About 1 year ago I posted a review of the Synology RT1900AC wireless router. To sum up, it's a good router but I have had multiple issues with it over the years.
Most of the issues were Synology working out the kinks in the router. Anyone today who buys the RT1900AC or its bigger brother the RT2600AC would no longer experience these issues.
However, the biggest and most annoying problem I experienced was the router not connecting to the Internet. If the connection was broken for whatever reason (like a power outage), only about 50% of the time would it reconnect. If it failed to reconnect, the problem could only be fixed by rebooting the router, often multiple times.
Well I have good news. I think Synology has finally fixed this issue in one of their regular router updates. Shortly after my initial review the problem went away. It has been almost a year now and my router has not had an issue reconnecting to the Internet. I know 2 other people with Synology routers and they have not experienced connection issues either. This is great news. I can now wholeheartedly recommend either of the Synology routers to anyone looking for a better wireless router.
In other good news. Anyone who follows technology may remember back in October of 2017 they announced KRACK, a vulnerability that affected all hardware and software that used the WPA2 protocol; including Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, wireless routers, etc. Synology pushed a fix for KRACK one day after the announcement. The only company I am aware that released a fix earlier was Microsoft which had secretly pushed a fix a few weeks earlier. But Synology got the fix out to their customers faster than most major companies include Google and Apple. Way to go Synology. Oh, and many Linksys and Netgear routers were never patched, so they are still vulnerable.
