Customer Ratings & Reviews

Big sophisticated looking contraption, with 8 ample antennas to give your home a super boost in WiFi signals, Ethernet signal. I do not have many devices that are even 6E compatible but knowing my new $2k iPad will definitely be able to hook up to this router, and to be tested. Price is a killa, which made me think multiple times, and a bunch of reviews before I took the plunge. Due to the price, not many adopters, hence reviews are not too many as well, but I thought I could help potential buyers shed some light. Product is rock solid, so far the processor within the router is quick in handling all processing requirements for the router. Former Asus routers, would hiccup sometimes, when you try to use the app to login. However, have not seen a bad delay, nor will it stall. If you have setup routers in the past, I would encourage you to use the web based cloud page and not the Asus app. Just replace the router's old WAN and your computer you are trying to configure this new router with at the back of the Ethernet ports. Go to the web link provided in the Quick Start guide. Tested speeds on multiple games, and seeing a nearly double download and upload speeds. So far, no restart yet. For my former Asus router, I needed to schedule a reboot every night, so that it could continue to perform amicably. When you start adding devices into you home, turning your home a fully automated smart home, one essential device people tend to skip is the heart of all your networking system, your router. Finally, all my smart devices are able to get the bandwidth, and strong connection signal that they deserve. Will update as I go, maybe with a comment if I am not able to edit this review.

Couldn’t test WiFi 7, but got WiFi 6E, it couldn’t connect to 5ghz 160mhz wide channels with a device, it could only do that at 6ghz. I tested it against the tp link be95 and that could connect to a WiFi 6E device on the 5ghz 160mhz wide channel. Also, single gigabit ports after the 10gig ports at this price range is funny

I'm going to keep this short and sweet. Basically it improved my Wi-Fi reliability by a ton! I'm upgrading from Wi-Fi 6 and that router was failing for some strange reason. I tried a couple of mesh routers with Wi-Fi 7 and I cannot get them to work properly for gaming. I figured a single connection point would work better and so far my theory appears to be true because this single point of connection spin throughout my entire house without issue and gives me the speed I need.

Very fast router. After setting it up as the primary router in an AI mesh system, it continually dropped its Internet connection. I really liked this router but it could not reach all areas of my 2100 sq. ft. townhouse. I need a mesh system for my use case. This didn't work for that application so I returned it.

Ver fast speeds but there's a bug where you cannot accept the privacy policy in the router setup so need to return this one

After review of multiple brands and models BE96U won. To my surprise the first one died few days after it was installed. The replacement was very easy and has worked flawlessly. when I went to pick up the second router the price had dropped nearly $200, because of a sale. Could not be happier with the Best Buy service, ASUS router's performance and of course a little extra cash.

I bought this router and I'm not that happy. Issue 1 it says it covers upto 5400 SQFT my house is close to 4K and some part of the house don't have enough signal. Next issue is thought I have 3 SIDs (2.4, 5 and 6GHZ) none of my latest devices see the 6GHZ SID. I have a Service req with ASUS Service No=N2401006825-0012 but nothing happens every other day some rep will send a mail saying that they are still working on it. For charging $700 it is suppose to work from the day 1 unfortunately that's not the case. I have a 5years old TPLink triband router I think that beats this one hands down. Since I missed the 14day Bestbuys (That sucks) return widow I have a 700 dollars brick.

I am decidedly not a fan of Asus Routers. I have two Rt-BE96u routers. The first one just... idk. No clue. Lights, camera, no action. The second one does great wifi with my phone, nothing else follows. Won't connect to my laptop, wifi or ethernet cable. Too many names passwords accounts asus accounts, router acounts, app accounts, wifi name etc etc. No clue what of the many many things goimg as to why these things are so confusing. Pretty much totally sick of Asus routers after about $1500 dumped into three routers for a Mind blowing head ache! Oh it works fine if it works.

We originally bought one BE96U earlier and it has stably run with 25+ devices for 2 months. We decided to buy 2nd one from BestBuy to pair with it. Setup was like a charm and all WiFi 6 / 6E clients smoothly connect and get solid performance. Our setup info: 1st BE96U connected to AT&T Fiber modem in walk-in closet, serving 25+ WiFi 6 / 6E devices (no WiFi 7 clients yet); 2nd BE96U in basement connected to 1st BE96U via AiMesh wirelessly and wired connection to one NAS server and ARLO camera base station. AiMesh between a pair of BE96Us, located in walk-in closet 2nd floor and basement respectively, gives 6.7Gbps in 6G BW320, 3.6Gbps in 5G BW160 and 459Mbps from 2.4G BW20, viewed from System Log - Wireless Log: there is already a monster backhaul from current firmware that provides more than enough bandwidth for the NAS and ensures in-home file sharing at lighting speed across any devices! The advertised MLO in firmware coming will be even more exciting. WiFiman ping speed from an iPhone is garage (3 walls and 1 floor away from router): gateway 2ms X.com 9ms openai.com 10ms nvidia.com 7ms icloud.com 9ms This truly redefines high throughput and low latency!!!

The performance of the box is amazing when it works. At close range i am reaching 3500mbps with sonic 10gig fiber. The best out of many "10" gig routers ive tried. HOWEVER i have had to reboot it daily to fix connection issues. I would suggest trying the Netgear wifi 7 routers or the Eero 7

Great wifi 7 specs it same as asus be98 with out the xtra 6 hz wifi .The cpu is the same witch maters for wifi proccess.Make sure if u have comcast internet get cm3000 modem or coda56 modem

Ease of use and setup. Distance of Wi-Fi coverage. No lag. Built in VPN for safety. No issues with multiple users on even while gaming.

I love it, Work excellent and to much functionality included as VPN server and client.

After trying various brands like Linksys and TP-Link, I can confidently say that ASUS BE96U has been the best of them all.

finally bought new wifi router in 12yrs and i am blown away but the speed.. i usually hardwire everything but surprised to see how many devices at home i hav wifi only… 33 devices & i game & work at home.. it handles it better than anything i’ve seen no cut outs no lag!! i upgraddd my internet speeds 3gb & wow the future is here!!

Super easy to set up, great wifi speeds through my entire house. No complaints

Best Buy team was very knowledgeable in store and this product is exactly as described. 5/5. Thank you

Very high quality router that with all features you would need! Highly recommend

The router manages to cover my entire house. I upgraded to this router from using a mesh system that was aging. I was concerned that it would mot be able to cover the whole house and allow 4k streaming to my fire cubes around the house. Only complaint are the 4 1g lan pirts. They should he at least 2.5’s.

Great router and easy to setup. Can't give it a 5 star review just yet without adapters.