Got this deal with JBHI-FI Business through Origin Rewards. Great router.
TP-Link Archer BE400 BE6500 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Router $220.71 (RRP $299) + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ JB Hi-Fi Business
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Bazzaaa on 28/09/2025 - 10:59 corporatebenefits.jbhifi.business (913 clicks)
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Whats your wifi name?
You don't have to broadcast it.
if hell froze over and it was the last day on earth and i needed a router, I wouldn't get this. (yes internet would be important on the last day alive :D)
Not triband
Honestly, WiFi 7 not standardising triband is fine, but they should’ve made CLEAR classifications as to whether the device has a 6GHz radio or not.
They are all pretty clear about being dual or tri band, so not really easy to miss for anyone who did a quick market research.
BE6500 routers are all dual band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Same as my ASUS TUF-GAMING BE6500 router which i paid $293 from Amazon but the RRP is $469. You seem to pay through the roof for a gaming router. Speaking of that on ABB i get about 850 Mbps through a Gigabit fibre internet plan (according to Speedtest) though 2.4 GHz & 5 GHz WiFi 7 MLO but this is through a few wooden walls. If you're going to be using this then MLO is the way to go if both the router and WiFi 7 adapter supports it.
Yeah, I wouldn't be touching a dual-band router in 2025.
Could you kindly explain why? Looking into getting a new router (last one I bought was in 2019) and confused about wifi 6 or 7 and all the rest.
Per my comment below, 6GHz is significantly faster than 5GHz and less congested.
I think most beneficial of triband is to use the 3rd band as dedicated network for mesh network? If no mesh network is required, or using wired backhaul, probably dual band is still good for most households?
No, only a quad-band mesh router has a dedicated wireless backhaul. Tri-Band mesh routers typically share the 6GHz radio for the wireless backhaul. 6GHz is significantly faster than 5GHz and less congested.
Perfect for a new setup, after this got busted https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-s…
Whats that got to do with this deal?
he's just encouraging people to do the same…
More aerials than Pine Gap
showing your age :-)
Maybe he's referring to the netflix show
Better than the Flint 2?
Experts chime in
It's uhh, different?
Flint 2 only has a single 2.5gbit port, but it's 2.4ghz radio is 4-stream as opposed to 2-stream on the TP-Link.
I'd personally go for the Flint 2 instead of the TP-Link if they were waved in front of me and I was given a choice, since the TP-Link will never get 3rd party firmware. On the other hand, the TP-Link has QAM4096 and MLO.
Although the Flint 2 would be unsuitable for use with a 2gbit connection given that it has a single 2.5gbit port, so you wouldn't be able to saturate the connection. (Without multiple clients anyway)
Flint 6 might be a better comparison.
Just got mine a few days ago and testing it out but it seems to be giving much better performance than my old Ubiquiti AP (3-4 years old). The jury is out on MLO though.
Waiting for the 8 antenna model
Needs more antennas.
Wifi-henge
Pfft, only 6 external antennas? Needs 8 so i can pretend my internet is emitting from an upturned spider.
incorrect information listed on JB's webpage, i.e. 2.5G instead of 10G port, 220m2 instead of 890m2.
Would not look out of place parked at a B&S ball.
Would this theoretically provide better coverage than the original 3 pack of eeros? Wanting to take better advantage of the new speed increases
Can't answer that specifically but the reason I upgraded was because I was not getting the full speeds in all rooms in my house. Now I get the full 500mbps in every room.
No, a standalone router can never give you better coverage than a mesh system. That is the whole point of a mesh system.
I just got 3 deco BE25 , hardly get half of the 500mbps from one end to the other end of the house with 3 units, with the mesh unless you hardwired one to another, you losing quite a bit of speed each node , so mesh not always better? Unless I’m doing something wrong?
If one BE400 can get 500mbps whole house then it’s definitely better even as a standalone unitWhat do you expect? That's an entry level dual-band mesh system. It will perform marginally better than a standalone router. You're not going to notice a significant difference with this model.
Coverage is different to speed. You're also missing out on 6Ghz goodness.
Deni RouterMuster spec
Nothing beats mesh (for the average user)
I notice that this router supports MLO. That's the way to go for a faster WiFi Speed even if it's 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz MLO. Just make sure that the WiFi adapter supports MLO. WiFi 7 adapters seem to support it out of the box with a driver which provides support. I use the TP-Link Archer TBE400UH BE6500 USB WiFi adapter (got it from JB) which gives MLO through the latest driver. I seem to get about 850 Mbps tonight through a few wooden walls when connected through MLO but also maybe ABB is congested through fibre at night. I've got about 106 MB/s downloads through Steam at times. Maybe my dual band WiFi 7 router is just pretty good for a dual band router as it's the ASUS TUF-GAMING BE6500 router. It's all i could afford at the time.
My neighbour 3 houses away will see my wifi name