ASUS RT-BE92U

[taurelio]

So i jumped to the RT-BE92U bandwagon and this is my experience: in terms of wifi coverage it was a litle bit desappointing when comparing with my old RT-AC66U B1, In the same place allmost equal stengh signal except on the 2.4 Ghz with increased coverage, jumped to Merlin beta and all running smooth, dns director is a must to have, this is the reason i use Merlin. On the first floor of my house i placed the RT-AC66U B1 as a Mesh unit, not ideal for some but it works for me, have about 300mbps speed, more than enough for the needs. It has been stable with Merlin and more free ram when compared to latest official stock firmware.

 

[Tech9]

i have a lot more of free ram

Happy to hear you found what works for you, but... what you do with this free RAM?

 

[taurelio]

what you do with this free RAM?

Me personnaly? Nothing, but was one of the notable out off the box differences between stock firmware and Merlins version, don't know the reason but still is about 150 mb less used versus stock. What matters is the system works and its stable

 

[Poul Bak]

. It has been stable with Merlin and more free ram when compared to latest official stock firmware.

I noticed the same, about 10% less than stock.

Happy to hear you found what works for you, but... what you do with this free RAM?

The thing is: What you measure is not PEAK value! When mine shows about 53% in idle mode, it means there's plenty of ram for peak performance.

 

[Tech9]

When mine shows about 53% in idle mode, it means there's plenty of ram for peak performance.

It doesn't really work this way on embedded devices. Whatever is needed and used in your specific configuration is loaded in RAM already regardless of how much data is passing through the router. More free RAM won't give you better performance.

 

[Bo17]

Spoke early, still getting crashes on latest Asus firmware (37563). Seeing some of these right before crashing:

kernel: WLC_SCB_DEAUTHORIZE error (-30)
kernel: WLC_SCB_DEAUTHENTICATE_FOR_REASON err -30

but searching through the forums those just seem to be normal Wifi disconnects.

Return window for the router is coming up so I guess I'll try an exchange in case it's a hardware fault, but I'm thinking it's most likely software. Just a shame that QA has gotten so bad recently, and there's nothing else with comparable features within the price range except TP-Link which has a rather lackluster WebUI. Dream Router 7 probably has more stable software but is 50% more expensive and has a bunch of other compromises that I'd have to work around. I feel like there's just so much tech debt in consumer devices at this point that getting something that works perfectly for every configuration is just luck at this point.

 

[Tech9]

Dream Router 7 probably has more stable software but is 50% more expensive

This is perhaps something location specific. In the US the regular price difference is $19. RT-BE92U is $250 (currently on sale for $220), UDR7 is $279 (almost all the time, Ubiquiti doesn't have many items on sale).

 

[Bo17]

This is perhaps something location specific. In the US the regular price difference is $19. RT-BE92U is $250 (currently on sale for $220), UDR7 is $279 (almost all the time).

It is certainly specific to what I bought. BE-92U is currently $220, and Best Buy recycle for an ancient router got me 15% off, so the UDR7 is almost exactly 50% more expensive right now. And again, there's other complications with the UDR7 since specs aside, I'd need even more things on the network that could also fail just to match the capabilities of an old AC86U running Merlin + Diversion + Skynet.

I have been tracking the UDR7 for a while now, and from their own support forums and others it seems to be quite buggy. Returning that if there's issues would be also be a bit more costly/difficult if it came down to it.