The all ASUS networking stack - Expert WiFi

[@dagamore]

Did I hear right only 1gb on all of the ports, they want it for small offices and no 2.5 or 10gb options even just for core switching? sounds like a hard miss for me.

[@jirkav]

Yea, 100 bucks for a small gigabit switch is awful, considering I can get 2.5Gbit switch for 1/3 of the price (not managed, fair)

[@ipcamtalk4314]

99.99999 percent of small offices run gigabit networks...its 150 bux. You are not the target.

[@dagamore]

The last three small offices I have setup, average 5 workstations and a nas, wanted at least 2.5gb to the NAS if not 10gb.

[@ipcamtalk4314]

@@dagamore Please what are they pulling off the nas? Word and excel files? You installed 2.5 gig cards on the workstations? Stop making things up. Again, this is 150 dollars.

[@ABP8214]

I workvat B&H and Asus came through a few months ago to give us a training on this. Many of the same concerns you have were the same ones we mentioned, especially with the settings They insisted that this is for small businesses users and not meant for people who have giant home servers. They wanted to make it as easy as possible.

[@xenochaosxc]

My latest Spectrum router separates modem and router. Now the router has an always on WiFi. Not only are they adding more physical devices, they are removing software functionalities. Seems like they're going backwards. Decided to just use my own router.

[@MarcBehar]

This isn't a threadripper

[@RaidOwl]

Unfortunately you’re correct lol

[@MarcBehar]

@@RaidOwl @ASUS send this man some threadripper parts, the saga of the 100Gb networking must never end

[@romayojr]

no dark mode option on the dashboard?

[@TechnoTim]

I approve this message

[@VaibhavKurde]

Bro... OCD?

[@mistakek]

Sunglasses were needed for this video.

[@Andreas-w]

The UI looks like the same as on the regular home mesh routers with a few extra things like vlan

[@oneamongmany1392]

Speaking as a user of asus xenwifi gear, it's ironic that in that kinda dated web UI, on the consumer-grade kit, we have: -lots of wifi settings (a bunch of which i don't understand) - big client list you can access from the middle of the dashboard. Which it lets you filter. 🤓

[@jonjohnson2844]

As someone who has only ever had my ISP provided router (Virgin Media) the software side looks pretty exciting to me!

[@geoffreycollins6627]

17:42 - I'm not an expert, but looking at that topology, my guess is that the problem is caused by trying to connect a wireless router to the wired one, which doesn't have wifi at all. I think the problem with the lack of wireless settings for that EBG15 is also caused just by the nature of this particular device. Definitely, ASUS should have shown a warning or something when this scenario took place...

[@mozle-uf7nt]

Would you reccomend the EBG15 as just a router and vpn client? Are there any alternatives here?

[@VaibhavKurde]

The wireless settings options has failed this router. 😤

[@mysticknight487]

Interesting to me as a potential ubuiqiti ER-X alternative (although currently more expensive). A wireguard speed comparison of the 880mhz Dual core MIPS vs 1.8GHz Dual core Armv8 would be mighty interesting. Now I'll have to check if Openwrt is available...

[@mysticknight487]

No openwrt yet, but I see people making asuswrt-merlin so potentially someone could in the future. Either way thanks for the walkthrough of the "stock" product and enlightening me to a new to me product

[@MrMat43211]

how good is the qos / sqm? what speeds and bufferbloat

[@jeremybarber2837]

Gotta say, that POE switch looks nice for entry level.

[@Saazm]

That router ERB63 must be a reused RT-AX58U released about 4 + years ago. Typical ASUS behavior, throw some paint on it with a "new" firmware and functions with a extra chip on the pcb if your lucky. Then a new heftier price to that.

[@codyc.4971]

This looks like a glorified UI redesign on top of Asus' consumer wifi software.

[@slickpool]

I'm in the market for something similar. I want one wired AP with 2 on a mesh. Would love the router and managed switch to integrate seamlessly. Do you have a recommendation besides this product?

[@RaidOwl]

Unifi is prob the best overall. Omada can be more cost effective. Both are good.

[@thiagoassisfernandes]

next i want an all gl-inet network setup

[@VaibhavKurde]

Can EGB-15 do wan teaming?

[@Tjeu_ToN618]

Great assessment, in my humble experience for some years now, there seems no logic , constancy or overall "usability" on the software side of Asus AIMesh systems ( the hardware rocks!! but the software is just .... eeeh let me think....eehhh just like if 25 teams all build a little piece of the whole "pie" and some manger stuffed it together ) support was always helpful but most of the sort of clueless.

[@dwoderso94]

Why are companies still making 1g products???? At least 2,5g, everything other than that can be free and in dont want to use it. I only buy 2,5g and up products, this things lasts a long time, i dont want to buy new devices next year because they are old when they're came out

[@guy_autordie]

The arachnid is way to big. It's insane.

[@ImARichard]

Ive been a long time ASUS boycotter but it is nice to see more competition in the space. Software can always be improved and desperately needs it here. But it seems like the lack of 2.5Gb ethernet is the bigger downside for an "expert" line of products.

[@sohodon]

Great video….Wait to you test their dumb ap in stand alone mode… same UI but less features.. you want to see clients on different Vlans.. forget about it😂😂😂 you only see clients on your main IP.. but the graph definitely shows you clients are connected though with functioning traffic.. so long story short stay away EBA63 unless you buying the router as well

[@jirkav]

I've had an Asus router for a week before returning it because my 2.4Ghz network just disappeared and couldn't be enabled. That was after trying to resolve my IOT connection issues by creating a VLAN. Looks like Asus still wasnt able to fix the issues with shitty software. On top of that it's overpriced and only 1Gbit. I'm really fed up with the current status of consumer network devices, it's impossible to find a decent 2.5Gbit solution still.

[@mikehedrick6544]

ASUS ExpertWiFi EBP15 5-Port Gigabit PoE+ Compliant Managed Switch B&H Photo $79.99 Coming Soon it says. ✅

[@RollerCoasterLineProductions]

Yikes. Spicy comments here that I can’t disagree with. I’m just wondering if you can flash this with Merlin firmware? A 1 gig WAN port is a miss, products in 2024 should have 2.5 so you can get your maximum throughput, I wanna get one of those 4 port mini PCs w open sense as my next router.

[@UnknownEntity420]

The WiFi segment and leading up-to was pretty funny 😂 Who at Asus thought it was a good idea to not only have the WiFi password showing as default BUT ALSO not have an option to hide/show Ps LemmeStealYoData

[@joshhaas8121]

Gratuitous mean comment! 🤬

[@MasonzeroDigitalWorks]

This feels like a downgrade or a sidegrade from ASUS's home AiMesh line. Which I really like, and I think is great. This "expert" product needs some work, and I'm not seeing too many reasons to spend $200 extra on this package than what I spent on my 2-unit mesh system.

[@ovarb12]

Great review just shit products. I'm sure they tested it with the same group of ppl who request the worthless windows features.

[@industrial-wave]

Did you order these before the asus news? Lol

[@RaidOwl]

Nah they sent this stuff

[@tiptopflipflop7991]

Known for their RMA's, yeah, about that...

[@GR3YS0RG4N1CS]

Tell us more about how amazon branded products is a "win" for us 🤡 See how quick and easy it is to disprove that monopolies benefit consumers?

[@RaidOwl]

Huh?

[@CarlosGomez-sd9ey]

YO, wait a min. I thought we were boycotting ASUS !!!! 😂😂🤣

[@RaidOwl]

Lol who’s “we”?

[@rogalsiu]

​@@RaidOwl, "we" as customers who wants their rights to be respected by manufacturers. If you don't care someone screws you, it's your choice. "We" care. If you support them then "we" can't support you.

[@RaidOwl]

@@rogalsiu Cool man, I'm just reviewing some network gear. Fight the good fight 👍

[@jserenity]

I dont know if I can trust an asus going forward

[@feastwithethan9412]

Don't bother returning them as they will find some reason to screw you over.

[@bentheguru4986]

ASUS are like nVidia with networking, both suck and should stick to their respective lanes.

[@MyersJ2Original]

Are you really reviewing a 1GbE port router/switch in 2024? You gotta be getting paid to waste your and our time...

[@RaidOwl]

You kinda sound like a douche lol