Customer Ratings & Reviews

Holy CRACKERS does this thing have it all. Range (check) Speed (check) Coverage (check) Security (check) VPN (check) It's got not only it's primary Wi-Fi node, but also supports a guest Wi-Fi node AAAND a separate VLAN dedicated for the isolation of connected IoT (Internet of Things) smart appliances! Now all I need are some Wi-Fi 7 capable devices!

This router is future proof for a good while. Components using wifi 6 and wifi 7 won't be going away for a good while. The router has a great deal of options for just about any situation you might find yourself in. The range is quite good also.

This is a great upgrade if you have a previous ASUS router, upgrading from Rog Rapture GT-AX11000, using this router as my main router and using my previous router as a aimesh node to boost my signal strength.

It’s ok it seems to work seemlessly with my devices I had an ax 11000 worked great wit an ASUS 92 as a mesh. Now I have this be98 as my main unit and ax 10000 and ASUS 92 as mesh nodes. One router on every floor. No dead zones outdoor wireless cameras work beautifully my son PS 5 says it’s faster. I have 1g internet not much improvement in way of speed but the coverage is phenomenal. After a few firmware updates it’ll be fine. Oh out of the box the router had to be reset. ASUS walked me through it and setting up mesh on the phone. Very good tech support.

Pros: Looks great Antennas are built-in Blazing fast Great range Good app and UI Cons: 6GHZ frequency will cause random restarts, losing all connections often throughout the day. The fix is to disable 6GHZ, which is dumb and doesn’t justify the price tag. I’m on the verge of returning if they don’t fix it. New firmware didn’t do anything to resolve. Gets hot, Make sure you have it in a well ventilated area.

This thing is a beast and the factory packaging is excessive. It took longer to unwrap all the packaging than to set my network up. Once you’re plugged in setup is easy through the app or web interface and very user friendly. The router itself is a beast and the lighting is kind of obnoxious but that’s ok because that’s the target audience and besides, you can turn it off. I simply care that it performs and it truly does. I had an Eero 6 Pro 3 base station setup before this which worked great in my 2600 sq ft single story house. I just upgraded to AT&T 2 Gig internet and this router is exactly what I needed as most routers on the market will not cut it. Wired tests were phenomenal: 2300/2300 Mbps download/upload on Cat 6 cable and 940/940 on Cat 5E through a gigabit switch. I don’t have any Wifi 7 devices so I tested with my Wifi 6E iPhone and I got the following in order of closest to furthest distance from the router: Office at front of house(router location) 1230/1400 Living room (adjacent to office) 1000/600 Family room 580/190 Garage (adjacent to office) 1120/850 Guest bedroom 640/260 Bedroom 1 720/280 Bedroom 2 480/150 Master Bedroom 520/160 Master bathroom (furthest room to router) 50/10 Standing next to the router it will use the 6GHz band which is great but the range is minimal. Standing at the furthest room in the house it drops to 2.4 GHz where the signal will be great but the actual throughput on this band is kind of mediocre but still usable. There’s always room to expand as it can mesh with other Asus routers so that’s a plus. I highly recommend this router if you’re getting more than 1 gig from your ISP: this and Cat 6 cables are the ticket for the ultimate home network.

Very good range in a two story town home. The walls and ceiling still provided a bit of a challenge for upstairs as I had to place it down stairs, but provided much stronger signal than the included ISP Gateway from Comcast. While it did its part very well I decided to return this and switch to the Orbi mesh system. For those not running mesh or on a one story residence I’d highly recommend this. The antennas are not subtle in appearance however

Internet now in the house is super fast! And the coverage is great! No dead spot in the house

Great product. Recommend it for all gamers. Easy setup

It does the job quite well. Amazing interface. Highly customizable. Multi band four channels wifi with multiple hard ports on the back. This is a beast. However, it is pricey, and you definitely get what you pay for. That's the only reason I gave it 4 out of 5 stars. It was a big hit to my pocketbook although it is well worth it.

I'm very impressed with this! I couldn't believe how much better my network performance increased by switching to this. It's been lightening fast and reliable. I haven't had any problems at all. I replaced the Fidium router with this Asus Router. I gained speed and lost ping time. I get well over 1 Mbs of WiFi 7 speed to my Samsung S25, and my hardwire ethernet connections are also much faster.

Beyond what most people would for a router but a beast for homes with multiple smart devices.

It was time for an upgrade, my Asus 3100 router was old and so was the cable plant in my home. I changed by Cat 5 to Cat 6 cable and upgraded to the GT-BE98. This router is a beast! It has endless configuration options, including two separate 6ghz radios. I wired my gaming PC directly to the router so I minimized any bottlenecks. Signal range was about the same as my old 3100. I don’t have many devices that use Wi-Fi 7, only our new iPhone 17s. Once I upgraded my FIOS connection to 2GBPS, my speed tests (done from the router) went from 630MBPS to 2350MGPS! HUGE improvement. If you want to maximize your options, this is the router to buy. It is expensive, but can be configured for endless scenarios and is as future proof as I could find.

I am enjoying the speeds even without many wifi 7 devices. It seems better than the ASUS ax11000 its replacing. I ran some ethernet cable to have a better backbone for the mesh network. Excellent.

Top of the line router, i'm so glad ASUS is in this market now after years of only buying Netgear. While this is very expensive i now have a proper multi-gig router. I can get the full 2.5 gigs that Comcast provides without any bottlenecks due to networking gear. Also a dedicated 10gig port which i have my mulit gig NAS hooked up to.

I've had the Asus ZenWifi Pro ET12 AI Mesh system for two years it was great. I wanted to add another node so I took a chance on the GT-BE98 as an upgrade but still able to operate in a mesh with my existing setup. Migration was simple. Backup my ET12 and then restore onto the GT-BE98. I would say 90% of the settings was transferred over, there was that 10% mainly on the WiFi network setup that needed to be adjusted because the new router has other features like WiFi 7. After that was sorted. It was easy to add my other nodes as AI Mesh endpoints with a dedicated 2.5G wired backhaul. I think it's great that Asus makes the AI Mesh interoperable between units and different generations f WiFi. Obviously Mu-MIMO only works on the GT-BE98 but the other WiFi 6E features work on the other nodes. I also upgraded my connection to the internet from 2.5G to 10G, but currently I only pay for 1G since I rarely need more than that. It's great to know it's upgradeable.

This is an awesome product for whatever you may need this for ! Currently have a 10gb/s plan and it helps get every thing I can get out of the plan. If you have a high tech home, want to separate devices and rooms on their own individual networks you can do this too !

Havent had any issues from the device, so far. Good coverage throughout the house and speeds are a sadvertised. The only bottle neck is my ISP.

I upgraded from a Wi-Fi 6 setup and the difference is huge. My ping dropped in multiplayer games, downloads are blazing fast, and I can stream 4K while gaming with zero buffering. The quad-band setup manages multiple devices with ease, and the gaming prioritization features actually work. If you’re building a high-end setup, this router is a must.

setup was... a bit of an adventure. So the base firmwar on this router was SO old that it did NOT know how to talk to my fiber modem... it just was full Patrick with a nail in his forehead. I had to tether my phone via usb to the modem to update its firmware. After that? This may be the fastest router ive ever had. almost 80mb/s down from over 100yds away. In house? doing almost 600mb/s on an iphone 13. My wired pc... getting within 4% of my rated up down of 1gb... doing north of 940up and down. This thing cooks... quite literally. Give it open air.. the top vent realllllly puts out some heat.