Xiaomi AIoT Router AX3600 First Look: Supports WiFi 6 and priced under $150
On Feb. 13, Xiaomi officially launched its flagship smartphone Xiaomi Mi 10 of the year. During this period, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun introduced the WiFi 6 technology on Xiaomi Mi 10 and announced the pricing of AX3600, Xiaomi’s first AIoT router that supports WiFi 6, which is priced at 599 yuan. So what are the features of this Xiaomi AIoT Router AX3600? We will make a detailed review introduction in this post.
Outlook Design
The overall appearance of the Xiaomi AIoT Router AX3600 is in the shape of a prism, the whole body is black, with a total of 7 external antennas. One of them is an AIoT exclusive independent antenna, and the other 6 antennas are 2.4GHz antennas and 4 5GHz antennas. At the same time, Xiaomi AX3600’s 2.4GHz band and 5GHz band are equipped with two and four external high-performance signal amplifiers (PA power amplifier + LNA low noise amplifier). The official slogan shows that its signal can cover two football fields.
It is worth noting that because of the addition of AIoT exclusive independent antennas, Xiaomi AX3600 can automatically discover new devices. Users can automatically find the uninitialized Xiaomi smart devices around them when they open Mijia APP, and they can network the new devices with one click, eliminating the process of manually adding search devices and manually entering passwords. In addition, Xiaomi AX3600 supports connecting up to 248 AIoT devices.
Features
It should be noted that both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands provided by, Xiaomi AIoT Router AX3600 support 11ax technology, and the dual-band concurrent wireless rate is as high as 2976Mbps. Its independent AIoT antenna also adopts 2.4GHz+5GHz dual-band design, which can provide 150Mbps+433Mbps co-583Mbps rate for AIoT devices. (2976-583-3599, which is why 3600 is included in AX3600 naming. ).
In terms of hardware, the Xiaomi AX3600 is equipped with Qualcomm IPQ8071A chip and 512MB memory. The chip uses a 4-core A53 architecture, 1GHz clock frequency, but also integrates a dual-core NPU network acceleration engine chip, so it is also said that the Xiaomi AX3600 carries a 6-core chip. Qualcomm IPQ8071A is an enterprise professional chip, and Xiaomi AX3600 is the first router to use this enterprise chip in the consumer market.
Network Experience
In terms of network experience, Xiaomi AIoT Router AX3600 supports OFDMA, MU-MIMO, BSS Coloring, Beamforming, and other technologies as well as IPv6 protocol and WPA3 encryption protocol. It has good experience in reducing signal interference, improving communication efficiency, expanding network address space, strengthening security and so on.
In addition, Xiaomi AX3600 also has a built-in NetEase UU Accelerator plug-in, which supports global network acceleration of mainstream mainframe games such as PS4, Switch and Xbox One, reducing the delay of online games and solving the problem of game login timeout. New users can also receive a free period of three months worth 90 yuan through the NetEase UU accelerator bound to Xiaomi WiFi App.
It is worth mentioning that Xiaomi AIoT router AX3600 is the first flagship router priced at Wi-Fi 6, the Qualcomm platform is 600RMB. Its launch marks Xiaomi as the first brand to complete full support for Wi-Fi 6 technology from mobile to router terminals.
Availability
The Xiaomi AIoT router AX3600 carries a price tag under $150 and you can buy it now from Gearbest.com.
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