This is one of the best routers I have ever bought for my house. Speeds and signal strength are excellent across multiple floors. Handles multiple devices seamlessly (over 25 devices at any given time, we have many Sonos speakers and Hue lights). All of those are features you would expect in any router but the areas where this little guy really excels are:
1. Application level threat detection on ALL devices. This is very hard to do from a technical standpoint.
2. Packet inspection on incoming and outgoing traffic but with an IPS level external definitions list. Equivalent enterprise solutions that offer this kind of thing for businesses can range in price to the tune of thousands.
3.The app is simple but has gotten progressively better over the last year with IP reservations for static network devices like a NAS or printer. Device priority is great if you have competing devices that you need to override for maximum bandwidth. QoS is effective and provides noticeable improvement when you have a 4K stream going or use VOIP.
4.The Norton Cote automatically updates! No maintenance, no unnecessary notifications. It just sits there looking pretty and self sufficient. This is very unusual because generally the more a security appliance offers the more upkeep it requires, this is not the case with this router and honestly that in itself is incredible.
5. Full set of norton antivirus for the entire house... unlimited devices. If you have 5 devices to install on it just paid for itself.
6. Norton secure DNS is fantastic for day to day protection prior to loading pages. The phone app allows for on demand VPN prior to viewing pages on the phone. Both of these feature have seen brief interruptions but they have short lived and very rare. This protects you before you get content on your device. It’s a big deal.
In today’s word of IoT there are so many ways to get into a home network and Core effectively protects all your devices.
As a side note we wanted coverage on a separate building on our property so we used a managed switch and vlans to allow a core in each building and it’s been working fine.
| RAM | 1 GB |
|---|---|
| Wireless Type | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac |
