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Ability to allocate and configure a 2.5Gbe port for WAN and free up 10 Gbe LAN port

 
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Ability to allocate and configure a 2.5Gbe port for WAN and free up 10 Gbe LAN port

Ability to allocate and configure a 2.5Gbe port for WAN and free up 10 Gbe LAN port
Ability to allocate and configure a 2.5Gbe port for WAN and free up 10 Gbe LAN port
2025-06-21 09:21:59
Tags: #EasyMesh Ethernet Backhaul #10Gbe
Model: Archer BE800  
Hardware Version: V1
Firmware Version: 1.2.3 Build 20250314 rel.45415(4153)

Summary.

Request is the ability to configure and use a 2.5Gbe port as a WAN port.

 

Detail

The Archer BE800 has 2 x 10Gbe ports and 4 x 2.5Gbe internet ports. 

10Gbe ports can be configured for WAN or LAN. 

2.5Gbe ports can only be configured for LAN.

 

I would like to be able to use both 10Gbe ports for local lan connection to an editing/VR  PC and NAS or a backbone between BE800

I would like to be able to use a single 2.5Gbe port for PPPoE connection to the ISP.

Currently I am wasting a 10Gbe  port on a 1Gbs ISP fibre connection. This means practically only 1 x10Gbe port can ever be utilized at 10Gbs 

I like most people will never see greater than 2.5Gbs  fibre from my ISP in the lifetime of this router .

 

 

      

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Re:Ability to allocate and configure a 2.5Gbe port for WAN and free up 10 Gbe LAN port
2025-06-23 10:23:16

Hi@StFual,

Thank you for posting on the TP-Link community. We appreciate all your feedback and feature requests here.

While we don't have any specific details to share, I'll make sure to log this feature request and pass it along to the team.

Feel free to let us know of any other feature requests you may have; we’d be happy to send them up for you.

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Re:Ability to allocate and configure a 2.5Gbe port for WAN and free up 10 Gbe LAN port
2025-07-24 15:01:30
Hi, I'm also really looking forward to this feature.
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Re:Ability to allocate and configure a 2.5Gbe port for WAN and free up 10 Gbe LAN port
2025-08-01 13:57:58

  @StFual I would also like to have this capability

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