$99.99* | ASUS RT-BE55 Dual-band WiFi 7 Smart AiMesh Extendable Router at Amazon

NickN7561

Aug 25, 2026 4:13 PM

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NickN7561Aug 25, 2026 4:13 PM

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Decent deal but the glinet flint 3 was just $117 and it has a 6ghz band, which this doesn't. And in most people's opinions the glinet software (fork of openwrt) is superior to asuswrt

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Luigis3rdcousin

Aug 25, 2026 6:06 PM

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Luigis3rdcousinAug 25, 2026 6:06 PM

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Quote from NickN7561

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Decent deal but the glinet flint 3 was just $117 and it has a 6ghz band, which this doesn't. And in most people's opinions the glinet software (fork of openwrt) is superior to asuswrt

So that's fine for people who actually have enough devices that can even utilize 6ghz which rules out 98% of devices. My biggest problem with this router is the 512mb of ram. That means it's probably gonna have issues if you connect more than 22-25 devices. Like smart TVs, smart plugs, WiFi cameras, computers, tablets, if you have a house hold that does regular zoom calls, anything above that number will see regular connection blips probably. But i doubt that's most people. The RT BE58 has double the memory and sometimes you can find them for this price or less. Or Amazon renewed.

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NewKitchenFixtures

Aug 26, 2026 1:52 AM

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NewKitchenFixturesAug 26, 2026 1:52 AM

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Quote from NickN7561

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Decent deal but the glinet flint 3 was just $117 and it has a 6ghz band, which this doesn't. And in most people's opinions the glinet software (fork of openwrt) is superior to asuswrt

The flint 3 is pretty great, and most a lot of people have phones that can do 6GHz bands now. iPhone 15 Pro had 6GHz, iphone 16 made it across the lineup, and 17 continues to have the feature. Wifi 7 bandwidth on a phone is pretty impressive.

NewKitchenFixtures

Aug 26, 2026 1:54 AM

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Quote from Luigis3rdcousin

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So that's fine for people who actually have enough devices that can even utilize 6ghz which rules out 98% of devices. My biggest problem with this router is the 512mb of ram. That means it's probably gonna have issues if you connect more than 22-25 devices. Like smart TVs, smart plugs, WiFi cameras, computers, tablets, if you have a house hold that does regular zoom calls, anything above that number will see regular connection blips probably. But i doubt that's most people. The RT BE58 has double the memory and sometimes you can find them for this price or less. Or Amazon renewed.

Flint 3 had 1GByte of DDR4 and 8 GByte of eMMC. Though routers with 2GByte can do a bit better if your doing VPN tasks especially (the Flint 4 is a monster in comparison, much faster class of ARM core and 2xDRAM).

tropicalb

Aug 26, 2026 4:15 AM

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tropicalbAug 26, 2026 4:15 AM

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Quote from Luigis3rdcousin

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So that's fine for people who actually have enough devices that can even utilize 6ghz which rules out 98% of devices. My biggest problem with this router is the 512mb of ram. That means it's probably gonna have issues if you connect more than 22-25 devices. Like smart TVs, smart plugs, WiFi cameras, computers, tablets, if you have a house hold that does regular zoom calls, anything above that number will see regular connection blips probably. But i doubt that's most people. The RT BE58 has double the memory and sometimes you can find them for this price or less. Or Amazon renewed.

I have an ASUS XT8 mesh system (WiFi 6), which has 512MB of RAM in each mesh unit (router and nodes). Nearly 80 devices connected to the network, 2.4ghz and 5ghz (tons of IoT/smart devices, etc.).. no issues... Using system monitor on the ASUS mobile app, around 408MB of 512MB is in use. I have checked this often over the years and the firmware generally keeps about 100MB of "free space"/buffer available. I've never seen it get close to using all the RAM. This tells me this router (XT8) is designed to function within its parameters using the 512MB without any problems. I suspect the RT-BE55 is designed the same way.

I think a more important factor than amount of RAM is the router firmware and how well it manages the client load. I'm not saying ASUS has awesome firmware, but in my experience it can handle 75+ clients without too much trouble. The XT8 and the RT-BE55 both also have quad-core processors, which is another good feature to have (more processing power than a dual core).

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Jahlives

Aug 26, 2026 4:24 AM

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JahlivesAug 26, 2026 4:24 AM

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Quote from tropicalb

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I have an ASUS XT8 mesh system (WiFi 6), which has 512MB of RAM in each mesh unit (router and nodes). Nearly 80 devices connected to the network, 2.4ghz and 5ghz (tons of IoT/smart devices, etc.).. no issues... Using system monitor on the ASUS mobile app, around 408MB of 512MB is in use. I have checked this often over the years and the firmware generally keeps about 100MB of "free space"/buffer available. I've never seen it get close to using all the RAM. This tells me this router (XT8) is designed to function within its parameters using the 512MB without any problems. I suspect the RT-BE55 is designed the same way.I think a more important factor than amount of RAM is the router firmware and how well it manages the client load. I'm not saying ASUS has awesome firmware, but in my experience it can handle 75+ clients without too much trouble. The XT8 and the RT-BE55 both also have quad-core processors, which is another good feature to have (more processing power than a dual core).

I agree with you. I have similar situation with an ASUS mid-tier router that's showing its age, but it handles a big household with lots of devices. VPN too.

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