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Considering a CAX80 Purchase -
I am contemplating the purchase of the Netgear AX6000 (CAX80) Cable Modem with WiFi 6 Router. Before I do I have two considerations that are make it or skip it considerations. For Home and Business...
Guzzialfa wrote:
Yikes! That's a lot of gear! You say it's all behind the one cable modem, CAX80?? I wanted to ask why you disabled the WiFi and just bought a cable modem only sans WiFi with all the routers you have in place? Then, if all hits the fan, you still have a WiFi solution on the Cable Modem just in case, I suppose.
As plemans mentioned, we do lots of playing with toys and learning of what different products do so we can gain more experience to better help users out here in the forums. So we test out different things and different configurations. We also try to test out new FW as it comes out to see what new things are seen. Give feedback to NG and users.
Was there another reason?
Apologies but what is LAG? Don't recognize the acronym but it is 1:15 AM as I type this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation
My apologies for the tardy reply as well. You were very quick to respond as well. I just needed a bit to digest all the different replies. No one from NetGear has responded stating these old Switches will be just fine. Should be is what I get from everyone. Then again, I could just do what you've done and get another 4 port Router and plug in the two switches while also disabling the WiFi on the CAX80. It's an alternative should it be necessary.
Your NG switches should work just fine behind the CAX80.
Or is everyone hinting I shouldn't use NetGear's WiFi and not coming out and saying so?
The CAX80s wifi is pretty good. When I have the wifi on my CAX80, since my home is kind of big, I use two EX7700 wifi extenders to help with signal.
Same here, have different Switches after my CAX80, HP, NG and D-Link. All work fine behind the modem.
My modem is now in modem only mode so I use two different routers behind it. My ISP allows for more than one WAN IP address while in modem only mode. :smileywink:
Yikes! That's a lot of gear! You say it's all behind the one cable modem, CAX80?? I wanted to ask why you disabled the WiFi and just bought a cable modem only sans WiFi with all the routers you have in place? Then, if all hits the fan, you still have a WiFi solution on the Cable Modem just in case, I suppose.
Was there another reason?
Apologies but what is LAG? Don't recognize the acronym but it is 1:15 AM as I type this.
My apologies for the tardy reply as well. You were very quick to respond as well. I just needed a bit to digest all the different replies. No one from NetGear has responded stating these old Switches will be just fine. Should be is what I get from everyone. Then again, I could just do what you've done and get another 4 port Router and plug in the two switches while also disabling the WiFi on the CAX80. It's an alternative should it be necessary.
Or is everyone hinting I shouldn't use NetGear's WiFi and not coming out and saying so?
Hmmm, typing at 1:15 shouldn't be thinking so hard.
Thank you,
John S.
Guzzialfa wrote:
Yikes! That's a lot of gear! You say it's all behind the one cable modem, CAX80?? I wanted to ask why you disabled the WiFi and just bought a cable modem only sans WiFi with all the routers you have in place? Then, if all hits the fan, you still have a WiFi solution on the Cable Modem just in case, I suppose.
As plemans mentioned, we do lots of playing with toys and learning of what different products do so we can gain more experience to better help users out here in the forums. So we test out different things and different configurations. We also try to test out new FW as it comes out to see what new things are seen. Give feedback to NG and users.
Was there another reason?
Apologies but what is LAG? Don't recognize the acronym but it is 1:15 AM as I type this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation
My apologies for the tardy reply as well. You were very quick to respond as well. I just needed a bit to digest all the different replies. No one from NetGear has responded stating these old Switches will be just fine. Should be is what I get from everyone. Then again, I could just do what you've done and get another 4 port Router and plug in the two switches while also disabling the WiFi on the CAX80. It's an alternative should it be necessary.
Your NG switches should work just fine behind the CAX80.
Or is everyone hinting I shouldn't use NetGear's WiFi and not coming out and saying so?
The CAX80s wifi is pretty good. When I have the wifi on my CAX80, since my home is kind of big, I use two EX7700 wifi extenders to help with signal.
Thanks again! One last quick question for you. Why did you choose the EX7700 over the AX600 (EAX80). The EX7700 appears to be WiFi 5 while the CAX80 and the EAX80 are both WiFi 6?
Thanks!
John S.