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JUST looking for home networking advise
I have tried to upgrade my very old network at home, but keep running into thinks I know nothing about! I have called, (I think) every number Netgear publishes, and aside from repeatedly waiting hou...
Everything is actually still in sealed boxes, so if I/my Grandson needs to return or swap any.
ARRIS S33 Modem
ARRIS W131 (2-pacl) Not aware of any "other" AX11000 than those except the W31 is a 1-pack. Dozens of "Manufacturers" put their model numbers on them, but they are identical. (ASUS, & several others)
Netgear GS116v2 16-Port Switch (Has been in service with ARRIS SBG6900-AC for a few years, but is still a current model.)
I am getting SO confused and frustrated. I "used to" run/own one of the larger computer sales & repair centers on the central (Left-ie; Wrong) Coast. [Mount Desert West Inc.]
I "used o" know and understand this stuff, but age, a VERY QUICKLY failing memory (WHO IS THIS???? LOL) and whatever, seems to have left me a simple, aged, used-to-was, "user" now.
I have been reading for a week now and evreything I read, from company data to blogs entries, ALL argue with each other!
Yes it will! No, it won't! We aren't sure! (sometimes all responses from same company!). I am getting crazier (arguably impossible according to wife & kids) rather then more enlightened. I just wish I, like the rest of the world, it seems, hadn't come to so depend on computers and their (sometimes) helpful uses.
(I am still laughing about the "Paperless Society" computers were supposed to produce. NOW, everyone prints their own copy of EVERYTHING. I spend more many on copy paper than I do gas, even at today's prices!)
the W31 is just the single unit and not mesh. 2 of them together is the mesh.
Are you thinking you'll use the greater than 1 gig speeds? If so, I'd return the router and buy something with multigig ports.
If not, the Arris ax11000 is a pretty rock solid system. I used it and it works well and its wireless backhaul is pretty solid. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it
The datasheet said both the WAN & LAN ports are Gigabit, but that the unit conforms to 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6).
802.11ax supports (supossedly) 1,2.5 & 5gb speeds.
This is why I get confused (other than because I am older than dirt), as a manufacturer "diddles" with words and terms (remember audio SPEAKERS? and the BS used to describe them?) and then users says it ain't so. Or, two users will disagree, one in either direction!
The RBKE963B system uses the AXE11000 Quad-Band WiFi internally! It says it has 1 2.5Gb port for the satellites, but the outputs (for switches, etc) are only 10/100/1000Mbps ports. That's Gigabit also, not Multi-Gig.
You list the Trendnet TEG-S380 AND the GS716T (which version, there seems to be 3 or more?). TWO switches? Again, my po little brain am sizzling!
How are they hooked up? Specifically?
ThanksOh, and I have the W131 (2 pack) AX11000s
the RBKE963B
Holy Catfish Catchin' !!!!
Just looked up price of the RBKE963B, I could hand write messages and get them hand delivered! Not got them kinda green stamps, not on a fixed retired/disabled military paycheck! Any other suggestions from that?
I'd just stick with the W31. Its a solid system. Problem is when you get to multigig ports, the systems get extremely expensive.
That might change in a year or 2 as those systems get more common but right now the cost of those ports mean they only get installed on flagship systems. Its why the w31 doesn't have one (asked an engineer as I have the w31 as well).
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