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product_id: 592671652
title: "ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Quad-band WiFi 7 AiMesh Extendable Gaming Router, 25Gbps, 320MHz, 4K-QAM, Dual 10G Ports, Quad 2.5G Ports, Subscription-free Network Security, VPNs, 4G LTE/5G Mobile Tethering"
brand: "asus"
price: "$2548.16"
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reviews_count: 8
category: "Asus"
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# 25Gbps blazing throughput WiFi 7 with 320MHz channels Dual 10G + Quad 2.5G LAN ports ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Quad-band WiFi 7 AiMesh Extendable Gaming Router, 25Gbps, 320MHz, 4K-QAM, Dual 10G Ports, Quad 2.5G Ports, Subscription-free Network Security, VPNs, 4G LTE/5G Mobile Tethering

**Brand:** asus
**Price:** $2548.16
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Dominate your digital domain with ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BE98 — where speed meets power!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Quad-band WiFi 7 AiMesh Extendable Gaming Router, 25Gbps, 320MHz, 4K-QAM, Dual 10G Ports, Quad 2.5G Ports, Subscription-free Network Security, VPNs, 4G LTE/5G Mobile Tethering by asus
- **How much does it cost?** $2548.16 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- asus enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted asus brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **AiMesh Extendable Coverage:** Effortlessly build a powerful mesh network with AiMesh compatibility, ensuring whole-home WiFi without dead zones.
- • **4G LTE/5G Mobile Tethering Ready:** Keep your network online anywhere with integrated 4G/5G tethering support—perfect for remote work or backup connectivity.
- • **Blazing-Fast WiFi 7 Connectivity:** Experience next-gen 802.11be speeds with ultra-wide 320MHz channels and 4K-QAM modulation for seamless streaming and gaming.
- • **Ultra-High-Speed Wired Networking:** Dual 10Gbps ports plus four 2.5Gbps LAN ports deliver lightning-fast, lag-free connections for your desktop and NAS setups.
- • **Subscription-Free Network Security:** Stay protected with built-in VPNs and Trend Micro-powered security features—no extra fees, just peace of mind.

## Overview

The ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BE98 is a powerhouse gaming router featuring cutting-edge WiFi 7 technology with 320MHz channels and 4K-QAM for ultra-fast wireless speeds. It boasts dual 10Gbps and quad 2.5Gbps LAN ports for exceptional wired performance, supports AiMesh for scalable whole-home coverage, and includes subscription-free network security with VPN capabilities. Designed for professionals and gamers demanding top-tier connectivity, it also offers 4G LTE/5G mobile tethering for versatile internet access.

## Description

From the brand Gaming & Performance Routers Smart Home Mesh Routers AiMesh Extendable Routers Business Network Solutions WiFi Routers Adapters and Switch

Review: Impressive, ugly and some bugs to iron out...very, very fast! - I would only consider buying an Asus router and I have had a few in the past, the RT-AC68U, the RT-AC86U, the RT-AX82U and the RT-AX86U. Now I have the GT-BE98. Not everything was perfect along the way, the RT-AC86U lost its Gb WAN and would only run at 100, so that hastened one of the upgrades along the way. I did try a Zen WiFi mesh system, but that was so unstable, it had to be returned. Asus routers are highly configurable and operate an outstanding mesh system, called AiMesh, which makes whole home WiFi a breeze. No review would be complete without talking about the price. This router has just about everything and you pay for that. No one is forced to buy such an expensive router, so anyone buying it is a volunteer to the price-tag, so I am not going criticise the price. After using the GT-BE98 for a couple of weeks, I would call it impressive. Physically, it is big, very big and no amount of styling is going to detract from it looking the wrong side of ugly. Yes, it does look like an upside-down cybernetic giant spider! With the size comes the power consumption. Not really a criticism, because if you are going to spend a very large amount of money on router like this, you are probably not going to be put off by the fact that it uses over 20 watts of electricity just to be idle and goes above that when under a load. Features are just vast, you get WiFi 7, which hopefully adds a bit of future-proofing, you get a 10Gb LAN port, a 10Gb WAN port, 4 x 2.5Gb LAN ports and just one 1Gb LAN port. The LAN ports are fast, very fast, to a point that I noticed a difference when web browsing on my PC coming from the RT-AX86U to the RT-BE98. The array of features in the firmware is nothing short of staggering. WiFi does not seem to have much more reach over my AX router, but it is faster and access to files on my NAS appears much faster. It should be noted that I have not tried WiFi 7 clients yet, so that will (hopefully) impress even more. When at a distance from the router and the WiFi signal is weak, it does carry more data and speedtests do show solid performance, so the signal does not travel much further, but is useful for further. I have the router setup on a wired 2.5Gb LAN connection for an AiMesh system with my RT-AX86U as a node. My previous AiMesh system was with the RT-AX86U as the router and the RT-AX82U as the node and that was perfect and stable for many years, but was starting to fall over, with buffering and other glitches appearing, where there were no hints of problem for years. It was ready for a re-set and if I was doing that, it would be with a new router. As you might expect with a recently released router, there will be issues to iron out in the firmware. Before adding any settings, there was the obligatory firmware update and I manually added the settings that had worked so well in my previous AiMesh setup. In my original review (based on Jan 2024 firmware), I listed three bugs which caused me some concern, all now appear to have been resolved in the April 2024 firmware update, so this review has been updated to remove details of the no longer relevant bugs and the rating has been raised to 5 stars.
Review: Feature-packed router, could do with a bit of polish but better than equivalent alternatives - I bought this to replace a similar model by a competitor. I have to say, while it may not be perfect, this router is much better. Firstly, it has a lot of functionality built in. I am glad to even have basic things like local DNS on my network that other routers don't have. Wireguard VPN is another feature I'm pleased to have. Hardware-wise, having two 10 GbE LAN ports is handy for having fast speeds between my desktop and my NAS, and it allowed me to ditch the separate 10 GbE switch I was using before. I can reach 9.5 Gbps throughput between those two devices (some other reviews seem to suggest speeds are limited, but not in my case). Wi-Fi-wise, I have no complaints. The router has MLO, but as a technology it doesn't seem worthwhile yet. Firstly, on the router, you use it as via the Guest Network Pro feature which I wasn't expecting, but it isn't a big deal I guess. But secondly, my Pixel 8 did not get on with it so well (after a while, the 5/6 GHz Wi-Fi stopped working on the phone until the phone was rebooted). This wasn't the router's fault though. The web interface could do with a bit of polish, but it works well enough. The app is also not bad. The two downsides I have come across are: - the Aura lighting makes a high-pitched noise for most colours. I turned it off - I have DHCP problems via Ethernet with the latest firmware version. I downgraded to an older version to fix it. Hopefully this will be resolved in time. Be aware that some features like AI Protection and parental controls require opting in to some Trend Micro thing. I'm not particularly interested in those features anyway so have left them off. I'd give the router 4.5/5 overall.

## Features

- Beyond-fast WiFi 7 (802.11be) with new 320MHz channels in the 6 GHz band and 4096-QAM

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0CKBY2NGV |
| Are Batteries Included | No |
| Best Sellers Rank | 17,238 in Computers & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories ) 131 in Routers |
| Brand | ASUS |
| Colour | black |
| Computer Memory Type | DIMM |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (243) |
| Date First Available | 30 Sept. 2023 |
| Guaranteed software updates until | unknown |
| Item Weight | 1 g |
| Item model number | GT-BE98 |
| Lithium Battery Energy Content | 1 Kilowatt Hours |
| Lithium Battery Packaging | Batteries packed with equipment |
| Lithium Battery Weight | 1 Grams |
| Manufacturer | Asus |
| Operating System | RouterOS |
| Product Dimensions | 35.04 x 35.04 x 22.06 cm; 1 g |
| Series | GT-BE98 |
| Voltage | 240 Volts |
| Wireless Type | 802.11.be |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** ASUS
- **Colour:** black
- **Compatible devices:** Gaming Console
- **Connectivity technology:** Wi-Fi
- **Frequency band class:** Quad-Band
- **Included components:** GT-BE98 Quad-band WiFi 7 (802.11be), warranty card
- **Model name:** GT-BE98
- **Recommended uses for product:** Gaming
- **Wireless communication standard:** 802.11.be

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Style** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Impressive, ugly and some bugs to iron out...very, very fast!
*by S***S on 4 April 2024*

I would only consider buying an Asus router and I have had a few in the past, the RT-AC68U, the RT-AC86U, the RT-AX82U and the RT-AX86U. Now I have the GT-BE98. Not everything was perfect along the way, the RT-AC86U lost its Gb WAN and would only run at 100, so that hastened one of the upgrades along the way. I did try a Zen WiFi mesh system, but that was so unstable, it had to be returned. Asus routers are highly configurable and operate an outstanding mesh system, called AiMesh, which makes whole home WiFi a breeze. No review would be complete without talking about the price. This router has just about everything and you pay for that. No one is forced to buy such an expensive router, so anyone buying it is a volunteer to the price-tag, so I am not going criticise the price. After using the GT-BE98 for a couple of weeks, I would call it impressive. Physically, it is big, very big and no amount of styling is going to detract from it looking the wrong side of ugly. Yes, it does look like an upside-down cybernetic giant spider! With the size comes the power consumption. Not really a criticism, because if you are going to spend a very large amount of money on router like this, you are probably not going to be put off by the fact that it uses over 20 watts of electricity just to be idle and goes above that when under a load. Features are just vast, you get WiFi 7, which hopefully adds a bit of future-proofing, you get a 10Gb LAN port, a 10Gb WAN port, 4 x 2.5Gb LAN ports and just one 1Gb LAN port. The LAN ports are fast, very fast, to a point that I noticed a difference when web browsing on my PC coming from the RT-AX86U to the RT-BE98. The array of features in the firmware is nothing short of staggering. WiFi does not seem to have much more reach over my AX router, but it is faster and access to files on my NAS appears much faster. It should be noted that I have not tried WiFi 7 clients yet, so that will (hopefully) impress even more. When at a distance from the router and the WiFi signal is weak, it does carry more data and speedtests do show solid performance, so the signal does not travel much further, but is useful for further. I have the router setup on a wired 2.5Gb LAN connection for an AiMesh system with my RT-AX86U as a node. My previous AiMesh system was with the RT-AX86U as the router and the RT-AX82U as the node and that was perfect and stable for many years, but was starting to fall over, with buffering and other glitches appearing, where there were no hints of problem for years. It was ready for a re-set and if I was doing that, it would be with a new router. As you might expect with a recently released router, there will be issues to iron out in the firmware. Before adding any settings, there was the obligatory firmware update and I manually added the settings that had worked so well in my previous AiMesh setup. In my original review (based on Jan 2024 firmware), I listed three bugs which caused me some concern, all now appear to have been resolved in the April 2024 firmware update, so this review has been updated to remove details of the no longer relevant bugs and the rating has been raised to 5 stars.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Feature-packed router, could do with a bit of polish but better than equivalent alternatives
*by N***N on 17 November 2025*

I bought this to replace a similar model by a competitor. I have to say, while it may not be perfect, this router is much better. Firstly, it has a lot of functionality built in. I am glad to even have basic things like local DNS on my network that other routers don't have. Wireguard VPN is another feature I'm pleased to have. Hardware-wise, having two 10 GbE LAN ports is handy for having fast speeds between my desktop and my NAS, and it allowed me to ditch the separate 10 GbE switch I was using before. I can reach 9.5 Gbps throughput between those two devices (some other reviews seem to suggest speeds are limited, but not in my case). Wi-Fi-wise, I have no complaints. The router has MLO, but as a technology it doesn't seem worthwhile yet. Firstly, on the router, you use it as via the Guest Network Pro feature which I wasn't expecting, but it isn't a big deal I guess. But secondly, my Pixel 8 did not get on with it so well (after a while, the 5/6 GHz Wi-Fi stopped working on the phone until the phone was rebooted). This wasn't the router's fault though. The web interface could do with a bit of polish, but it works well enough. The app is also not bad. The two downsides I have come across are: - the Aura lighting makes a high-pitched noise for most colours. I turned it off - I have DHCP problems via Ethernet with the latest firmware version. I downgraded to an older version to fix it. Hopefully this will be resolved in time. Be aware that some features like AI Protection and parental controls require opting in to some Trend Micro thing. I'm not particularly interested in those features anyway so have left them off. I'd give the router 4.5/5 overall.

### ⭐ GT-BE98 Deeply flawed in many ways, does nothing well
*by K***K on 22 April 2025*

GT-BE98 - Don't Bother! I had high hopes for this router. We had bought the AXE11000 and that was pretty awful, dropping connections, wouldn't accept a drive in the USB ports without malfunctioning. So this seemed like as though it would have been a better bet, faster processor, more ram, what could possibly go wrong? At first, everything seemed ok, we have anything up to 20 devices connected at any given time, and that's including the IoT devices. I had set up an IoT guest network, which seemed to work ok initially, but the signal strength for that network was particularly poor, and so things kept dropping off and not reconnecting. I added everything onto the main 2.4Ghz network and things still kept dropping off, sometimes reconnecting and often not. I then noticed that this router did not seem to like Apple devices, of which we have at least 5 or 6. Again, the router logs were showing that the signal strength for the Apple devices was really low, sometimes as low as -100 in the same room as the router! And if that was't weird enough, we have a Mac upstairs that was dropping off and back on the network and I went and removed all traces of our network from it and then logged it back on, and the signal went from virtually nothing, to excellent in just a few clicks. By the end of the day, it was back to -100, -90 etc. Same for an iPhone 14 Pro Max, even when in the same room as the router and connected to one of the 5Ghz bands (I'll come to those later), it would be reported in the logs as a really weak signal, and that it was deauthorizing constantly, on and off, all day long. Macbook was the same. Really odd. My NAS supports link aggregation, as does the GT-BE98, so I set it up. Within a few hours, the router had globally disconnected everything, and continued doing so, every few hours, even when idle. The logs showed nothing about the link aggregation, but there were lots of error 30, and kernel errors, but relating to other devices around the time of the global disconnects. I undid the link aggregation and the global disconnects became fewer. This router, is also marketed as being able to support a hard drive from its USB ports, so I did a test. My music library, on a 2.5" SSD and the global disconnects started again. Tried a couple of other different drives, and ways of formatting the drives, but it just did not like having anything plugged into the USB ports with data on that can be accessed over the network. Why bother marketing this as a feature? The firmware. As with many Asus routers at the moment, especially 'high end' ones, like the BE98 that have been abandoned, is partuclarly buggy and completely unsupported. Even the web UI that looks like a 90s w a r e z site, glitches and sometimes partially loads, requiring you to close and reopen, but then you are met with a message saying that you are logged in twice, and this happens on Safari and Firefox. If you can get hold of Asus support from the UK, it's the same, scripted instructions to reset this and start from scratch, or turn this feature off etc. The latest firmware for the BE98 is broken in so many ways that there would not be enough room here to list them all. Just know, that if you buy one of these, there is no aftermarket firmware, Merlin do not support it, and the only other fork, Gnuton, only has an old beta version available, so you are in the hands of Asus, who don't seem to care that people have paid the best part of £700 for a router, and for that money, they expect it to not only work, but to be reliable, supported with firmware updates, and worthy of the price tag. This router is not worthy. It does not give you stronger wifi. It struggles with wired connections. The build quality is pretty poor at this price, just cheap, cast plastic parts with the usual awful ROG styling that makes it look like a huge dead spider. Reverted back to our old router and all the issues went away. On my travels to find a replacement, it seems that a lot of current Asus routers are like this, so it's time to look elsewhere. There has got to be better than this for the money. Asus need to get their finger out and get pushing out some much needed firmware updates to fix all the bugs and broken 'features'.

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