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expiredphoinix | Staff posted Nov 20, 2025 07:44 AM
$139.99: ASUS RT-BE82U Dual-Band WiFi 7 Smart AiMesh Extendable Router at Amazon
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Keep the firmware up to date, and you're fine. Asus routers are super capable, superb routers. It's all I use these days.
This BE92 isn't bad, but there is a more powerful BE96 if you really need more power. Most home users would be fine with the 92, which makes this a great deal overall.
Remember, just because your router is Wifi7 doesn't mean you'll get more performance on your devices - the devices have to support Wifi7 as well, in order to make a real difference.
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I'll stick to Wifi6 - my current RT-AX86 works great.
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Only smartphones and higher end laptops have it, and the overwhelming majority of people are not doing anything that could use more than a gigabit per second on their phones. TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, Snapchat, iMessage, WhatsApp, none of that is capable of using that much bandwidth. The only way you're maxing that out is from downloading an entire game or movie to store on your device, and most people don't do that so regularly that you'd notice a few seconds shaved off.
Besides, you'd also need an internet connection fast enough to saturate 5Ghz, which most of the planet doesn't have access to. Do you have a local media server with lots of massive video files? Cool, wire it to the router and you can easily match gigabit Ethernet over 5Ghz. Got a 2.5+ GIGABIT local media server? Congrats, there are dozens of you, and 6Ghz was made for you.
Keep the firmware up to date, and you're fine. Asus routers are super capable, superb routers. It's all I use these days.
This BE92 isn't bad, but there is a more powerful BE96 if you really need more power. Most home users would be fine with the 92, which makes this a great deal overall.
Remember, just because your router is Wifi7 doesn't mean you'll get more performance on your devices - the devices have to support Wifi7 as well, in order to make a real difference.
I'll stick to Wifi6 - my current RT-AX86 works great.
I'm all over the place figuring out what to get. I only want to spend under $150 and I don't even need large coverage. I just want consistency and I don't need it to be wifi 7 either. I do want it to be asus, though, as I don't want one of the chinese company ones or a brand that doesn't allow tx power adjustment.
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True, price is a factor... and you may not have as much of a choice there. That said, the 82 doesn't seem like a bad option...
Correct, none of these are tri-band, so no 6Ghz. You'd need the BE9x for that, or some of the "gaming" routers, which I wouldn't bother with anyway... stick to the standard models, IMO. But, again Wifi 7 isn't really worth it right now anyway, unless you really have devices that have that capability and/or are in a congested area. So, to stick to basics, the BE8x would be plenty.
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