Be92 support lan bonding/link aggregation?

[bigcid10]

I looked in the asus manual and didn't see it anywhere
I'm thinking of upgrading from a ax88u to this router
and I use this with my nas
Thank you

 

[degrub]

LAG doesn't usually help the single user much. It is intended to make more bandwidth available for many users at the same time to access. Most of the time you are better off using a faster ethernet port on the client and NAS with a supporting switch between..

 

[ColinTaylor]

What model is "Be92"? Look at its specifications page on Asus' website.

EDIT: I'm guessing you mean "RT-BE92U". In which case there is no mention of it supporting link aggregation in it's specs and the dongknows review explicitly says it does not.

 

[Poul Bak]

The RT-BE92U can do 2.3 Gbit (250MB+) wired (measured). Are you sure that will be the bottleneck?

 

[KevTech]

RT-BE86U has this in the LAN setting should you want to go with that router instead of the BE92.

 

[bigcid10]

I have 2 2.5G ports on my NAS and I use it connected to a 88u router with 1G ports
it gets me a 2GB connection to my router in lag bond mode
from the picture above it doesn't support that feature
Thank you

 

[bigcid10]

I'm curious to know why the be86 does and the be92 doesn't
wierd

 

[degrub]

asus marketing

 

[Poul Bak]

I have never liked link aggregation - seems like 'repairing' a slow connection (it also steals a lan port on the router). I think your nas should have 1 10Gbit instead (if your other devices can 'fill' that), then it would work in the future too.

 

[KevTech]

I have 2 2.5G ports on my NAS and I use it connected to a 88u router with 1G ports
it gets me a 2GB connection to my router in lag bond mode

RT-BE86U has four 2.5G ports and one 10G port so you may not need bonding.

 

[bigcid10]

I have never liked link aggregation - seems like 'repairing' a slow connection (it also steals a lan port on the router). I think your nas should have 1 10Gbit instead (if your other devices can 'fill' that), then it would work in the future too.

It's mostly for LAN file transferring
not wan

 

[Poul Bak]

It's mostly for LAN file transferring
not wan

I did mean on LAN (but the above is of course just MY opinion).

Well, if you have a pc that can deliver more then 2.5Gbit (or plan to buy one that can) then may be you should buy a router with link bonding to get the best out of your nas.

Just remember that the art of making a good network is to find the bottleneck and replace that with some faster stuff.
I have never understood some people buying a router that can do 10Gbit wi-fi speed and then they squeeze it through a 1 Gbit connection.

At the end of the day it's totally your decision.

 

[Poul Bak]

I'm curious to know why the be86 does and the be92 doesn't
wierd

If the RT-BE92U could do everything the more expensive routers can then they would not sell those, that simple.

 

[Tech9]

it gets me a 2GB connection

It gets you GbE + GbE link, actually. No single data stream will exceed GbE, multiple connections and aggregate throughput only. A router/switch with 2.5GbE ports will give you overall better performance if you don't count on redundancy.