BE98 PRO What's Next?

[Clark Griswald]

With the 98Pro approaching 2 years since release (12/23), I'm curious what Asus will be releasing as their replacement/upgrade?

 

[ExtremeFiretop]

I had heard about the GS-BE18000 in may of this year; but I don't believe it supports Merlin firmware: https://rog.asus.com/us/networking/rog-strix-gs-be18000/

 

[RMerlin]

With the 98Pro approaching 2 years since release (12/23), I'm curious what Asus will be releasing as their replacement/upgrade?

Not much to upgrade, as Broadcom hasn't released any newer SoC than the BCM4916 it already uses, aside from lower-end stuff.

I guess if you absolutely need to find something even more expensive to spend your money, the GT-BE19000AI would be the next flagship monster.

 

[Poul Bak]

With the 98Pro approaching 2 years since release (12/23), I'm curious what Asus will be releasing as their replacement/upgrade?

There's a new RT-One billion coming, I have spied on Asus, here's a picture of the new antenna they use on that model:

The bad news are you need a nuclear power plant to power it and as you can see it gets glowingly hot

 

[degrub]

and only runs 2,4 GHz band