I recommend the RT2600ac as the router because it has a lot more to offer in terms of ports and other features, but a pair of MR2200ac will do.

The house is a 5500sf split level and the distance between the main router unit and the satellite in the office is about 90-100 ft with some walls between them. In this case, you won't need to re-program all aspects of your network from the beginning, but just some unique settings. WPA3 is the next generation of Wi-Fi security, bringing new capabilities to enhance Wi-Fi protections in personal and enterprise networks. But in the event you do, the Synology Mesh Router MR2200ac gives you the flexibility to add in another MR2200ac to form a two-node mesh network. The table below shows all currently supported routers and the roles each support which changes depending on the firmware version.My home has only few devices; 1 of Samsung Note 10+, 1 of Samsung S10 Plus, 1 iPhone X, 1 iPhone 8, 2 laptop, 2 ipad and 2 Smart TV. This was especially present on the more affordable mesh router systems and over the course of 2 years would quickly consume any saving you might have made on Day 1. If you were building your own system, have a two-story, 4,000 square foot house, have children, and don’t care about gaming, what would you do? For more on how you should arrange the hardware units of a Wi-Fi system, check out this post: https://dongknows. Synology mesh is here to stay, and, among other things, Asus AiMesh continues to have a formidable rival.

Our Synology MR2200ac review shows how this easy-to-deploy and use solution is a game-changing Wi-Fi mesh router. Another cool little feature that I stumbled on by accident in a video last year, as well as something that Synology barely mention on their product pages, is that you can connect a mobile phone via USB tethering, or a USB mobile SIM broadband dongle, then use it as the live Internet connection on your router network. You also have access to features such as user profile creation, detailed traffic management, advanced web filters, and whitelisting features.

If you are using an existing Synology Router RT2600ac, you can also add that to the mesh network after you set up the first (primary) node using the MR2200ac.