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When to use the 2.5G Multi-Gig Port on the Nighthawk® RAXE500 AXE11000 Tri-Band WiFi Router
Recently I have had installed through AT&T Fiber Optic internet. I am on the 2Gig plan; So far it has been even better than I even hoped for and when I bought and installed the Nighthawk® RAXE500 AXE11000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi Router it got even better. I am not sure I am using th router to its full advantage. There is a 2.8G Multi port
on it that says for faster speeds.
My modem is a HUMAX BGW320-500 Broadband Gateway that I have on pass through so I can use the Netgear Router.
Does anyone have setup? Know it can use both devices faster ports and is it even worth it?
thank you
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- It only makes sense for WiFi throughput. All other LAN ports max out at 1 Gbps so you won't hit your 2 Gbps with wired devices.
TIEfitrRAXE500 wrote:
There is a 2.8G Multi port on it that says for faster speeds.
My modem is a HUMAX BGW320-500 Broadband Gateway that I have on pass through so I can use the Netgear Router.
Does anyone have setup? Know it can use both devices faster ports and is it even worth it?
thank you
There is one Multi-Gig port on the RAXE500, max link speed is 2.5 Gb/s.
You can can define the Multi-Gig Nr. 5 2.5G as the Internet port, and connect it to the blue Multi-Gig (it's 2.5G/5G) port on the BGW320-500 Broadband Gateway Nr. 1 - only to this port, not concurrent with the other yellow GbE port 2..4.
With a configurable 2.5G switch, you could establish two GbE Aggregation links to the router Aggregate port 3 and 4. So connected devices can be operated faster than the said 1 Gb.
A cat 6a Ethernet cable from your ONT to your RAXE500 is recommended.
If you install the Nighthawk mobile application on your phone or tablet, the internal test will provide data on the throughput from the ONT to the RAXE500.
Your router has Ethernet output ports rated at 1 Gbps. You would have to test load more than one simultaneously to check the output.
When I went to buy a new Ethernet cable last I saw there were now Cat8 so that's what I bought and use. That is OK right? One Cat8 goes from Gateway (Fiber Optic Modem) to the Router (RAXE500 AXE11000 Tri Band WiFi Router). The other one is still in the box. I never have the need to connect my computer directly to router anyway. The wifi is more than sufficient.
Does the cable have UTP or STP printed on it? There different though CAT# can be 8.
