Synology - RT6600ax

I love the Synology management features but I have found their range and signal strength is horrible compared to other mesh systems and I have a lot of hiccups with Apple devices that I didn’t have on the Orbi. I just didn’t like paying for parental controls so I switched. Now that my kids are older, I’m considering going back to Orbi or trying out Eero.

If you have the money just buy the Synology RT6600ax.

Synology RT6600ax have been excellent and have a bunch of features more consumer routers don’t. You can mix and match their model as needed.

If it’s in your budget get one for each floor. Put the router on primary floor where you’ll spend the most time. There should be a router on each floor at alternating ends of the house. E.g. 1st floor south, 2nd north, 3rd south, and 4th north. Wire them all if you can. Wiring may not be feasible or in your budget but if you can’t wire them all, wire from The first floor to the 4th. At least then you have a solid connection from the furthest point and your 3rd floor can mesh to the 4th and the 2nd to the 1st. Wiring the 4th would also get around the mostly mechanical floor on the 3rd. If you don’t want or can’t put one on each floor, I’d go for 1st and 4th, if you can wire them. That’s probably too far for wireless mesh, especially if there’s interference. You probably need at least 3 for the 1st, 2nd and 4th floors. I would suggest RT6600AX anywhere people will be using the internet the most. Living room, and bedrooms for sure. The WRX is a good unit for less populated areas or as a way to bridge coverage to save money otherwise stick with all the same models.

I just recently upgraded to the same setup as well using the RT6600AX and WRX560. I posted about my experience here and some lessons learned. Do a quick search as you might find it helpful. Overall, pretty happy with it and I’m just looking at ways to optimize things.

Synology rt6600ax has been great for me

It....does? https://a.co/d/hEruYf3 Right in the title

That's what Wi-Fi 6 is. You might be thinking of Wi-Fi 6e which is not the same thing

I second the RT6600ax. Great router with tons of good features packaged in an easy to use GUI.

I run Tailscale on a Synology RT6600ax, works well

Great mesh … Easy setup. Extremely capable. https://a.co/d/3IHueMf

You have what appears to be a three story setup including your basement. UniFi offers a design center where you can play with the various APs and see what the projected reception would be. You dont discuss why you aren't interested in running ethernet. I highly suggest a wired backhaul if you can, and ethernet lines to any computer or gaming system. I have a UDM Pro with a U7 Pro and a U7 Pro wall in a two story house and it rocks. I had a Synology RT6600 and RX2600 meshed and they were amazing, until the 2600 started having problems. Then it died. I tried a TP Link single router, the AX11000 I think, got it from Costco. It was amazing, and then it bricked. I ended up downloading beta firmware to fix it, had staff in china offer to remote in and fix it, and decided I would buy the UniFi gear instead of keeping it since the TP Link unit bricked from a firmware update. And that experience also convinced me to go back to a two AP solution. The Synology RT6600 was able to handle the house no problem, but I wanted better throughput and threat detection. And if it failed, a second AP to handle traffic. The Unifi has been great. I have run it as a wireless backhaul, but generally do not because I have ethernet where I need it. I am not a fan of TP-link but that is based on a single bad experience. I have been happy with my APs from UniFi. I have talked with my wife about putting some in the MiL's house to replace her mom's Comcast coax system. EDIT - to put in perspective - we have 3 adult (children) here, my self and my wife. Four work from home full time.or part of their schedule. One has a gaming PC, Mac, windows PC and MacBook, one has a gaming console, laptop for work, I have laptop for work, Mac for general use, one has laptop for school, gaming console and a desktop, wife has laptop for work, Mac for general use, all have iphones, two use tablets, and a lot of IoT stuff. And we just got a rack with three old servers and a couple of switches for learning, testing etc. Currently active - 20 devices, not including the stuff over thread/matter. The unifi APs work well for us.

I have really liked my Synology setup. With that said, they’re good at reliability, but maybe not so good at rapidly adopting and releasing new hardware—their current flagship product is still only WiFi6 and only has 1x 2.5GigE port.