ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Pro

Are you based here in the States? If so, Ubiquity gets my vote. TP-Link is up in the air since it may be banned in the USA someday but I am running a TP-Link Wifi 7 Archer BE800 for over 2 years and it is rock stable. The only con is that FW updates are not released very often at all. I would have went with the Asus Wifi7 *ROG Rapture GT*\-*BE98* (Pro) but when I needed to purchase the latest and greatest, their wifi7 flagship router was not released back then yet in 2024. I had the highest end Netgear Wifi 6E router RAX120 in 2021 but it just completely died 4 years later (My 3 year extended warranty was expired) so I am iffy on purchasing new Netgear products as I never once had a router die on me and I have owned around 6 Netgear routers flagships in the last 15 years or so. So to be safe Ubiquity or Asus for now. TP-Link for value especially from Costco if you want their MESH package.

Yes, multiple 10-Gig Ethernet ports, and essentially quad-band as it can use dual 6 Ghz 320 MHz channels simultaneously. It's certainly more capable than a run of the mill router.

If a family has: 1. Ford Fiesta 2. BMW 3 series 3. Honda Civic 1 4. Home Civic 2 They have 4 cars, even if two are Honda Civics. The router likewise can operate 2x 6GHz bands simultaneously which double the bandwidth can 1 band.

Did you try the Asus GT-BE98 Pro or the Asus GT-BE19000AI routers? I have the Asus GT-BE98 Pro and can personally attest to it having far reach for its 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz networks.

I have the GT-BE98 pro for a few months now. Pros- Multiple 10gbe and 2.5gbe is very nice and works as intended. The asus firmware is great as far as OEM firmware goes, it has pretty much everything you could ask for (port forwarding, DDNS built in, VPN built in, much more). Range on the wifi is solid with the aerial antennas and it looks cool in a gamer way. Cons- Expensive, flashy (of you're not into that kind of thing), not a fan of the new way it makes you log in.

It's stronger than the Asus AC86U it replaced, which i found to work quite well for the last 7-8 years or so that I've owned it (I got it mid 2017 iirc). Well, except for wifi 7 and 6E stuff in higher bands, it's hard to really say, line of sight helps a lot but I've only really tried wireless vr twice so far and as long as it's LOS the experience was quite good. Say what you will about asus lately, but they make pretty good consumer components, the old ac86u was highly supported both from asus and the aftermarket firmware community, asus seems to be a lot less against that kind of thing than other brands, which I find important.

~~if i had to guess id be two 5.8gig bands, one for "normal" use and one for mesh use. iv seen it on other asus mesh routers like their lyra system.~~ edit/correction: spec sheet says it has two 6ghz radios so that would be your fourth band [https://rog.asus.com/networking/rog-rapture-gt-be98-pro/spec/](https://rog.asus.com/networking/rog-rapture-gt-be98-pro/spec/)

i think "bands" when it comes to makreting just reffers to the number of radios nowadays.

well no, but if you have two seprate 2.4 gig radios and can independantly use two channels then i'd argue that qualifys as two bands of 2.4ghz.

no? wtf are you even talking about? i was just using your example on the 2.4ghz that no if a router or AP had one 2.4gig radio then that dosnt make it "tetradecuple band" but if a theoretical AP did have two independent 2.4gig radios that it would make sence to call that dual band. the ROG router from this post has: one 2.4ghz radio, one 5.8ghz radio and **Two 6ghz radios**, i posted the specsheet in my original comment.

yes quad is four did your read anything of what i said Bands does not mean different frequences, it refferes to the ammount if Radios an AP or Router Has. here let me spell it out for you: One : 2.4ghz Two : 5.8Ghz Three: 6Ghz\_1 Four: 6Ghz\_2