Reyee RG-E5 WiFi 6 Router

[VSG]

Reyee wants to shake up the budget router space with its RG-E5 WiFi 6 router. It costs far less than competing solutions from mainstream brands while offering decent performance, a feature-rich control panel for setup and monitoring, a mobile app for easier use, and the ability to form a mesh network as needed.

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[bonehead123]

Nope...Notta....No way, 'Jose.....

Why you may ask ? cause Cheap is as cheap does.... and this forum is as close as I will ever get to this p/o/s garbaggiola

And contrary to what the review says, it's price aint that great, cause there are quite a few decent performing, better-known name brand routers available for approx. the same $$...

Like the Netgear RAX41 I bought a few months ago for my son's house for ~$125

 

[Chrispy_]

1 year warranty and near-zero support on a product that most people use for the better part of a decade?
It doesn't instill confidence and it's not like there aren't plenty of decent budget routers already on store shelves globally.

 

[zlobby]

Nope...Notta....No way, 'Jose.....

Why you may ask ? cause Cheap is as cheap does.... and this forum is as close as I will ever get to this p/o/s garbaggiola

And contrary to what the review says, it's price aint that great, cause there are quite a few decent performing, better-known name brand routers available for approx. the same $$...

Like the Netgear RAX41 I bought a few months ago for my son's house for ~$125

For $140 you'd get the latest MT ax3!

 

[mechtech]

Long term firmware support is at the top of router descision....................................I don't like contributing to e-waste every 5 yrss if I can avoid it.

 

[zlobby]

Long term firmware support is at the top of router descision....................................I don't like contributing to e-waste every 5 yrss if I can avoid it.

5 years is quite optimistic. In most cases even a year of support is a stretch.

1 year warranty and near-zero support on a product that most people use for the better part of a decade?
It doesn't instill confidence and it's not like there aren't plenty of decent budget routers already on store shelves globally.

I still can't remember some of the purchase dates of my Tiks. That's how old they are! And yet, they get updates up to this day.

 

[Chrispy_]

The other problem with an obscure router:
Zero matches in the DD-WRT database.
You'd better LOVE the firmware because you don't have a choice (yet)

 

[Athlonite]

No checks done to see if it's reporting home to the CCP for a router made in China by a Chinese company ( so controlled by the CCP) I would have said that is a must do.
If the CCP can't get to you through TikTok then they'll need other means of doing so and what better way than straight from the router

 

[Operandi]

Lots of pretty harsh comments for this thing. Kinda unjustified in my opinion when this is essentially a unit from a ODM for all the brands people are used to seeing and paying 50-100% more (MSRP) for similar or identical hardware and features. The glitches on the accompany website are pretty common for companies like this across all kinds of industries as thats not what they are good at. Also keep in mind that ODM concept applies to the software stack as well so whatever security issues you think this unit has should be concerns in popular brand X or Y as well.

 

[Ferrum Master]

You wrote a review not mentioning what kind of SoC it has....

Well it is MT7622BV + MT7915AN for 5G combo.

Basically a relative of Redmi AX3200 or BELKIN RT3200. The same spec'ed AX3200 costs under 60€ and has a stable OpenWRT support.

What kind of good value it offers left me puzzled.

 

[VSG]

No checks done to see if it's reporting home to the CCP for a router made in China by a Chinese company ( so controlled by the CCP) I would have said that is a must do.
If the CCP can't get to you through TikTok then they'll need other means of doing so and what better way than straight from the router

Already mentioned in the review.

You wrote a review not mentioning what kind of SoC it has....

Well it is MT7622BV + MT7915AN for 5G combo.

Basically a relative of Redmi AX3200 or BELKIN RT3200. The same spec'ed AX3200 costs under 60€ and has a stable OpenWRT support.

What kind of good value it offers left me puzzled.

I can only speak for units I've tested.

 

[Ferrum Master]

I can only speak for units I've tested.

That's okay, but if you would have poked around the SoC would find out what kind of animal it is.

Also in the performance section you need to add VPN performance tests to test platform crypto capabilities, it is important these days for many people and in that regard you get wildly different results in between SoC's. No mention of 802.11s capabilities, that should be touched, they are there most probably as the OS is just a reskinned OpenWRT Fork.

Also it is not a good tone to value a plain dipole antena as strong, you didn't measure them. They are not actually, they are as basic as can and usually compromised and imprecise, no matter what they claim the gain is. It usually only hovers around 2.14-3dBi unless it is colinear design, but those are large(~0.5m). None of those Amazon/etc online store antenas claiming super gains are real, they are more shaping the signal, but not increasing "gain". The real culprit is as usual the brute power amp strength, for these China Routers you may have them above allowed limits, when setting to native China or Panama regions etc depending on how well or bad the factory partititions are configured at the factory. It may be a negative that the antennas are not detachable.

 

[Dredi]

It would be interesting to see latency measurements as well, and latency variance.

 

[VSG]

I don't have enough time to do these extra tests unfortunately, especially given the time taken for everything else, but if you guys are interested in doing router reviews then please let W1zzard know.

 

[Dredi]

I don't have enough time to do these extra tests unfortunately, especially given the time taken for everything else, but if you guys are interested in doing router reviews then please let W1zzard know.

Understandable! For gaming purposes checking latency variance just seemed like a pretty major thing, for ~all other use cases it’s pretty pointless.

 

[micropage7]

actually it looks nice but just too bad you didn't unscrew the heatsink just to see what's beneath the heatsink

 

[efahl]

as the OS is just a reskinned OpenWRT Fork.

Yeah, almost all of these crappy all-in-one gateways are running reskinned OpenWrt these days. I'm not really sure why people continue to buy them, maybe they don't realized that you get better performance and lower lifetime costs when you get a separate router and WAP, maybe a switch if you need more ports?

 

[mechtech]

5 years is quite optimistic. In most cases even a year of support is a stretch.


I still can't remember some of the purchase dates of my Tiks. That's how old they are! And yet, they get updates up to this day.

Using my Asus ac68u for roughly 7 years now.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Using my Asus ac68u for roughly 7 years now.

I'm on something like that for my Netgear R7800 in Taiwan, but it had a couple of bad hiccups that somehow seems to have sorted themselves out.

 

[zlobby]

Using my Asus ac68u for roughly 7 years now.

I threw away several ACs before I adopted MT.

 

[mechtech]

I threw away several ACs before I adopted MT.

And satisfied with MikroTik so far? Can you run tomato or wrt or anything else on them?

 

[zlobby]

And satisfied with MikroTik so far? Can you run tomato or wrt or anything else on them?

Lol. Please don't even try to compare RouterOS to WRT or Tomato. It's like comparing your garage-project sickle to a pro harvester.

And yes, I'm very satisfied with MT for now. If you know the difference between a router and a switch, and you can afford the bit pricier MT, it's worth it IMO. These things just work for as long as you have power to them!
And I want to see better software support anywhere else.

 

[mechtech]

Lol. Please don't even try to compare RouterOS to WRT or Tomato. It's like comparing your garage-project sickle to a pro harvester.

And yes, I'm very satisfied with MT for now. If you know the difference between a router and a switch, and you can afford the bit pricier MT, it's worth it IMO. These things just work for as long as you have power to them!
And I want to see better software support anywhere else.

Pricier? The AX is cheaper than the Asus AX86U here in Canada.

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[VSG]

Please take general router discussions elsewhere, this is the comments section for a specific product.

 

[zlobby]

Please take general router discussions elsewhere, this is the comments section for a specific product.

You know it always boils down to this. There is no other way unless you prefer barren comment sections.