Seems like a good deal, not quite ATL according to CCC but very close, was just able to get Officeworks to do the 5% price beat which would then make it ATL I believe.
Been a while since I was looking at a new router so haven't been following much but RTINGS.com seems to rate it highly.
CamelCamelCamel.
Oops sorry forgot to add in the price thanks for the heads up haha.
Most consumer devices are only just getting wifi7 as standard now.
Lots of Apple devices are still wifi6e.
did you just assume everyone has apple devices….????
Exactly. Only need to wait about three more years.
Time flies…
Indeed. I don't need roads.
By then WiFi 9 will be just around the corner. Absolutely useless getting a WiFi 8 router anytime soon unless you like to drop 1k on a router that provides no benefits for at least another 3 years, when devices have all been upgraded.
You really need to upgrade every 3 years or so either way if you want the latest wifi standard.
I assume your probably joking, but from what i have read, wifi 8 is going to have the same max speed and run on the same frequency as wifi 7, they are just making it more reliable, also, although they are working on it now, it is several years away
i do but wifi 7 should be good enough for now, i have wifi 6 right now and i seem to get 500-600Mbps now on my laptop, from what ive read, wifi 7 should boost it a little further, ive been eyeing of this router and its bigger brother for some time, plus yeah, wifi 8 is years away, on my galaxy s10 though, the wifi goes faster than on my laptop
You're around the corner. I'd run…
Who cares? My ubiquiti gear is wifi 5 and I have no plan to upgrade any time soon
My ubiquiti gear is wifi 5
Wow… Are you still also using an iPhone 4 ?
I'll wait for WiFi 34, it's just around the corner.
Decent price, waiting for a sale on https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0D9GKKXVW though
2x 10Gbps, 4x 2.5Gbps, 4x 1Gbps
Slower wifi but that switching capacity is insane
Last time I looked into WiFi7 routers they chewed power; is that still the case?
they chewed power
use molar.
who cares what usa does. usa keeps banning stuff and we stop using them?
Well there is a reason they're doing it. So it might be important to read why, and it might change your opinion on buying tp-link.
The reason they might ban them are due to cybersecurity related issues.
sure the national security bs they keep running around but they only found out now after years of using them. each and everything things has security issues. not sure why they still manufacture cars, phone in China. China might be adding their own chips inside those products to track, spy on usa.
@NirajSS: But just because everything has security issues it doesn't mean you don't care about it. You look into things such as how long it takes a manufacture to release a fix/patch/update, firmware/software support, look into things like opensource firmware availability, etc.
A manufacturer that fixes zero day security related issues in days is a lot better than one that fixes them in months. And I'm not saying tp-link takes months this is just an example of what things you should look for in a manufacturer.
@Pikaloo: It would all make sense if their peer competitors were measurably better. They are not. And the supportive information against TPLink made public that i have seen is kinda weak, largely based on the fact there are so many in use.
I actually agree (from my research and working in a sensitive related industry for 20yrs that has/is impacted) regulation and even banning of certain chinese equiptment does make A LOT sense, especially for nationally sensitive infrastructure and related public/private priority services (electricity, water, transport, telecoms etc). But at retail/consumer level, without evidence of brand specific issues, it achieves little beyond driving public awareness and with that comes the good and bad. Government and private entities including those in US get hacked, including the left of all sorts of sensitive data, by China's legion of cyber thugs at a shocking large and regular basis. The US treasrury and many big telcos amongst others recently. You can bet a lot more goes on that is kept hush. And its been happening for a long, long time.
As for us banning TP Link consumer devices, i dont think its likely based on current information. Restricting in government and enterprise in some way is more probable, if anything. Time will tell.
Yeah the cybersecurity issue is that they don’t have their own backdoor
@TheFreaK: I thought so to, but in reality TP-Link Opsec is a joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCdZaSu68Kk
It's more to do with how bad TP-Link products are, they can't tell if there legit incompetent or they are intentionally leaving massive vulnerabilities in there products for a state actor to exploit
@Doso: "Based on the CVE website mentioned in the video:
How about their own stuff plaggued with similar things? It seems everyone does it but its easier to blame Chinese. How the CIA Turns Routers into Surveillance Devices US judge finds Israel's NSO Group liable for hacking Apple to pay US$95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit and how about Lawful interception (LI)?
Because then one of the biggest economies does anything doesn't matter if you like it, agree with it or not it has a ripple effect across everything.
Look at Huawei at the very least this time they are giving people a heads up.
Huawei was a much bigger and explicitly obvious risk with their push into providing cheap core network equiptment to major telcos. Huawei phones/personal devices was not the main issue. Not many things would be a greater risk than that outside of the defence industry itself. The fact a few governments had the balls to do anything (knowing the blow back) is the bigger shock. This here with TPLink is not the same and very hazy so far.
I've been reading on ozb that tp link are unstable POS
Depends on the model but the low end stuff are POS
Most low end stuff are POS and I find TP-Link to usually be better than others.
I've been using archer C7 that was under 100 bucks for a few years no issues on gigabit internet.
If peoples home internet suck its probably user error if they are on NBN.
People with 0 knowledge of networking upset they can't configure a router and blame their ISP, typical ozbargain.
Not really, same can be said for any brand they have dodgy models just like with cars, TVs, phones etc. Brands dont mean a whole lot you need to pick the right product irrespective of brand.
Had this BE550 for about 6 months so far and I have had zero problems, compared to my old Netgear nighthawk it's much more stable.
How are you finding the Wi-Fi range?
Been using their cheap AP for years without issue. Wifi 5 still going hard tbh, really had no reason to upgrade given most of the house is wired anyway. Rarely move huge data on them except when buying a brand new phone and migrating so eh dunno 🤷♂️
Got this on 30th Nov 2024 for $ 319 from ebay shopping express.
How is it?
Working great
Better to just go with ubiquiti access points in my opinion.
Do these work any good with the quest 3 over virtual desktop? from may experience anything tplink sucks with the quest.
Would like to know, as this is my main reason to upgrade my router
i think to be honest Asus is a good brand for routers and access points have never had any issue with those and they are solid.
Yeah, but $$$
Literally the reason I decided to finally upgrade my router lol…will find out soon enough I guess.
One review I stumbled on said it worked great though: https://www.cgmagonline.com/review/hardware/tp-link-be9300-a…
Will be cheaper if trump bans TP-link routers which US wants to do due security concerns and their wide spread installed base, seem most popular router brand in the USA. Another Huawei moment.
literally all governments have "spyware" in all companies, the CIA are the biggest offender not sure why the U.S. are targeting China being the only one. Apparently its ok for the U.S. government to spy on other counties but its not ok for other countries to spy on the U.S.
OK according to who? Of course the USA would take that view. They should.
Needs more antennae for speed looks
I have had the BE550 for 9 months now. User-friendly and reliable.
Still not sure if I should get something like this, or just buy a second Eero 6+ to cover the back section of the house. I want something thats really good for local streaming on things like Moonlight and PsPlay. Eero has been pretty solid when signal is strong enough.
Signal suddenly dropped(with latest firmware), I changed back to the 3 years old Xiaomi router.
US eyes ban on TP-Link routers amid cybersecurity concerns
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3628483/us-eyes-ban-on-tp-…
Right now you are seeing and writing is China manufactured device does this concern you?
Did you read the article or are you too smart for that?
the latter
@NirajSS: Turns out, the cyber security concerns are because lots of their products are easily hacked by anyone. Not just the Chinese government. Not so smart now, are ya.
The joke is, TP-Link make SUPER cheap routers that RSP/ISP can pretty much give away for free. Doing that has a “cost”, in this case it is quality software/updates.
IF TP-Link are banned a few things may happen,
1 the days of the “free” router on signup may disappear,
2 the new “free” router will be replaced with the next cheapest thing, and will probably have the same software quality issues.
3 we will go back to 12/24 month contracts but get better routers for “free”.
cant even get these speeds on NBN, is this worth it?
$374 for anyone wondering the price.