ASUS RT-BE96U BE19000 802.11BE Tri-Band Performance WiFi 7 Extendable Router with 6GHz Support, Dual 10G Port, 320Mhz, Lifetime Internet Security, MLO, Multi-RU Puncturing, AiMesh Support

We set up two ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 Pro routers at our property using the AiMesh feature, and it’s been nothing short of amazing. The mesh network works flawlessly—seamless connectivity throughout the entire house, even in spots where WiFi used to struggle. One of the biggest perks? WiFi calling. We live in an area with spotty cell service, and this setup has been a lifesaver. Calls are crystal clear, with zero drops or delays, no matter where we are in the house. As for performance, it’s everything you’d expect from a gaming router and more. Speeds are lightning fast, and we’ve had no issues handling multiple devices streaming, gaming, and working at the same time. The 10G and 2.5G ports are a great touch for wired connections, especially for gaming or transferring large files. Setup was straightforward, and the ASUS app made it easy to customize the network exactly how we wanted it. Plus, the subscription-free network security gives extra peace of mind—no hidden fees, just solid protection. If you’re looking for a powerful, reliable router for gaming, streaming, or even just improving connectivity in areas with bad cell reception, this one is worth every penny. Highly recommend, especially for mesh setups!

This is an incredible router, excellent range, easy to use app. Quick setup. Highly reliable. Highly recommend.

Beautiful looking spider machine Was able to go from an asus ac1900 to this one and doubled the speed on wifi. The user interface is slick and fast and much more responsive than any other router interface i have ever used. I can get sustained speed everywhere in a 3 story home,so the router is no slacker The reason for not enough stars is this: running into some issues with the 6ghz band. I do have a ax210ngw on the desktop but it's not detecting the 6ghz band. So need more investigation on cause of this. Its hard to investigate the cause other than getting another wifi 6e client which are by far few. Maybe I'll snag my friends samsung s21 in a couple of days and will be able to actually test it on 6ghz ----Edit---- Update 2/5/2020 On a 1Gbps line, I can consistently get about 700-800 Mbps 3 story up (router is on the basement) on a DFS channel for an AX device. AC devices are no slouches either and now top at 500-600 Mbps 3 story up. On non-DFS channels I top around 450-550 Mbps so that is not bad either. Guess I don't need to buy a Mesh network! AX210 doesn't work on windows. Found a thread on intel forums that it might need a windows update later on for activating 6ghz (thread name: Intel AX210 can't create 6GHz hotspot ). Also found that linux 5.11 should support 6Ghz so tried it out with Ubuntu and 5.11rc6. Unfortunately though the AP is detected connection fails so I guess its more wait and watch with linux too. Atleast the Ax210 saw the 6ghz AP. So yay my device is not broken. And my friend bought a regular S21 so that testing avenue is gone for the time being. Edit Nov 2021 6Ghz band works great on a Pixel 6 Pro. The range is shorter than the 5Ghz band and the phone shows lower signal strength but the 6ghz bandwidth speed in my house is usually more than what I get with the 5Ghz Other than that,the perfect router. I use remote desktop from my top story laptop to my computer in the basement and use Zoom video and audio and both latency and bandwidth are great enough that I can use Zoom effectively. love the router!

Update 13 July 2023: Another recent cabling upgrade by our ISP in our neighborhood. ASUS ROG GT-AXE11000 wins again‼️ Should be (Plan)/Actual Speeds Achieved 🛜 Download: 500 MBPS / 601.64 MBPS 🛜 Upload: 10 MBPS / 53.17 MBPS 🟧 This ☝️ is the highest speed I tested afterwards — 601.64 MBPS download‼️ 🟩 Last upgrade was 1.25 years ago from 150 MBPS up to 250 MBPS (3/16/2022), & we were pulling close to 300 MBPS, on average, consistently. 🚫 No price change for us for these upgrades. —— Update: 03/16/2022: My ISP just bumped my Data Plan up by ⅓ from 150 MBPS to 250 MBPS for FREE (Same $ for plan). First good thing they’ve done in a LONG time. Originally, I reported speeds improved achieving 180 MBPS consistently, & now hitting 288-299 MBPS since they upgraded lines (still <1 week in) in my neighborhood. Proud to report (so far) NO ISSUES with the GT-AXE11000 Router failing as many saw when pushing speeds near or over 1 - 1.2 GBPS or over 100 wifi clients on a residential router. I still LOVE this thing. Still 1 month shy of 6-months where some owners reported CPU in their router checked out (multiple ASUS models) & lost significant speed performance. If that happens, I will update this “update.” I do NOT regret buying this at $550 even though WIFI6E is still effectively “DOA” (limited devices still at the end of Q1 2022). WIFI 7 may come out 1st at this rate (Target was/is 2025?). ———— Original Review for Amazon for ASUS Router AXE11000 Note: Be sure to verify any reviews you read HERE apply to the router YOU want. Many reviews here are for various ASUS routers: AXE11000, AX11000, AX6000, etc. This review is for their AXE11000, which came out to market in Feb 2021. Purchase Date: 09/13/2021, online & configured 09/21/2021; long-term performance to be determined. I recently upgraded from a D-Link DIR-890L/R bought in 2015. It is ridiculous that support ends in 4 years & obsolete by the 5th (I digress). This top of the line router was $350 in 2015, now flagship routers cost like this ASUS $550 or more. Expensive? Yes! Worth it? YES!! The thing I most despised about it (old one), & 95% of all routers on the market for home networks, is they are most or all auto-configured with little manual customization available, or none at all. You WON’T have that issue with the ASUS GT-AXE11000!! I saw many reviews “ding it” for supporting 6E but the market is extremely limited in 6E Tech even now. I’ve been wanting this ASUS Router since I saw the preview announcements back in 2020. Here is why I love it & you will as well. 1. Supports 6E despite market is still not ready with 6E NIC’s or other devices. Give it time. This was the 1st router that supported 6e—of course it wasn’t ready when launched back in Feb 2021 – duh?! An ASUS firmware fix will make all well with 6e soon. Hopefully the market will offer more 6e devices in the next 6 months (semiconductor shortage makes that not likely)!! That is NOT ASUS’ fault (6e market or silicon chip shortage). 2. Every setting practically is manually configurable if you wish or you can get most settings automatically configured if not a Tech person. I am, so I LOVE it. 3. AI Protection Pro — You get Lifetime AI Protection against spyware, adware, & ransomware updates from the Internet that get pulled by your devices via YOUR router & modem. Again, MOST routers on the market have no protection built in, much less free, with lifetime updates! My wife’s work computer has seen multiple malicious programs attempt access that this feature stopped from infecting either her computer or spreading onto router or our other home network devices. We sent the reports to her employer’s IT Team to investigate. 4. WiFi Radar — Instead of paying an additional $500 or more for a Network (SSID) Analyzer Program or Subscription for Wireless Channel Stats, & Site Survey, this feature set is included for FREE! You don’t need other programs to see what channel your neighbors chose for 2.4G, 5G or 6G & the interference you may get competing on those busy channels from neighboring devices. You also can create reports by scanning as often as you like. This alone makes the $550 Router a real bargain. IT Network people tell users to choose, for example: Channel 1, 6, or 11 for their center channel using 2.5 GHz. The problem is everyone knows this as they have heard this same counsel for over a decade!! Your neighbors know this too. Guess which are the busiest channels in 2021 (at least in my hood)? 5. Traffic Analyzer — tells you which Top 5 devices (& programs or service—like streaming on device) are MOST responsible for data downloads & graphs it. For example, when my son is home from college during the summer, we easily exceed 100 GB of data per day downloaded between him & us working, gaming, or streaming from home. My ISP charges & throttles if you go over your allocation based on monthly use. This feature makes it easy to KNOW 100% which devices are the culprit & specific activities or program most responsible on it. My son is a gamer like I am, but we regularly hit 30-35 GB/day when he isn’t home. We had to assume it was his PC Gaming that was the issue (he was downloading too much or in a dead zone even with a WiFi booster). We didn’t definitively know, but NOW WE DO!! I love this too. If you want a manually configurable router with tons of settings (95% of what is out there doesn’t support it to this degree for home users), & all the benefits above included, then get this already. The streaming & gaming quality & speeds we do in my home (I tested) are improved over my last router. Consistently reaches 10-50 MBPS more for download speed than an AC3200 router. If this is what you are looking for as well, then this is for you! My ISP frequently has downtime issues in my neighborhood so download speeds varied from 60-180 MBPS using my old router over this past year. Now, 180 MBPS consistently unless ISP goes down. Those of you who have better internet packages should see a proportional dramatic improvement as I did for mine. Have had no issues since installing & configuring it. Have I said I LOVE my ASUS ROG GT-AXE11000? (We have 35 client devices — 16-20 of those are active daily too, ranging from PC’s, MacBook, iPhones, iPad, AppleTV’s, gaming consoles (plural), and so on with no connectivity issues). My old router required daily reboot or suffered degraded performance when video conferencing. The new router I reboot 2x a week per auto schedule. Again, flawless so far.

Tenía un Netgear Nighthawk AX12 WiFi 6 los ultimos casi 4 años, mis necesidades en casa son muy grandes y requiero WiFi de alto performance ya que tengo por trabajo Videollamadas todo el dia, correos, envío y recepción de archivos grandes, ademas de Tidal 24 bits 192khz HiRes FLAC, streaming en 4k para 4 pantallas, Alexas, porton electrico, app de panales solares etc, un gran numero de dispositivos inalámbricos que requieren un alto performance de conectividad, quise actualizarme a la nueva tecnologia WiFi 7 y aunque se que estoy entrando temprano quiero estar preparado para los proximos años estando a la vanguardia. Mi experiencia de primeros pasos fué medianamente sencilla, digamos que le dedique una hora y media para encontrar y montarlo en un lugar bien ubicado para asegurar muy buena cobertura, además el router es ENORME tenía que asegurar que no estorbe y se vea bien, le adapte una base de aluminio con sinchos (ya que no viene preparado para atornillarlo a un muro). Bajé la aplicación y seguí los primeros pasos del instructivo lo cual no me llevo más de 40 minutos incluyendo la actualización del firmware, por cierto, la aplicación me gustó más que la de mi anterior router, es intuitiva y muy completa. Aún estoy probando el desempeño a corta y mediana distancia en las dos plantas de mi casa pero hasta ahora estoy viendo aproximadamente entre 100 y 200 megas de mejora sobre mi plan de 1GB en varios celulares, laptops y mejor velocidad desde la cochera y patio trasero. Estoy muy emocionado de lo que podré hacer conforme vaya teniendo más equipos con wifi 7.

Es un producto realmente robusto, se siente de calidad, la caja en la que viene el producto es muy bonita y se siente imponente, hay varios puntos que me gustaria destacar que me gustan sobre este router de gama alta. 1.- La sencilles con la que se puede configurar en la app de Asus Router 2.-Cuando un usuario se conecta a la red del router, este manda un aviso a la app del celular , para asi poder bloquear al usuario en caso de ser alguien desconocido, es una funcion que me gusta mucho para controlar quien se conecta a mi red, lastima que solo este disponible en routers asus de alta gama como este 3.-Permite un alto ancho de banda, ya que con otros routers que eh probado no me llegaban a dar todo el ancho de banda contratado por mi proveedor, y con la tecnologia de wifi 6, realmente se aprovecha el ancho de banda 4.-Facil gestion desde la app para asignar dispositivos a una especie de grupo familiar, donde se puede definir horarios para uso de internet, muy util para definir el tiempo que pasan los niños en internet, asi como tambien para bloquear ciertas paginas, ya sea para adultos, o de streaming 5.-Poder bloquear un usuario de forma remota, si te encuentras fuera de casa, puedes abrir la aplicacion en el celular y donde sea que te encuentres puedes bloquear un usuario o negarle el acceso a internet (lo unico malo que tarda un poco en hacer esta conexion), util cuando se conecta alguien desconocido o sin permiso En general es un excelente dispositivo, cumple por lo que estas pagando, solo que por el precio no es para cualquier usuario.

It has good coverage and signal to far corners. 6 GHz works on it. It's worth noting that the one I received was red colour on the top not grey and it's actually version 2.0 and called ASUS GT-BE19000. Same specifications, but has seems more 2.5 Gbps ports. It's NOT compatible with AsusWrt-Merlin. Only disadvantage I see is that the router size and weight is very big and bulky, but otherwise I have no complaints about it so far.

It’s overkill (and expansive) for my personal usage but I particularly like the application to leverage the usb drive and reduce the ping for games. The wifi coverage is just amazing. The signal stay full bars everywhere in my cottage house and everywhere in the yard.

You get what you paid for so no hassle extreme fast and responsive nothing to say much everything is perfect