TP-LinkTri-Band BE9700 WiFi 7 Router Archer BE550 Pro 1 × 10G + 4 × 2.5G, USB 3.0 6 Internal Antennas VPN Clients & Server 6GHz Band, Easy-Mesh, HomeShield, MLO, Private IOT

This is a beast of a unit. Performance is in line with specifications. Coverage is good, but can add a mesh of the cheaper one without the dual 10Gbit ports. super easy setup. Connectivity is good, and can be configured by frequency if needed. i have a ton of interference with my house, mirrors opposite office, multiple other wifi, 5g tower, so the frequency lock feature was really handy for me. Even with all my problems i was still able to fully utilize my 1Gbit internet speed (my current limit, it would go faster) but my transfers are still steady over 6Gbit even with my interference issues. My ISP wifi was new high end unit too, i could only get 300Mbit max, it was capable of 6G speeds. But this unit pushes the power. As for the power consumption, its a bit more than an average wifi router but its pushing nearly 10Gbit wifi, its inline with performance. Very costly unit, but bleeding edge technology usually is and its doing exactly what i hoped it would. 10/10 would recommend if you have the need for dual 10Gbit LAN/WAN ports. They do make one with a single 10Gbit WAN port which is cheaper.

I had great success with this router so far (BE550). This is probably one of the easiest routers I have ever setup. The wireless capabilities are really impressive having great range and speed. I also love the look of it and I like how it’s oriented vertically. For anyone using CenturyLink Fiber, this router has all the VLAN tagging settings already in the router menu. To get it working, connect your ONT to the routers WAN port. Then, go to Network > IPTV/VLAN and check Enabled, then on the dropdown menu for Mode, simply select USA-CenturyLink. It sets the VLAN tag setting and all other settings for this ISP. It sets your Internet Connection Type as PPPoE and asks for your user name and password (if you don’t know this, call CenturyLink). That’s it, I was connected in under 60 seconds. It was as if this was a preconfigured router from CenturyLinkl - AWESOME!Oh, and when I ran a speed test on my Gaming PC (it is directly wired to the router), I got faster speeds then when I was using my CenturyLink’s router (Zyxel C3510XZ). Very happy.

UPDATE: 23 May, 2024Now it's been awhile. I have to write: If something is messed up, it's NEVER the EAP225 WiFi units or this thing! It's been months since it's been rebooted! We have enough off-grid solar so the internet stuff and the comp room can stay off-grid all the time. It never gets rebooted nowadays and it's always there and it doesn't mess up! It has a gigabit (24 port) switch and two (8 port) 2.5 gigabit switches plugged into it. A total of 4 NAS's; three of them 2.5 gigabit dual LAN's; one with dual gigabit LAN's. And three computers, all 2.5 gigabit. And the Yeacomm 5G gateway is also 2.5 gigabit. Nothing bothers this thing. I'm still not using its WiFi, because of those EAP225's, which are also great. I read a few reviews, before, raving about this thing's WiFi, though and people write that it works great. The wife is Korean and she watches Korean soap opera's all day. We usually download way over a terabyte a month here. The Yeacomm connects at about 400 megabits down and 110 to 130 megabits up.___________________________________________________________________This runs a whole bunch of stuff - WiFi and LAN - typically about 15 devices. I'm not going to rate the Wifi because I'm not going to use it yet. 1) I have two EAP225's; they're VERY strategically located and they mesh with each other. Unfortunately they won't mesh with this thing. 2) I don't have anything else that will even do WiFi 7 yet.I got this mainly for the five 2.5 GbE ports - one WAN and 4 LAN's! I've also got a Yeacomm (Speednet) NR610 (also a very nice, but expensive device), and my internet is blazingly fast! Just very snappy. Internet tasks are usually as fast as doing stuff locally on the computer. You can easily tell when it's the website that's slow. That Yeacomm has a 2.5 GbE port and I was drooling at the thought of getting that 2.5 GbE speed to the LAN. (I also have a gigabit switch, a PoE switch [for the EAP225'sand the Magic Jacks that only do 10 MbE], and two 2.5 GbE switches.) Really nice that all my stuff plugs into this!The WEB interface on this device is a thing of beauty! Everything is very logically laid out, most changes, you don't have to reboot for, and if you know your network stuff, you'll find it nice and easy to use.If you don't know your network stuff, you're still in luck! It took its time communicating with the Yeacomm (LTE CPE Modem) (and a bunch of other devices) on the first boot - maybe 3 minutes or 4 minutes - but it configured itself very well! I have two Magic Jack lines and those didn't work right away. It took some hair-pulling-out time to straighten it out. But I've had one way audio problems with those before. This time, this router had the provisions to fix it (on one of them only.) That's not this router's fault; it's just the way it is. You need to forward a range of ports on two different devices and you can't. It took a very long time to get fixed. It was like a combination lock. Turns out the final step was some settings in the Yeacomm. The Magic Jacks now talk directly to the cell phone tower. One of them works perfectly and the other one only has one way audio when calling [mostly] cell phones. If I had another 2.5 GbE port on the Yeacomm, I could do it, I think, but as long as I can get calls on both lines and call out on one of them, I'm happy.Everything else worked like a champ with settings that this router came up with all on its own! The only thing I changed (not counting the Magic Jack settings) is making a bunch of MAC | IP reservations.When you set it up, you get a light show for awhile. Then the lights can be turned on or turned off with a WEBUI switch. You can also set up a night time mode and have them on in the daytime and off at night, specifying the times. You can plug a USB hdd into the USB port and use it as a very fast, very big network share. It's almost like having an NAS. It's been totally stable and reliable so far.It's a lot of money. I had to talk myself into it. I shopped for about a week. That should tell you something. Now that I've gotten to use it, I consider it well worth the money! I give their tech support 5 stars, not because of this thing, but because I've used their tech support in the past and I already KNOW it's exceptionally good! I have a lot of other TP-Link stuff. Advanced, hi-end stuff.Half of the 12 connected devices shown in the pic.