Synology MR2200ac Mesh Dual Band Wireless Router
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Price: £156.31
Brand: Synology
Description: Coming with intelligent mesh Wi-Fi capability and best-in-class parental controls, MR2200ac is designed to keep all devices connected and everyone safe. Experience the award-winning Synology Router Manager (SRM) with an MR2200ac, and add more when you are ready to expand your coverage even further. Smart Wi-Fi all around Multiple MR2200ac can work together as a system to bring Wi-Fi to every corner of your home. Wherever you go, stay on a single Wi-Fi network and enjoy seamless connectivity from one place to another. The intelligence behind your mesh network The algorithms built into SRM make deployment incredibly easy. The system intelligently self-configures, self-optimizes, and even self-heals, always giving you the fastest possible path to the Internet. Create a kid-friendly online world We want kids to be safe online, even when we’re not there. Safe Access helps you lay down rules for each kid without having to look for parental control solutions for every devices. Now you can get a full picture of how they’re exploring the world every day, and protect them until they’re ready. Security at the perimeter It's not just people that you need to protect. It's all the connected things: IP cameras, smart doorbells, alarm systems… things that can make a smart home vulnerable. MR2200ac installs multiple layers of protection to shield your network against cyberattacks happening every day. Advanced functionality made accessible For small offices who don't want the hassle of wiring access points everywhere, a mesh Wi-Fi solution fits in perfectly. Unlike others, MR2200ac doesn't leave out the network management features businesses care about. Synology MR2200ac Mesh Dual Band Wireless Router - shop the best deal online on appliances4.me
Category: Wireless Routers
Merchant: CCL
Product ID: NET3257
Delivery cost: GB::Free Delivery:0.00 GBP
MPN: MR2200AC
GTIN: 4711174723010
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Author: Vince Marsters
Rating: 5
Review: Like many things with technology, you can pay a variety of prices to get performance required, but with the proliferation of smart home kit, the limitations of cheaper routers is becoming apparent. This is especially true of the routers provided free with broadband connections as many struggle with more than a couple of dozen connected devices. This is one of the reasons I went for the Synology MR2200ac router - the other being I am a fan of Synology equipment, having one of their NAS boxes for many years. What you get is a sleek black plastic router with built in antennas - so no ears sticking up. There is a bank of LEDs shaped like a triangle on the front. The back has a single gigabit Ethernet port, a single RJ45 WAN port, power socket, USB3.0 port, Wi-Fi/WPS buttons and power button. There is also a small hole for resetting the router. Setting up the router was easy - just plug a cable between my modem (I have G.Fast so used a BT Openreach modem) and log into the router interface to set up the PPPoE connection. The router connected first time, although there is no way to see the connection speed as this is internal to the modem and not the router. The routers interface will be familiar to those who have used Synology NAS boxes and is a bit like a desktop inside your browser. There are a huge amounts of different settings you can configure within the router, including setting up user profiles so you can control what your children can and cannot get up to and what times their internet connections should cease. The router also supports safety databases like the Google Safe Browsing database, helping to reduce risks of going to bad sites at a router level. This means all devices are covered at the edge of the network and do not need tools installed on them (note that you should still have anti-virus installed on computers). There are also so applications you can install like VPNPlus to make your router a VPN endpoint - allowing you access into your network from away from the home/office. It supports up to 10 clients using SSTP, PPTP, L2TP or OpenVPN protocols - I would recommend SSTP or OpenVPN, although SSTP is a Windows protocol so not suitable for Apple or Android by default). The VPN server comes with 1 client licence and you have to purchase the others, although Synology have been running a free licence campaign during lockdown and any purchased free do not appear to have an expiry date on them. The built-in USB port can serve a couple of functions as required. It can have a 3G/4G dongle fitted (you need to make sure it is compatible) to provide an internet failover in the event that the primary link is down, it can have a USB printer plugged in to make this a network printer or it can have a storage device (pen drive or hard drive) fitted and provide a basic file share. Unfortuately it does not appear that the storage device can be used to supplement the built in storage for any Synology apps you may install. The Wi-Fi has 3 channels - 2 5GHz and 1 2.4GHz and runs quickly even with over 50 devices connected. It supports up to ac standards but like all Wi-Fi, it will slow down as more devices connect. For bandwidth hungry devices, cable connections are best and this is one of the weaker points of the router as it only has a single LAN port - you will also need a switch if you want to connect more than 1 device via cable. The maximum number of devices the router claims to support is 90 and I have seen no issues with over 70 connected - my older mesh setup claimed 100 but suffered with more than 50 devices. A nice additional feature of the router is its ability to be part of a Synology mesh with other Synology SRM mesh routers - they do not all have to be MR220ac models. I have not found a need to add a second router yet as the coverage I am getting from the single unit placed fairly central in my home is good enough and beats the coverage I had from other routers (both ISP supplied and expensive bigger brand ones). There are many more benefits to this router than can be covered in a simple review. If you have questions, ask in the question section and I will answer where I can.
Author: punter
Rating: 3
Review: An excellent wifi router, with the added bonus of the familiar Synology approach to device management and support. That includes comprehensive and easy-to-use configuration software, and the backing of a responsive, well-organised, well-informed and helpful support operation - an example that some of Synology's competitors would do well to follow! However, if you are considering, as I did, buying these devices to create a mesh network behind some other existing router (ie, you wish to run in these Synology units in Access Point mode), then THINK AGAIN:- THE MR2200ac WILL NOT CREATE A MESH NETWORK WHEN OPERATING IN ACCESS POINT MODE. I will return to this later. The first thing you will notice when commissioning these units is that they are painfully slow to boot, and it typically takes several minutes from power-on to full operation. If you have multiple units, the initial process of pairing them is simply agonising. Pairing cannot begin until both units have reached an operating state - say 10 minutes from cold boot. The the main unit must then "find" its subsidiary unit, and then send it configuration information, all over wifi. This again takes a considerable time, during which the internet connection is unavailable, and the less patient user is likely to have given up long before the process is complete. I don't doubt that this is Synology being thorough, but I can't help feeling that much time might be saved if initial pairing could be completed using a wired connection between the units. However, the pairing process explicitly requires wifi connection only - wired connection can only be made once pairing has been completed, which strikes me as silly, as well as wildly unintuitive even if it is common practice. I have already mentioned mesh networking. Remember that this device is advertised and sold as a mesh router, which to me seems to be only partly true. The main point of a mesh network is that on can have multiple router/access-points working together to provide seamless wifi coverage over an area that could not be covered by a single unit. The benefit of this to the user is that one can move around anywhere within the covered area, connecting invisibly and without interruption of communication to the unit providing the best signal at that particular moment. Switching between units should be instantaneous. After I had installed my Synology units in addition to (and not as a replacement for) my existing DrayTek router, I found that there could be a hiatus in communications of several seconds, occasionally tens of seconds, in switching between units. It was only when I eventually queried this with the Synology support department I was told that mesh communications is only available when the master unit is operating in full router mode, otherwise it is explicitly disabled! I remain more than a little annoyed about this, as I found no indication of it before purchase, and nor does it seem a remotely reasonable limitation on so pricey a piece of kit. I am an enthusiastic user of other Synology NAS devices, and so I had no qualms in purchasing these devices. However, had I known of the mesh limitations I would most certainly not have done so.
