TP-Link Tri-Band BE9300 WiFi 7 Router Archer BE550 6-Stream 9.2Gbps Full 2.5G Ports 6 Internal Antennas Covers Up to 2,000 Sq. Ft. Add Easy-Mesh Device for Extended Coverage VPN Support

I wanted to believe the hype for WiFi 7, because I was already in the TP-Link family with WiFi 6 TP-Link AX1800 Router.Installation was simple for me, like the majority of guys on here. However, there is probably a good explanation for why a large number of people have struggled with the BE9300. I cannot speak to that, but I’m sure the reasons are valid. I used the Tether mobile APP, and set the BE9300 up as a new device, using the SSID and password that came with the BE9300. However, I kept all my Tether mobile APP passwords, only updating the Local Network SSID and its password from the new BE9300. You won’t want to reuse Local SSID names and passwords for different routers 🤣.Tether Mobile APP is a powerful tool, use it first if you can.The overall improvement in my home network has affected everything that has a WiFi radio or Ethernet input. For example: I now have very stable connections, greater HDR color depth in streaming video, and deeper bass and more crystalline highs in streaming audio. In a sense, it’s like I have a new audio/video system.Also, my Withings Body+ Smart Scale linked to Apple Health APP, using TP-Link AX1800 router or Spectrum AX6E router, could NEVER display my Apple Health APP daily steps for more than 24-hours at a time, before they would disappear. And resetting the Body+ would be the only way to get the steps back, but only for another resetting cycle. Oddly, daily weather predictions were stable, as were the Body Composition metrics. Just the daily steps were constantly AWOL. Since installing BE9300 in my network, those Apple Health APP daily steps consistently display as intended into the smart scale.All this improvement, and I only have one WiFi 7 device 😂🤣🥲. I have the iPhone 16 Pro Max, which has a WiFi 7 radio. All iPhone 16s utilizes a Broadcom Wi-Fi 7 chip, supporting the full Wi-Fi 7 standard across all 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz bands, including Multi-Link Operation (MLO) functionality. Thus, iPhone 16 can enable the full performance of Wi-Fi 7 globally and optimize the potential of both the increasingly accessible 6GHz spectrum and regions with only 5GHz availability, leaving the 2.4GHz spectrum for legacy Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and IoT. All WiFi 7 devices will have this functionality in the BE9300.My main takeaway is that the BE9300, has increased bandwidth to my home network such that all my connected devices get the full signal requested without any throttling at all. Thus, everything is faster, fuller, brighter, clearer and more stable.I have noticed that iPhone 16 Pro Max alternates between 5Ghz and 6Ghz in the BE9300. It makes that decision based on moment-by-moment conditions in my home. Apple will probably tweak future iPhones to use 6Ghz more in the future.My main home theater is a Marantz SR6015 7.2.4 AVR with a 65” LG OLED TV. This system loves BE9300.I feel future-proofed for the foreseeable future, and the $300 cost is an excellent investment.

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.