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I recently purchased the AXE11000 Mesh WiFi System (RBKE963), 3 pack from Best Buy.
I saw that the Orbi router had a 10 Gb internet port on it. I have 5 Gb internet service from AT&T. The AT&T router is BGW320-500 and it has a 5 Gb port on the back that will allow it to connect to a LAN device. So i purchased a 10 Gb network card and installed it into my PC. I then connected my PC to the AT&T router's 10 Gb port and can get anywhere from 1200 to 4700 MBPS.
Although i see that i could plug the Orbi's 10 Gb port into my AT&T router's 5 Gb port for internet, there is no 10 Gb LAN port on the Orbi router. I entered a case with Netgear (46770848) and was told that i can theoreticlly one day get 10.8 gbps wifi, but for now there is no way i can get my 5 Gb internet service to my network PC through the Orbi router right now, because the Orbi only has the 1, 10 Gb WAN port. Therefore I'll have to return it.
It would be good if a future Orbi router had BOTH a 10 GB WAN port and a 10 GB LAN port.
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Orbi 9 series only supports 2.5Gb on the LAN side.
10Gb may incur additional HW and cooling as well as at this speed, more heat is generated.
If you only have a 5Gb port on the ISP modem then 10Gb would not be really needed at the LAN side anyways. Not much that can really saturation the connection currently as well. No ISP offers 10Gb ISP speeds anyways. Won't see this for a few more years anyways. 2.5 is just being seen in "some" ISP services.
