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My Experience with Orbi Axe11000 (Model RBRE960) and ATT Gateway Pace 5268.
I have a ATT 900+ up/900+ down Fiber Plan with ATT (Model 5268AC). I have a 3 story townhome and getting wifi from the basement of the townhome was just not viable for my family. Long ago we had a ol...
Decided to take it out of the box again to try this because i honestly thought about this before and wasn't sure if it would work. Can you guess what? THE AXE11000 HAS INTERNET WHEN CONNECTED TO THE OLD AC2200. Seems like it probably is the connection to the Pace 5268AC. In my opinion this is very bizarre and a weird limitation of the Pace 5268.
Like you, I find it incomprehensible that the Pact 5268 does not connect to the Orbi. The only obvious difference I see is that the Orbi has an auto-sensing 10/100/1000/2.5G/5G/10G Ethernet port. The Pace seems to have been designed before 2017, when speeds above 1G were not common (if available at all).
It is probably too late (Orbi 'back in the box') but it would be interesting to know what the two devices say about the ports that are being connected.
- The Orbi Advanced Tab home page has a blue box "Show Statistics" which displays the speed that the Orbi believes is being used.
- There might be a similar table on the Pace showing the connection to each port.
It is indeed possible to connect the Orbi to the Pace through a gigabit switch (I do it myself so that I can snoop on the conversation between Spectrum and the Orbi router. Neither the Spectrum modem nor the Orbi router are aware that the switch is there.) If a switch was inserted there and, "Voila. Internet!", that would be interesting.) I'm using a Netgear GS108Ev3 because I want the VLAN and port mirroring capability that is not found in "dumb" switches. $40 and extra time to procure a switch may be more trouble than it is worth.
That is a interesting thought. Maybe the Pace 5268 Wasn't designed for the 10 GB Port and there for it does not recognize it?
When looking on my Router Settings it says it is giving my AC2200 1GBPS Up. When doing a speed test my AC2200 says its outputting 880 Up and 900 Down so it seems like its operating as it should. I checked the AC2200 Statistics and it says the WAN port is getting 1000M/Full. So if i had to guess if the AC2200 is only getting 1000M/Full then the AXE11000 would get about the same.
And yeah you have a setup similar to what i was thinking about doing. I do feel also that it is alot more trouble than its worth when i could potentially get a new Gateway with better capabilities.
Might ask the ISP if there is a upgrade option for the PACE. I think that model has been around for a while now. Or if you can avoid using it all together.
