Synology WRX560: the geeky various to the Netgear Orbi

Synology WRX560 is the brand new mesh answer within the famend NAS producer’s line of superior Wi-Fi 6 routers.

Synology took benefit of its annual convention on Thursday to announce, amongst different new merchandise for companies, a couple of merchandise for people and small companies. Along with a flagship, the DS923+, it introduced a brand new Wi-Fi router.

After one after which two first profitable Wi-Fi 5 routers, Synology inaugurated its Wi-Fi 6 vary at its earlier annual convention with a high-end router, the RT6600ax, bought for 380 euros. The Taiwanese firm is lastly finishing this vary with a second mannequin, the WRX560, extra economical and extra compact, a lot better suited to constructing a mesh Wi-Fi community (a number of interconnected entry factors to extend Wi-Fi protection). fi). Though Synology has modified nomenclature alongside the best way, the WRX560 is to the RT6600ax what the MR2200ac was to the RT2600ac.

Above all, the Synology WRX560 is in our opinion an excellent various to the Netgear Orbi for demanding customers. Not like the extremely popular “mesh” Wi-Fi options Amazon eero or Google Nest Wifi, these two options provide an internet interface with superior settings (permitting them particularly to interchange the ISP field), and never only a smartphone software. However SRM, the software program for Synology routers, is extra superior (it is definitely not troublesome) and provides extra capabilities, particularly sure primary capabilities of a storage server (file sharing, downloading, and many others.).

2.5 Gbps Ethernet and a couple of.4 Gbps Wi-Fi 6

The Synology WRX560, just like the Netgear Orbi, adopts a vertical design with no seen antennas, which reduces its floor and makes it simpler to position it within the 4 corners of a house. Nevertheless, no wall mounting is supplied. With its black color, its sharp traces and its conspicuous (dummy?) air flow vents, it additionally adopts a much less consensual design.

Both method, it is a dual-band router with 2×2 MIMO on the two.4 GHz band and 4×4 MIMO on the 5 GHz band, delivering speeds “ bodily of 600 and 2400 Mb/s respectively. We don’t share his opinion, however Synology believes that it’s nonetheless too early for Wi-Fi 6E, which provides a third band, on the 6 GHz, to extend the bandwidth .

Along with 4 1 Gb/s Ethernet ports, it above all provides a 2.5 Gb/s Ethernet port, which can be utilized as a WAN port with one of many “Multi Gig” packing containers in the marketplace, such because the Freebox Pop or the SFR Field 8X, or as a LAN port, for instance with a NAS, to exceed gigabit in Wi-Fi or to distribute 2.5 Gb/s over a number of Gigabit gadgets.

Synology thus acknowledges the relevance of Multi Gig Ethernet (at 2.5 or 5 Gb/s), which it sadly denies on its vary of servers, on which it provides both 1 Gb/s ports or direct 10 Gbps ports.

The router additionally embeds a chip with 4 cores at 1.4 GHz and solely 512 MB of RAM, which can restrict the additional NAS capacities that it might probably provide if you happen to join an exterior storage medium (disk drive, SSD, and many others. to its USB 3.2 Gen 1 at 5 Gb/s port. It consumes 8 W at relaxation and 11 W in exercise.

Synology WRX560 Pricing and Availability

The Synology WRX560 might be out there in November at a value of 209 euros excluding tax, or 250 euros together with tax. As regular with Synology, the fame of the SRM software program is sort of costly since, for a similar value, Netgear provides tri-band.

And in contrast to Netgear, Synology doesn’t distinguish router and satellites. Those that want to construct a mesh community consisting of a number of entry factors to cowl bigger areas merely have to buy a number of WRX560s, which can robotically match one another.

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