New Synology Router RT6600ax

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#295911 4-May-2022 15:50

A review is coming next week but for now, I can post some photos of the new Synology Router RT6600ax.

I have been using it on my 2degrees fibre connection and having a blast. I am not allowed to post all the features but ok to post stuff they have already posted in the Synology CONNECT 2022.

You can create multiple networks associated with different devices - ethernet ports, wireless radio 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 5.9 GHz. You can use network isolation or create firewall rules to allow traffic in one direction only. It is possible to create up to 15 different networks here - check out the video.

The ethernet port 1 supports 2.5 Gbps and can be used as LAN/WAN or a backup WAN (when the dedicated WAN port is used).

The Synology Router RT6600ax supports WiFi 6 as well and comes with a new SRM 1.3.

More coming next week.

(The last image is supplied by Synology)

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#2910175 4-May-2022 16:09

If only it had more LAN ports.

Looks like the old one as well?

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#2910176 4-May-2022 16:10

Just a bit different. And faster.

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#2910659 5-May-2022 19:02

My understanding is the new SRM 1.3 would also run on the RT2600ac (but not the old RT1900) - anyone know if that’s still supposed to work?

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#2911642 8-May-2022 15:46

@MaxineN: Looks like the old one as well?

The previous model had four antennas, this one has six.

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#2911645 8-May-2022 15:59

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The previous model had four antennas, this one has six.

Yeah. Just the body and the shape is what reminds me of the old one. Additional antennas make sense.

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#2911659 8-May-2022 17:20

I am pretty happy - enabled the Threat Prevention package, with storage as required (a USB 3 SSD) and still get max speed on my fibre (via ethernet). And this on a Windows machine, which is notorious for being generally bad at networking.

IIRC, Threat Prevention on previous router models caused some drop in performance. This one seems solid.

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#2912688 11-May-2022 15:28

This just went live Synology RT6600ax Review (geekzone.co.nz)

Great router. I now have separate Default, Streaming and IoT networks setup, each with their own VLAN and different DNS (if you know why I'd use it) and have these networks assigned to different SSID and Ethernet ports.

SRM 1.3 is very flexible. Performance is astounding.

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#2918954 26-May-2022 14:34

I now have one of these sitting in its box on my couch. It's going to replace my ageing AirPort which, while extremely reliable, can't route faster than around 300 Mb/s. Now I just need free time to actually install the thing!

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#2919686 28-May-2022 13:57

This is now chugging along. Initial speed test 935/434, a great improvement over the AirPort. I admit that I haven't done much with it yet, but it's nice to actually be getting the speed I'm paying for, for starters :)

At present I have a VPN server running on my Synology NAS. It'll probably be 'cleaner' to move this onto the router (since it's a network service rather than a server service) so I'll probably do that at some point. To be honest, the whole thing's probably overkill for what I need, but where's the fun in getting something boring? 😁

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#2921739 2-Jun-2022 10:52

To anyone setting up the rt6600ax on 2degress fibre or similar systems that require the WAN interface to have VLAN 10

- after the initial setup you will not be able to connect to the Internet as VLAN on the WAN is not configured.

- Follow the instructions on https://kb.synology.com/en-in/SRM/tutorial/If_my_ISP_requires_that_I_set_a_VLAN_tag_but_does_not_provide_IPTV_VoIP_services_how_should_my_settings_be_configured to enable VLAN 10 on the WAN interface.

- After that you should be able to connect.

May be just me but I had a lot of trouble tracking down the page to set VLAN 10 on the WAN interface. Now its off to play with my new router :-)

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#2922811 4-Jun-2022 21:43

Hmm... I selected NZ as my country when going through initial setup, and it's still set to NZ now, but the expanded info on my Mac (hold Option as you click the Wi-Fi menu bar icon) says that it's reporting a US country code. Is anyone else's doing the same thing?

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#2922829 5-Jun-2022 08:19

Hi don't understand, setting the country presumably just preloads time zones a wifi regulatory settings

What exactly is OSX detected.

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#2922838 5-Jun-2022 09:43

cyril7: Hi don't understand, setting the country presumably just preloads time zones a wifi regulatory settings

Yes, and the regulatory settings are the problem. It may be using NZ settings itself, but it's advertising itself as US. The client therefore restricts itself to US frequencies, which isn't ideal and if it's not respecting the setting correctly then it may be breaching RSM rules.

Edit: Fixed it. It's a hard-to-find setting. Under Wi-Fi Connect/Wi-Fi Settings, click the three dots on the network and choose Edit. Under Advanced Options, tick "Regional compatibility". This makes it broadcast the correct country code.

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#2922882 5-Jun-2022 13:06

ChalkyNZ: My understanding is the new SRM 1.3 would also run on the RT2600ac (but not the old RT1900) - anyone know if that’s still supposed to work?

Yes, it will, but not on initial release, coming in 1st update apparently.

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#2922883 5-Jun-2022 13:08

ChalkyNZ:
ChalkyNZ: My understanding is the new SRM 1.3 would also run on the RT2600ac (but not the old RT1900) - anyone know if that’s still supposed to work?

Yes, it will, but not on initial release, coming in 1st update apparently.

The first update is out already. Synology never said it would be available then - only that those other devices would be supported later this year.

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