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Netgear AX12 and CM1100 Port Aggregation
Hello,
I just received my new AX12 and so far find it an excellent upgrade. I also have the CM11100 modem and see that both have Ethernet Port Aggregation. I have 1 gig service with comcast. ...
I'll dumb it down a bit more for you.
Running a speed test, on a single device, directly connected to your RAX120 can only yield a max speed throughput of ~960Mbps (1Gbps minus overhead).
Running another speed test, on another device, at the same time, directly connected to your RAX120, can yet again, only yield a max speed throughput of ~960Mbps (again 1Gbps minus overhead).
Add the two results together and you should at least achieve 1000Mbps (full 1Gbps Internet connection). If your Internet has been over provisioned, you could see aggregated (pun intended) speeds in excess of 1Gbps. I would expect you'd achieve 1100-1200Mbps.
No matter the results above, if LACP LAG has been optimally implemented in both the RAX120 and CM1100, I'd continue to use LAG between them. You never know if your ISP overprovisions in the future, LAG provides load balancing, failover, etc, etc, etc.
Hopes this helps.
You are exactly correct. The MS510TX has the following 10-ports:
1 Gigabit ports: 4 (10M/100M/1G)
2.5-Gigabit ports: 2 (100M/1G/2.5G)
5-Gigabit ports: 2 (100M/1G/2.5G/5G)
10-Gigabit copper ports: 1 (100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10GBASE-T)
10-Gigabit fiber SFP+ ports: 1 (1G/10GBASE-X SFP+)
All the ports are labled on the front of the switch.
- You would connect your modem and router just as they are now.
- You would connect your router to the switch by plugging one end of a Cat5e/Cat6 cable into the routers 5-Gigabit port and the other into one of the two 5-Gigabit ports on the switch.
- You would connect your QNAP to the switch using LAG, but I would need to know more about your NAS. How many ethernet ports does it have? Does it support static and/or LACP LAGs? Does it have any Multi-Gigabit ports?
At any rate, I think you understand a little better what you should be aiming for here. Right?
My NAS is older so it only has 2 gigabit ports. It is QNAP 419+.and has full 803.3ad link aggregation. I am sure I have LAG setup on the NAS(will verify) and found instructions on how to setup LAG on the switch. I have not done this before. I will eventually have to upgrade the NAS but that wont be until later this year or next year.
As for the RAX120, I am enjoying it. Much better than the X8. However, I am not able to take full advantage as I only have a 1 gig connection. Lookign to upgrade this also.