ASUS RT-BE92U

[Gregory Phillips]

Hasn't dual WAN been a regular hit or miss function with Asus routers? I remember seeing problems mentioned with it on other models as well. It's been a while though.

Dual wan on my ax88u has been rock solid but on my ac88u it was definitely hit or miss for most of the time I was using it until Asus got it right. The biggest issue was fall back which almost never worked until I manually disconnected the 2nd ISP. The be92u not only stuck on the 2nd ISP but throughput was like 1200 baud dial up. I did submit a report to Asus before I reset and returned them.

 

[iFrogMac]

Dual wan on my ax88u has been rock solid but on my ac88u it was definitely hit or miss for most of the time I was using it until Asus got it right. The biggest issue was fall back which almost never worked until I manually disconnected the 2nd ISP. The be92u not only stuck on the 2nd ISP but throughput was like 1200 baud dial up. I did submit a report to Asus before I reset and returned them.

I was going to test my iPhone as a 4G source, but I decided to pass because I don't have good enough signal in the apartment with the phone to make it worth it. Calls work fine, and I've set up WiFi Calling, but for data when it gave me any kind of speed test results it was about 37 Mbps down and 0.2Mbps up. So, for running the whole network, I don't think that would go very far. I do have 5G on my plan but there again, my I have to change locations before the phone changes to 5G instead of using LTE.

 

[RogerSC]

I'm going to keep an eye out for the 98 pro going on sale again. I was eying it up about 4 weeks ago when it was down to $700 but I think it will go lower soon since its almost a year old now. If only another company would offer tri or quad band wifi 7 with dual wan and two or more 10gb ports.

If you're interested in TP-Link, they have several wifi-7 routers, at least one of which has a couple of 10Gb ports. Worth a look.

 

[Gregory Phillips]

I was going to test my iPhone as a 4G source, but I decided to pass because I don't have good enough signal in the apartment with the phone to make it worth it. Calls work fine, and I've set up WiFi Calling, but for data when it gave me any kind of speed test results it was about 37 Mbps down and 0.2Mbps up. So, for running the whole network, I don't think that would go very far. I do have 5G on my plan but there again, my I have to change locations before the phone changes to 5G instead of using LTE.

My primary is xfinity 943mbps at my location and my secondary is at&t vdsl so there's a huge difference in performance between the two. I periodically telework and need redundancy because from time to time somebody digs without calling 411 beforehand severing optical trunks killing xfinity for hours on end. I could plug my phone into the usb slot as I do get around 800mbps here but for productivity work vdsl is fine.