Thank you for this review. I didn't know that buying this one to replace RT2600 would render my 2200 MESH obsolete until SRM1.3 support. Just saved me a lot of money.
Indeed. About bloody time. Been waiting for this review for a dog’s age. Just noticed that D-Link DWA-X1850 / AX1800 Wi-Fi USB Adapter on the desk. Can’t wait to see a review on that one too :)
FYI, As of Aug 24, 2022 (SRM Version: 1.3.1-9346) the RT6600AX now supports compatibility of mesh Wi-Fi system between RT6600ax, WRX560, RT2600ac, and MR2200ac.
Hello... I have a concern about making ipv6 work on this router... I mention that the ISP assigned me a native address (the connection is made via PPPoE).... I tried all the options to make it work and I didn't succeed, but I still succeeded with 6to4, which doesn't delight me. Is there any option to go in Native mode or is it a system problem? Thank you in advance.
Is there a chance you can make a step by step guide how to set up proper,secure,separate network for IoT devices please? Or direct to such guide if already exists? Thanks.
Thanks for the comprehensive review. All the infomation I needed. I'd buy one in a heartbeat but until they support my exisitng Synolgy mesh I'll have to wait.
About the USB port thing: while an extra cost, sure, is it possible to purchase a little USB hub, plug that in, and then plug multiple HDDs, a 4G dongle, etc.?
Has the WiFi MESH probelem/restriction been resolved? That is connectivity between the RT6600ax and the RT2600ac. If not, it's a no way purchase for now.
Hi Rob. Ive been a subscriber for many years, your videos have helped me to decide to buy many Synology nas units, my first being the ds212plus my latest the ds1821plus. Like you I`m from the uk so I`m hoping you can help me with a question I cant get my head around. My internet currently comes from Plusnet with an adsl connection/router that as you know comes down the standard phone line connector (via that splitter/filter). This router has a single Cat5e cable connected to my Q-Nap QSW-M408C, then around the house to all the pc`s nas etc with Cat5e or Cat6. Plusnet have just offered me FTTP so I`m hoping to upgrade in September. And after watching your video on the Synology RT6600ax with its Vlan feature I would love to buy this and setup two Vlans, one for all my devices and the second separate Vlan for my Kids stuff. (I do not want my Kids having access to my shared folders etc) What I do understand is that once FTTP is installed this new connection is just a standard Cat5 or Cat6 Cable that connects to the Wan socket on a router. But what i`m not clear on is this: Does the RT6600ax completely replace the Plusnet router?? and if your answer is yes, do I need to setup into the Synology RT6600ax settings some sort of the old Plusnet/Connection /account/username stuff like I had to with my Adsl router?? I assume Plusnet will send me a pre configured FTTP router and my Best guess would be I do not use this Isp router at all. The Synology router will just connect to the internet in its place without the older Plusnet/Connection/account/username etc settings. And then just leave me to setup its DHCP, Lan, Vlan stuff myself? The above might sound like a silly question but after spending a lifetime buying my own Dialup modems (first modem was 9600, 14,4 then 28.8k) and then plenty of Netgear adsl routers over the years the one constant headache was trying to get the correct login settings to work, since most normal people just used the pre configured hardware. I will appreciate any ideas yourself any anybody else has. Many Thanks F S
Ill agree to a Great rewiew, and you have mentioned a lot of things which are really helpfull (not for me) but for other sure. What i want to comment on, is your surprise that the RT6600ax comes with the SRM 1.3 and the older devices are still SRM 1.2, well this is what synology was presenting from the "Day One" when the RT6600 was presented by end of 2021 so no surprise for me here, the SRM 1.3 for the RT2600 and MR2200 will be or according to synology should be in June so we need to wait for this one as well. What im glad and really glad that the support for the MR2200 and the mesh is there, and also with another RT6600, which you cannot do with a RT2600 so a huge step forward i like, AAAANND well if you do a MESH then you will have TWO USB 😀 Ports, the question is if the can be used but i think this is an alternative for those who will be having a MESH network.
I just read that you can only backup and restore to hardwares of the same VERSION. So when my RT6600 arrives monday with 1.3, I won't be able to restore from my 2600 running 1.2. This sucks. I either spend hours copying ip's, macs, etc. or put the box in my curio cabinet and give it to myself for christmas. :(
@@sidwebster607 I just received my RT6600 today as well and had the same question. I'm going to try and see if I can restore and will let you guys know what my experiences are.
Confirmed! Sadly, I just tried to restore backup config from my RT2600 to my RT6600, and it says "You cannot restore configuration to a version earlier than 1.3." Good thing I took lots of screenshots of my previous config and over 50 reservations. :)
That’s for a great review. Worth watching it all. Look forward to future videos on this router. Three questions; Do you think Synology will release a WiFi 6 upgrade to the MR2200ac? Maybe an MR6600ax? Also, can devices be assigned a frequency? Orbi takes control of that an many times connects 5GHz devices (like FireTV) to 2.4GHz when only in the next room. 🤦🏻♂️ Lastly, I’m sure the answer is yes, but I didn’t see it covered, can you assign static IP’s or reserve IP’s for devices? Thanks again! I really love the ability to create a VLAN that merges with an SSID to isolate my IoT.
Hey Thanks so much for this very informative Video! 2 Questions though: 1. Can you connect the router to a VPN, so your whole home internet traffic is secure? If so, what VPNs can be used? 2. As some might know, wireguard is a very simple, fast and secure VPN solution. Is it possible to run wireguard as a server or as a client on this router? If there's a option to install packages, really one should be able to potentially develop or manually install the option for wireguard as a client and perhaps even as a wireguard VPN server..... Many thanks!
Mbps is not equivalent to MB/s (mega bits vs mega bytes). To convert you simply have to divide by 8, and you get 600Mbps -> 75MB/s, 4800Mbps -> 600MB/s, and 1200Mbps -> 150MB/s
Great video. Btw, note that 3G/4G dogles are at EOL support by SRM (as per the Synology Compatibility List) so I am not sure how viable alternative one has for a backup WAN connection.
You don't want a 5g dongle running over USB you are better off using a 5G wifi dongle or a 1Gb ethernet dongle that you use in the 2nd WAN port. in the past I've regretted getting USB dongles for Synology NAS (I even had the DS213air yes have a laugh) I got a ASUS AC wifi dongle for my DS218+ nothing but dropouts I then got a TP-link AX wifi extender that had 1Gb ethernet port on it works great. and the best bit is Synology can not EOL support for it.
Been using Asus routers for about a decade. Ordered this Synology rooter tonight to upgrade from my Asus Ac2900 and after watching this video I think I made a good choice.
I realize it would probably reduce performance on both fronts, but would any sort of USB hub / splitter be compatible, allowing you to use both a USB drive and mobile tethering or two USB drives?
Bought this off your recommendation and am a bit disappointed.. not being able to granularly set times for websites makes this unsatisfactory. This device is clearly capable of so much more…
does the 2600 support same NAS, as this 6600? or is 2600 only a Media Player? i need to save files to automatically to an external HD as a disaster recovery
Very helpful! Do I understand you correctly that I can create multiple wireless networks (say 1 private and 1 for guests) and then assign Schedule and Content filtering to only one of those wireless networks? I assume devices connected to one network cannot see the devices connected to the other? I'm trying to find basically that exact feature to have a guest network for foster children in the home. Could I even assign a separate DNS server to those networks to implement parental controls with something like OpenDNS?
hi, i hvae the 2600ac, don't need wifi 6, but i really do need NAS, does 2600ac do NAS functions same as 6600 ? and also if i need NAS could i do so, if this 2600 is 2nd router, i guess an AP, after my cable router, connected LAN to LAN, thanks
Hi there, Thanks a lot. So after your review i bought the RT6600ax. So now i need to upgrade my home network to manage and separate my iot network (home assistant, cam, aquara, shelly, etc.) from my home / work network. Can you help on guiding me to choose a switch (i guess it will be managed) and give so hints on configuration (both the router & the switch). Maybe i should add that today y network is build on the RT2600 plus 2 MR2200 because of concrete. Philippe
I think the MR2200's connection issues are a 1.3 issue. Mine have been dropping off about once a week and I'm still on the 2600ac, not only that, but their light patterns have been behaving very strangely. Like they're connected, but every now and then, the WiFi symbol will scroll the lights from bottom to top for 20min, and then go back to normal.
Very interesting review so thank you. You say you will be reviewing the Asus RT AX series....will you be doing this one? ASUS RT-AX89X 12-Stream AX6000 Dual Band Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax Router Cheers
Great review - thank you. Is there any way to limit the internet bandwidth available to a specific user / device or IP range? I usually allocate only 80% of the available internet bandwidth to make sure that no single user or device hogs all the bandwidth and that my downloads always have bandwidth available without impacting anyone else.
I have a Net Gear r9000 x10, do you think this rt6600 would be a good upgrade? R9000 has started dropping Wi-Fi and kicking me out of plex, on paper they seem to have similar specs, although net gear have tried to kill the router with firmware numerous times.
My new rt6600ax refuses to go above 100Mbps download, and suggests (via popup in SRM) it may be the cable. My older router (which this one is supposed to replace) is getting nearly 500Mbps download on my 16" macbook pro m1 ultra, and my synology NAS is showing around 940Mbps on ethernet (again, on the older router). But on the new 6600, my NAS via ethernet is maxing at around 94Mbps :( Any ideas? Very frustrating.
The usual lan limitation of all router you have only one 2.5gbe port. Now a router should have at least one 2.5 gbe (Better 5gbe as in Italy a phone company started to sell a FTTH 5gbe fiber connection at a good price in selected city) wan AND one 2.5 lan port (better 5gbe) and let a multi-g switch to manage the signal. Also it should manage analog phone otherwise we must pay for the router that provider offer
Synology state H2 2022. I spoke with some staff from Synology UK at the Media Production event today at London Olmypia and they voiced summer '22. But again, nothing 100% confirmed
Please do an Asus RT-ax86u vs Synology RT6600ax comparison review. I want to control and give priority to my Xbox Series X when online gaming to get better Pings Latency for online games with Ethernet 30 Mbit download and 30 Mbit upload fibre internet. .
Got DLink/QNAP/TP-link Vs RT6600ax videos in the works (just need to edit). But no Asus other that the 92XU (in the background of my vids) to vs. will work on it
@@nascompares Thanks for the confirmation. This is a bummer though. Was hoping that a big SD card could be used, and then the USB could be used for other stuff. It seems like the latest Synology releases are two steps forward and one step back. Notably the RT6600ax and the 1522+.
@@nascompares One more question… does using the USB port cause the wireless to be degraded (or at least recommended to be degraded to avoid interference)? This is an issue on the RT2600ac.
Is it possible to create "Web Filter" on a schedule? For example from 4PM to 8PM can be a "homework" time slot where only allowed whitelisted websites are available?
You definitely should be able to, yeah. Pondering making a dedicated Safe Access video where I setup a whole house hold of accounts..then repeat with a business version. Parents, 2 children, etc, then about with a business and 4-5 departments. My SRM 3.1 review will be live tomorrow and includes a big-ish chunk on sage access. Hope you like it
Loved my 2600ac and as a Parent it allowed me to easily be a truly evil bastard cutting off internet to all my sons devices when he was in trouble and at bedtime with a schedule ;)
Tried this and it was not massively stable. Unsure if it was a shared USB bandwidth thing or the port has a single identification internally. Sorry buddy. Got another multi port splitter coming, so hopefully will more on this soon
Does the dns package support local network dns entries? I currently use ddwrt and have local dns records configured for a few server IPs…that way my desktop and mobile clients can connect to files and emails using those fqdn names locally
Yup. I only have a NAS from Synology so far, but since the OS is basically the same, the DNS Package is actually exactly the same between them. You can define own zones in it as well, A Records, AAAA Records, MX etc. etc. everything what a DNS Server should be capabale off. You can also configure it in a way, that it pulls records it doesn't know from an external source. It also allows to redirect certain DNS queries to specific DNS Servers (usually in the same network). So in a sense you could still use your existing DNS server. Like redirecting certain DNS queries from the Synology Router to your existing DNS Server in your network. It's really really powerful and basically has everything which usually only enterprise firewalls have. (e.g. Sophos)
@@Speed74LP So I just got the rt6600ax and everything seemed to work except the DNS server...I tried a few dummy zones and my win10 machine didn’t pickup any of the test A records, until I created some new ones and deselected the default zone security options like transfer ip whitelist…now it works great like my old ddwrt linksys did
@@Speed74LP fyi I had a weird dns problem with the synology dns server…the appletv, youtube and youtubetv apps on my lg c2 tv apparently couldn’t resolve dns…they all fail to fully load…the only resolution I can find is to change the tv ip settings to static and with an outside dns server ip…it’s strange bc those apps all work fine on a roku, kindle fire, iphone, ipad, and web for youtube…no other dns issues experienced anywhere…weird issue on lg webos apparently
Dude this is all old and familiar features and ways to use their router. Most already know this. I thought this was going to be a video to point out the differences of the 6600 over the 2600. This video is mainly restating of stuff we already know
This looks like an unboxing, not an actual review. You're holding a device that is capable of sophisticated beam-forming, but we don't have any speed tests / comparisons / ping results for a typical wood-frame house for example. I like the new features, but I was really into that I'd just set up a pfSense box, or a UDM pro. Why would I buy this thing instead of a cheaper WiFi6 AP/router? Why would I buy it instead of a UDM pro + AP? I had an ac2200 before and I returned it, because SRM is a far cry from DSM, and here they are cramming features into a device with just 1GB of RAM. If you're saying that it strikes the perfect balance, I'd like to see come figures proving that. Otherwise the video should be titled either "unboxing" or "first impressions".
Thanks for the thorough review but this is too little too late from Synology as an existing customer... I welcome SRM 1.3 VLAN and multiple SSID but these were promised and should have been out several years ago however they stalled SRM development to focus on DSM7. It has left a really sour taste in my mouth as I invested heavily with RT2600ac and 2x MR2200ac (along with multiple NAS) but have had to relegate the RT2600ac to just doing WiFi as an access point because of all bugs and the lack of development. I'm now using a PFsense router which is far more stable and has had better features, scalability and resilience for years. I'll look at SRM 1.3 when it lands for my existing devices but when it is time to upgrade my mesh WiFi hardware I have no loyalty to Synology or confidence in their support for their network devices so i'll be looking at other offerings.
As mentioned in the vid. This is the "big one". There will be individual but deeper vids on SRM 1.3, DS Router 2.0, Bandwidth testing , a short 'before you buy' and 2x comparisons against other similar routers. I only published the longest one first, as it covers a little bit of everything. Plus it is massively chapterised. Hope that explains my methodology.
@@nascompares I understand your methodology and I appreciate your work, it's a great help to people that need it. But the algorithm doesn't give a hoot about your altruism, if you want to make money doing this for a living then you have to make videos in a format that will actually get views. Others you're spending time (money) on things that won't give you any ROI.
At one part in the video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rFwxKftbiuk.html) you are talking about the USB port, cant you just plug in a usb hub and use multiple
It's a fair question. Full disclosure, nope, they do not sponsor me. Never paid me a single penny in fact. The reviews and guides I have made are either made with units I (or Eddie, my colleague) personally purchased, or are review samples that we have been sent by them to review with the agreement in advance that they cannot change/refute the content that results afterwards. Indeed, you likely saw that ALOT of RT6600ax reviews went live at the same time this week. That is due to Synology (as is common with many tech brands) sending review samples in advance and then only having the necessary agreement that no review articles videos be published before X day (known as the embargo date, in this case 11th May). So, yeah, they supply the router, but reviewers such as myself can be as harsh or as praising as we choose. One might argue that some reviewers wouldn't "bite the hand that feeds" by making negative reviews on a product, but given how many videos I have made on Synology competitors AND given my comparison/unoffical upgrades guides - if that was the case, then they would have long, LONG since ignored/avoided my channel by now. I hope this answers your question and gives you a little more confidence in my review(s). Have a good week buddy
Yes, dislike is clickable, but you cannot see the results. I can, but as dislike has no community impact, no one uses it...so RU-vidrs are losing a very useful demographic tool/stat
@@nascompares As a consumer rather than a producer (creator) I don’t know what is or is not useful statistically. I’m also surprised by the large difference between subscribers, views, and likes.
Synology does produce nice devices but it's all fine when you have warranty. When it's over and your device will stop working, synology won't repair it even if you could just pair for the repair. They just dont give a f**k. Think twice before you buy an synology router.
