Release RT-BE92U Firmware 3.0.0.6.102_37435-gdd27f25_1059-g807f7_BB0B 12/23/2024

[digits n bits]

I was like you, enthusiastic about this model. After a few weeks of testing, too many bugs, instabilities, disconnections, etc. Despite updates, factory reset, still the same problems. Coupled in aimesh with a GT-BE98, it was a disaster. I contacted the support but I had no feedback. I repacked this piece and I'm waiting for the refund.

I contacted ASUS also and the tech I talked to seemed to dismiss the hardware issue and thinks it’s a firmware issue. Bottom line they weren’t much help at all. It’s now sitting in the box and I’m using a different WiFi 7 router and surprise, everything works as advertised. MLO works, no disconnects, smart connection works, VPN, right out of the box, no issues.

 

[iFrogMac]

I contacted ASUS also and the tech I talked to seemed to dismiss the hardware issue and thinks it’s a firmware issue. Bottom line they weren’t much help at all. It’s now sitting in the box and I’m using a different WiFi 7 router and surprise, everything works as advertised. MLO works, no disconnects, smart connection works, VPN, right out of the box, no issues.

So, did you end up going with a different brand all together ? since Asus wasn't much help?
I'm actually surprised more people here don't use Ubiquity / Unify products. It just seems like it would be a better fit for the nature of complaints I see here as a whole and the feedback from those who got tired of consumer routers and went more prosumer / enterprise level. I was actually considering it myself before going with Asus. However, things with the Asus routers I've had eventually stabilized, so I put it on hold, but I might consider it to get a separate hardwire router and AP so both don't have to upgraded at the same time.

 

[RMerlin]

So, did you end up going with a different brand all together ? since Asus wasn't much help?
I'm actually surprised more people here don't use Ubiquity / Unify products. It just seems like it would be a better fit for the nature of complaints I see here as a whole and the feedback from those who got tired of consumer routers and went more prosumer / enterprise level. I was actually considering it myself before going with Asus. However, things with the Asus routers I've had eventually stabilized, so I put it on hold, but I might consider it to get a separate hardwire router and AP so both don't have to upgraded at the same time.

There's also been a lot of complains about Ubiquiti's Wifi 7 APs so far. WIfi 7 is still going through growing pains, regardless of the manufacturer.

 

[iFrogMac]

There's also been a lot of complains about Ubiquiti's Wifi 7 APs so far. WIfi 7 is still going through growing pains, regardless of the manufacturer.

That's been my impression too. It just seems like WiFi 7 as a whole just isn't stable yet. As far as the BE92U, I mainly needed the 2.5G ports, and have been using it as a dual band WiFi 6/6e router and a wired router. So. I probably won't see the WiFi 7 related issues until I start needing those features more such as MLO, etc. For me, the BE92U seemed like the best balanced value for features I needed now, and features I would be able to use more going forward, even if I didn't need them all right now in this exact point in time.

 

[Tech9]

I'm actually surprised more people here don't use Ubiquity / Unify products.

On Ubiquiti Community forums surprisingly very few people have Asus routers.

There's also been a lot of complains about Ubiquiti's Wifi 7 APs

Indeed, with fixes up to changes on a hardware level. Early adopters... sorry, try again.

 

[TeMpL]

support for vlans with aimesh nodes ? Do we have roadmap ?

 

[Ice9]

I've only just started looking at routers again for the first time in a few months (I did check the BF/CM and Christmas sales, but there wasn't anything I liked price wise).
Now that the official support is over for the AC68U, I started having a bit of a look again, and this router seemed interesting as it seems it's going to be for sale in AU (it hasn't been listed at any sellers I've seen yet, just on the Asus website).

I've decided that I'm in no hurry and am OK holding onto the AC68U for a bit longer until something I like either comes down in price, or a previous gen model that has the features I want is discounted to a specific price point. I've set up alerts via Amazon with a website that someone told me about a few months ago called camelcamelcamel (not sure if you guys have used it as I think it works for a few different countries with Amazon) to send an alert if any of the routers I'm looking at drop to specific price points, so I'll see how I go with that.

My main consideration is 1 x 10Gbps WAN port (2.5Gbps would be OK) and a minimum of 1 x 10Gbps or 2.5Gbps LAN port, then apart from that, VPN Fusion and also the capability to install Asuswrt-Merlin. My first choice is the RT-BE88U, then either this (RT-BE92U) or RT-BE86U. In AU, though, the BE86U price is pretty close to the BE88U, so no real point in looking at the BE86U at current pricing. I'm curious to see what price point the BE92U comes in at. I don't really need 6Ghz or anything. Most of my devices are Wifi 6 or lower. And also, I wonder if it's likely to ever get Merlin, but I guess if you want Merlin, which I think I have read here, you should only buy a router that supports it at the time of purchase as nothing is guaranteed after that.

This router seems very interesting, but I wonder, if being an early adopter (I've never really been one as most Routers I've bought, they've been out a couple of years beforehand [I've had a few in between the RT-AC68U, but I've gone back to this as I kept it as a spare due to the others failing such as my RT-AC86U, or belonging to an ISP that weren't suitable], so I've never really been an early adopter).
In situations like this, with buggy firmware or newly release routers, is it likely that it's mostly just firmware issues, or could there be a chance it's hardware issues? If it's a hardware issue that can't be fixed via firmware, I assume you're stuck with the router (Asus or any other company won't replace it in that case, would they?)? This is one reason I am still keeping an eye on the GT-AX6000 or maybe the RT-AX86U Pro (if it reaches a certain price point), as I am not sure if I want to be an early adopter.

 

[iFrogMac]

I've only just started looking at routers again for the first time in a few months (I did check the BF/CM and Christmas sales, but there wasn't anything I liked price wise).
Now that the official support is over for the AC68U, I started having a bit of a look again, and this router seemed interesting as it seems it's going to be for sale in AU (it hasn't been listed at any sellers I've seen yet, just on the Asus website).

I've decided that I'm in no hurry and am OK holding onto the AC68U for a bit longer until something I like either comes down in price, or a previous gen model that has the features I want is discounted to a specific price point. I've set up alerts via Amazon with a website that someone told me about a few months ago called camelcamelcamel (not sure if you guys have used it as I think it works for a few different countries with Amazon) to send an alert if any of the routers I'm looking at drop to specific price points, so I'll see how I go with that.

My main consideration is 1 x 10Gbps WAN port (2.5Gbps would be OK) and a minimum of 1 x 10Gbps or 2.5Gbps LAN port, then apart from that, VPN Fusion and also the capability to install Asuswrt-Merlin. My first choice is the RT-BE88U, then either this (RT-BE92U) or RT-BE86U. In AU, though, the BE86U price is pretty close to the BE88U, so no real point in looking at the BE86U at current pricing. I'm curious to see what price point the BE92U comes in at. I don't really need 6Ghz or anything. Most of my devices are Wifi 6 or lower. And also, I wonder if it's likely to ever get Merlin, but I guess if you want Merlin, which I think I have read here, you should only buy a router that supports it at the time of purchase as nothing is guaranteed after that.

This router seems very interesting, but I wonder, if being an early adopter (I've never really been one as most Routers I've bought, they've been out a couple of years beforehand [I've had a few in between the RT-AC68U, but I've gone back to this as I kept it as a spare due to the others failing such as my RT-AC86U, or belonging to an ISP that weren't suitable], so I've never really been an early adopter).
In situations like this, with buggy firmware or newly release routers, is it likely that it's mostly just firmware issues, or could there be a chance it's hardware issues? If it's a hardware issue that can't be fixed via firmware, I assume you're stuck with the router (Asus or any other company won't replace it in that case, would they?)? This is one reason I am still keeping an eye on the GT-AX6000 or maybe the RT-AX86U Pro (if it reaches a certain price point), as I am not sure if I want to be an early adopter.

In my experience of owning this router, It's been stable for me, i just had to find the right combination of settings, and as firmware updates have rolled out, things have also improved. From listening to the feedback from those who didn't have the best experiences, it mainly sounds like some are long standing problems with Asus Routers / firmware in general, and also possibly a faulty unit the person got. Hardware wise, I have the options of faster internet speeds above 1G, and wanted to see how much benefit I would get, as well as having a router with the current line of AsusWRT, that the RT-AX86U would never get. Since my current iPhone is a 6e device, it made more sense to just get a WiFi 7 router and use the backward compatibility as WiFi 7 will be future proofing going forward, and it made more sense to do that over buying a 6e Router, and then buying a 7 router down the road, when I found out I would need one. Buy once use, what I need now, and grow into the rest as needed, is what I felt the better way to go was here.

i was reading your post again, and you mentioned, that you don't need 6Ghz, so you might want a dual band router. I had considered that myself at first. Then I thought about it, and went with this router over the TP-Link dual band I had originally tried just because I knew I already had one device that could do 6Ghz, and knew at some point, I'd probably get more going forward. With that said, I try to hard wire whenever possible, so most of my high demand devices are connected by Ethernet. I still have my RT-AX86U as a backup in case this one has issues, and since Asus patched the firmware against the recent malware, I feel a lot more comfortable using that router again, if I need to.

 

[ddhh2025]

This is not my first Asus router; my old one had fewer features compared to 92u. Here is my setup 2.4G Wi-Fi 5 for IOT ( for some reason, half my IOT had an issue login to Guest IOT ) 5G and 6G Wi-Fi 7 ( no smart or MLO )

I also created two VPN fusion profiles with Wiregard on the Guest 5G wifi, and they both work pretty well. The memory stays around 74%, and CPU usage is slow but will go up when enabling a VPN 5G network.

The router is stable with the new firmware, after 1 week of monitoring syslogs, I will enable the VPN 5G network and begin the test.

 

[Ice9]

In my experience of owning this router, It's been stable for me, i just had to find the right combination of settings, and as firmware updates have rolled out, things have also improved. From listening to the feedback from those who didn't have the best experiences, it mainly sounds like some are long standing problems with Asus Routers / firmware in general, and also possibly a faulty unit the person got.

Thanks. That makes things a bit clearer. This does seem like a good router. Still might consider the RT-BE88U if the price comes down in the next few months here.

Hardware wise, I have the options of faster internet speeds above 1G, and wanted to see how much benefit I would get, as well as having a router with the current line of AsusWRT, that the RT-AX86U would never get.

This is something I didn't actually think about. I've currently got a 100/40Mbps connection which I've had the past few years, but just signed up for a 1Gbps connection, and I wonder if the RT-AC68U can handle that (I didn't actually think about this until reading your post). I don't mind if I only get 900Mbps as I'd be fine with that until I get a better router, but do you guys think that the AC68U is going to limit my 1Gbps connection much since it's a much older router? I know it has 1Gbps ports, but since it's old, I wonder if it will work properly with my next connection when that is activate? I guess I will find out in a few days time.

i was reading your post again, and you mentioned, that you don't need 6Ghz, so you might want a dual band router. I had considered that myself at first. Then I thought about it, and went with this router over the TP-Link dual band I had originally tried just because I knew I already had one device that could do 6Ghz, and knew at some point, I'd probably get more going forward. With that said, I try to hard wire whenever possible, so most of my high demand devices are connected by Ethernet. I still have my RT-AX86U as a backup in case this one has issues, and since Asus patched the firmware against the recent malware, I feel a lot more comfortable using that router again, if I need to.

What dual band router do you suggest? I'd want to stick with Asus, though, due to VPN Fusion/VPN Director (for Merlin supported routers) as that is a feature I want.

Do you guys think the BE92U would eventually be supported by Asuswrt-Merlin if you had to guess?

And in what cases/situations would the 1GB of RAM make a difference compared to something like the RT-BE88U that has 2GB of RAM? This is really something I'd been meaning to ask (along with CPU speed questions) as I'm not sure if the extra RAM would make any difference to me in the long run.

I assume the higher CPU speed of the 2.6Ghz routers compared to the 2.0Ghz routers would make a difference when loading/rebooting? In what situations would the faster CPU make a difference compared to models that have slower CPUs?

 

[iFrogMac]

Thanks. That makes things a bit clearer. This does seem like a good router. Still might consider the RT-BE88U if the price comes down in the next few months here.



This is something I didn't actually think about. I've currently got a 100/40Mbps connection which I've had the past few years, but just signed up for a 1Gbps connection, and I wonder if the RT-AC68U can handle that (I didn't actually think about this until reading your post). I don't mind if I only get 900Mbps as I'd be fine with that until I get a better router, but do you guys think that the AC68U is going to limit my 1Gbps connection much since it's a much older router? I know it has 1Gbps ports, but since it's old, I wonder if it will work properly with my next connection when that is activate? I guess I will find out in a few days time.


What dual band router do you suggest? I'd want to stick with Asus, though, due to VPN Fusion/VPN Director (for Merlin supported routers) as that is a feature I want.

Do you guys think the BE92U would eventually be supported by Asuswrt-Merlin if you had to guess?

And in what cases/situations would the 1GB of RAM make a difference compared to something like the RT-BE88U that has 2GB of RAM? This is really something I'd been meaning to ask (along with CPU speed questions) as I'm not sure if the extra RAM would make any difference to me in the long run.

I assume the higher CPU speed of the 2.6Ghz routers compared to the 2.0Ghz routers would make a difference when loading/rebooting? In what situations would the faster CPU make a difference compared to models that have slower CPUs?

I'm not the right one to ask about Merlin's firmware, as I have never used it, or have a need to use it over AsusWRT stock. In terms of Ethernet speed, anything with a 1G port will give you at least 940 Mbps give or take. If you want a full gigabit you need 2.5Gbps or faster.
It's possible if you have an older CPU, you might see some slowdowns under heavy load, so might consider getting something more current than the AC68U, just to have that extra grunt work, if you think it will benefit you.

 

[Ice9]

I'm not the right one to ask about Merlin's firmware, as I have never used it, or have a need to use it over AsusWRT stock. In terms of Ethernet speed, anything with a 1G port will give you at least 940 Mbps give or take. If you want a full gigabit you need 2.5Gbps or faster.
It's possible if you have an older CPU, you might see some slowdowns under heavy load, so might consider getting something more current than the AC68U, just to have that extra grunt work, if you think it will benefit you.

I'll see how it goes when I get my connection up and running in a few days time (I chose to have the service activated on my day off). I'm OK with a lesser speed than the full 1Gbps. As long as the router itself doesn't crap out trying to handle a 1Gbps connection, I'll keep it a bit longer. If it does, I guess I'll have to start looking for a stopgap router on the second hand market.
I'll have to do a search and see if the AC68U can handle a 1000Mbit connection. I'm glad you mentioned about having options for faster than 1G speeds, otherwise, I wouldn't have thought about it until after plugging it in and seeing the speed results.

 

[iFrogMac]

I'll see how it goes when I get my connection up and running in a few days time (I chose to have the service activated on my day off). I'm OK with a lesser speed than the full 1Gbps. As long as the router itself doesn't crap out trying to handle a 1Gbps connection, I'll keep it a bit longer. If it does, I guess I'll have to start looking for a stopgap router on the second hand market.
I'll have to do a search and see if the AC68U can handle a 1000Mbit connection. I'm glad you mentioned about having options for faster than 1G speeds, otherwise, I wouldn't have thought about it until after plugging it in and seeing the speed results.

I used 940 Mbps for several years without issues. So, when on a 1G connection, you get what you're supposed to. However, even for 1G plans, providers usually over-provision so you get at least 1.2G. So having something with 2.5G ports is nice so you can get your full money's worth of the speeds you're paying for, as long as you router, or modem, is your only bottleneck. In my case, I just needed a newer router with higher speeds ports, and a dongle for the iMac with a 2.5 G port. Right now, I'm running at 500 / 50 because Cox can't seem to keep their lines stable where 1G and over are unstable. However, when I did try their 2G plan, and things worked, I usually got 2.4 G at the most to the iMac. 500 / 50 is stable, and honestly it works well. The higher speed is simply nice when I do larger downloads more often, such as OS upgrades, or if I played more games, it would help that go faster too. I also download videos from YouTube to watch offline, so having a fast connection helps with wait times for that too. I look forward to when I can have Fiber at some point hopefully, it will really help for upload speeds for backing up videos / photos and other tings to the cloud. With that said, I'm ready for faster speeds in terms of supported devices that can use them, but for stability, i had to slow the connection a bit.

Hope you find what you need, and get a stable setup as well.