I recently changed my ISP package to 10Gb fiber (because it was 5 euros more than 1Gb). I am aware that having 10Gb wired is expensive and mostly not needed, but I still want to have more than 1Gb coming to the 2 computers in my house to get some advantage of having 10Gb speed.

I was looking at some ASUS routers and my question is: If I have 1 port 2.5g WAN and 2 ports 10Gb LAN, can I have 2.5Gb going to both computers?

Ps: I tried to Google it but only found more complexes situations.

  • mrpink57@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    No you cannot, it is going to be a max of 2.5G coming in, ideally you’d want a 10G in and 1G to each port, what this does is allows TEN devices to run at a full 1G, this is a more reasonable scenario for a home user.

    Your still going to probably need either a prosumer router and probably a prosumer switch like mikrotik/unifi/omada to get what you want out of this.

    Something like this: https://mikrotik.com/product/rb4011igs_rm would get you 10G in and 1G out to each as I suggested.

  • tschloss@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Not at the same time. Both computers will share the 2.5Gb uplink (if this class is supported on the uplink).

  • MeCJay12@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You could have a combination of 2.5Gb going to your entire network.

    Think of it this way. Your router aggregates all the traffic from your network to put over your WAN. Your WAN is your way to the Internet so you can only go as fast as your WAN.

  • accord1999@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If I have 1 port 2.5g WAN and 2 ports 10Gb LAN

    Yes, the Asus routers are flexible and you can use any of the multi-gig ports for the WAN and the rest will be LAN ports. For example the [GT-AXE16000]Imgur.