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expiredphoinix | Staff posted Feb 6, 2026 8:02 AM
[AC] $287.99* | ASUS RT-BE88U Dual-Band High Performance WiFi 7 Router at Amazon
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Amazon [amazon.com] has ASUS RT-BE88U Dual-Band High Performance WiFi 7 Router for $337.99 - $50.00 when you 'clip' the coupon on product page = $287.99.
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$50 lower (15% savings) than the list price of $337.99
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Coupon price $287.99 (check and activate [amazon.com])
*Previous Frontpage Deal at $299 with 31 Deal Score and 60 comments.
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Amazon [amazon.com] has ASUS RT-BE88U Dual-Band High Performance WiFi 7 Router for $337.99 - $50.00 when you 'clip' the coupon on product page = $287.99.
Shipping is free.
Price
$50 lower (15% savings) than the list price of $337.99
Savings
Coupon price $287.99 (check and activate [amazon.com])
*Previous Frontpage Deal at $299 with 31 Deal Score and 60 comments.
400+ bought in past month
amazon.com/dp/B0D55SWRSM [amazon.com]
Please report the deal if expired
My other deals
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Shipping is free.
Price
$50 lower (15% savings) than the list price of $337.99
Savings
Coupon price $287.99 (check and activate [amazon.com])
*Previous Frontpage Deal at $299 with 31 Deal Score and 60 comments.
400+ bought in past month
amazon.com/dp/B0D55SWRSM [amazon.com]
Please report the deal if expired
My other deals
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from thebtran
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Do you have any suggestions on what to get? I'm still on the TM-ac1900 (flashed rt-ac68u) which are slowly not performing as they used to
The BE router seems to be on sale. https://slickdeals.net/f/19180900 don't mind the reviews. You just need to disable the MLO on that router.
from thebtran
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Do you have any suggestions on what to get? I'm still on the TM-ac1900 (flashed rt-ac68u) which are slowly not performing as they used to
The BE router seems to be on sale. https://slickdeals.net/f/19180900 don't mind the reviews. You just need to disable the MLO on that router.
The reason this router is so expensive is because it has 2 10gig ports, 4 2.5 gig ports, and 4 gigabit ports. And one of the 10 gig is SFP+, which means you can connect fiber directly to this router instead of having an extra box as a "modem". This is the cheapest Asus router with a fiber port built in, so it's one of the only options for those who want to send their ISP fiber gateways to hell (fark you ATT, stop wiping my settings)
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from Nintendo1474
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6Ghz won't do anything better if you don't have faster than gigabit internet, unless you're in a very densely populated building with very thin walls. 5Ghz can already do about gigabit speeds, and has much better range than 6.
The reason this router is so expensive is because it has 2 10gig ports, 4 2.5 gig ports, and 4 gigabit ports. And one of the 10 gig is SFP+, which means you can connect fiber directly to this router instead of having an extra box as a "modem". This is the cheapest Asus router with a fiber port built in, so it's one of the only options for those who want to send their ISP fiber gateways to hell (fark you ATT, stop wiping my settings)
Disagree. 6hz is designed to increase speeds of devices when they are with in range. Kind of defeatist to say your wan speed is upper cap for all your LAN interactions and absolutely wrong way to think. It's just the speed of your wan, it's how fast can devices negotiate with the router, how many channels and the kind of channels they can open, what optimization protocols do they support, how many streams can be open, which is dictated by how many antennas are present on each end, more importantly on the router, plus how fast can the router process the packets and how much processing power and memory is available. All of these determine the speed and stability. Superficially looking at wan speed and port speed is incorrect.
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The market for this router are those preferring wired connections. It has the same CPU and 2gb of ram as the BE96U, but drops a radio and the 6ghz band. It adds 4 lan ports and upgrades one of the 10gig lan ports to SFP. The SFP can be used for either a 10gig lan module, or more commonly a fiber module to eliminate the need for a seperate fiber ONT. Same base hardware, lower cost, configured toward wired users.
For me this router is perfect, the big benefit is the 2gb ram in this price range, vice 1gb typical for the cost and wireless throughput. Running Merlin firmware with add-ons like adguard home eats into ram pretty fast. With 2gb it doesn't need swap when refreshing larger block lists. Seemingly the most popular BE router running Merlin for a reason.
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from Nintendo1474
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6Ghz won't do anything better if you don't have faster than gigabit internet, unless you're in a very densely populated building with very thin walls. 5Ghz can already do about gigabit speeds, and has much better range than 6.
The reason this router is so expensive is because it has 2 10gig ports, 4 2.5 gig ports, and 4 gigabit ports. And one of the 10 gig is SFP+, which means you can connect fiber directly to this router instead of having an extra box as a "modem". This is the cheapest Asus router with a fiber port built in, so it's one of the only options for those who want to send their ISP fiber gateways to hell (fark you ATT, stop wiping my settings)
Disagree. 6hz is designed to increase speeds of devices when they are with in range. Kind of defeatist to say your wan speed is upper cap for all your LAN interactions and absolutely wrong way to think. It's just the speed of your wan, it's how fast can devices negotiate with the router, how many channels and the kind of channels they can open, what optimization protocols do they support, how many streams can be open, which is dictated by how many antennas are present on each end, more importantly on the router, plus how fast can the router process the packets and how much processing power and memory is available. All of these determine the speed and stability. Superficially looking at wan speed and port speed is incorrect.
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