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Synology's boxes are never the most exciting to look at. But that goes with the “no nonsense” image the company likes to portray.
Not a lot inside the box, aside from the router itself – just an Ethernet cable and power supply.
The RT2600ac is a rather nondescript black box, with four detachable aerials on the back and sides. It's not exactly a design masterpiece, but like the box, that goes with the Synology image.
The rear houses a very standard allocation of four Gigabit Ethernet ports for client systems, another one for the broadband WAN connections, and USB 2.0. The front left sports a SDXC card slot. Note that LAN port 1 can also be used as a second WAN port, should you want to connect two broadband services as a fail-safe.
On the left-hand corner near the front is a USB 3.0 port with an eject button for unmounting a storage device that has been plugged in. The right-hand corner houses buttons for toggling WiFi and WPS connection.
A tightly bunched array of lights on the front provide status information for the various connections. Note that there are two WAN lights as well as four LAN lights, so you're given information separately if you're using two broadband connections.
Overall, the specification is competent if unexciting. There's a 1.7GHz dual-core CPU inside with 512MB of RAM, very similar to other routers around the £200 price mark.
way to expensive; only 4 LAN ports