ASUS RT-BE88U Dual-band WiFi 7 AiMesh Extendable Performance Router, 4K-QAM, MLO, Dual 10G ports, SFP+, Four 2.5G ports, Four 1G ports, 34G WAN/LAN capacity, Subscription-free network security, VPNs

Paid £264.99 in September 2025. I've been using Asus since 2013, and it's been pretty good, except for a few firmware glitches. Install Merlin firmware to get the best out of the router. The only problems I've had were with upgrading WiFi (5, 6, 7) with stuff like Google Nest speakers, TP-Link plugs, and cameras... man, switching from WiFi 6 to 7 really tested me. I thought 5 to 6 was bad enough. If I'd known how much of a pain it would be to go from 6 to 7, I would have just stuck with 6. But I also needed the 10 gig to future-proof my fiber connection. The IoT network setting is useless and doesn't work. The only way I got things stable was by adding an older WiFi 5 access point for all my IoT stuff; problems vanished after that, and I should have done it years ago. My list of Asus routers owned are as follows, RT-AC56U RT-AC58U RT-AC68U RT-AC86U (IoT Access Point) GT-AX6000 (AIMesh Node) RT-BE88U (Main Router) All of them still working to this day! Touch wood! Overall, the LAN/WAN speed is beyond perfect. The CPU and RAM for this thing have plenty of power for anything most users are going to throw at it, plenty of features but most of them are snake oil, like AI Protection and at less than half the price of the BE98, makes it perfect value. I use quite a few custom scripts and configs to keep the router fresh and monitor my connection thanks to Merlin. But the WiFi compatibility with older devices is a bit of a letdown. I guess that's what I get for upgrading to the newest WiFi standard that's two steps forward, one step back.

Asus RT-BE88U Woah what a Router, its full of features & settings to cater for everyone's needs. I got the router a few days ago, and its been Fantastic so far. The Design is the same as the Asus RT-AC88U, but has a golden style to it. It seems abit more warmer that the AC88U but thats due to all the processing for the faster network speed such as 2.5Gb or 10Gb LAN ports. The Wifi 7 speed has been amazing on my phone & Wifi Laptop. Its super fast on both 2.5Ghz & 5Ghz bands. Wi-Fi 7 Technology Utilizes the latest Wi-Fi 7 standard, supporting 160MHz channel bandwidths, Multi-Link Operation (MLO), and 4K-QAM for enhanced wireless performance. Its easy to create a separate Guest network or Internet Of Things network, So you can now have a wireless network for older Devices that run on 2.4Ghz and have a separate network for your Newer devices that use things like WPA3, MLO. The Router has loads of options for configurations. make sure you backup the settings before you go playing with them, So you can easily revert back. It’s a bonus you can download the Asus app and control the router from your mobile phone. The router features a nice design with removable antennas & options for wall or ceiling mounting. It offers value for money for all that it does. I'm glad I bought it and would highly recommend it.

So far, zero issues. I held off reviewing this until I've used it for a while. And I can't fault it. The WiFi 7 is a bit of a gimmick, it's just as good as a decent WiFi 6 router, there's no 6Ghz but for most British internet connections you don't need anything better. My reasoning for buying this was the 2.5Gbps networking and it works perfectly. Transfering files from PC to PC in my house now occurs at around 270MB/s which is roughly 2.4Gbps so I'd say that's perfect. If you've got a homelab server setup, lots of PCs with 2.5Gbps LAN this will be great. Our home connection is 1Gbps and via the 2.5Gbps port on our ISP router in modem mode we get 1.2Gbps, that doesn't change via this router.

It worked straight away after initial setup via the wizard. Then after an automatic firmware update it couldn’t see my gateway anymore. Several factory resets and manual reconfigurations later and running the original wizard Id used to configure it originally, meh, I’ve spent 15 hrs messing with this thing and it only works in AP mode now which drops all the security features. It’s going back

Poor device from ASUS. I thought it was an upgrade from my dsl ax82u but I was wrong! Starts off well but within a couple days you’re having to reboot this thing more than once to keep devices connected. WiFi is good in the same room but it rendered my mesh system useless so having to return.

I have 10gbe fibre to my server and 10gb rj45 lan to pc, then a 2.5gb backhaul to my zen node and a couple of other devices. The only disadvantage is it doesn't have wifi 6 (my node does though) so it's not the best wifi 7 like the ROG But that doesn't have a fibre port. So, for me, this is the prefect setup. Specify by IP the main phones to give priority signal, built in ai protection. It's packed with features including vpn fusion where i can specify which devices live on a VPN. So if you need the fastest wifi 7 find another router. If you want a solid all rounder this is the one.

ero titubante perchè è ricondizionato ma veramente un ottimo prodotto funziona alla grande

Una auténtica maravilla de router. Multitud de puertos físicos, con múltiples opciones de configuración, servidor de VPN, filtrado, QoS... Como único punto negativo y a tener en cuenta es que consume hasta 80W (lleva un alimentador de 12v 5A)

Ottimo prodotto però il wifi mi fa un po' a desiderare un po' scarso