The GT-BE98 Pro is overall much better, Yousef. However, your issue with Wi-Fi speed seemed unrelated. Chances are you were using the 2.4GHz band, or MLO. Generally a router does much better with clients of the same Wi-Fi standard than another router of newer Wi-Fi standard. More on testing in this post.

I’ve just bought the GE800 , Overall it’s a great device,but it has some minor issues which I believe would be solved with firmware updates. My biggest issues with the router , the wifi speed, in some rooms, around 6 metes far, with no less than 75% signal , the speed is very slow, 3-5MB .

My older Archer AC5200 was doing better job.

even before buying the router, i read your review and many others for both GE800 and Asus GT-BE98 Pro, it was hard to decide between them.

So , if I switch to the Asus GT-BE98 Pro , am I gonna get better Wifi speed and coverage , are the gaming features much different, and the free features like protection, is it worth it to do the switch?

thank you

They are two different grades, Zac. The GT-BE98 Pro is a quad-band router with lots more features, all free. This one is a Tri-band with fewer free features. In terms Wi-Fi expereince, they are similar.

Yeap. More on Deco in this post.

Thanks. Not sure how I missed the VLAN thing.

I had heard from someone that some 10 gig ports won’t support 2.5 gb, or 5 gb – they’ll skip down to 1 gb.

I take it the new Decos still require the TPLink account?

Tosan,

1. You can turn the DHCP server off on this one.
2. Read the review.
3. Read the review.
4. If you use the 10GBASE-T port. More on Multi-Gig in this post.

I have a few questions about this.

1. Does this have the issues that other TP-Link devices have, where you can’t actually turn off the router DHCP server? I have a Windows server I prefer handing out DHCP addresses in my home/lab network.

2. Does it rely on the app well, and are there the privacy concerns of having a TP-Link account to access the devices? Or are they entirely web-based and can be managed from the internal network?

3. Does it support advanced networking features like VLANs, VPN, etc?

4. Will the 10 Gb port work as a 2.5 Gb port as well? Fios is only 1 Gb here.

I currently have a Fios CR1000A with 2 E3200 extenders running over coax and I’m pretty limited on what I can, so I’m looking for something to replace them that preferably won’t break the bank.

Thanks!

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