What is the 2.5G port on my router?

Asus’ gamer-centric RT-AC88U packs more ethernet ports than any other 802.11ac router.

A 2.5-G Multi-Gig port supports intermediate speeds, so your network devices can run at their designated speeds without any limitations . It is also backward compatible. If you already have the traditional Cat5E and Cat6 cables, you won’t need to buy new ones.

In real world testing, Wi-Fi 6’s single stream speed has been raised to 1.2 Gbps – 20% faster than connecting via Gigabit Ethernet .

There are currently two main speed standards for LAN ports: Ethernet (also called Fast Ethernet,) which caps at 100 megabits per second (or about 13 megabytes per second), and Gigabit Ethernet , which caps at 1 gigabit per second (or about 150 MBps).

Intense raw performance, optimized for gaming The TP-Link Archer C5400X is the gaming router to beat, with some of the best performance you’ll see in any single home networking device. It offers best-in-class tri-band performance, delivering 1Gbps over its 2.4GHz band and 2.167Gbps over each of its two 5GHz channels.

And a 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet network is nothing to shake a stick at. With a 2.5G or 5G network, a NAS setup becomes a viable solution for storing and accessing mass amounts of media remotely . At those speeds, 4K videos can be streamed or edited with no problems.