Customer Ratings & Reviews

I will start by saying I am coming from an older mesh system which had 3 nodes that I was able to place throughout my house. We have a 2400 square foot house (2 levels, 1200 Sq Ft each level) I was unsure if this single router would be able to take the place of my previous mesh network. Out of the box this router has an interesting design. Definitely a bit on the larger side. There is a bright line of lights on the front, which can thankfully be turned off. I found them to be a little tacky. There are also buttons on the front to refresh the router as well as turn on and off the WIFI. On the back there is an input from your modem, 4 output network jacks and a USB port. I found the setup process to be very easy. I plugged the router into my modem and downloaded the Tether app. I went through all the on-screen instructions and I was up and running in no time. I have the router placed in the center of the upper level of my house. I did speed tests on various computers located throughout the house to try and do a comparison. Using the 5GHz network I did notice an improvement in speed on every single computer I tested it on. Some were quite drastic; others were just slightly faster. I also have 6 security cameras around my property, all of which run in the 2.4GHz band. Here is where I started to run into some problems. All the cameras inside the house worked fine, but the 2 exterior cameras were barely functioning anymore with a very weak signal (I had no problems with these on my previous mesh network) No matter what I did, they just would not respond quickly and easily as they did with my previous system. I ended up buying a signal booster to try that out, but I still was not getting those cameras to connect very easily. Just for fun I tried switching over to some 5GHz capable cameras on the exterior of my house and those functioned just fine without even using the signal booster. Its just the 2.4GHz band that was not working well, which is strange, because that signal is supposed to be able to travel further than the 5GHz signal. Next, I tried out the 6G signal to see how that worked. I currently only have 2 things that will work on that network. My Samsung Galaxy S24 ultra and my Asus ROG PC. With both devices I experienced the same thing. When it was connected, I got amazingly fast speeds, very comparable to computers that were hard wired to the router. I found that it was dropping the signal quite frequently though. No matter what I did, the signal kept cutting out and I found myself switching back to the 5GHz network. I could literally be less than 10 feet away from the router on my phone and I would lose the signal. I wasn’t able to pinpoint if it was a problem with the router, or my devices, But 2 different devices from 2 different manufacturers leads me to believe it might have something to do with the router. But I cannot confirm that, just something to be aware of. Within the app you can see tons of information such as what is all connected to your router. You can isolate or block devices if you choose to. There is also a section with parental controls if that is something you need as well. This also allows for you to have a guest mode so you do not have to give out your regular password to people. Pretty much all the same functionality you find on just about any router these days. Overall, I do like the router and I think I will stick with it over my older mesh system. Just know that the 2.4GHz and 6G modes are a bit unstable at the moment. I’m hoping this can be addressed with possible firmware updates in the future.

So, I had a interesting experience using this router. Wait. I will start from the beginning to when I first got it setup on my network. It looks good and doesn't take up a lot of space if it needs approval from your significant other. Getting it setup and running in the app was pretty painless. I configured it to be a access point once I got it on the network and running via the app. Now here is where the fun begins. My phone which is a S21 Ultra (I know it's old, but it still works... sorta) I have my phone set so that it doesn't use data when I am home and uses my wifi. Once my phone tried to connect to the internet from the newly minted BE15000 router that I am using as a access point it won't hold a connection to the wifi. So I checked my tablets and laptops and well it didn't go well. Windows based laptops all decided to blue screen and throw a IRQ error as soon as I tried going online. One was so bad that I had to do factory reset three times which made me think I was loosing my mind. That laptop was brand new out the box that day. The other computers that were connected to it did the same thing ort just didn't connect to the internet. Restarted my primary router several times and this one. No joy. So I took out the loop and put my old access point back in and Bob's your uncle. Everything went back to working properly. So maybe I got a bad unit but this is about all I can say about this one. I can't recommend this based on my experience.