ASUS RT-BE92U

[dealcracker]

I would just return if you can and exchange right away. If you are on latest firmware, are running with minimal config/services, and it's still rebooting, it's got be be a problem with the unit.

I agree, sadly I bought it from Best Buy and am already past the return window.

 

[jzchen]

I agree, sadly I bought it from Best Buy and am already past the return window.

ASUS support should be your next contact. They may want you to return it to their service center after a bit of debugging.

 

[vutt01]

Mine is working just fine so far. BE92U AsusWRT non pro UI VLAN restrictions investigations lead me to homelab rabbit hole. So I acquired additional Chinese n5105 CPU based box with intention to run dedicated opnsense transparent firewall (zenarmor) in BRIDGE mode between my ISP and BE92U.
Installed it yesterday and it appears to be working. Using zenarmor free tier ver without opnsense build in IDS/IPS setup atm. Switched AIProtection off. TrendMicro is probably better than zenarmor free tier but I'd also like to implement later CrowdSec.
onpsense of course is providing full VLAN feature set in router mode so entire story most likely for me will end up demoting BE92U to wifi AP role. Not the best investment Still based Asus HW reliability reports it doesn't hurt to have 2 router boxes around.

 

[alba666]

New Firmware Released (3.0.0.6.102_37500).
I have installed and MLO appears to be stable so far. DOT is causing intermittent issues, so I disabled it. Not seeing the memory leak so far.

 

[alba666]

New Firmware Released (3.0.0.6.102_37500).
I have installed and MLO appears to be stable so far. DOT is causing intermittent issues, so I disabled it. Not seeing the memory leak so far.

MLO has reared its old ugly effect of making things unstable. Had to do a reset.
Best to keep MLO off.

 

[alba666]

So on reset, I ended up with the following combination:

Smart Connect ON for 2.4/5/6 for 3 devices
MLO OFF
1 IOT Network with 35 devices
2 wired devices.

RAM used is steady at 70%

I’m going to let it run a few days to assess stability before I try to put the IoT on a separate network range and see what types of problems arise.

 

[rickysuperdog]

high ram usage is normal. Its happened on most NAS, routers that running Linux system. Most of the ram occupied will be released if needed by the system.

 

[dealcracker]

ASUS support should be your next contact. They may want you to return it to their service center after a bit of debugging.

I'm happy to report that my issue with random rebooting is now resolved. It turns out the problem was not the router at all. It was an intermittent failure of the UPS that the router was plugged into. Kind of frustrating, but I am glad that I figured out the cause and that is was not a defective router.

 

[TnF]

I'm happy to report that my issue with random rebooting is now resolved. It turns out the problem was not the router at all. It was an intermittent failure of the UPS that the router was plugged into. Kind of frustrating, but I am glad that I figured out the cause and that is was not a defective router.

nice for you to come back and post the real issue maker..it's kinda funny the ups is doing the malice..are you sure it's not made by tp-link? YOU HAD ONE JOB

edit: no issues with mine since day 1 after i've configured it (MLO off, QoS enabled, all wifi bands enabled)

 

[vutt01]

I added opnsense box to my home infra as main router/FW and repurposed BE92U to Wifi-AP/switch role. Main reason - to gain more flexibility with my VLANs and ditch Trend Micro FW. ...and to learn something new in process. I had to set up opensense VLAN-s in 192.168.VLAN_ID.0 format so Asus was able to use opnsense DHCPv4 setup seamlessly. I have now mixed tagged and untagged traffic which is sub optimal, but it seems to be working.
Trend Micro FW got replaced by Sunny Valley Zenarmor. Actually I'm not sure I gained somethin privacy area with US company product. lol
Few days in everything seems to be working and stable as AP. I'm probably one of very few who is using recently released consumer router in AP mode.

 

[Tech9]

I have now mixed tagged and untagged traffic which is sub optimal, but it seems to be working.

User configurable VLANs are perhaps available in AP Mode on this router, no?

 

[vutt01]

They are, sort of. You can create wifi guest networks and provide manually VLAN ID for each. Asus will create 192.168.VLANID.0/24 subnet. You cant however tag physical ethernet ports.

 

[shauno100]

Looks like Asus have released the GPL for this router -GPL of ASUS RT-BE92U for firmware 3.0.0.6.102_37435 - https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-BE92U/GPL_RT_BE92U_v300610237435.zip?model=RT-BE92U

 

[TnF]

Looks like Asus have released the GPL for this router -GPL of ASUS RT-BE92U for firmware 3.0.0.6.102_37435 - https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-BE92U/GPL_RT_BE92U_v300610237435.zip?model=RT-BE92U

Merlin/Gnuton soon then? <3

 

[Jbennett360]

Down to £221 in the UK at the minute. (Usually £260)

 

[ddhh2025]

Looks like Asus have released the GPL for this router -GPL of ASUS RT-BE92U for firmware 3.0.0.6.102_37435 - https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-BE92U/GPL_RT_BE92U_v300610237435.zip?model=RT-BE92U

Why use the old version firmware? the latest ASUS RT-BE92U Firmware version 3.0.0.6.102_37506

 

[Tech9]

Why use the old version firmware?

Firmware release is useless for eventual 3rd party firmware development.

 

[shauno100]

Why use the old version firmware? the latest ASUS RT-BE92U Firmware version 3.0.0.6.102_37506

This isn't a link to firmware, it's the "GPL source code" for the router released by Asus.

 

[dymONE]

Here we are: https://sourceforge.net/projects/asuswrt-merlin/files/RT-BE92U/
The first Merlin's beta bios looks good so far

 

[rickysuperdog]

Here we are: https://sourceforge.net/projects/asuswrt-merlin/files/RT-BE92U/
The first Merlin's beta bios looks good so far

Thanks for you info. It's a good news