D-Link EXO WiFi 6 Router AX1500 MU-MIMO Voice Control Dual Band Gigabit Gaming Internet Network High Speed Performance WP3 (DIR-X1560-US), Black

I buy tons of these. Fast WiFi 6, great range better then most routers that come from your cable company, super fast, smart (no more 5G, 2G SSID), has an app you can control it with from your phone, parental controls, device control. And let me tell you that this little budget friendly router just wipes the floor with some of the best routers out there.

TLDR; go elsewhere for wifi 6, this is not the router you are hoping for.I am going to tell you, point by point, why their claims are outright garbage.[Next-Gen Speed and Range] Combined speeds up to 1.5 Gbps. Get 5GHz band speeds up to 38% faster than the equivalent 11ac, for better 4K streaming, gaming and downloading.-WIth an Intel AX200 wifi card in my laptop ~10 feet away through 1 wall and a floor of particle board I don't always even have full signal let alone approach even 1/3rd of the speeds they claim. The best I ever saw was ~550Mbps on a 1G xfinity connection. (Yes the router saw ~930 Mbps between it and the internet). Gaming? Not a chance, constant lag and awful performance. 4K Streaming? not even 1080P with my TV in the same room as my laptop was consistent.[Exceptional Capacity] Connect more devices at faster speeds. Up to 4x greater capacity than 11ac, so more devices can connect at once.- My AC1700 router from the comcast modem (which I wanted to get rid of) had better capacity than this. I average 3 streaming devices (2 4K and 1 1080P), 1 laptop gaming/VPN for work, and maybe a phone or two surfing at a time. This router craps itself. Even with the QoS engine on and the laptop set to the highest priority and 2 of the 3 streaming devices set to next highest you will bog the wifi out.[Made for the Smart Home] Better performance in device-dense environments. Up to 4 simultaneous streams deliver data to more devices with less latency.- I mean smart home devices use far less bandwidth anyway and I only have a single 2.4GHZ doorbell on the wifi and I barely have use of it at the moment. This is fluff at best and nothing to write home about.[OFDMA] Combines multiple small packets into a single packet, so multiple devices can receive data simultaneously.- Apparently this feature is either a lie or utterly useless. My multiple devices are seeing constant issues.[Unprecedented Efficiency] Higher throughput, more efficient transmission. Target Wake Time (TWT) helps reduce battery consumption for smart home devices.- Again more useless fluff. Most homes aren't packed full of all these smart home devices. Sure I have quite a few Echo's, but for the most part they are not extremely utilized right now.[D-Link WiFi Mesh Technology] Mix-and-match with D-Link WiFi Mesh-enabled extenders to create a seamless mesh network that covers every corner of your home.- Yea, nope not true. See a true mesh system provides a seamless single wifi network across the board. Same SSID, etc. I purchased D-Link WiFi Range Extender, AC2600 Plug In Wall Signal Booster, Wireless Repeater Internet Smart MU-MIMO (DAP-1860) on the suggestion from Dlink themselves and lo and behold it sets up it's own separate wifi network. That isn't mesh folks. Sure the range extender works....ish, but mesh it is not. Now maybe in the future there will be a true mesh for this router, but it's no where to be found right now.After 30 days of trying to futs with every setting I can think of to even get consistent speeds from this thing, I am over it. Sadly I am beyond my return window.Wifi speeds range from 8 Mbps to 550 Mbps and you never know what you are going to get. 160MHZ? don't count on it. my ping is great 10-14 MS almost every test. I really loved the couple of DLINK routers I had before, but this one is leaning the way of the Belkin, lots of promises and no delivery.

I don't know what happened in the last couple years with routers being absolute trash, but we went through 2 other routers before this one to replace our aged 7 year old netgear. They both had terrible connectivity issues and signal issues. Returned them within days. Finally got this one set up, had it about 2 months now with no issues. Hopefully it stays working. It has frozen up once, and the wifi radial suddenly stopped working randomly one night. We hooked it up to a smart outlet that is set to reboot once a week, I didn't see an option in the UI to do it automatically. Overall it's a great performance router, definitely fast and the range is great. We consistently have 3 or 4 devices on it, watching 4k video and playing games at once.

Buen producto

Was really excited to use my first wifi 6 router, but this is dissapointing. First the good things... 5ghz signal is strong and has good range, can do initial setup wirelessly without having to plug the cord in.Now the bad... Absolutely atrocious dumbed-down router management web interface, don't know how this was ever approved and released. Barely any options and everything takes many more clicks than it should to navigate. Most of the configuration options available on other routers are non-existent.Then the 2.4ghz signal... It does at most 15-20 mbps standing right next to the router, with speeds going below 1 mbps at 25 feet. No signal at all in the master bathroom of a 1600 Sq ft house... My old 10 year old N router does 90 mbps and has much better range. If you have any smart devices, which all use 2.4ghz signal, that need to be in areas away from the router, this isn't going to work well.Also, for being advertised as a mesh router and supposedly Easymesh certified, there are no options for anything mesh related...Dissapointing first experience with D-link products.

Yes, this is much faster than the old netgear router it replaced (which only gave us about 75mbps). The D-link is closer to 300mbsp, but after lots of troubleshooting, we've narrowed it down as the only potential culprit behind dropped connections and super slow connections. It's frequent enough to be quite disruptive. Firmware update made no difference. Very disappointed as the issue wasn't really obvious until well after the return window.

I realize some are bad reviews but it is a good unit for my application, since Zi didn’t buy it new.