Disappointed – DS router Review

I own 4 synology servers and convinced a couple dozen people to get one two. It felt like a no-brainer to buy a synology router. Well, I bought 3 and set up my mesh network. The experience for setting them up and having them talk to each other was a complete nightmare. They come with different firmware and update them all and syncing them was an absolute disaster. Took me a couple of days to have a network up and running. The worst was yet to come though. Although for some reason the routers show close to 150Mbps speed traffic my laptops and phones and devices are struggling to load an empty web page. Slower that a sloth. (Actually good name for your Wi-Fi name running on synology routers). The app is okay but not great. Family control and security features make your network unusable. Blocking notifications do not tell you what is blocked. Instead of getting a device name you get an Mac address instead of a name. I wrote synology that the MAC address is useless to me and they told me it is impossible to get the name. Well all my other apps or hardware can, not sure why the router cannot. Parental controls are a bunch of clicks away. Not intuitive. Also a bug allows you to pause someone’s internet and someone else’s getting blocked. You do or have all the functionality you get from the web version. Anyway, this was probably not a fair app review but more a system review. I wanted to be heard somehow. Synology NAS is great. Routers are the complete opposite and total garbage. Synology lucks of user support. Their forum is terrible. FIX IT SYNOLOGY — or discontinue the product and concentrate on your NAS Tecnologies.
Review by tsoglani on DS router.