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ovidiu31
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Oct 10, 2022
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2,5 Gbps dilemma and suggestion

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

  • plemans's avatar
    plemans
    Guru - Experienced User

    The RBKE963 has a 10gig port and 2.5gig port. 

     

  • 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.

  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User

    Or add a Multi Gb switch to the back of the RAXE. NG has a couple. 

  • plemans's avatar
    plemans
    Guru - 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. 

     

  • well my request to netgear is simple:

    Make a Nighthawk RAXEXXX wifi 6E router with 1 x 5/2,5 Gbps WAN + at least 1 x 2,5Gbps LAN port.