Is the ASUS RT-BE88U Worth Your Money?

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[LordRythorn]

Does it support the LACP (802.3ad) for at least 2 X 2.5 GbE ports?

[basspig]

I just installed this router and for the features that counts it works really well. However a lot of the administrative features seem to be unable to connect to the internet which is on since the client devices are able to connect to the internet. For example, the speed test runs for about 5 minutes and then it reports that it was unable to connect to the server. The same thing goes for the check firmware version feature and the firmware update which are both unable to connect to the server. It seems that there are some features that are not implemented yet in this firmware.

[ericnoack]

A lot of your comments are incorrect. The 6ghz band is not available in a lot of countries but it does not matter we are talking about band width and the 6ghz band falls behind the 5ghz band in many tests AND IN FACT WIFI 7 is better over distance than the majority of wifi 7 routers on the market today. Many people assume that if you have 6ghz products they will not operate in a wifi 7 environment, this simply is not true and check on the specs reveals that performance is equal to and in some cases better than having a dedicated 6ghz band using 6ghz products , in fact Asus has skipped wifi 6 and 6E with this router because you just don't need those bands unless you want to buy a triband or quad band router, but it achieves nothing in a normal household because most people do not have an overload of devices .
The Wi-Fi 6 peak speed can reach up to 9.6 Gbps, which is 2.7 times more than Wi-Fi 5.
Wi-Fi 6 works on two bands. One is 2.4 GHz, and the other is 5 GHz. It has an additional band compared to Wi-Fi 5.

In contrast, the speed of Wi-Fi 7 will reach up to 46 Gbps, which is 4.8 times more than Wi-Fi 6.
But unless you have products that can use it you simply don't need it.
I have retired my RT AX88U it lasted 4 years before it failed .The wifi 7 version of this router offers a 20% performance improvement and also offers a 2.6 ghz quad core versus the old 1.7 and 2gb ram versus 1gb, 4096 QAM which is 4 times greater than the old one .It's a no brainer, all my wifi 6 devices will work better on this new router than my old one and that's a fact.