NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Greetings all
Recently i have got my home fiber internet bandwidth upgraded to 2,5Gbps.
Being a fierce netgear fanboy i started to look for an upgrade for my existing Netgear Nighthawk Router.
I faced a terrible disappointment when i noticed that all the NightHawk RAXEXXX series have only one single port 2,5Gbps which can be used either as WAN either as LAN.
Dear netgear i strongly suggest adding on LAN side at least one extra pure 2,5Gbps port to be able to split use 2,5Gbps wired connections from my house (which is wired all CAT8).
Link aggregation of 2 ports 1+1 Gbps on LAN side is NOT pure 2,5 Gbps port.
Imagine my isp is giving me 5Gbps or 2,5Gbps which i plug them into any RAXExxx Router but the output further is limited either to 1Gbps either to 2Gbps with port aggregation.
Best Regards
Ovi
7 Comments
- plemansGuru - Experienced User
The RBKE963 has a 10gig port and 2.5gig port.
- ovidiu31Aspirant
Isn't that an ORBI mesh 3 packs system? which is also insanely expensive and way too overkill as range for me.
I was asking for similar feature on an RAXEXXX router ... honestly i would pay 500$ for a nighthawk with 5 or 2,5 Gbps WAN and at least 1 x 2,5 Gbps LAN extra port.
- FURRYe38Guru - Experienced User
Or add a Multi Gb switch to the back of the RAXE. NG has a couple.
- plemansGuru - Experienced User
So you can buy just the router part on its own for cheaper.
Or you could go with something like the CAX80 thats has a 2.5gig output port (if you're on a cable modem system)
I'd agree that the RAX200/RAXE500 should have had more than 1 multigig ports so you can have 1 for wan and 1 for lan.
- FURRYe38Guru - Experienced User
The CM2000/2050v also has a 2.5Gb WAN port.
- plemansGuru - Experienced User
The RBKE router only is basically that.
https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/mesh/rbre960/
And it can be bought by itself.