Synology's RT-2600ac wireless router reviewed
 

A few years back, I moved from a house to an apartment. The Asus RT-N66U wireless router that had served me for a couple years began to suffer. What had once reached with ease from my basement to my second floor now struggled to provide a reliable connection across 20-some feet with a couple walls in between. Between the mass of competing wireless networks—about 26 of them in range, at last count—and the five-year old tech inside the so-called Dark Knight, it was about time for an upgrade. When Synology offered to send us its brand-new RT-2600ac router for consideration, I was eager to see what it could do.

The basics
Before we get a look at the outside, let's go over what's inside . The RT-2600ac is an 802.11ac router with "wave 2" features, including MU-MIMO with 2x2 160MHz support on contiguous 80 MHz bands and 2x2 80 MHz streams on discontiguous bands. It packs a Qualcomm IPQ8065 1.7GHz dual core CPU and 512MB of DDR3 RAM. ...

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