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Nighthawk 6e models multi-gig in and out?
Question for you all. I have Google Fiber multi-gig and many ethernet connected devices throughout my house. I use 2.5-gig switches to connect my office and living room to my kitchen (a dumb place, I...
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so i already have the raxe500 and just got 2gig frontier fiber today. i have 2 pc's that are wired and they have 2.5g nic cards. im only seeing 1g on the nic card screen in windows -- so i have been searching all night for the right words to put into google to get the response i need and it seems this thread is answering my questions...
so the raxe500 cant output 2.5g to the lan ports correct when you have it setup to use the 2.5g port correct?
so whats the point of this if the router can only spit out 1g at the lan ports?
so what if i get a unmanaged switch like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08XWKF55C/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
and set it up like this:
frontier ONT -> unmanaged switch -> from there i can connect the pc's to the switch to get 2.5g and then i can still connect the netgear and use the 2.5g port to connect to my wireless 6e clients. would this be an acceptable solution?
so the raxe500 cant output 2.5g to the lan ports correct when you have it setup to use the 2.5g port correct?---it only has the 1x 2.5gig port. You can either use it for the wan port or a lan port but not both. It does have lan port aggregation that'd allow you to hit 2gig speeds if you had something that supported lan port aggregation.
so whats the point of this if the router can only spit out 1g at the lan ports?
so what if i get a unmanaged switch like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08XWKF55C/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
and set it up like this:
frontier ONT -> unmanaged switch -> from there i can connect the pc's to the switch to get 2.5g and then i can still connect the netgear and use the 2.5g port to connect to my wireless 6e clients. would this be an acceptable solution? ----that's more on your isp and your setup than on us. Plus it can cause issues with devices on the network seeing either other. Most isp's only assign 1 public ip address so it depends on if your frontier ONT. If its a ONT only device, it probably won't work and if it does, again, could cause issues with devices seeing each other. If its a gateway device with its own routing capability (like a modem/router combo device), then you could do that and put the RAXE500 in access point mode.
Baud_Rate The reason you see this a lot is that 2.5/5/10gig ports are expensive. So router makers are using them for the wan port so the router has the full speed and can send that speed to more than 1 device. What I mean by this is if you have 2gig service, you could have 2x 1gig devices on your network both using the full 1 gig speed for a total of 2gig. Or even have a wired device maxing out the 1gig wired speed while a wireless device was in use maxing out the wireless. For the most part, most devices rarely hit even close to 1 gig unless you're speedtesting. Even a 4k wireless stream only needs 25-40mbps to be used. So if you're doing massive data backups/downloads, then its nice to have. But the average person isn't or if they are, only do it for a short period of time.
If you have further questions about this setup or best way to optimize, start your own thread and we'll do our best to help you
- thanks for the reply. no need to start a new thread.
i bought the switch i linked to and now i have my pc's wired to the switch getting 2.4 up /down and my 6e clients are connected at 2.3 ghz.
no disrespect but im well aware that its not often one can saturate a full 1gig connection, let alone twice that, but this is bleeding edge tech and im an early adopter (hence why i got this router in the first place), so i want to get the speeds im paying for.
once i spent more time with the manual and doing more research on the limitations of this router, im better equipped knowing how to utilize it to the fullest.
thank you for your help and to this board at large.