wan?

[Rylo]

So I been reading about the home hub 4000 on bells Reddit forum, the 10gig port on the modem is actually a wan port, is it bad to have a WAN to WAN setup? As I have one end of the Ethernet plugged into the 10gig port on the modem and the other end into the wan port of the xr1000? I have it setup with pppoe, is that going to cause issues or is that actually the better way to do it? 

[Netduma Fraser]

I would assume but couldn't say for certain that if the hub is getting a connection from an optical cable for example that the WAN port can basically be used as a LAN port - whether that 10G then works in the same way for the LAN I couldn't say. If the connection is working then it's fine, though it's not really needed to use a 10G port as the port on the XR only supports 1G anyway so you couldn't even do a high speed local transfer and you're not getting more internet speed either.

[Rylo]

9 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

I would assume but couldn't say for certain that if the hub is getting a connection from an optical cable for example that the WAN port can basically be used as a LAN port - whether that 10G then works in the same way for the LAN I couldn't say. If the connection is working then it's fine, though it's not really needed to use a 10G port as the port on the XR only supports 1G anyway so you couldn't even do a high speed local transfer and you're not getting more internet speed either.

Appreciate the information, I gave it a try last night and it made things much worse so I just went back to my normal setup