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I have the BT10 system (2 nodes). I am very happy with it – recent firmware updates have improved stability significantly and it is certainly stable enough for day to day usage. There is more work for them to do – I find very occasionally wireless backhaul throws a fit and need to reboot the nodes. I haven’t tried disabling MLO to check the impact however.

My only real gripe is just how expensive this current crop of WiFi7 routers are! I can’t see how they can justify the prices no matter how good they are.  That aside I am very happy with the upgrade.

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I think there’s minimum support time vendors have to support them now by law – 5 years I think? But I would assume BQ16 will get the updates first and then they will filter their way down to the 10 and 8 some time after.

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. MultiDoc Said:

Thanks for the welcome ! And I appreciate your input (main if not sole reason I have been lurking as guest these forums, decided to register now that I have the BQ16 setup).

welcome to the forum multidoc

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Interesting I wonder if some of these changes will eventually come to the bt10. Specifically the backhaul improvements as I do see backhaul issues on the 10.

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There are some details in the weekly MSE email here Latest weekly email: BILLBUSTER special

The tariff is E.on Next EXCLUSIVE Fixed 16m V1 you can either get it directly from Eon or go via the MSE energy comparison thing for a bit of cashback too.  Prices will very a bit by area but should be close to that wherever you are.

I would stay on tracker myself and ride out the highs which are always a risk with the tariff.  But I really don’t like them continually adding on so much extra profit margin into the mix, makes times like these when the actual wholesale cost is very high even more expensive with the extra margin.  They won’t even explain when asked what the extra costs are for

 

 

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Agile only ever seems worth it if you can regularly load shift or if you’re able to store with a battery and use during peak times.

if you check the octopus compare app you can pull in your usage and compare to all the tariffs and see what would have been cheaper during any given period. Agile always comes out more expensive for my usage.

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I’ve been on the octopus tracker (dec2023) and got the same email to move over to the dec2024.

It is no longer the great deal it once was, they’ve whacked on huge extra profit margin. They’ve increased the standing charge up to about the price cap standing charge, even though it’s not a price cap tariff.

 

They’ve also increased both parts of the tracker unit formula, so it is now 1.2x wholesale unit cost (up from 1.1something) + about 12p additional margin. The additional margin bit is now almost double from when tracker first came out.  I suspect tracker was so popular that Octopus are now using it to massively squeeze profit out of those customers, it’s no longer the must-have tariff it was.

I see in the MSE email there is a new eon tariff that looks somewhat tempting, elec 21.18p/kwh gas 6.295p fixed for 16 months. Tempted by that myself as I don’t like what Octopus are doing now.

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Just as i’ve not long sold my trusty ax82u. Good to see it still being supported by Gnuton

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I find it funny that this is their ‘first AI powered router’ and yet for years they’ve been advertising their routers with all of their features named AI-this and AI-that

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WiFi performance has been great so far. Was really quick to set up the main network as well as the iot network which I moved all my devices like nest thermostat over to.

The only incompatibility I found so far is with wifi7 enabled on the main ssid, Sonos devices refuse to connect. That’s a Sonos issue though as everything else connects fine regardless how old it is, so hopefully they put out an update for it.

I managed to bag an mis-price on the 3 node pack but only need 2 nodes for full strength WiFi around the whole house, could have gotten away with one node my house weren’t so awkwardly shaped. But it means I have one unused node I’m trying to get rid of now, bring the overall cost down a bit

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Recently picked up the BT10, it’s clear that Asus has a lot of work to do on it yet.  Occasionally the devices will just reboot whilst browsing settings using the IOS app. And fairly frequently the backhaul will disconnect between the two nodes and require a reboot. Fingers crossed they put out updates faster than the glacial pace of the ax82 updates I upgraded from.

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thanks for the update, shame that Asus are so slow in updating things.

Fibre will be available here soon and I am considering upgrading my ax82u to the asus bt8, but given the really poor firmware support from them i’ve seen with the ax82u i’m hesitant to buy more asus network products.

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Nice one, thanks for following it up. Hopefully they don’t leave it until 2025 to update it again

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Quite a poor effort on their part seeing as it doesn’t cover those CVEs.

And seeing it’s been almost a year since the last one, disappointing to see it’s still on 3.0.0.4 and they haven’t looked to update it to the current major version of asuswrt.

Have updated anyway for now but hopefully they have more in the works?

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One of the main reasons I buy Apple devices is their excessively long support. Gives them a real long lifetime when I pass them onto family etc

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