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CAX80 vs CBK752 for Xfinity
As title says, I’m in an unfortunate location where only Xfinity Internet is available with up to 1.2Gbps service being the highest offering. I currently run CAX30 with an EAX80 extender for our sing...
For that size of home, the CAX would work and maybe the EAX80 out at 30 feet, but thats a small size of home. CAX30 or 80 would work well alone. CBR750 would be ok as well. All these units though will not get over 900Mpbs since they are not supported on that ISP for 1.2Gb. CAX30 and CBR750 only have up to 1Gb support. The CAX80 does have a multi gig port however has not been certified for anything past 1Gb as of yet. No idea if or when that will happen. Something the ISP only knows.
Thanks Furry! I guess the question is which one will work better in my setup:
- apartment is is the living room and three bedrooms daisy-chained one after the other;
- coax is coming into the bedroom farthest from the living room and that’s where the CAX30 resides;
- EAX80 extended lives in the living room and serves all the devises there (TV, appleTV, two laptops when we work from home;
Would Orbi do better going through two bedrooms to get to its satellite?
Would probably be same conditions between what Orbi does and what the CAX and EAX do. Though Orbi had a dedicated wireless backhaul between the router unit and satellite where the CAX and EAX don't.
Is the current CAX and EAX working for your needs?
the current solution works fine as long as both of us aren’t on a video call at the same time for work. when that occurs, video quality degrades and we have to turn off the video for the meeting and use audio-only option. since both of us usually sit in the living room, we are connected to the extender, and when i first contacted support for this, they told me Orbi system, being newer, would be a more performant solution compared to CAX/EAX but couldn’t explain how or why. hence my looking for a real life feedback.