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frontpage Posted by PennyFound | Staff • Apr 28, 2025
Apr 28, 2025 7:19 AM
TP-Link Archer GE800 Tri-Band BE19000 Wi-Fi 7 Gaming Router
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Replaced it with a netgear RS600, returned that within hours as netgear is pulling shady shit with DNS and VPN client, where you can't setup a VPN client without subscribing to a DNS provider of their choice OR use a free service that you have to resubscribe to every month. Their UI is atrocious and slow af.
Then tried an ASUS BE92U which I also returned. Definitely noticeably slower on certain loading activities than the BE800. And if you run a VPN client the router becomes unstable. It will have random reboots and connection drops for all connected devices, not just those running through the VPN client. Also noticed CPU cores randomly hitting 100% under no unusual load, I thought this VPN related, but was also be happening with VPN client(they call it VPN Fusion) turned off. With VPN running it seemed to be core 3 that was maxing, with VPN off it was core 1 now having that behavior. Supposedly this is fixed with later firmware and running it in eco mode, none of the 4 firmware updates that occurred in the 14 days I had it fixed it.
https://zentalk.asus.com/t5/netwo...rue/page/4 [asus.com]
It seems none of the manufacturers have solid consumer wifi 7 devices yet.
Edit: had connection issues last night. Will return it. I'll try Deco BE10000 from Amazon and if it doesn't work, will consider switching to ubiq
Connected to the MLO wifi 7 network, the most I've been able to get is around 2.5 Gbs down depending on time of day, though I have to connect through the ISP's ONT/router, which has a 10Gb port but I don't know how much overhead that causes, if any. Because I had nothing better to do, I got a mellanox connectx-3 10Gb NIC, an AOC fiber cable, and two generic sfp+ modules for the router and the NIC, and they connected perfectly fine once I got the connectx-3 set up in windows 11.
The gaming tax over the BE800 (non gaming model) is for the led lights and what is technically some slightly more in depth QoS via the gaming priority options—and possibly more antennas, meaning better coverage, but I might be misremembering. The BE800 is usually priced $25-$50 less than this, so do with that what you will. Idk hope this helps, just trynna put this useless knowledge to use