Best Synology Routers

Works great, good user interface – A while back, our TG-789 NBN modem/router started playing up. It would slow down and disconnect, and seemed to be overheating. On a hunch, I… Read more

figured that it was having trouble with the mushrooming number of gizmos and gadgets on our home network. Apart from computers, there are phones, tablets, printers, blu ray player, on and on. And I've also been playing with Raspberry PIs as well.

Cut a long story short, I bought the Synology RT2600ac router because I previously had a Synology NAS. The TG-789 is still the NBN modem, but it's Wi-Fi network is off, and the only thing that connects to it is the RT2600ac, which handles wired and wireless networking for the whole house. After setting up the RT2600ac, the TG-789 stopped misbehaving. (Could have been coincidence? Who knows.)

Now I'm not "into" routers. I'm sure there are reviews on here from people that are. I just want them to work. The RT2600AC does that, very well. Wi-Fi speeds are fast and we have no coverage or dropout problems in our house. The user interface is a "desktop" type of interface like their NAS'es, and to find it you just type router.synology.com into a web browser (I assume it downloads some Javascript from Synology which then finds the address of the router on your own network). The interface allows me to see what devices are connected and monitor their traffic level.

And you can set it to auto-update itself, which is important these days.

So, five stars - good performance, trouble-free and easy to use (for a router).