Should I enable beamforming?

[Deihmos]

I have the asus 87U and would like to improve performance on this router. Should I enable Beamforming, Universal Beamforming and Multi-User Mimo?

 

[L&LD]

We have no way to know.

If you do decide to test if this will actually improve your performance in your specific environment with your clients and your usage patterns, make sure to test each individually and add different combinations slowly to see where the best mix is for you. Keep notes (this will be done over several days, if not weeks of actual use.

7 different combinations to test:

1. BF.
2. UBF.
3. MU-MIMO.
4. BF +UBF.
5. BF + MU-MIMO.
6. UBF + MU-MIMO.
7. BF + UBF + MU-MIMO.

 

[RMerlin]

Explicit Beamforming can help a little with clients at medium range and should be enabled.
I recommend keeping Implicit Beamforming (which was previously called Universal Beamforming) disabled, for compatibility reasons.
MU-MIMO is an experimental feature at this point that is best kept disabled (beside, chances are you don't have MU-MIMO capable clients on your network to fully take advantage of it).