ASUS RT-BE92U price drop – Stability issues still a concern?

[Arctic Ace]

Hi all,

I noticed the ASUS RT-BE92U has dropped below €190 on Amazon.de (around €183 right now). Specs look great for a Wi-Fi 7 router at this price point, but I remember seeing reports about stability problems — random reboots, WAN/DNS dropouts etc.

Are these issues still present, or have things improved? Would you consider it a safe buy now, or better to wait?

Thanks for your insights!

 

[degrub]

Maybe amazon is trying to clear out a bunch of returned gear.
Search the forums here for the issues.

 

[mellifluous]

Just went 60 days without any issues between firmware updates. Memory usage stayed constant.

 

[zdaw700]

Have a refurb (it was a bit less). Amazon is selling them new for that. 100% Check for Amazon inventory tags and shrinkwrap removal (not always an indicator).

MerlinWRT is golden on it. Couldn't get it to run wifi 7 properly (with multiple recommended settings). Weird shenanigans that when that has an issue (clients would death randomly; LAN would disconnect) the whole network went down (a lot of things that were issues in other threads were already disabled). One day the router factory reset itself -- it's a good thing it was on a Saturday. 100% functional on 6E however.

It's going back due to this. It's not rMerlins fault and probably not Asus' firmware and I'm pretty sure it's bad hardware. Feels like the reseller packaged a dud refurb but I'm not willing to waste time or stability when people can lose work over it.

I'd recommend getting a AX88U over this.