DrayTekVigor 2927AX Dual Wan Ethernet Firewall VPN Router, WiFi 6 Dual Band Wireless, 5+1 Gigabit LAN Ports, 50 VPN Tunnels, USB Port for 3g/4g Failover, Multi WAN Connectivity, Ideal For Business.

I’ve had the DrayTek Vigor 2927AX for a few years now, and it’s proven itself time and again as a reliable, feature-rich router that just works. As a BT Business customer using an ONT box, the 2927AX integrates perfectly into my setup, delivering stable, high-speed connectivity without fail.One of the key things I appreciate is DrayTek’s commitment to regular firmware updates. Even after years of ownership, the device continues to receive security patches and enhancements, which gives me great confidence in its longevity. The VPN functionality is another strong point – I frequently use dial-in VPN for remote access, and it has worked flawlessly every time, with no dropouts or reliability concerns.The integrated wireless is solid – while perhaps not as powerful as some higher-end consumer routers in terms of raw range or antenna strength, it provides excellent coverage and consistent bandwidth throughout the downstairs area of my home. Upstairs, the signal does tend to drop off a bit, but given the thick internal walls and the number of neighbouring access points creating saturation on the 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels, it’s understandable. This led me to recently purchase a DrayTek VigorAP 906 to extend coverage – which has resolved the issue beautifully.DrayTek, for me, has always been a brand synonymous with reliability and value. Their products strike a great balance between business-grade performance and home usability. Customer support has always been helpful and responsive when needed, and I particularly enjoy the occasional thoughtful touches – like branded post-it notes and pens – which add a personal feel to the experience that larger brands often lack.I’ll continue to choose DrayTek over other brands like Netgear. Their gear is dependable, well-supported, and built to last.

As a Draytek user for 25 years, I'm well aware of the benefits of Draytek products, and I've replaced a 16 year old ADSL router with this one because of moving to full fibre and needing a firewall that can cope with the increased traffic.I've been setting these up for a long time, so from start to finish for me took around 4 minutes which included securing the device, changing WIFI, changing LAN and setting up for the connection when it went live.Once the new circuit was installed and connected, the router picked up within 3 seconds.WIFI has great coverage, and I've got a 4G router also attached for if there is drop of connection. It's configured as a failover which is another feature I like about Draytek.You can also connect to other Drayteks with a site to site VPN options available. It pretty much does everything you want from a business router, and for a reasonable price.You do need to keep updating the firmware, as being a business router they do get targeted, but the firmware updates are made obvious by the device which checks, and it has a rollback feature for if an upgade doesn't work fully.Overall, it's a fantastic router that should last 20 years plus. Great value for money and my choice for myself and customers I support.

I bought the DrayTek Vigor 2927AX as an upgrade as part of having an Openreach FTTP service installed, replacing a FTTC service.It replaced a Draytek 2860AC which I had for 7 years and was starting to be limiting.I wanted a greater throughput and the capability for 2 Ethernet presented WAN connections, I was also after the newer WiFi 6 (primarily for future proofing as I'm after the same life from a new router as the old one).The 2927AX more or less meets those objectives. I'm not in a position to check the real world throughput but it allows for an Openreach FTTP service and potentially (and at the loss of a LAN port) a second WAN connection.The WiFi with my (less than cutting edge) devices seems slightly better but only a modest improvement.Most other things are very similar to the 2860AC and by a bit of manual transfer I've moved the initial configuation from old to new (mercifully the IP reservation can be saved from the 2860AC and loaded on the 2927AX which saves too many things breaking).The device is fine, I'm sure I'll make use of the incremental extra facilities over the 2860AC in time but it is evolution rather than revolution.If you can wait, it might be worth seeing if 2024 brings an upgraded version (perhaps 2.5Gb/s or 10Gb/s WAN capability) which is more like the Vigor1000B but with WiFi. That's clearly where the next product needs to go (perhaps with SFP cages).The other thing you might wish to think about is whether you want some kind of mesh WiFi system and actually whether having one WiFi access point in the router is a good idea or whether a router without WiFi and a seperate mesh WiFi is a better answer.May 2024 updateAfter a WAN speed update I do wonder if the claimed throughput performance is "real". I can get around 700Mb/s on a nominally 1Gb/s connection. It won't be 1Gb/s anyway as gigabit Ethernet will achieve a bit more like 940Mb/s.The PC will only do about 700Mb/s but doing simultaneous speed tests on 2 PCs (each capable of 700Mb/s) you see the speed shared between the two.I don't have much config that should tax the router (just a few VLANs) and one PC is on an untagged port so I don't see that being the issue.So, from my experience the WAN throughput spec is a bit "ideal conditions". Perhaps related the hardware acceleration didn't seem to do anything (perhaps something in my config stops it working).It's a very decent router and I'm pleased with it but it would be nice if it had a bit more "grunt".June 2025 updateI finally got the hardware acceleration working. I don't entirely know what did it as I did a few firmware updates around the time it started working but I think it related to the "Load-Balance/Route Policy" settings. I previously used the "Wizzard Mode" but I swapped to "Advance Mode" and completing that for the subnets may have magically made the hardware acceleration work.I can confirm I see around 950Mb/s on Speedtest with a wired PC and a decent server both ways now. This is all I could reasonably expect on a 1Gb/s Ethernet connection. The service is probably overprovisioned but even if I got the ONT changed the 2927 is still a 1Gb/s interface. Roll on the next model year!

Taken a while to understand, but it's stable and does what it needs to do. I wish I knew more, or there was a easier manual.

If you have a variety of smart/IoT devices this router is ideal. Up to 4 WiFi APs with client isolation, vlans on both wired ports and APs. No more worries about insecure devices compromising the rest of your network.One important note is that there is a known issue with firmware version 4.4.2.3 (latest release as of this post). In my case the router was crashing every few days.Draytek have release candidate firmware in the works which resolves this issue for me.