entire truck of those you w7l definitely get Support 😅 but else those are becoming big they have also business oriented products , but really they are the fastest in drivers/firmware updates compared to other companies where you have to wait for years until next update

[@thetruellamaman4543]

Unfortunately all of the good, well supported WAPs are made for businesses and cost a ton

[@adriancoanda9227]

@@thetruellamaman4543 ah get a nuc and you got your router, even a good mobile smartphone has routing capabilities, and Acces point is the antenna and a inter wi-fi card done ,

[@sbme1147]

Need to check out Asus Merlin. There were a couple routers for sure they supported for like 10 years. Also they give him their Firmware to work on, sometimes the stuff he implements they use a month or three months later and does Not void your warranty. Check out SNB Forums and Merlin to get an idea what Asus ones are supported. I went on Asus site ( others ) and clicked on all their routers over like a year to see how many firmware updates they do. At least they list all the CVE’s and go in detail the problems, I like that. However as a company something has happened to them over the last 3 years or so.

[@allanwilmath8226]

People need power switches on their router so they can reboot it when the malware on their malware crashes ore slows it down enough to notice. Seriously Wendell I was stunned to see you even reviewing this since consumer routers are so Sus at this point. I'm just watching to see if wifi can get close to it's BS marketing even on a consumer device.

[@danielshaw007]

I get actual 6ghz band on my Netgear RAXE500 , best router ive owned to date.

[@amangine]

Would you be willing to review the firewalla routers? They're pricey and no web UI (mainly have to use a smartphone app) but they do enable a lot of functionality (deep packet inspection, rules, etc.) without having to setup separate box.

[@merace2480]

Did you try speed with wpa3 and protected management frames disabled on wifi 7? From my experience protected management frames have big impact

[@waterflame321]

Is cat6e and wifi6e the same standard? Or do they just coincidentally use the same number letter combo?

[@MechaNut]

In regards to the physical power switch. My ISP is a cable company which shall remain nameless because I wouldn't recommend their services. Often times, due to issues with firmware/configuration updates that get pushed to the cable modem, I have to power cycle both the cable modem and the router for Internet connection to work correctly. The physical power switch on the router comes in really handy in that situation. In a perfect world I would have a reliable and fast fiber internet connection, but we all don't have that as an option. This is something that I have to typically deal with around once a month.

Networking is weird. For the last couple of years I used an asus AImesh system and it was great. One of my biggest missing features was not being able to set transmit power per ap. Apart from this it was really great. Now I changed to a Grandstream system. Their APs are great. But their router was a bit of a disappointment. Speeds are awesome, and the ui is okay for the most part. But the vpn part of it is very lacking. My biggest missing feature was the lack of domain name support (or ipv6 at least) for vpn servers. My old asus had this, heck it could deal with cert renewal automatically. Grandstream also can't do basic things such as installing updates by a press of a button. But for the price and speed their GWN7002 and 7003 are amazing with supported 2.5G sfp modules. Also where I live a lot of small businesses use asus gear with modded firmwares as they're so versatile and cross compatible, and have a wide range of hardware offerings.

[@juts89]

The prices on these were so high that I just bought a ubiquiti UDM SE and an AP. Now I have PoE and a much more configurable network.

[@Designsecrets]

Are you talking about Merlin?

[@Scrub_Ghost]

I'm not sure how pie hole works. But can't you change the DHCP settings to a different DNS appliance?

[@nemesis851_]

I think it was 3 years ago I felt this unit AU90 was PhantomHardware as it was never in stock, always back ordered and reviews were posted before it was available It had great specs. If Wendell actually is hands on with this NEW MODEL I’ll consider it again. Watching to see if it’s the previous model specs, but new model name

[@ivancano915]

Asus RT-axe7800 experience is absolutely trash tier status. Random drops then will not provide speeds past 80Mbps(wired or wireless) on a Gigabit Fiber network. Reboot corrects issue for about half a day. Have never had this terrible experience with other routers. Asus tech support solution was to hard reset router and setup the wifi network again. Did not resolve the issue. Router is updated with the latest firmware. Unfortunately won't be using Asus routers anymore when there are much better solutions available. That being said. Your channel and reviews are absolutely top notch!

[@HoeLeeFuQQ]

Bro the intro was amazing

[@kev3226]

Does it have a setting that disables WiFi and Ethernet configuration?

[@chrisbullock6477]

You totally surprised me with this one. Although I was hoping it would be the "Pro" Quad band version.

[@leexgx]

2.5gbe missing is bit silly for its price point (2x10gbe is nice but it's just 2, one is for WAN port I assume unless you can use one of the 5 ports as WAN)

[@ricardobornman1698]

Dude! Is that a router or Sauron crown? You keep that up I'm gonna have to phone some hobbits...

[@Kappi1997]

I hope I haven't overseen it but would you expect the router to be capable for 10 Gbit symmetric WAN over the SFP+? I mean going through a nat is always demanding

[@AtanasPaunoff]

Why no SFP+ ports ? That's a shame !

[@Freddie1980]

So what sort of CPU is this running? Have Asus adopted RISC V or this ARM based?

[@kurlis]

I wanna buy a GT-BE98 Pro, why couldn't you do a review on that model 😭

[@waspoza]

How much power it pulls when idle?

[@Revoku]

how does it handle bufferbloat? like my wife n kids watching youtube in 3 different rooms while I'm trying to play a game that uses UDP can be a PITA with alot of routers

[@jonathanisom]

Don't shame the power switch. The number of times I've had to talk someone trough power cycling a router and they had to unplug the power cord and they say "which wire?" is way to many.

[@RDJ9887]

Be96u vs be98 ? Which is better, esp in terms of wifi strength?

[@redtails]

>it's mission really..?

[@PacifisticRage]

Can I use my ASUS GT-AX11000 as an extender for my ASUS RT-BE96U? And connect my PS5 to the AX11000’s 2.5ghz port? Would that give me the best possible connection without having to run Ethernet cables through the walls? (Two story home with weird layout)

[@tommybronze3451]

What wifi7 access point you guys would advise ... that has something like AiMesh ? Or have you guys actually seen an open source wifi mesh that I could contenerise ?

[@Maxjoker98]

The power switch thing might be a regulatory requirement in some regions. Dunno.

[@Decenium]

my current router, AC3200 is starting to show some weird behavior, just restarting itself for no reason I can find, so kinda in the market for something new

[@POVwithRC]

Can they make one that looks like an accounting-adult would own it?

[@LibreGlider]

I haven't watched the vid yet but can I put OpenWRT on it?

[@zapman2100]

sorry but if you dont restart asus routers nightly they do accrue problems and the last routers used a little button that you could never tell if it was properly pushed or not.

[@Schniebel89]

since WiFi7 is that expensive I thing I get a 6E router instead. Any suggestions?

[@pacificbuildingcare]

Im still using WIndows 7 even though I have Windows 10 & 11 but I still enjoy my Windows 7 system more. Should this router be fine for a Windows 7 computer? Currently I have a Linksys ea-9500 router which is still great but is the Asus RT BE96u much better or way better? Thanks

[@nemesis851_]

Waiting to see what it’s upper WAN speed is. 2.5, 5 ?

[@XtianApi]

I got the asus rt-be88u, for some reason nobody talks about it. Did I miss something? 2 10gig, one fiber, 4 2.5gig and 4 1gig wifi 7. Why is nobody acknowledging this router. It's a lot cheaper. But I'm getting worried

[@souljunkee]

I love my RT-BE98U PRO. 4 x 2.5 ports instead of gigabit ports.

[@KiraSlith]

Gods that Asus UI is ancient, That UI goes back to at least 2012. I hope it isn't as confusingly laid out as it used to be.

[@StenIsaksson]

I have the RT-AX86U. WiFi 6. Every time you do a slightest change in the settings it need to reboot itself. And the reboot isn't really fast. It has 1 GB memory and 50% of that is eaten up by the OS. If you plug in a drive to the USB and share it, the rest of the RAM is eaten up and the transfer get really slow. I decided to turn off the router function and only use it as a access point for my phones and tablets and use pfSense for the routing and stuff. $300 down the drain, kind of.

[@kiseitai2]

It has been solid for me. I don’t do file sharing from it. Instead, the usb drive is used for swap and to store all of the packages from opkg. I have a server that handles the network file systems. My box handles vpn, ddns, different kinds of filtering programs, the server traffic, streaming, and mesh network. See if wrt Merlin works better for you.

[@leonard8766]

Could I build something like this or better for cheaper?

[@MrDrTheJniac]

Would it really have been that difficult to get more memory and storage in this? I feel like Asus could have been much more ambitious given the price.

[@exitar1]

Why can’t they make these work with poe ....so I don’t have to have it near an outlet..

[@Chef-Chad]

I just purchased this ASUS ROG Rapture WiFi 6E Gaming Router (GT-AXE16000) router, I hope it is not already obsolete? Brother I have a dot matrix printer

[@alphonsesuitperson]

My biggest problem is my phone, laptop, entertainment devices, Don't even support wifi 6, let alone 7, Currently running a Asus Wifi 5 device, and agree the software is solid, but hard to justify replacing my current router. I'd love to upgrade to WPA 3, but right now its all going to be mixed. Been going wired for most and a segmented WPA wifi vlan.

[@josephschmoe3488]

Which asus expert router has 4gb of ram?

[@JiSiN3000]

Thx for testing 👍🏻 I'm really thinking to buy either RT-BE96U or GT-BE98. But... i wonder how much it can handle WAN LAN throughput. If it could at least come close to those 10Gbps that those 2 Ports support 🤔 I'm looking for an Asus Router to finally upgrade my FTTH from 1Gbps to 10Gbps 😅