RT6600ax

I've been very happy with ubiquiti and synology. I got the rt 6600 ax to get better parental controls, but both the ubiquiti i had before that and the synology have been rock solid for me. Never really have had to reset them. Maybe once with the synology. I have 8 people in our house, 6 with phones, 6 pcs (3 on wireless), 4 tablets, a printer, a TV, and then at least 12 to 15 assorted wifi enabled monitors (fire alarms, temperature sensors, water monitors, etc) so we are using it a lot.

Synology rt6600ax with unifi switches and APs. Got the router for simplicity of VLANs and got the switches and APs as stuff that was getting thrown out at work. Orange pi zero 3 for pihole, and a secondary pihole on a docker container in my unRAID stack

Synology RT6600AX. 2.5Gb Wan port, Solid Mesh WiFi, Vlans, AV, apps, URL filtering. Updates from a serious company. ITs not a Palo Alto but . . . That'll do pig. That'll do. I use a BASIC Motorola DOCSIS modem in Passthrough mode. I don't trust providers equpiment even as a door stop.

I am incredibly impressed with the RT6600AX. I got it because I wanted something a bit beefier and the profiles concept seemed like a fast way to terminate internet for lazy teenagers. I was able to grab a MR2200AC for easy wifi extension. I don't see myself moving off of it willingly anytime soon.

I have a synology rt6600ax. I haven’t had any problems with it. I figure most people could go with something considerably cheaper, but I’m a rather heavy user, so I splashed out a bit. The funny thing is, unless you go super high end, your router is going to be the choke point of your network, because the connection to sonic is so good, but you shouldn’t worry too much about that, because it’ll have plenty of capacity for you. As an example, my sonic ONT (basically the modem) has a 10Gbps Ethernet port on it, and during a test, it was getting 2Gbps throughput (which I think may have been limited by the computer doing the testing, not the fiber connection). My router’s WAN port is “only” 1Gbps, so it’s the limit in my network. The thing is, even my wired links on my network are 1Gbps, so if I were to try to saturate a higher bandwidth uplink, I’d need to have 2 wired connections cooperate to do it. Then there’s the fact that most of the connections on a modern network are wireless, and they typically are slower, and that’s shared among all wireless devices. Suffice it to say, I’d say look to features of the router over raw speed numbers, beyond 1Gbps you likely won’t notice a difference (2.5 might be nice, but it’s probably madness to look for 10)

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.