The performance isn't as good as the R8500 but the UI and features are much better than the tired Netgear interface

It is highly customizable and the UI is very well thought out.

So I bought the new RT2600AC, everything works right out of the box and with VPN Plus running, I still get over 900 Mbps download speed from my fiber ISP, the old router's hardware will not fully support new apps developed for the router, so don't waste your money on this one, get the new one

Don't waste your money on this

Don't waste your money!

So if you are in market for a good router with good software and good price buy it you will not retrun it !!!

That said, I'll address my kind with this review ... so please disregard this review if things like NAS, VPN, or logs are outside of your current skill set (unless you'd like to learn - this device is at a great price point for students).VPN: Setup is simple, DDNS with NOIP was painless

The price was great for all the features and like that matte black case since I'm not fond of shiny fingerprint magnets.

Not worth the price if you need a router only

Excellent control interfaceCutting edge technology & Rock solid performance, at an extremely competitive price

The new router connected to the internet and ran the setup correctly, great!

Overall, it succeeds at being a good modern router, and avoids the terrible setup UIs that this market seems plagued with, which is worth a lot

The setup encourages security and will check your settings for you and offer changes

I have a great DS1515+/2xDX513 setup at home to store my many digital

And, setup is dead simple.using this mode, you can use one of the wifi channels to get internet access instead of the WAN port on the device

The router works as advertised and supports all of my devices very well.

The VPN server is broke as of the latest software release

I really wanted to keep it and turned off the wireless to use it as a router on another segment but the switch performance wasn't as good as or better than what I already

The router works as advertised and supports all of my devices very well.

On a side note, I have and have had several Synology NASes that I love/loved.

GUI is completely different from the old “dlink/tplink/wrt54g” static interface

Synology has a good reputation of updating and patching their storage products based on OSS and figured I'd give them a shot.

, websites just dont work you know all the weird issues you have with crappy consumer modems but cant replicate easy but just know there is some weird issue that your net is playing up.4GB flash RAM so the modem updates can actually be useful and synology can release awesome features in the applicaitonI love the application inspection where you can actually see what application or modem is downloading what which is good for shared houses alot of devices you can find out who is hogging internetSo if you are looking for new router i wouldn't hesitate to recommend this

Then the 2.4G instability issues started this summer.

The portal to oversee the configuration is easy to use and the speeds are fine (using another, simpler router, I was pulling about 50-100Mbps faster speeds) but the reliability is sometimes spotty

very inconsistent speed often dropping to 10

I had to replace that modem because the QoS would slow down my speeds way too much (couldn’t get over 100mbps).

However, I have Google Fiber and noticed recently that the speeds were no longer as good as they used to be.

I normally cant ever be bothered to write review for products but Synology have made a awesome product first time around so other manufactures take noteHere are things i have noticedWireless reception is good if not a little bit beter than my ASUS RT N56U i replaced it with

Even if I didn't have a DS, I would still love this product!

This product is amazing would be nice if it was faster but new version coming out soon!

I would not recommend this product to anyone until these issues are sorted out.

As I explain to people: In my opinion, it's not if a product has a problem that determines whether a company is good or bad, but how the company responds to the problem that distinguishes a company.

I spent couple of weeks with tech support, nothing got resolved.

Tech support decent, but not amazing... wanted me to try a bunch of troubleshooting steps.

I called tech support and they told he they had some problems with their wireless transmitter

There need to be a tech support line to communicate with a specialist

The "tech support" offered by Synology is shameful and they have done nothing to address the issue (they just keep telling me to turn off the wifi and turn it back on)

So if you are in market for a good router with good software and good price buy it you will not retrun it !!!

The VPN server is broke as of the latest software release

Seems like it would be a great router, nice features, but terrible hardware/software QC.

The hardware specs are good but the software is not ready for the prime time

I really wanted to keep it and turned off the wireless to use it as a router on another segment but the switch performance wasn't as good as or better than what I already

In sending a request to Synology support, I was told to reset the configuration manually and then reconnect with a wired connection to redo the base configuration settings from scratch

Bought this based on the Synology support philosophy and do not regret it.

GUI is completely different from the old “dlink/tplink/wrt54g” static interface

So I got an email back from Synology support after I told them the new RT2600AC doesn't have performance issue with VPN Plus server installed, so they told me: "since this seems to be working for you now, I will go ahead and close this ticket for the time being", meaning, always buy another new router even if the new app developed for your old router doesn't work well, your problem will be resolved.

The nice thing is Synology support has been very quick to respond to support requests and have been actively debugging the one issue I reported.

The VPN server is broke as of the latest software release

After a day of making all the config changes and chasing down the issues, I have purchased an Asus RT-AC68U. Not the latest router but great range and all the feature actually work!

I subtracted a star because the 5Ghz range isn't so great.

Brilliant!The wireless range is decent, but not awesome

As others have mentioned, I wanted to love this router too but can't due to its relatively poor range, reliability, and signal strength compared to the Apple Airport Timecapsule I intended to replace; verified with the Wi-Fi Explorer app from the app store.

Speeds are better, connections are stable, range is better and the sluggishness of work VPN was resolved.

They never lost the internet connection, but they died after a year or two.

But a couple days later it lost the internet connection and had to be power cycled again.

Not very reliable connection, and wireless link speed much slower than expected

When we turn on Guest Access, it breaks the connection to all devices.

Two days later it lost the internet again, and I powered it off and on again.

manager)I dont have to restart my router ever week and no more weird internet issues like DNS not resolving

Surprised to see Linksys and Asus have connectivity issues with HP laptops via wifi, and see Asus 5GHz simply drop off

I could be sitting right in front of it and still experience connectivity issues

In order to resolve the Wifi connectivity issue, I had to reboot my router almost on a daily bases to resolve my issue

It doesn't play very nice with Comcast's IPv6, I have only had one connectivity issue, it required rebooting the router to fix it, I systematically tried other options prior to rebooting the router but that fixed the problem

I own several of this company's servers as well and the newest one I bought keeps corrupting data, even with new hard drives installed.

I couldn't get an external hard drive to connect to it and couldn't get the VPN client to work either.

As for NAS I have locked my self out by trying to set up the use of a hard drive on it and changed the main password by accident its a bit confusing with all its password security.

Can be paired with a USB Hard Drive to do many NAS things

Once I got it going, it took about 7 tries and 5 hard resets, it works great.

I had to contact tech support and after doing a hard reset of the router I was able to access the internet.

Hard resets did nothing to make it any better, in fact the SRM started screwing up more.