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Netgear Orbi AX6000 RBR850 won't connect with a TP-Link TL-SG108-M2 Switch
Hello. I have a brand new Netgear Nighthawk 2.5Gbps Cable Modem with Voice (CM2050V) using Xfinity 1.2Gbps service and a Netgear Orbi AX6000 RBR850 that both work great on their own with Nighthawk ...
dbottoms wrote:
I do have a delimna though as I would have preferred an ultra-high-speed internal network for transfering home data around. I already got the Veto from the beancounter (wife) about upgrading to the 9xxx series as you said its quite expensive.
My sense is that the TP-Link switch would be the perfect component for an "ultra-high-speed internal network", but I see one significant obstacle: apart from the 2.5G ethernet card in the PC, what other devices are likely to support greater than gigabit speed? Most NAS systems have only gigabit ethernet ports, although maybe some of them can do "link aggregation" to bind two ports together and get a higher connection rate. (But, I do not know if the TP-Link switch supports link aggregation.)
I am not confident that having *something* with a higher speed ethernet will accomplish much. What can absorb that much bandwidth?
dbottoms wrote:
Would you happen to be familiar with the Netgear AX6000 WiFi Cable Modem Router (CAX80) and know if it would support both a multi-gig highspeed network and Xfinity Tripleplay? Getting crosseyed trying to read the fineprint here: https://www.netgear.com/media/CAX80_with_Spectrum_DS_30Mar21_tcm148-120183.pdf but it seems to still suggest it contains Four (4) Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports and – Dual Gigabit Ethernet port aggregation which I'm not sure what that means in simple English. I suppose also concern if the wireless network would be compatible with the Orbi mesh or if they'd bump into each other.
Alas, I have no experience withthe CAX product line. It is obviously a replacement for the cable modem and the Orbi WiFi router.
To be perfectly honest, I have little experience relevant to the discussion: (a) my own internet is a measly 200mbs from Spectrum, which appears entirely adequate for my needs, (b) I have exactly zero devices which support WiFi 802.11ax (i.e. WiFi 6). and do not anticipate owning any in the next year or so.
