RT-BE92U super slow WIFI

[kazafog]

Thanks everyone, i am sendjng it back but to answer a couple of questions.

I am on 5 acres so plenty of space around me. The only other 5Ghz is the network i have running. I have changed channels and can see that the signals are not overlapping. The 95% utilisation was at the furtherest point away and reduced to 20 ish when right next to it, which still only get to a max of about 2/3 of the speed of the old clunker.

The 2.4G signal is odd too it suffers more the further i move away than the 5G. I can still connect to the 5 G at the furtherest test distance but the 2.4G cannot be seen at all.

I had a quick look this morning but i didn't find the location, where might it be hiding?

 

[killweav]

Thanks everyone, i am sendjng it back but to answer a couple of questions.

I am on 5 acres so plenty of space around me. The only other 5Ghz is the network i have running. I have changed channels and can see that the signals are not overlapping. The 95% utilisation was at the furtherest point away and reduced to 20 ish when right next to it, which still only get to a max of about 2/3 of the speed of the old clunker.

The 2.4G signal is odd too it suffers more the further i move away than the 5G. I can still connect to the 5 G at the furtherest test distance but the 2.4G cannot be seen at all.

I had a quick look this morning but i didn't find the location, where might it be hiding?

OK yeah then it's defective. Good call. "Self interference" is a type of hardware issue. Something not grounded properly, etc.

PS: envious of all your space.

Cheers.

 

[Spartan]

@kazafog

Here is an observation. On my Google Pixel Pro 10, I immediately get the max speed while connected to the BE92U but on my laptop which has an Intel BE200 WLAN Card. I was getting 200-480 MBPS only. I tried a few times but the result was the same although I could've sworn I saw it hit near 800MBPS in the past.

MLO is and was always enabled so that's not my issue.

Since someone mentioned their hardware revision, that made me check my main BE92U; turns out it's v4.5 while the router downstairs (the AiMesh Node) is on v1, which I have recently swapped, as that old BE92U was the main router before I recently got this other BE92U. So I was thinking hmmm, perhaps the V1 was better? Just before I thought of resetting everything and swapping them out, I though hey, let me do another test and what do you know, now I get 943MBPS on the laptop, the same speed I get when connected via Ethernet.

So my observation is, it takes some time for the laptop to connect to the right channel and band.

 

[killweav]

Since someone mentioned their hardware revision, that made me check my main BE92U; turns out its v4.5

Since this got brought up I'm now obsessed with it which is typical for me. I've read that the v1 to v3 (I have v3) are the "bad" ones. Mostly thermal issues. And I have seen RT throttling in the logs in the past during early morning hours when I'm sleeping and no high utilization on network. I've also seen kernel PKT messages around the same time each morning making me think of possible AiProtection stuff. It does seem to be better when I turn off AiProtection in the sense that I get less of the PKT messages. We aren't talking DROP messages, just kernel PKT with a series of packet dump contents. Also will get DDD messages with signal corruption events, etc. I had previously thought oh this is a driver or software issue now I'm like WTF is it hardware? I probably shouldn't obsess because there have been no reboots and no network issues. I've never seen my CPU temp go above 53 degrees which is low compared to the HW thresholds for thermal events.

I get full speeds and don't have any user experience issues just see it in the logs every now and again. Apparently in 2025 they went from at least version 3.0 to version 5.1 to me that says a lot of hardware revisions in one production year. Eesh.

I've been an ASUS router user & Merlin user since 2016. This be my 3rd ASUS router in 10 years as they have lasted quite a while. I only upgraded to the BE92U for the 6ghz band. I didn't need to upgrade I just want more airspace to myself.

 

[Spartan]

Since this got brought up I'm now obsessed with it which is typical for me. I've read that the v1 to v3 (I have v3) are the "bad" ones. Mostly thermal issues. And I have seen RT throttling in the logs in the past during early morning hours when I'm sleeping and no high utilization on network. I've also seen kernel PKT messages around the same time each morning making me think of possible AiProtection stuff. It does seem to be better when I turn off AiProtection in the sense that I get less of the PKT messages. We aren't talking DROP messages, just kernel PKT with a series of packet dump contents. Also will get DDD messages with signal corruption events, etc. I had previously thought oh this is a driver or software issue now I'm like WTF is it hardware? I probably shouldn't obsess because there have been no reboots and no network issues. I've never seen my CPU temp go above 53 degrees which is low compared to the HW thresholds for thermal events.

I get full speeds and don't have any user experience issues just see it in the logs every now and again. Apparently in 2025 they went from at least version 3.0 to version 5.1 to me that says a lot of hardware revisions in one production year. Eesh.

I've been an ASUS router user & Merlin user since 2016. This be my 3rd ASUS router in 10 years as they have lasted quite a while. I only upgraded to the BE92U for the 6ghz band. I didn't need to upgrade I just want more airspace to myself.

I never had an issue with my v1 by the way, it was perfect from day one. The only reason it went to another room as a node is because I bought a BE19000 2 months back so I put that as the main one then I refunded it a few days ago as it was not giving me more than 80 MBPS and the signal was only 2-3 bars out of 5 even with me sitting right next to the router, it might've been a lemon but it's not worth double the price of the BE92U even though it is superior in every way on paper so now that I got another BE92U which is v4.5, I just put that as the main router instead of the BE19000. Heck, I didn't even know about these revisions and never checked until someone mentioned it today otherwise I would'v never known.

 

[killweav]

I didn't even know about these revisions and never checked until someone mentioned it today otherwise I would'v never known.

Same. It was me who brought it up trying to help the OP (it looks like he has bad HW and is returning it). I regret looking at the sticker now. I would never have known otherwise.