Review on QNAP QHora 301W AX3600 Fanless SD WAN by Marty Drury

I like that this router is an advanced office device that is sold at a price and for home use. I bought it to unbottleneck my old modem and router by using gigabit ports with gigabit service. I've seen a 150-200Mbps speed increase by upgrading my network with this router. I turned off Wi-Fi because it's bullshit. You can't just go 40MHz, 80MHz, or 160MHz, but you can force all Wi-Fi networks to run at 20MHz, so it's weird. I don't remember seeing WPA3 either. Many settings require you to create an "Organization" and use the Software Defined WAN "Option" to get basic features like QoS. There's no easy IPS setup or built-in antivirus, but you do have the option to set up an ACL (firewall), which is conveniently left completely blank. ' in the port forwarding settings. It's not mentioned anywhere, but it's the external port number you want to forward to the LAN port/host. I'm ashamed to admit that it took me longer than I care to admit to understand what QNAP was asking for. Running a port is not an option. So far I haven't found a way to block entire countries, IP address ranges or even individual IP addresses from remote access to this router. The best I could do was block everything and only allow specific IP addresses. Actually, DDNS is not available either. As much as they want this to be used for a corporate or business network to connect between sites, you have to use their crappy DDNS service for site to site connection. The built in VPN server is slower than running PiVPN on a 4GB Raspberry Pi 4. If you have another option for hosting a VPN server; use it. This router has two USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5Gb/s) ports, which is good, but one or two USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gb/s) ports would be better when there are two 10Gb ports. Although I don't think it really matters. You can only use FAT16/32 or ext2/3/4. It does not support NTSF or any of the Apple file systems. When setting up this router for the first time, do not connect any Ethernet devices other than a modem to it. You MUST use LAN 1. Make sure your modem is fully charged and ready to use before connecting them together. I've noticed that my modems would keep looping on boot if they were plugged in and turned on at the same time as this router. I think the router was asking for the external IP address too aggressively and none of my modems could handle it. After fully booting up the modem, I was able to connect Ethernet to LAN 1 and complete the setup with no issues.