Wednesday, August 27th 2025
ASUS Announces TUF Gaming BE9400 Tri-Band WiFi 7 Router
ASUS today announced the TUF Gaming BE9400, a high-performance Wi-Fi 7 router designed to deliver up to 9400 Mbps tri-band throughput with exceptional stability. This router features three 2.5G LAN ports and one 2.5G WAN port, ultrawide 320 MHz channels, 4096-QAM and Multi-Link Operation (MLO) to enhance speed and efficiency across 2,500 square feet of coverage. It also features game acceleration with a dedicated gaming port, Mobile Game Mode and OpenNAT for optimized gameplay. Other features include Smart Home Master subnetworks, Ai Protection-powered security, pre-installed VPN options, and Wi-Fi 7-enhanced AiMesh. The BE9400 is designed to provide stable, secure and extendable connectivity, and it's built to TUF standards for reliability and long-term durability.
MLO enables simultaneous or alternating use of the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz bands, improving connection stability and minimizing latency across devices. It enables coverage of up to 2,500 square feet, making it ideal for high-speed gaming, 4K streaming and data-heavy smart homes.Quad 2.5G ports and game-ready optimization
One-tap Mobile Game Mode, OpenNAT streamlined traffic management, and support for USB 4G/5G mobile tethering provide always-on connectivity. Whether users are gaming, streaming or backhauling, the BE9400 provides responsive, multi-gig wired performance, with one of the 2.5G LAN ports optimized for smooth online gaming.
Network and security management via the ASUS app
The ASUS Router app enables easy setup of dedicated SSIDs for IoT, VPNs, kids, and MLO networks under Smart Home Master. Users can connect up to 30 VPN clients with support for advanced protocols like WireGuard, OpenVPN, and IPSec. Meanwhile, ASUS Network Security offers AiProtection, Safe browsing provide commercial-grade security, while WiFi 7 AiMesh support and TUF-certified durability ensure reliable, future-ready whole-home connectivity.
MLO enables simultaneous or alternating use of the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz bands, improving connection stability and minimizing latency across devices. It enables coverage of up to 2,500 square feet, making it ideal for high-speed gaming, 4K streaming and data-heavy smart homes.Quad 2.5G ports and game-ready optimization
One-tap Mobile Game Mode, OpenNAT streamlined traffic management, and support for USB 4G/5G mobile tethering provide always-on connectivity. Whether users are gaming, streaming or backhauling, the BE9400 provides responsive, multi-gig wired performance, with one of the 2.5G LAN ports optimized for smooth online gaming.
Network and security management via the ASUS app
The ASUS Router app enables easy setup of dedicated SSIDs for IoT, VPNs, kids, and MLO networks under Smart Home Master. Users can connect up to 30 VPN clients with support for advanced protocols like WireGuard, OpenVPN, and IPSec. Meanwhile, ASUS Network Security offers AiProtection, Safe browsing provide commercial-grade security, while WiFi 7 AiMesh support and TUF-certified durability ensure reliable, future-ready whole-home connectivity.




8 Comments on ASUS Announces TUF Gaming BE9400 Tri-Band WiFi 7 Router
That way there will be less sharing/interruptions, since a 4x4 radio can work as two 2x2 radios, even if it wouldn't quite be the same, as long as MU-MIMO is enabled.
99% or more of client devices today are 2x2 or 1x1, so if you connect more than one 2x2 device to a WiFi router, they'll end up fighting for the available airtime, which can be a problem when gaming or using some kind of real time sensitive applications like video conferencing stuff.
Not suggesting you should game over WiFi though, but some don't have a choice.
One option with this specific router is you can put the real time sensitive stuff on the 6 GHz band and use the 5 GHz band for other things, with 2.4 GHz for your other stuff that lacks the higher bands.
My warning was also more about the high marketing numbers, as this seems like it has higher-end radios than it really has, due to the BE9400 model name, but we're reached so high theoretical speeds now that it's kind of silly, but it also requires that you have a WiFi 7 radio in the devices you want to use with it to even being able to sync at those speeds.
As an example, my phone syncs at 2401 Mbps with my router and I can upload at around 1250 Mbps to a local speed test server on my NAS, so you get around half the sync speed or a bit more on WiFi 6 routers, which is plenty fast for most wireless devices.
I was surprised by your comment because I used to live in a house with 3 other people and we made extensive use of WiFi ( i was the only one with a cabled PC ). we were using an ASUS AXE7800 and it never run quite well. We reserved 2.4 for the IOT devices, and the other 2 bands for everything else and the connection was not as smooth as I expected of a 300e router at the time.
I will not need to many bands for my next router/wifi now since I will be alone and will use cable for my main pc. But I wanted to buy something a little bit future proof.
If you're going to stick with Asus, get something that supports the Merlin firmware, as it tends to extend the product life by quite a bit after Asus EOLs a model.
Read: we lie in your face, as every WiFi router marketing brossure do in the past two decade.
Perhaps would be nice a "honest review" about the harsh reality...
I think you might be able to exceed 2.5 Gbps on the 6 GHz band with this thing, since I can easily hit 1500 Mbps on the 5 GHz on my WiFi 6 router, using LibreSpeed (at least one way).
www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/wifi-7/all-series/asus-rt-be92u/