What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
This router is a beast and anyone experienced can get the best potential out of it. I'm not great at reviewing items but this router deserved my time.
Synology mr2200ac mesh router. Have never had wifi at home like it, it's revolutionised home working. You can't dial up or down the wifi signal strength in mesh mode - no biggie in my case. Same ssid and password throughout the coverage area, but the ... Read More
Wifi performance is very good and we have many devices hammering it. In every part of the house and 120ft back garden i get a minimum of 55mb down an 12mb up with a ping of 12ms - this is off a 62mb connection so outstanding system really. A marked im... Read More
Feature rich firewall with ips. The firewall is good, and i have installed the (beta) intrusion protection software which filters all packets for malicious activity.
Synology's network management software gives you lots of control over your network. The vpn server comes with 1 client licence and you have to purchase the others. You can set on / off times for the internet for groups of devices, and limit the total ... Read More
Cons
It takes a few minutes to re-boot which is frustrating.
Highlights
Quality
Took a bit of configuration to get this working with a vigor 130 adsl modem that replaced a bt smart hub but im now extremely h... Read More
As with the synology router the interface is great
Amazon reviews only reinforced by intention about buying this product
Wifi will always be lower quality in regards to stablility in comparison to hard wiring a device
Price
This is not acceptable considering how much it costs
Packaging/appearance
There are also so applications you can install like vpnplus to make your router a vpn endpoint allowing you access into your n... Read More
Apart from that everything worked straight out of the box
Competitiveness
This product combined in a mesh network with a synology mr2200ac router has finally solved our problem of slow and unreliable wifi
If youve used a synology nas then youll find this router easy to setup and use
I have a synology nas and its very similar
The set up of wifi and guess network was a doddle and i breezed through it
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- This product had a total of 817 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 23 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The wireless signal is about as strong as a single device can get on 5ghz covering most of the house with just one dead spot upstairs
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A couple of minor gripes 1 lack of ssh key support and 2 no native way to set local dns entries there is a workaround for this
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I have iptv and other unapproved sites which was blocked by my internet provider
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Asus rtac86u was the wifi router component which was good to begin with though it still needed a booster to reach the furthest part of the house
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The thing memory leaked like a sieve and needed rebooting at least once a day and after a couple of months reasonably hard use just died on the 2
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I then discovered 30 of all other buyers found the same
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Having tossed up whether to go down ubiquiti wifi 6 and read the reviews i’m glad i went with synology
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