Slightly lower than the previous deal for local stock on Ozb
Asus RT-BE92U Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Router $429 (Was $529) + $6 Delivery ($0 C&C/ in-Store) @ JB Hi-Fi
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grapejuice on 19/11/2025 - 10:50 jbhifi.com.au (294 clicks)
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Last edited 19/11/2025 - 10:50 by 1 other user
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should use your trademark - bad deal
Haha true.
Ironically, bro has a post count of 1.
Expecting it to be cheaper via Amazon Germany over the weekend.
It was actually briefly $326 last night but out of stock now. Last time it took weeks for it to restock but fingers crossed
Expecting it to be cheaper via Amazon Germany over the weekend.
My understanding is EU routers do not have as powerful Wifi radios as AU or US routers.
Also I think you cannot change them as that area of firmware is locked.
Worth looking into, but can't imagine it would be a huge range concern for most people.
It makes noticeable difference. There are couple of commands that you can run on Asus to see how much power its pushing on each band and how many bands are being used. I had a Asus RT-86 (don’t remember which exactly) where I could switch the region. With EU and some other regions the power on most bands was like -19db and bands were less. whereas US and AU region was touching 28db. That means signal reached in the corner of the house with AU region where it didn’t reach with EU region. If I’m not mistaken AU gives you most band with most power.
@lastkey: I mean I didn't expect it to be nothing either, and I'm also curious how configurable the firmware is, or at least reflashable.
@jasswolf: Factory firmware is quite configurable. Merlin even gives more granularity. However, I’ve heard what others have mentioned that EU firmwares are locked on the regions. Which means you’d be stuck. It kind a make sense why Asus would lock. If a region has most restrictions then if you are selling a router in that region you don’t want people to switch regions and unlocking bands. AU and US are quite open so perhaps Asus firmwares here are not as restrictive. I’ve also heard there is a way to unlock EU routers but what I could figure its tedious.
By the way more bands means you can select less used bands or router can scan and switch (if router has that function). But with EU you are already low powered, fewer bands, which most of the AU routers also use (except Asus or may be some other brands). So a lot of noise, congestion and channel overlap with neighbours. With RT-86, I selected a band which no one was using around me. Why it was free, because most router doesn’t even have those limited bands except Asus.
This router seem to have many hardware issues which Asus hasn't been able to resolve over a year (since launch). You can read various forum posts if you google for dropout / connection issues with this router, one article here https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/1hophmi/asus_rtbe92u_…
I found all the problems after buying it and setting it up as an AP with another Asus ROG AX6000 in AiMesh mode, the clients connected to the AX6000 works seamlessly but clients on BE92U experienced sudden connection drops, you need to turn off/on wifi on the client to fix that, quite frustrating. I tried turning off various features but I didn't get much luck resolving that issue, quite noticeable when you scroll through your X/Twitter feed and suddenly some images or videos stops loading. Also the range is not great, my Eero 6+ has better throughput in 2.5GHz or 5Ghz channels than this. Also MLO implementation that Asus has done is a nightmare, I couldn't get it to work once.
Used it for 2 days and returned back to JB. I think there is a reason why this tri-band wifi 7 router is this cheap.
Not worth.