Five of our seven routers hit their 90-day low in the Prime Big Deal Days week, and all five snapped back on 6 October

Five of the seven routers in our rankings hit their lowest price in 90 days of daily Amazon AU checks during the same seven days, 29 September to 5 October, the week Amazon ran Prime Big Deal Days. On 6 October every one of them was back to its old price. The biggest swing was the Netgear Nighthawk RS600: A$529 for all seven days, A$748 today.

If you missed that week, the question is whether to wait for the next one. The answer differs by router, and our current Wi-Fi router rankings carry the live price on every pick. Below is what 83 daily snapshots since 16 July say about which routers only ever go cheap in a sale week, which sit at the same price no matter what, and the one we reckon you should not buy at today's price.

The picks

TP-Link Archer BE550A$399.90Check Price →

What our data shows

Prices and availability observed by top7.au from Amazon AU, as of 15 October 2026. They change; the live listing is the source of truth.

Seven days, five lows, one reset

Here is the week in full. On 29 September the Archer BE550 went from A$409.90 to A$369.55, then A$329 from 30 September. The Deco BE65 two-pack went from A$678.75 to A$639, then A$638. The eero 7 went from A$299.99 to A$239.99. The Flint 3 went from A$297.99 to A$238.39. The Nighthawk RS600 went from A$748 to A$529. Every one of those is the lowest price we have seen for that router since we started watching on 16 July.

On 6 October, the morning after the sale closed, the BE550 was A$408, the Deco A$699, the eero A$299.99, the Flint A$297.99 and the RS600 A$578. The RS600 drifted to A$579 and then jumped back to A$748 on 9 October, where it still is. Nothing about this was gradual. The prices were set for the event and unset the day it ended.

The two routers that did not join in are also worth knowing about. The ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BE98 has been A$1,299 on 81 of its 83 observed days, including all seven sale days. It was A$1,317 for two days in mid-July and has not moved since 18 July. The Archer BE3600 went the other way: A$189 from 29 September to 3 October, then up to A$229 on 4 October while the sale was still running.

The routers that only go cheap in a sale week

The eero 7 is the clearest case. A$299.99 on 76 of 83 days. The only other price we have ever recorded is A$239.99, on exactly the seven sale days. There is no in-between price and no slow drift. If you want one at A$240 you wait for Amazon's next event, which on past form is Black Friday in late November. If you need it before then, A$299.99 is simply what it costs.

The Archer BE550 behaves the same way with a bit more wobble. It opened at A$415 in July, spent August between A$401 and A$408, rose to A$437 in early September and eased back to A$409.90 by 28 September. Then the sale week at A$329 to A$369.55, then A$408 the next morning. It is A$405.90 as we write. Seventy-six of 83 days have been above A$399, so A$405.90 is not a bad day, it is a normal one. We rate it the best value Wi-Fi 7 router on the list at that price and the sale did not change that.

The Flint 3 has had two dips, not one. A$253.29 for ten days from 24 August, and A$238.39 for the sale week. The rest of the time it has been A$297.99, apart from a A$316.99 launch price that lasted until 11 August. That A$316.99 is also the crossed-out price on the listing today, so unlike most was-prices on this page, it is one the router actually sold at. The Flint 3 is the pick for anyone who wants a VPN router with five 2.5G ports, and A$297.99 is the going rate.

The one to wait for

The Nighthawk RS600 is the router this post exists for. It has sold at A$598 or under on 40 of the 83 days we have watched it, in three separate runs: A$579.99 then A$598 from 15 August to 4 September, A$593 from 10 to 24 September, and A$529 to A$579 from 29 September to 8 October. In between it snaps back to A$748, and that is where it has sat on the other 43 days, including today.

So A$748 is not the price of an RS600. It is the price of an RS600 on a day Netgear is not running a promotion, and on current form those days make up about half the calendar. The gap between the two states is A$150 to A$219. If you can hold off a few weeks, we would. The three dips so far have come roughly a fortnight apart, and Black Friday is six weeks out.

The trade-off: our tracking cannot tell you the next dip's date, only that the pattern has repeated three times in twelve weeks. If your router has died and you need tri-band Wi-Fi 7 with a 10G port today, the RS600 at A$748 still does the job. It is just the wrong day to pay for it.

The two that do not move

The GT-BE98 is our top-ranked router and the price is a flat line: A$1,299 every day since 18 July, including the sale week. If you were waiting for a discount on it, our data has no evidence one is coming through Amazon. Its early-stock wobble is over too. It was out of stock on 21 days in July and the first week of August, and has been in stock every day since 8 August.

The Archer BE3600 is the budget Wi-Fi 7 pick and it has been A$195 or under on 47 of its 56 observed days. The exception is the last fortnight, when it has flipped between A$189 and A$229 several times. Our 14 October snapshot had it at A$189; the live listing this morning says A$229.90. If you see A$189, that is its normal price and fine to pay. At A$229.90 you are paying the top of its range for a router that usually costs forty dollars less, so check the page before you click.

About those crossed-out prices

Five of these seven listings show a crossed-out price next to the real one. For four of them we have never observed the router selling at it. The BE550 shows A$549; the most we have ever recorded is A$437. The Deco BE65 shows A$849; our high is A$785.62. The RS600 shows A$799; our high is A$748. The BE3600 shows A$249; our high is A$229. Only the Flint 3's A$316.99 matches a price it sold at. We went through the same exercise for robot vacuum was-prices last month and found the same thing. Judge a router price against what it has actually sold for, not against the number with a line through it.

What to do this fortnight

If you need a router now, the BE550 at A$405.90, the eero 7 at A$299.99 and the Flint 3 at A$297.99 are at their ordinary prices and there is nothing to gain by waiting short of the next Amazon event. The Deco BE65 at A$689 is A$51 above its sale price, which on a two-pack mesh kit is close enough. The RS600 at A$748 is the one to leave in the cart until it drops under A$600 again, which it has done three times since mid-August.

For the full line-up and live prices, see our Wi-Fi router rankings. If you are on an NBN 100 or 250 plan and wondering whether Wi-Fi 7 is overkill, our NBN router guide covers the tiers. If you have just been upgraded to NBN 2000, our NBN 2000 router picks explain which of these can actually use the speed.