TP-Link Archer BE24000 Quad-Band WiFi 7 Router (Archer BE900) with Dual 10 Gbps Multi-Gig Ethernet Ports and LED Touch Screen,12 High Performance Antennas, VPN Supported.

This router completely transformed my home network. Setup through the TP-Link app was very straightforward—plug it in, follow the prompts, and I had my main network, guest network, and basic security settings configured in just a few minutes. The interface is clean enough for non-techy users but still has plenty of advanced options if you want to tweak channels, bands, or QoS. Performance-wise, it’s a beast. WiFi coverage is strong across the whole house, including rooms that used to be dead zones. Devices connect quickly and stay connected, and even with multiple 4K streams, online gaming, and a bunch of smart home devices, everything stays smooth. Latency is noticeably lower and large downloads finish much faster compared to my older router. I also appreciate little touches like the ability to easily see which devices are connected and put limits or priorities on them. The hardware feels solid and runs surprisingly cool for how powerful it is. It’s definitely not the cheapest router out there, but if you have a lot of devices or fast internet and want to actually use all of that speed reliably, this is worth it.

Great router, way more powerful wifi signal than my replaced Asus ROG BE98. Only issue was the IoT network is flakey, but just setting up a guest network with the same SSID and credentials, then deactivated the IoT broadcast, fixed all issues and I'm never seeing a single drop out any more.

This is a very fast, easy to setup router. Can be set up with a cellphone app. However, for true versatility you should use your PC. I don't use the default IP scheme (192.168..) I think doing so in any router is a potential security issues. There is one thing I did not like,the touch screen. Not a true touch screeen, its just a swipe screen between 4 display pages. Poorly responsive. Three pages are somewhat relevent, data throughput number page, ping page, and CPU, Memory usage. In my setup I used the 2.5gps port on my XB8 cable modem to feed into the 10gps Ethernet input of the BE24000. Which I use the one 10gps output to feed my 2.5gps swith with a SFP+ port with a 10gps more module via heavy Cat 8 cable. 2331mps downloads and 330 mps uploads ( which is more a function of the modem ). A 2.5gps port from the switch feeds into my PC's 10gps Ethernet port. An expensive router, but at a reasonable sale price if you consider its performance.

I am so done with this piece of work. I have used it for a little under a month and have had the worst time just trying to keep a stable internet connection (not wifi signal) to my phone or any wireless device. Periodically, internet drops and returns DNS_PROBE_STARTED, so I assigned the router and my device to the Google DNS. This did not resolve the issue. Thought maybe it could be an IP lease time issue so I increased the IP lease time to around 2 weeks of hours as a test. This did not resolve the issue. I finally gave up and just accepted that my $700 router would just not perform as well as my comcast loaned equipment, but then the fun began. I purchased a Netgear Nighthawk 2.5g modem to use thinking that maybe comcast was the problem since I was using the rented router/modem in bridge mode and the royter flat out refused to take internet from the modem despite ensuring the right RJ45 port was selected in the router's http software. FINALLY I factory reset the device, and whoa, what do you know? Everything works! Awesome! The IoT devices weren't picking it up automatically despite ensuring the settings were correct, but I would get around to fixing those eventually. 2 weeks later, the IoT devices began connecting and working like normal. Awesome! Except for the fact that now my DNS issue has returned. I firmware update (as of 5/1/23) and... No dice. "Ok, maybe this has something to do with QoS" I think. "Maybe I need to enable an IoT wireless network because the router specifically handles that traffic differently!" I switch all of my IoT devices to the new IoT network that you can deploy within the settings and STILL the issue persists. All this to say, if you use IoT devices, this router will cause you endless frustration where other, much simpler devices will just work. Maybe one day they'll drop firmware that makes the router work as intended, but all its current users are the beta testers. You pay $700 for an unfinished wireless standard supported device that you get to beta test for TP-Link.

Edit. Got a FW update last week. Started having nightly outages. Now its losing it's datex time and logs and reboot and won't connect to my modem. Direct connecting to my modem works fine. Eventually we had to roll back FW versions and install FW in a specific order to restore functionality. I wanted to write a decently detailed review as I haven't seen very many on this product because of availability. My review after about 2-3 weeks of using this. Short Version: although expensive, this is an excellent router that performs extremely well, especially if you want a simple setup that can handle tons of endpoints/devices. Context of 'why' I chose this device: While I work in technology, sometimes I want things to just 'work', so my previous Wi-Fi solution was a Google Nest setup with two pods (mesh network). Initially it wasn't bad, until I started adding more devices to my network. I decided to try out this device, despite not having many reviews, and some being low. I found that mesh at least from Google was clunky and I had odd issues like duplicate IP assignments which caused a ton of issues (it assigned a pod and a printer the same IP which took a bit to figure out). For these reasons I wanted to go back to someone who's been in the game for longer and was willing to pay a premium for a well spec'd router, even if I can't use the wifi 7 capabilities. MU-MIMO was a must, and I wanted the ability to add mesh, but not need it (hopefully). I also wanted 10 GB ports, a sleek modern look, and plenty of ports available (something I missed when I left TP-Link for Google Nest Wifi). This checked all those boxes. Setup: Pretty easy. Just be sure to update the firmware if it is not up to date. I wanted to avoid any early issues so I setup my network after I did a full update on the router. My house is about 1900 square feet. For comparison Google really struggled with consistency over 40 devices. It'd go very slow after about 1-2 days of being 'online' and I'd have to reboot my pods. I have 45-55 devices on my network at any given time. ~6 of them are wired, the rest are wireless (primarily 2.4 IOT devices). Performance: I'm comparing apples to oranges a bit, as Google Nest Wi-Fi doesn't have as good of specifications. My house is roughly a square with the family room/kitchen/master bedroom/office making up the four corners. The office and family room are opposite corners of the house. My router is located in my 'family' room', with the kitchen being closest, then dining room, then master bedroom, then guest bedroom, then office. This should help you paint a picture of what my setup looks like. Here's a quick chart I did (I tested each location 3 times and took the best performing one). TP-Link had slightly better uploads as well and on average, had 2-5 MS better latency, but not enough to complicate the chart: Download Speeds Google TP-Link Office - Cell Phone 101 515 Office - Work Computer (Wired) 924 936 Office Gaming Computer (Wired) 879 944 Guest Room - Cell phone 106 756 Master Bedroom - Cell Phone 102 507 Dining Room - Cell Phone 132 732 Kitchen - Cell Phone 113 936 Family Room - Cell Phone 108 934 Family Room - Cell Phone (6G) NA 949 Even on the wired systems, there was a pretty big improvement. FWIW: I have comcast service that's 1200 down and 40 up. Features: I like the IOT subnets, though, I am not sure if I'd call it a subnet. while it's a different network, it seems to be assigned the same IP as others on your 'main' network. I need to do more testing to see how this works. I also like the device isolation feature. It has VPN Client/server built in and as usual, TP-Link offers dynamic DNS which is great. It has just enough features for me to be exactly what I need and not much more. Google Wifi lacked in features. I also missed being able to hit my router with an IP address to manage it. It's nice to have an app, but I enjoy being able to use either (in this case, the tether app or use a PC to manage. Stability: I haven't had any issues since I got it setup. It's been stable. I'll add more as I continue to tinker and learn more, but I'd say if you are on the fence, pull the trigger.