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Sacrificing the Main LAN Trunk: By forcing the second 10G port to act as a WAN

 
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Sacrificing the Main LAN Trunk: By forcing the second 10G port to act as a WAN

Sacrificing the Main LAN Trunk: By forcing the second 10G port to act as a WAN
Sacrificing the Main LAN Trunk: By forcing the second 10G port to act as a WAN
a week ago
Model: Archer BE900  
Hardware Version: V2
Firmware Version: 1.3.1 Build 20260208 rel.37853(5553)

Dear TP-Link Technical Support Team,  (11-04-2026)

I am a long-time enthusiast of your products and currently own your flagship router, the Archer BE900. My home infrastructure is built on a high-end 10Gbps backbone, utilizing Category 8 cabling, 10G switches, and multiple EasyMesh nodes to support a high-performance Home Office environment.

I am writing to express a significant technical concern regarding the current Multi-WAN implementation in the firmware. Currently, when enabling a second WAN, the system forces the user to utilize the second 10Gbps port.

For high-end users, this creates a major bottleneck for the following reasons:

1. Sacrificing the Main LAN Trunk: By forcing the second 10G port to act as a WAN (often for a secondary ISP link of only 1Gbps or 2.5Gbps), we lose the 10Gbps backhaul to our main switch and the rest of the local network.

2. Underutilized Hardware: The router features dedicated 2.5Gbps ports that are perfect for a secondary WAN. Using one of these for the second ISP would allow us to keep the 10Gbps port dedicated to the LAN, maintaining the high-speed integrity of our internal network.

As a loyal customer who invests in your flagship hardware, I kindly request that you consider a firmware update that allows manual selection of any port (specifically the 2.5Gbps ports) as the secondary WAN. This flexibility is essential for a router in this price range and category.

Multi-WAN error; only allowing WANs to use 10GE ports is a mistake.

I look forward to hearing if this improvement is on your current development roadmap.

Best regards

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Re:Sacrificing the Main LAN Trunk: By forcing the second 10G port to act as a WAN
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Hi @rmont5ec ,

Thank you for posting in the TP-Link community. We value your feedback and feature suggestions.

Your suggestions and feedback are invaluable. We have noted this feature suggestion and forwarded it to the team. If it passes evaluation, it may be optimized in a future firmware update.

If you have any other feature suggestions, please feel free to let us know; we would be happy to submit them for you.

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