Mesh routers question

[1100011CS]

I've seen a couple of these advertise that the ports on the 'extenders' are gigabit ethernet ports. If those 'extenders' (not sure what they're called in a mesh system) are connecting to the main router wirelessly, how can their ethernet ports be gigabit?

 

[jdcyclone19]

I've seen a couple of these advertise that the ports on the 'extenders' are gigabit ethernet ports. If those 'extenders' (not sure what they're called in a mesh system) are connecting to the main router wirelessly, how can their ethernet ports be gigabit?

I believe those ports are meant to have Ethernet from the main hub/router plugged into them to offer gigabit speeds. Not to set up the hubs as wireless and then plug Ethernet from the hub to a device. I guess it would depend on the mesh system.

 

[TykeClone]

The spec on the port is gigabit. The communication back to the router is limited by the speed of that link.

It probably is "technically true while potentially misleading"

 

[Bader]

I've seen a couple of these advertise that the ports on the 'extenders' are gigabit ethernet ports. If those 'extenders' (not sure what they're called in a mesh system) are connecting to the main router wirelessly, how can their ethernet ports be gigabit?

The same way 802.11ac supports 1Gb/s throughput. The speed from the end device to the node it's wired to is 1Gb/s. What happens from the node to the router is another story.

 

[OnlyCyclones]

I 100% thought this was a thread on why we aren't utilizing the mesh route combination enough on the football field. I'm disappointed, but mostly in myself.

Carry on!

 

[bluestarcyclone]

The spec on the port is gigabit. The communication back to the router is limited by the speed of that link.

It probably is "technically true while potentially misleading"

It can also depend on the setup.

Like with Orbi you can connect the base stations to each other and have wired backhaul, in which case the gigabit connection would matter both for that and for anything else you connected via the other 3 ethernet ports.