Better 3 BE98 or 2 BQ16?

[Whirlo]

Hello, I'm about to activate a 10Gb connection, I wanted to know if in your opinion (as for speed, coverage, settings, etc) it is better to have 1 GT-BE98 as a router and 2 BQ16 to use as satellites connected in backhaul via cable or better to have 3 GT-BE98 all connected in backhaul via cable?
I read that BQ16 take a long time to reboot.
There is Black Friday and I found the be98 at a great price.

Thanks in advance

 

[Tech9]

I'm about to activate a 10Gb connection

What is the purpose and expectations from this 10Gbps connection?

Where is it going after the ONT and the first WAN port, to what wired or wireless clients?

 

[Whirlo]

What is the purpose and expectations from this 10Gbps connection?

Where is it going after the ONT and the first WAN port, to what wired or wireless clients?

Work (on cloud) very large files, etc. It doesn't matter. What I would like to know is if there is a difference between wiring 3 be98 or a be98 as a router and 2 bq16 (all this on 3 floors of the house)

 

[Tech9]

For best results get identical hardware units. They will have identical radios and the firmware will be the same and updated at the same time.

 

[Whirlo]

For best results get identical hardware units. They will have identical radios and the firmware will be the same and updated at the same time.

so there are no differences in performance? I saw this graph

 

[Tech9]

What I know is you have to be very careful with what firmware options you select on such devices because all of the above can't process even Gigabit traffic with no NAT acceleration enabled. They are tuned for power efficiency with similar to RPi hardware and fast ports. The throughput is "up to", conditional, not guaranteed. The reason I asked you what the use case is and you replied "It doesn't matter". Black Friday will reduce your wallet contents for sure, but will it work up to your expectations or not - I don't know. For guaranteed 10Gbps speed you need hardware in thousands with x86 firewall appliance, 10GbE switches with 10GbE NICs on clients and multiple APs on different channels doing eventually aggregate multi-Gigabit speed to multiple clients.

The firmware on current BE-class home routers is in somewhat rough state and you may have to wait for Asus to fix things over time. Read the user feedback around and decide. Some folks are happy with what they get, some are not happy with Asus slow firmware development, others are not happy with delayed 3rd party firmware development as a result, some folks just returned their routers and switched to something else, etc. Read this:

Please add Asuswrt-merlin to GT-BE98 (Non-pro) version

Hello whoever will read this. Don't know If this is the best place to voice my situation, but I do wish for the GT-BE98 non pro version to be supported by Asus-Wrt Merlin (non fork). I currently own the RT-AC5300 and have done so for years, have a nice home network all setup until this year I...

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[Tech9]

Only two firmware versions are available on Asus website for GT-BE98. The rest (older) were removed perhaps because of different hardware revisions of this router available on the market now. The feedback is not much, but may be useful for you:

Release - ASUS GT-BE98 Firmware version 3.0.0.6.102_36852 - 2024/10/04

Update via router page, not yet on asus website ASUS GT-BE98 Firmware version 3.0.0.6.102_36852

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Release - ASUS GT-BE98 Firmware version 3.0.0.6.102_36855 (2024/11/05)

Version 3.0.0.6.102_36855 69.03 MB 2024/11/05 Resolved the issue with OCNVC connection being unusable. Fixed display issues in the AiMesh Web GUI. Enhanced the stability of MLO Backhaul connection. Improved compatibility with Intel clients. Please unzip the firmware file, and then verify the...

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No much feedback on BQ16, seems like not popular around at the moment.