Bought a new RT-BE96U thinking now is a good time to update my old existing Asus unit. I have AT&T Fiber so I use passthrough for the WAN IP from their BGW320 router, but I only got the 96U to work with it once. Then I (foolishly?) updated the firmware to the latest and it stopped working. Multiple restarts, factory resets and reconfigurations, and a Merlin install of 3006.102.1 changed nothing. Saying there was an issue with DHCP. There wasn't a configuration issue, I've done this many times and it's not complex. I noticed the BE96U would restart randomly when changing settings like the internet on/off when trying to do a release/renew. My unit says hardware revision 1.0 and manufactured in 2023.
Plugged in my old router, redid the passthrough configuration and it picked up and worked immediately. It was past 5AM at this point and we needed our internet for work today so I gave up on this thing.
In my limited time with the 96U, it wasn't clear if MLO and AFC were enabled yet, there's a wifi7 option for all 3 bands so perhaps that's MLO. But I don't think I saw anything relevant to AFC. The list of firmware updates this year are sparse (1 release). I'm going to wait until both MLO and AFC are in place (edit- never getting AFC, requires a barometer), and sometime next year buy this model again and see where it's at. Seems like the perfect router for someone needing to update. I'm looking forward to a single unified MLO wifi network. Just needs to work!
That's my story with this thing. I waited a while to allow the firmware to bake, but I either got unlucky or something in my setup just didn't play well together. We'll see how they work for me in 2025. And maybe Asus will release a newer model by then too.
Plugged in my old router, redid the passthrough configuration and it picked up and worked immediately. It was past 5AM at this point and we needed our internet for work today so I gave up on this thing.
In my limited time with the 96U, it wasn't clear if MLO and AFC were enabled yet, there's a wifi7 option for all 3 bands so perhaps that's MLO. But I don't think I saw anything relevant to AFC. The list of firmware updates this year are sparse (1 release). I'm going to wait until both MLO and AFC are in place (edit- never getting AFC, requires a barometer), and sometime next year buy this model again and see where it's at. Seems like the perfect router for someone needing to update. I'm looking forward to a single unified MLO wifi network. Just needs to work!
That's my story with this thing. I waited a while to allow the firmware to bake, but I either got unlucky or something in my setup just didn't play well together. We'll see how they work for me in 2025. And maybe Asus will release a newer model by then too.
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