Hello and welcome to today’s featured product review, today’s product is from the developers
of Dynalink who brought to you the recent Dynalink TV dongle and is now released their
brand-new WiFi 6 AX3600 router the Dynalink DL–WRX36.
Most of you by now may have heard of the new Wi-Fi standard called Wi-Fi 6, or by its other
name 802.11AX.
Whilst the world is yet to fully embraced WiFi 6, there are lots places and devices
that are already using this new technology.
There’s much benefit to gain when applying this router to a device that is Wi-Fi 6 compatible,
but at the same time there are a few performance improvements one can gain by backwards applying
it to your existing WiFi 5, or wireless AC devices.
In this review we’ll look at its design, its input output peripherals, its interface,
Along with with a live demonstration.
And you’ll get to decide whether you want to future proof your home or office, or simply
give yourself a Wi-Fi performance upgrade.
So stay tuned that’s up next.
So in the box you have a router itself.
A12 V 3A DC power adapter.
And a 6 feet Ethernet LAN cable.
Its body is made of plastic what the Dynalink branding, and an LED indicator to the front.
At the rear starting from the top you have a WPS button.
Four gigabit LAN ports.
One Gigabit input LAN port.
One USB 3.0 port.
A reset button.
And the DC power input.
To top you have exhaust vents.
And the below router the you have for antiskid rubber feet and some intake cooling vents.
I will now show you how to set this up on your Internet service provider’s router
and how to get started.
There are two ways in which you can connect and configure this router.
The first way is wirelessly using a mobile phone or tablet, and the second way is by
connecting directly to your PC, laptop, MacBook, or Android device that has a LAN port.
To use the mobile method the router comes pre-configured with usernames and passwords
for the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. and using the login credentials below the router, you can
connect any mobile device and gain access to the admin area.
The second method is very straightforward.
Using the included 6 feet Ethernet LAN cable, connect one end into the yellow port labeled
Internet, and the other end you plug into any available output ports on your router
provided by your Internet service provider.
And that’s it.
Once you connect to the router via Wi-Fi or LAN cable, to access the admin area you simply
open any browser and enter login.dynalink.com or 192.168.216.1.
For the username enter admin, and for each router the password will be different and
located below the router.
Once entered you’ll will be taken the router’s configuration settings.
Once inside the admin area you will first see the dashboard where you can access the
various settings by clicking on these main icons, or you can use this side panel.
If you are connected to your ISP via Ethernet cable you should see the Internet status showing
that you are connected to the Internet.
If you are connected using a mobile device then you will still need to connect the router
to your ISP using the LAN cable or you will not have Internet service.
The features of this router are quite extensive and don’t require you to change any of them
unless you are an advanced user and know exactly what you are doing and why you need to change
any of these advanced settings.
You may have noticed that during the boxing that there is no user manual, and that is
because the manual is quite extensive and it also as to be downloaded in PDF format
from the link they have provided.
For basic users you only need to be concerned with four main settings.
Changing the router’s login information, setting up your Wi-Fi passwords, updating
the firmware, and viewing your connected devices and ensuring that distribution optimization
is configured.
It is recommended that before you change any settings whatsoever that you first check for
any firmware updates, and complete those updates if any is available.
To do this simply click on the system settings option, then click firmware, click the check
for new firmware button, and if any is available select the update button to update the firmware.
If the need be you can change the router’s admin login credentials to avoid anyone simply
checking below the router, and gaining access.
To do this under system settings select password and time zone and here is where you can change
the admin login username and password.
Please note, be sure to record on paper or somewhere safe your new admin login credentials,
or you will be forced to perform a hard reset, and you will lose all changes made in the
admin area and you will be restored to default settings.
To configure your dual Wi-Fi bands click on the networks tab, then click Wi-Fi, and under
basic is where you can configure each frequency either the 2.4 GHz or the 5 GHz band.
Here you can select what type of network you would like it to be, you can change the name
of the network from the default one located below the router, and you can change the password
for your new Wi-Fi network.
There are also some advanced Wi-Fi settings.
And there is this one in particular called band steering that uses a smart feature that
presents one WiFi login instead of two that all your devices can log into, and the router
will intelligently move your devices to the less congested 5 GHz band for the best performance,
and leave the 2.4 GHz band for devices that only has a single band WiFi.
It’s also smart way to take away the confusion of which band one should connect to.
From going through the user manual I can tell you that there are mounting loads of features,
some so advanced that time cannot permit nor do I have the know it all to demonstrate all
these great features.
Only to say that some of these features are really cool compared to what I am accustomed
to on my regular AC router.
So If you would like to see all the features this router has to offer before you decide
to purchase you can download the user manual from the link in the description below is
video.
So I successfully connected all my devices to the router, and as you can see here under
connected devices I have 49 devices connected.
I have checked all of them and the transition from my old wireless router to this new one
was seamless, all I had to do was give this router the same Wi-Fi username and passwords
from my previous router.
Like most people I don’t have a lot of devices that uses Wi-Fi 6.
Only recently I received the Ugoos AM6B plus TV Box, and I received a Wi-Fi extender more
than over a year ago that I could never get to work on my dual band AC router using WPS
connection.
Well I’m happy to announce that I finally got the WiFi extender work with this model,
and the TV Box connects without issues.
So the question is how much of an improvement is this router over my previous one?
To test this I have the recorded results of the Wi-Fi bands and LAN port speed test from
the Ugoos AM6B plus TV Box from my last video, and I performed the same test under this new
router.
So these are the results from my Linksys router.
As you can see on my 150 Mbps connection, the 5 GHz band and the LAN port achieved a
100% of my bandwidth, and the 2.4 band only achieved 54%.
When the same tests was performed on this new router the results were slightly different.
The 5 GHz band and the LAN port maintained their maximum bandwidth, but the 2.4 GHz band
was now able to achieve maximum bandwidth also.
So I can conclude that this Wi-Fi six router true whatever performance optimization, improves
the bandwidth of the 2.4 GHz band, and going forward we shall see if in other boxes there
is a definite difference or if it was just a one-off.
The Wi-Fi extender on the other hand as I mentioned I could never get it to connect
to my Linksys router via WPS so that review never made it to my channel.
However connecting the extender to this new router was quick and easy seeing that the
extender uses Wi-Fi 6.
So it had to be a compatibility issue with my Linksys router that was preventing it from
being a backwards compatible.
So to connect this extender to the Dynalink router you simply press and hold the WPS button
for a few seconds on till the LED indicator starts flashing.
Then on the extender press and hold the WPS button and the pairing process will begin.
Once it has successfully paired itself with the router the WPS LED will remain a solid.
If you would like to check out this Wi-Fi extender it’s still available on Amazon
with a 30% discount coupon attached to it.
Just keep in mind that it only works when connected to a Wi-Fi six router.
See the link in the description below is video.
Another cool feature of this router that I like you very much is the built-in FTP and
Samba server feature.
With this feature simply plug any external storage device such as a pen drive, an external
hard drive, or even something larger such as a NAS server, and access your stored data
via any browser or file browser that has a network FTP or samba server feature.
So viewers they will have it, this was my review of the new Dynalink AX3600 DL-WRX36
Wi-Fi six router.
If you like to get your hands on this model, it’s currently sold on Amazon for $129.99.
See the link in the description below is video.
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