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RT-AX86U 2.5Gbps Port WAN Only?

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ChitlinNoodleSoup

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I've had people elsewhere tell me that the 2.5Gbps port on this router should work as a LAN port if not explicitly told to function as a WAN port. I have tried using it as a LAN port but connecting anything to this port causes the internet to go down and it requires a reboot to bring it back up.

Can anyone confirm this one way or the other? Thanks.
 
Yes, one of the first things I tried (to QNAP NAS with 25' Cat5e Ethernet cable), about 18 months ago.
 
I've had people elsewhere tell me that the 2.5Gbps port on this router should work as a LAN port if not explicitly told to function as a WAN port. I have tried using it as a LAN port but connecting anything to this port causes the internet to go down and it requires a reboot to bring it back up.

Can anyone confirm this one way or the other? Thanks.

2.5G LAN/WAN defaults to working LAN port5 here.

Also works as WAN port; default WAN/Internet then becomes LAN port5.

OE
 
Did you have to do anything in the router settings to make this work?

No, as @OzarkEdge alludes to also.

Other than making sure I did a full reset after flashing to RMerlin firmware and then not using a saved backup config file.
 
Even when you don't need the higher throughput, you benefit from lower latency. ;)
 

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