ASUS RT-BE92U

[alba666]

I got the RT-BE92U for my parents now but occasionally I get a random loss of connectivity across all of my devices then it comes back after a few minutes. Not sure if it’s because I enabled ipv6 or the qos settings or the TrendMicro security service or MLO which is odd because the previous SBG7600ac2 didn’t have this issue or even my RT-ax58U at home didn't have these issues and lots of these features are turned off out of the box. Trying to pin down if it’s the new modem causing the issue or the new router. Modem is ES2251 from spectrum if it helps. I tried checking the modem diagnostics page but spectrum locks it out and makes it inaccessible.

I had a similar situation a few days ago where phones and tablets weren't working but my laptop was for some reason and the inbuilt speed test on the router was working fine but phones were not working and eventually connectivity came back. Not sure if it's a bug or something I set up wrong.

I would leave MLO off unless you have a multi gigabit internet connection. I have 1Gig service from Mediacom and there is no speed difference with MLO on or off. I have seen some issues with MLO stability (especially in the shipped firmware version). Since I am pegging my connection with MLO off, it seems to be a future feature I don’t need right away.

 

[jimmysofat6864]

I would leave MLO off unless you have a multi gigabit internet connection. I have 1Gig service from Mediacom and there is no speed difference with MLO on or off. I have seen some issues with MLO stability (especially in the shipped firmware version). Since I am pegging my connection with MLO off, it seems to be a future feature I don’t need right away.

Should I disable QoS and other features like Ai protection, apps analysis, Traffic Analyzer, and IPV6 as I don't know if these additional features that were off by default are bogging down my system and causing it to hang. With everything I would want turned on, I'm at around 80% memory usage.

 

[alba666]

Should I disable QoS and other features like Ai protection, apps analysis, Traffic Analyzer, and IPV6 as I don't know if these additional features that were off by default are bogging down my system and causing it to hang. With everything I would want turned on, I'm at around 80% memory usage.

I’m at 85% and things are fine.
I’d turn off QoS (as previously stated) and let it run.
Also make sure you have the latest firmware update installed.

 

[jimmysofat6864]

I’m at 85% and things are fine.
I’d turn off QoS (as previously stated) and let it run.
Also make sure you have the latest firmware update installed.

Do you have all the other features I mentioned enabled but just QoS off? If so, I'm going to try that as I just disabled Ai protection, QoS, apps analysis, Traffic Analyzer, MLO, and IPV6 but if you have all those features enabled except for QoS I'm going to try that and see if it leads to any issues.

 

[digits n bits]

Good luck, I gave up on this router a week ago. Half baked firmware. I’ve got CPU core spikes, dropped connections, you name it. Everything is turned off and it’s still unstable.
Now it’s sitting in my closet, reset and ready to go on eBay. I’ll let some other unfortunate user deal with it. If you can return it, do it now and save the headaches and hassle.

 

[alba666]

Do you have all the other features I mentioned enabled but just QoS off? If so, I'm going to try that as I just disabled Ai protection, QoS, apps analysis, Traffic Analyzer, MLO, and IPV6 but if you have all those features enabled except for QoS I'm going to try that and see if it leads to any issues.

Only QOS is off.

 

[NismoZ]

On the BE92U, can you use MLO on the 5 and 6GHz bands while turning off Smart Connect across all bands?

 

[Thorz]

I was thinking of changing my RT-BE86U which I got on Black Friday (and has been solid on stock AsusWRT firmware), for the RT-BE92U. The main reason was to future-proof my setup with the 6Ghz band. But then I noticed that the BE92U only has a 2x2 radio on 5Ghz and a 2Ghz CPU vs 4x4 radio on 5Ghz and a 2.6Ghz CPU on the BE86U, the lack of Merlin support finally tipped the scales in favor of the BE86U.

I now found this thread and see that the BE92U is struggling so much. Consider myself lucky that I didn't order one. I only have 2 devices capable of WiFi 6E, and both are working superbly on the 5Ghz band of the BE86U, giving me almost the total bandwidth I get from my ISP (1gb fiber).

Definitely not rushing for the time been in getting into the 6Ghz band on WiFi 7, it looks like the firmware on these routers needs to mature more.

 

[NismoZ]

I've been following this router on reddit and other forums, and most of the folks who were having problems with the BE92U seem to have been fixed when they loaded the firmware released on 12/23/24. And the folks that were not having problems on earlier firmware were not using the VPN services, or kept all the extra Asus services turned off that are not needed, which are most of them.

ASUS RT-BE92U Firmware version 3.0.0.6.102_37435
Version 3.0.0.6.102_37435
54.87 MB
2024/12/23
Please unzip the firmware file, and then verify the checksum.
SHA256: 9c94e8890bfc0233dd00ca868e836d9a5a5fedc3bd118f39a33b7147da160e75

Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
- Resolved enabling Instant Guard could cause unexpected restarts.
- Fixed a potential restart issue when using the Feedback system.
- Fixed MAC Filters limit being restricted to 16, increased to 64.
- Improved device connection stability on MLO Network.
- Enhanced MLO backhaul stability.

 

[digits n bits]

I've been following this router on reddit and other forums, and most of the folks who were having problems with the BE92U seem to have been fixed when they loaded the firmware released on 12/23/24. And the folks that were not having problems on earlier firmware were not using the VPN services, or kept all the extra Asus services turned off that are not needed, which are most of them.

There are still issues with the new firmware. ASUS already issued a new beta firmware 37531 to fix the previous firmware issues in the last release.

 

[NismoZ]

There are still issues with the new firmware. ASUS already issued a new beta firmware 37531 to fix the previous firmware issues in the last release.

What issues are left? Could be helpful to list for people. Also, what specifically does the beta firmware fix?

 

[john woo]

I've been following this router on reddit and other forums, and most of the folks who were having problems with the BE92U seem to have been fixed when they loaded the firmware released on 12/23/24. And the folks that were not having problems on earlier firmware were not using the VPN services, or kept all the extra Asus services turned off that are not needed, which are most of them.

Im using it with ProtonVPN. 5 different SSID, 2,4, 5, 6, 2,4 IoT and MLO. Quad 9 DNS DoT. Been rock stable over 2 weeks without need to reboot or any issues like others having. But I dont use WiFi 7 and 6 Ghz band, cause I dont have any WiFi 7 or 6 ghz devices to test with. So far Im pleased with BE92U compared to mine old RT92U which WifI stop working time to time.

 

[jimmysofat6864]

I've been following this router on reddit and other forums, and most of the folks who were having problems with the BE92U seem to have been fixed when they loaded the firmware released on 12/23/24. And the folks that were not having problems on earlier firmware were not using the VPN services, or kept all the extra Asus services turned off that are not needed, which are most of them.

I’m using latest firmware and have additional services enabled but I’m having random loss of connectivity issues. I’m assuming it’s due to the additional services because when I turn it off, it seemed stable because before it would fail within a day.

 

[jimmysofat6864]

What issues are left? Could be helpful to list for people. Also, what specifically does the beta firmware fix?

I have Ai protection, QoS, apps analysis, Traffic Analyzer, MLO, and IPV6 enabled and I have random internet drops. But when I do AI protection, MLO, and ipv6 only, it seems relatively stable and passes the two day mark as before it would drop in less than a day. I’m assuming having everything enabled breaks it which is a shame because my previous asus router worked with no issues when everything is enabled.

 

[NismoZ]

I have Ai protection, QoS, apps analysis, Traffic Analyzer, MLO, and IPV6 enabled and I have random internet drops. But when I do AI protection, MLO, and ipv6 only, it seems relatively stable and passes the two day mark as before it would drop in less than a day. I’m assuming having everything enabled breaks it which is a shame because my previous asus router worked with no issues when everything is enabled.

Great info, these reports are what this thread needs to help as we go through firmware revisions to see exactly what isecase effects the stability of the router and when new firmware may resolve things.

After the latest firmware, if someone has MLO on 5 and 6GHz or has a wifi7 client in use, and wants to let us know how long the router has been stable, that would be nice to know.

 

[alba666]

Great info, these reports are what this thread needs to help as we go through firmware revisions to see exactly what isecase effects the stability of the router and when new firmware may resolve things.

After the latest firmware, if someone has MLO on 5 and 6GHz or has a wifi7 client in use, and wants to let us know how long the router has been stable, that would be nice to know.

I have a test network built for testing like requested. I will update it and activate it.

 

[alba666]

I’m seeing the same behavior as the last firmware. Once you activate MLO, occasional network delays occur on any SSID.
I will try to find a time when the rest of the house is sleeping for a more extensive test procedure and try to grab some system logs of post MLO activation behavior.

 

[NismoZ]

I’m seeing the same behavior as the last firmware. Once you activate MLO, occasional network delays occur on any SSID.
I will try to find a time when the rest of the house is sleeping for a more extensive test procedure and try to grab some system logs of post MLO activation behavior.

Thanks, looking forward to those results. Is a separate SSIDs for each band a functional setup? And is a Wi-Fi 7 client stable on 2, 5 and 6Ghz bands? Same with wifi 5 and 6 devices?

 

[jimmysofat6864]

I’m seeing the same behavior as the last firmware. Once you activate MLO, occasional network delays occur on any SSID.
I will try to find a time when the rest of the house is sleeping for a more extensive test procedure and try to grab some system logs of post MLO activation behavior.

Not sure if it's MLO specific and isolated to wireless devices only because when I had everything enabled, I would have no internet connection even on devices that were connected via ethernet.

 

[alba666]

Thanks, looking forward to those results. Is a separate SSIDs for each band a functional setup? And is a Wi-Fi 7 client stable on 2, 5 and 6Ghz bands? Same with wifi 5 and 6 devices?

I have an iPhone 16 Pro stable on my main network that is WiFi 7 on all bands.
It is also stable on a separate 6GHz network.