ASUS RT-BE88U Dual-Band WiFi 7 AiMesh Extendable Performance Router, 4K-QAM, MLO, Dual 10G Ports, SFP+, 4X 2.5G Ports, 4X 1G Ports, 34G WAN/LAN Capacity, Network Security, Built-in VPN

Asus RT-BE88U just works!!
Amazon Rview: Read through to get to the Asus RT-BE88U….This review will most likely not get posted. I purchased the Netgear RS700S as “refurbished,” which generally means that it was returned and some how repaired (or at least double check to make sure it is working per manufacturer specs). It was not. Router would continuously drop signal. So it appears that Amazon just repackaged it and sold it, as is.Router Review:1. Administrator menu is very limited on what you can do.2. When accessing the router’s admin menu, it times you out after about 15-20 seconds while your trying to read the documentation for settings. You must re-sign in EVERY SINGLE TIME!3. You can NOT change the admin user name. You must use “admin.” Without the ability to change the admin name Netgear reduced your router access security by 50%.4. In order to gain access to the needed security for the router, you MUST pay an annual subscription!!5. Netgear customer service people are rude to you if you turn down the subscription sales pitch, and then reqest to get I.T. support on an issue. They actually hung up on me. At first I thought the over-seas phone line dropped. However, when I called back 2 or 3 times, they would not even answer the phone.CONCLUSION:I returned the RS700S for a full refund and bought an ASUS RT-BE88U router. Everything mentioned above is NOT an issue. Their admin user name can be changes, you have a huge amount of control within the admin menu (including how long you wish the menu to time-out.) NO annual subscription fees. Signals on 2.4, 5, and 6G are very solid. I have 15 devices and not one of them has ever dropped a signal. Also, reboot times are much fast than Netgear’s.Great router, security, menu interface, and performance! Customer service wasn’t needed because this router just WORKS!!

Unreal performance and wifi connections show 100% bandwidth signal strength.
I have used Asus routers for 13 years. This latest router is so powerful I removed the old netgear extenders. Wifi 7 seems to have given wireless devices full bandwidth signal. I used my previous Asus router to create a mesh network so now the grain building receives s super strong signal. Super reliable, strong signal 100% coverage.

Un Router que va más alla, con la unica flaqueza de no tener banda de 6Ghz, que a menos que sea para misiones críticas y tengas internet de mas de 2gb (casi imposible en MX a nivel domestico) no le sacarás tanto provecho, lo demás será aprovechado por los dispositivos que soporten la tecnología, que serán muchos más apartir de 2025.En mi caso me sirivió mucho el hecho de tener 8 puerto Ethernet y lo usé todo, el siguiente modelo así sería el Asus de 19k, así que por el precio (alto aun pero va a bajar) se me hizo una buena relación, si tus necesidades son diferentes y más básica, hay muchos ya a precios muy muy bajos (como el Xiaomi BE3600 que uso en otra casa), pero para todo lo demás, Asus es signo de calidad.

The router is very good, very powerful. But has some caveats: If you wanna add some custom IPTABLES rules via SSH, it would clear them without notice, I thought you had to reboot the router to clear them, but one day, they disappeared. also Wireguard connection are not stable enough for my purposes, and also openVPN made the router reboot when activating it.Overall, a good router, but not for advanced configurations.

Only issue is 10Gb spf port doesn’t deliver more than 5-6 Gb speed, when using router as iperf3 server, speed stays around 2.5 Gb, it goes up when used as client to test with the device on the other side using fibre.Not able to use trendmicro protection with dual WAN inload balancing mode is also a personal down for me.overall I am okay with the device.