springs113An arm, a leg and possibly a kidney or liver price incoming, judging by the current be98pro model.

TheLostSwedeWhat do you recon, $999? Or will it break a grand?

TheLostSwedeWhat do you recon, $999? Or will it break a grand?

springs113Honestly it'll cost but I think it will be around 599-699. The top model cost 799 usd and this would/should be the 3rd in the tier hierarchy.

Edit: I was just told the price will be $749.

Ferrum MasterI will guess... it will cost ~1299e with VAT in our region.

Do we get a prize if we guess right?

TheLostSwedeAh, I thought this was the new top of the range model. Still a big ask for a router.

springs113My sentiments exactly. Digging up some more info. This actually should be the 4th in hierarchy. There's the BE98 PRO, BE98(not sure of the differences between these 2 but both should be BE30000), the BE25000(another quad band router like the prior 2) and this router which is BE19000(tri band).
Learning this leads me to believe asus is getting out of hand if this not even top 3. I want to retire my gt ax11000 but I don't have any spare limbs to give away.

Edit: BE98PRO has 2 6ghz band, BE98 reduces 1 6ghz band to 5ghz.

TheLostSwedeSo they're all the same hardware more or less, just with different WiFi solutions inside. However, that this is cheaper than the model with an additional 5 GHz radio is just weird.
Also, the BE96U appears to be identical, except for most of the 1 Gbps ports having been upgraded to 2.5 Gbps on this model.

ZareekIt's nice to see 10G WAN and 10G LAN, but no thanks to ASUS. Overpriced crap that needs to be rebooted every day to be stable. Then they'll try to screw you on the RMA to boot.

springs113This is the only tri band model, the others are all quad.

TheLostSwedeI guess we have very different experiences then.

ZareekI bought an ASUS router about 3 or 4 years ago, AX3000 or something like that. I had to schedule a reboot on it once a day so that my internet didn't just stop working for no apparent reason. I also found that it typically restrained my wired internet speeds to about 375-400MBps. I was paying for 400 at the time so I didn't think much of it. After switching to PfSense, I started getting 480+ MBps, same connection, etc...

TheLostSwedeYeah, that model was using a crappy tri-core Cortex-A7 SoC, not a product I would've bought.
I have three different models from them, as I got two in Taiwan a while back and a different one since moving back to Sweden and none of them are having any issues.
Admittedly I had to RMA the cheapest one, but I got a brand new replacement.

ZareekI used to buy cheapo routers and be fine with them. At the time, I had an older TP-Link Archer 7 that was dying slowly, my wife and I were both unemployed, basically living off our savings while looking for jobs. I bought what looked like a reasonable router at a reasonable price. It was a POS when I couldn't really afford to replace it. It left a really bad taste in my mouth. I gave it to one of my brothers, and the newer firmware revisions made it reasonable. He now reboots it once a while. Especially in light of recent events, ASUS is on my do not buy list.

TheLostSwedeThis is why you should always spend a little bit of time researching what you're buying.
I have an unfair advantage due to having worked with tech for most of my life and I understand that consumers often buy whatever seems reasonable.
However, routers have also evolved to become very complex devices, as people demand all kind of features that people have demanded and all of a sudden, the lower end devices are struggling. If you paid US$400 for an AX3000 router, you got ripped off as well.
Also, I'm not saying it should be like this, products should be working properly, but consumers are becoming beta testers on a regular basis, with features and functionality being added over time.

ZareekThe only thing I've come across at work (At that time, Hospital IT, before that corporate and industrial IT.) that I would consider for my home is Ubiquiti products, which I incidentally use for all my Wi-Fi and switching at this point. I've been considering going to their gateway products just to simplify things.

I think I paid less than $150 for the AX3000. At that time, it was probably the most expensive router I had ever bought by a few dollars. Before that, the Archer did just fine and before that, I had a Linksys WRT54G for what feels like forever. Cheap routers used to be plenty good enough for my basic home use.

I've spent over a $1000 on my current setup, but it also has multiple hotspots and 4 VLANs. I'm not in the basic home router market anymore.