ASUS - RT-BE96U

You can go with ASUS be86u/88u/92u/96u or unifi dream 7 and unifi express 7. These are expensive models tho, but you get what you pay for! Especially asus routers with the ASUSWRT Merlin firmware!

I bought a ASUS RT-BE96U and it seems to be great so far. The 10g wan port allows me to get full use out of my 3 gigabit upload/download speed. And the link aggregation works well. It’s definitely a good replacement for my sub par ASUS RT-AXE7800 (wifi 6e).

I’ve had it for a week now, it seems to work really good. But yes it is big, it’s quite a bit bigger then the axe7800 it is replacing https://preview.redd.it/8r6s8k9znlmf1.jpeg?width=4842&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a44c1a612235befe8bb50f3699b73950c3b2dda4

No offense, but Ubiquity is not the right choice for everyone. I looked into doing that at My house and I would need a minimum of 3 access points, and not the $99 ones. I would have needed the U7 Pro Max at $280 each. One Asus router in access point mode covers my whole house for $450. Not worth going the Ubiquiti route for me. Probably not for OP either.

With the Asus,I only need the one for the whole house.

My 2 cents go to the Asus rt-be96u.

Honestly, these routers are a complete disappointment. I set up a GT-BE19000 as my main mesh router and connected a GS-BE18000 via LAN backhaul as a . No matter how I configure them, I constantly lose Wi-Fi connection. On my iPhone, the signal bars jump from 1 to 4 and back again and I’m sitting in the near of the GT190000BE. I even tried adjusting the RSSI disconnect threshold, but that didn’t help at all. For comparison, my IoT devices are running perfectly stable on two old TP-Link WRT840 routers — those worked flawlessly. This so-called high-end setup is absolutely not worth the money, especially with these constant issues.

Pickup 3x Ausus BE96u and spread them around the house with AI Mesh. Connect one to the WAN and then the remainder to each other with CAT 6. You will have an amazing network. They are on sale for $399 each now. Run Merlin firmware...

Never had a problem. But, use wired vs wireless to connect.

I have both the 96u and 88u. The 96u is my whole house router while the 88u is dedicated to VR. If you don't care about the 6ghz band then the 88u is the way to go. Costs less, supports 4x1gb, 4x2.5gb, and 2x10gb (the 2nd is sfp+), and a smaller footprint.

I ordered the be96u for $**3**32.75 after tax on newegg. Back Ordered. Very glad I waited until black friday. And even got extra 7% cashback with bank of america.

RAX120 has one port that will go up to 5 Gbps and four 1 Gig ports that can be aggregated. I used it to connect to a cable modem through two aggregated ports while it used the 5 Gbps to connect to one of my multi-gig switches. It was OK given the limitations of old timey Wi-Fi 6. Modern higher end routers have at least two high speed ports that go up to 10 Gbps as well as support for the 6 GHz Wi-Fi band. If you're going to spend money on a router today, you should get one, they're marketed for Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) but work with all the lower standards as well. If you ever use your NAS for something other than Plex, it's nice to have multi-gig between the NAS and the PCs that use it. Netgear has modern routers, and so does Asus and many others. I personally prefer for an all-in-one device, but you may want to stick with Netgear if you like their stuff. Asus is good for tinkering and bad if you're not into fiddling with lots of settings. RS600 and RS700S are both good. Asus RT-BE96U is also good, but avoid the dual band and quad band routers from both companies.

If it were me, I'd be looking at the Asus RT-BE96U. That's a full tri-band, 4 stream per band wifi 7 router. Lots of bandwidth capacity there. I have one here, and it works great, as well as being stable with the current firmware from Asus. RMerlin also supports the RT-BE96U with his third-party firmware. For wifi-6, yes, the RT-AX88U Pro would be a good choice. Same electronics as the GT-AX6000, another router that I have here that's worked great for us. Again, RMerlin firmware supports the RT-AX88U Pro. Both of these are good choices.

I'll most likely be downvoted, since Ubiquiti ,looks to be big here, but of these I'd go with the RT-BE96U tri-band. We have one of these and it works really well. Great wireless speed and coverage, and quite stable. Highly recommended. The RT-BE88U gets good reviews, but only two bands, which makes MLO a bit questionable :-). The RT-BE96U is tri-band, but definitely not as much bandwidth or as stable as the RT-BE96U yet. The RT-BE92U has only 2 streams per band, the RT-BE96U has 4 streams per band...big difference in potential bandwidth. Coincidentally, there's a nice sale on the RT-BE96U on Amazon at the moment.

I have an Asus RT-BE96U that's doing really well these days. Stable and a great wifi-7 performer. Similar hardware to the GT-BE98 Pro, but only one 6GHz. band. Personally, that's all I need, one 6GHz. band :-). You don't get to pay as much for it as you do for the GT-BE98 Pro, but it will fulfill your needs. It does support multi-gigabit speeds, etc. You won't be disappointed.

Great price, I paid almost twice that two years ago :-). Has performed well for me, you'll be happy with it.

I'd recommend the Asus RT-BE96U. Some good sales have been going on. I have it, and it really does perform well, and provides great wireless coverage. It's tri-band, plus wifi-7. Been very stable as well. HIghly recommended.

The Asus RT-BE96U works well for me. You didn't mention a budget, though, so I don't know if it would work for you.

Couple of Asus router recommendations. There's the GT-AX6000 or RT-AX88U Pro, two different wifi 6 routers that have virtually the same electronics inside. If you want to stick your toe in the water with wifi 7, there's the RT-BE96U,, which has been on sale a lot. Both of these routers have given me great service, stable and full wireless coverage at my home. They also both have a 2.5Gbps WAN port, as well as at least one 2.5Gbps LAN port. Currently using wifi 7 Asus routers for our wireless, and it's been up since I set it up, about 5 weeks ago, no problems. Very fast and, as I said, great wireless coverage. Using the Asus ZenWiFi BT10 mesh as my AP, with a wired Asus router. Because the BT10 mesh uses MLO wireless backhaul, I get almost my ISP's provisioned speed all over the house.

Having 10GbE ports and actually being able to provide 10gbps throughput are very different things. I refuse to recommend TP-Link Deco. The system relies on TP-Link servers for management, has a dumbed-down admin interface with only basic config options, frequently fails to deliver advertised features or function reliably, and overstates their performance capabilities (of course the latter isn't unusual in the market). I have no experience with Netgear Orbi, but note they have only a single 10GbE port, so you can't do wireless backhaul at 10gbps across nodes or to wired devices (don't expect above 3-4gbps via WiFi). Asus has the BE996U meshable router with a pair of 10GBE ports and BE19000 support, so could support 10gbps wired backhaul and (with a 10GbE switch) wired devices. I'd rank Asus above TP-Link Deco but nowhere near a system like UniFi. Do you really want 10gbps or even 5gbps throughput? Do you even have any devices that could support 10GbE, or even 2.5GbE? Run lots of CAT6A cable and get a UniFi UCG-Fiber (5gbps), UDM-Pro-Max (5gbps), or EFG (12.5gbps), or a Firewalla Gold Pro (10gbps), or a TP-Link Omada ER8411 (5gbps) router and add a 10GbE switch. Use UniFi U7-Pro-XG or TP-Link Omada EAP773 access points connected via 10GbE to the switch. I could design you a network that, on paper, would be expected to provide up to 10gbps across the wire and probably around 3-4gbps via WiFi (to devices that support WiFi 7 and 6GHz). But you'll have to spend around $5K in equipment, at least $2K for professional cable installation, and my time to do the up-front site assessment and planing for a project this size wouldn't be free. And even then, at the end of the project you'll be able to run speed tests and smile at your network throughput, but it will make very little difference in your day-to-day experience vs 1gbps.