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Thomo1318
Aspirant
Jun 09, 2019

Will there be a new one soon?

I am currently about to upgrade my router... But with wifi 6/ax on the horizon I don’t know if the upgrade the the XR700 is worth the upgrade since it will soon be old tech. Hence looking at a switc...
Thomo1318's avatar
Thomo1318
Aspirant
Jun 09, 2019
RAX200 = AX12
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    Thomo1318
    Aspirant
    Jun 09, 2019
    I stand corrected...
    Looking at the tech specs, apart from the upgrade to wifi 6 the other tech specs still don’t marry up to the RX700
    • plemans's avatar
      plemans
      Guru - Experienced User
      Jun 09, 2019
      Thomo1318 wrote:
      I stand corrected...
      Looking at the tech specs, apart from the upgrade to wifi 6 the other tech specs still don’t marry up to the RX700

      Depends on your usage. Yes the XR700 has 10g port but  I don't know of a consumer modem that supports this.  The RAX200 supports link aggregation for wan port or using the 2.5g port for wan. More likely to see consumer modems with 2.5g or link aggregation. 

      Rax has triband so you can separate out devices. Its tough to compare processors as their different suppliers (Annapurna vs broadcom).

      Little bit of differences but I'd hold off until wifi 6 has been ratified if you can. I think it'll give time for the firmware to stabilize and truly see a comparison in speeds. 

       

      • Netduma-Fraser's avatar
        Netduma-Fraser
        NetDuma Partner
        Jun 11, 2019
        Just my two cents, there are currently no devices that I am aware of that support AX WiFi and so any of your current devices would not see the benefit of that technology even if you had a router that used it.