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NETGEAR Nighthawk X10 R9000 - Firmware Update to Enable Dual WAN Port Bonding - LAG / LACP
Since DOCSIS 3.1 has been released in many markets (Cox, Comcast etc) in the US giving us the consumer options to upgrade to speeds greater to or equal to that of 1Gbps I would like to request to see if it would be possible for Netgear to create a Firmware Update that would give us the ability to Bond two WAN ports with LAG / LACP on the R9000, using the available LAN1 and LAN2 ethernet ports designated for Static LAG or LACP-IEEE 803.3ad. There are now many consumer grade DOCSIS 3.1 Modems that support this due to the fact that speeds are now at or above 1Gbps. In order to bypass the 1Gbps physical port bottle neck, this makes perfect sense. Just for the sake of naming a few modems that have this capability, here I name a few: Motorola MB8600, Arris CM8200, Arris SB8200. I'm sure Netgear will also release DOCSIS 3.1 cable modems that have WAN port bonding simply due to the new speeds of internet available to us via this medium.
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When is dual WAn ?
ASUS offers this option on their router which are at a cheaper price. NETGEAR could make the effort to implement this option? or should it leave it brand prefer to go to the competition!
There's also 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps Ethernet. They are still fairly new, but they could supplant dual Gigabit LAGs in the not too distant future.
It would be nice that they could adjust this with software/firmware. If not possible then they should either begin making 10 Gigabit WAN ports or have a few WAN ports on the router that can handle Link Aggregation Group / Port Bonding.
Most topics I find are for Dual WAN / Load Balancing. I suspect that pretty soon consumers will begin looking for solutions for WAN / LAG from a single ISP.
I suspect that a firmware update won't work. The hardware architecture would need to be changed to put the LAG ports on the WAN side.
