Article structure:
Pre-word language
I. Introduction to selected equipment
Second, the signal strength test
Three. Appearance and details
Fourth, UI design and features
V. Mobile APP settings
Seventh, PC end signal stability test
Eight, mobile phone signal stability test
Nine, throughput testing
Ten, price ranking
Eleven, evaluation conclusion
Historical review of the router market over the years:
In 2012: home wireless router, 300M has been popularized, dual-band has been on the road; USB application trend has just started; the popularity of technology, chip solutions and the rapid development of 802.11AC.
In 2013: An unprecedented battle for Internet entry broke out. Smart routers have risen to the surface and unique features have just emerged.
2014: This type of cost-effective 300M or 450M product supporting the 802.11n specification has become the mainstream of the market.
2015: It is no surprise that a home has more than 10 terminals that need to connect to WiFi. A powerful and stable wireless router has basically become a must-have for homes. Smart routers have begun to have both performance and functionality. New words such as "Dual Frequency, Mobile, Cloud" appear.
2016: With the rise of the "sharing economy", the intelligent routing industry has re-established the reconstruction of the CDN value chain. Intelligent routers have begun to feature features as the competition point. New words such as "mine mining, high-end" emerged.
Hengping statement:
1. All articles in the article are arranged in an orderly manner;
2. All equipments adopt a unified testing environment, software and terminal, and the data is fair and just;
3. Due to the complex wireless environment around the home environment, there are many factors affecting wireless signals, so the Hengping data is for reference only.
Every year, there will be a big horizontal review of the router market for this year, and this year is no exception. After a year of scouring the waves, how many smart router manufacturers have disappeared, and persist until the last few are left. Today we will conduct this year’s Hengping review with several high-end routers that currently occupy a single market.
I. Introduction to selected equipment:
Wireless routers have long since become a must-have for modern homes. As the hub of home networks, wireless routers are silently carrying out simple and important tasks—bringing PCs, mobile phones, and tablets to the Internet. With the rapid development of mobile Internet and smart mobile terminals, people are increasingly demanding router wireless signals and smart management terminals. Which router has the best performance and which is the most cost-effective? Please refer to the following horizontal reviews; They are: (newifi) New Route 3, LINKSYS WRT1200AC, NETGEAR R6400, HUAWEI Q1, ASUS RT-AC66U, and Polar Route 4.
In October this year, four symmetrically-configured strong-signal antennas and “newifi†new route 3 of “gel back plate†were officially launched. The square large-volume plus metal matte shell has a very strong overall appearance design. Symmetric 4 antenna, US original full external signal amplifier, to further expand the signal coverage, and further increase signal strength; dual-frequency four-thread processor with 512MB of large memory, support hardware Gigabit forwarding and Gigabit network, support NAS acceleration The hardware performance is greatly improved compared to the previous generation. The new route 3 uses a USB 3.0 interface design, which replaces the configuration of multiple 2.0 interfaces of previous generation products; a Gigabit WAN port, four Gigabit LAN ports, and can support more cables at the same time under the condition of guaranteed transmission rate. The connection of the device. The combination of Pandorabox's low-level system and Xiaoyun's upper layer application has increased the overall system stability by at least 80% compared to the previous generation; the "Gem Mine" function that realizes idle bandwidth and the high-definition video acceleration download core highlights function with dozens of expansion plug-ins. Compared with previous generations, the new route 3 also greatly enhances playability.
The previous connection to the Internet was a major demand for most Internet users, while the modern home was about how to quickly access the Internet and pursue a more free control experience. LINKSYS WRT1200AC supports open source, further deep customization of the router. 4 Gigabit LAN ports and 1 Gigabit WAN port, which can be connected to drive multiple terminal devices at the same time. One USB3.0 plus one USB2.0/eSATA combo interface provides a better solution to the problem of power supply to the hard disk. The solution, the transmission speed is also improved several levels than the traditional router.
The same is the mainstream brand in the United States, NETGEAR R6400 and LINKSYS WRT1200AC compared to the lack of features in some; 4 Gigabit LAN port and 1 Gigabit WAN port, 3 external antenna dynamic send and receive signals, dual-core processor, overall Strong configuration performance; a USB3.0 interface and a USB2.0 interface, external mobile storage devices can be successfully transformed into a home data center.
The use of a daughter-and-mother router for greater signal coverage, but only supports 2.4G single-frequency band should be a large slot of the HUAWEI Q1 router; 2 LAN ports and 1 WAN port configuration; can increase the number of sub-routes To expand coverage, HUAWEI Q1 should be a better router in the market router to solve the signal coverage; the same with LINKSYS WRT1200AC and NETGEAR R6400 is the design of the plastic body, both in terms of heat dissipation and quality regret.
The ASUS RT-AC66U, which is marketed with VPN services and AiCloud as a value-added service, does not seem very attractive to the average user; in terms of configuration, 4 LAN ports plus 1 WAN port, 3 antennas , 2 USB2.0 interface, support 3G network card connection.
Plug-in-based function of the main route 4, to provide more than 60 kinds of plug-in gameplay; in the hardware interface, a USB2.0 interface and a USB3.0 interface, to meet the general trend of USB3.0 applications; dual-core processor, 128MB flash memory and 256MB memory collocation, pole routing 4 is also keeping pace with the times on the hardware.
In the initial use of the router, it was found that the number of antennas and the arrangement of the various types of routers are very different. Therefore, we will test the signal strength of each model to see which router has the best signal.
Test process description:
In the next testing process, we will use software to test each one in the mobile phone and the PC terminal, and average them. This time, the author took the home as the test environment and chose A, B, C, and D respectively to test the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency bands. It should be noted that the test environment is the actual home environment. The home environment wireless network is more complex and there is a certain signal interference problem. The test data is for reference only.
Test point description:
Point A: The distance from the router to the balcony (3 meters), separated by a glass door.
Point B: The distance from the router to the living balcony (5 meters), separated by two walls.
Point C: The distance from the router to the second bedroom (5 meters), separated by a wall.
Point D: The distance from the router to the master bedroom (10 meters), separated by two walls.
Second, the signal strength test
1. PC signal strength test (without 5G band in HUAWEI Q1)
Computer terminal 5G a point undefinedNETGEAR R6400 disconnected at this point)
Computer 5Gb point:
Computer terminal 5G c point undefinedLINKSYS WRT1200AC disconnected at this point)
Computer terminal 5G d point undefinedNETGEAR R6400 disconnected at this point)
Computer terminal 2.4G a point:
Computer side 2.4G b points:
Computer side 2.4G c point:
Computer terminal 2.4G d point undefinedNETGEAR R6400, pole route 4 disconnected at this point)
2. Mobile phone signal strength test (test software can not identify 36-64 channels as 5G channels, and LINKSYS WRT1200AC test channel automatically selects 36 channels, so the following display abnormalities)
Mobile terminal 5G a point:
Mobile terminal 5Gb point:
Mobile terminal 5G c point:
Mobile terminal 5G d point:
Phone 2.4G a point:
Phone 2.4Gb point:
Phone 2.4G c point:
Phone 2.4G d point:
3. Stability test summary
After sorting out the above test results, we can clearly see which machines perform better:
(No signal disconnected)
In the signal strength test performed on the computer side, the NETGEAR R6400 and the polar routing 4 have the phenomenon of disconnection signals during the 2.4G band test phase; the phenomenon of the disconnection signal of the LINKSYS WRT1200AC and the NETGEAR R6400 during the 5G band test phase; in this round In the test, the performance of the new route 3 and HUAWEI Q1 is excellent.
In the process of signal strength testing conducted on the mobile phone, all routers were not disconnected, and the overall signal strength was higher than that of the computer. The test results also matched the computer test results. All routers performed well. However, the new route 3 is slightly better than the other routers.
According to the data in the table, HUAWEI Q1 is the most disappointing. In the era of USB3.0, not only is there no USB3.0 interface, even the USB interface is not available; besides this, HUAWEI is the only one that supports only single frequency band. The router does not support the 5G signal band; it is worth noting that the new route 3 and the polar route 4 are much cheaper than other routers, but they are all configured with the same number of Gigabit ports; the new route is configured on the antenna. 3 slightly more than the remaining few routers.
Based on the above test results and the basic configuration data of the antenna, we can find that the signal strength of the new route 3 with a symmetrical layout of 4 antennas is the best, and the signal strengths of the NETGEAR R6400 and HUAWEI Q1 sonde routers are also excellent.
Three. Appearance and details
Shape: The new routing 3 uses a black matte color scheme, metal material with matte black color is more texture; 190mmX190mmX25mm square volume is a feature of the new routing 3; the bottom of the "arch" design and inverted triangle combination type cooling holes, Maximize heat dissipation.
In the back-end I/O part of the fuselage, the new route 3 provides the user with a USB interface, Reset, safe pop-up hard disk
Shortcuts and power input holes.
The LINKSYS WRT1200AC can be described as "specially shaped" in overall design. The body of the plastic shell makes the 1200AC this big head look more rustic, the bottom circular cooling hole is also doing its best to occupy the bottom area, in addition to four square bases, there are analog screw design; very inconsistent with the large volume is two The short antenna design; the status display bar uses an analog screen display design, which is arguably the most modern place of the WRT1200AC.
NETGEAR R6400 is a large-volume shaped body in appearance design. The black coat is polished and polished. It looks like this trapezoidal mashup body is very tough. The bottom 3 sides are distributed with square strip heat dissipation holes, the middle use circular heat dissipation holes distribution, and the side of the fuselage is similar to the louver type heat dissipation network; there is a special place on the NETGEAR R6400, at the edge of the fuselage, the top will There is a "hat" style design that can play a role in dust protection.
HUAWEI Q1 has two design styles, pure black and pure white. This article takes one of the whites to participate in the evaluation; Q1 adopts the shape of the simulated rectangular box, and the polished surface of the fuselage feels smooth; after observation, it is found that Q1 has a great The design flaw is the lack of thermal design; compared with several other machines, Q1's heat dissipation seems to be forgotten, and the bottom two heat sinks are not designed to adequately cool the machine.
ASUS ASUS RT-AC66U black rhinestone design, delicate and modern, size is 189x129x36mm, size is moderate. The sides of the fuselage and the bottom of the fuselage can see the use of slope-designed barrier heat sinks; the three-antenna one-sided design seems to be incompatible with the fuselage.
Finally, we take a look at the polar route 4, using a two-color design with a gray body and a black antenna. The metal case adds a lot of weight to the overall image. The side fence-type strip heatsink should be the most significant design of the polar route. The feeling, but such a strip-shaped cooling holes will make the dust reduction effect; the bottom of the circular cooling holes and the mini-stereo sound somewhat similar.
Below we categorize the visible configurations of the various aircraft models that are participating: (Symbol - indicates that the router does not have or does not support this configuration)
From the summary table, it can be seen that only the new route 3 and the polar route 4 are made of metal materials; in the shortcut button setting, there is no shortcut button setting for the HUAWEI Q1 and the polar route 4; in addition, there are more heat dissipation holes in general. The dust effect will be reduced. It can be seen that the HUAWEI Q1 is the best for dust protection.
Fourth, UI design and features
The new route 3 in the UI design, management background with blue as the main color, refreshing and simple; interactive function interface, intuitive visual function point easy to find and easy to click, mobile phone and computer side have a larger click space. The entire management background is based on the router control function and application expansion. The background is simple and clear, and it can meet the requirements of a variety of people such as the elderly or young children.
LINKSYS WRT1200AC interface is based on blue color, left function list and right panel combination; full English operation settings for a large number of ordinary users in the country to stop, the overall people feel less friendly.
The interface of NETGEAR R6400 is based on white color; the interface function is displayed through the “basic†and “advanced†columns, while providing a quick basis for the management of the router, and also providing advanced complex management functions. Layered sense; In terms of basic functions, the combination of graphic and text labels makes the use of functions more explicit; “parental control†is its main function.
The HUAWEI Q1 router back-end interface is based on blue and white colors. It adopts an interactive function layout similar to that of the new route 3 and displays the basic functions of the router. In addition to the basic functions, more advanced setup functions are all included in the "More Functions" section; for Q1's emphasis on the expansion of signal characteristics, the signal management is an important section, so the interface design is also It can be seen that all of them are centered on "signal management", but it is somewhat unreasonable that "sub-routing configuration" seems to be weakened.
ASUS ASUS RT-AC66U interface main color is blue and black, the function of the interface with the left list and the right graphics display. A graphical user interface allows setting, monitoring, and controlling network applications in a single intuitive operating area. In addition, in addition to 30-second settings, multiple device detection, and flexible settings that make full use of network performance, there is also a function that enables fast scanning of USB storage devices connected to the router, as well as data integrity and hard disk status.
Pole routing 4 interface is also based on blue color, using the iconic list design; Home on the router management tools highlights, while the polar route 4 pairs of restart shortcut entry shows, indicating that the polar route 4 is more concerned about the user operating experience For the home page eye-catching "store wifi" and more extended applications, the polar route is a high playability router.
By comparing the various router backend interfaces, we found that the new routing 3, HUAWEI Q1, polar routing 4 is an interactive icon design, the overall interface is more beautiful; LINKSYS WRT1200AC, NETGEAR R6400, ASUS RT-AC66U management interface used mostly Listed design, the degree of user-friendliness is less than the first three.
V. Mobile APP settings
As mentioned in the opening chapter, mobile is a future trend. Therefore, many router vendors have added APP supporting management facilities to their products. Users can scan QR codes to download apps and easily set up routers on the mobile phone side, eliminating the need to log in to the computer's page settings. inconvenient. Of the 6 products that were included in the final list, 6 new routers, such as New Route 3, LINKSYS WRT1200AC, NETGEAR R6400, HUAWEI Q1, and ASUS ASUS RT-AC66U, have added APP settings to their products. Let's compare them. Good and bad.
Functionally speaking, high-definition video downloads and the "Gem Mine" mining function is the best competition point for new routing 3 in value-added services, especially the "Gem Mining" mining function, so that the new route 3 becomes a will "Idle bandwidth becomes network fee" resource guardian. By scanning the QR code on the manual, the user can download the mobile app “newifi†of the new route 3, the initial prompt page of the mobile phone and the home page, all have tips and movie related content, and in the “video†section, “newifi†is The web-downloaded movies are searched vertically and displayed by tags. The number is huge and the content is rich. The update speed is basically synchronized with the network. In addition to the video, the “newifi†home page shows the entrance to the “gemstone mine†mining function. Netizens provided news that the new mining route 3 had high mining revenues. In the event of an 8-10 times “digging rateâ€, it was normal for the one-day profit to exceed 10,000.
In addition, in terms of router management functions, basic functions such as signal control and plug-in control are relatively complete, but there are fewer advanced management functions. “Seed Express†is another major feature of newifi. The entire network collects seed resources and can directly download, more in line with the young. People's mentality.
The management app of LINKSYS WRT1200AC is mainly used as a router control function, and has a strong sense of interface design technology. The color matching style is the same as the back-end management interface. Compared to new routers with a large number of value-added services, the LINKSYS WRT1200AC app is obviously one step behind. From each function, the management of the router is very detailed.
The NETGEAR R6400's app interface color scheme is similar to the background color on the computer side. The function is shown in a pictorial style. In addition to the basic functions, there are individual advanced functions. The entire app is designed to focus on the management of the router. It is generally simple but slightly rigid.
HUAWEI Q1's app interface focuses on data. The distribution of functions in the four-room format is focused on the display of the basic management functions of the router. The aesthetics are lacking. Therefore, there are no bright spots in the functions and interfaces.
ASUS ASUS RT-AC66U's app interface is also the same as its computer-side style, modern and strong sense of design; a variety of color and icon display makes the entire app feel fresh and bright. Compared to other participating routers, ASUS ASUS RT-AC66U will be more comprehensive display of basic functions, it can be said that this app, general users do not need to open the computer management background, you can complete the basic management of the router. In addition, five plug-ins, which can be called ASUS RT-AC66U's official main function, are also displayed on the app side. In addition, there are a variety of expansion applications provided by “third partiesâ€; overall, ASUS ASUS RT-AC66U’s app management The control function is relatively complete.
The various functions of the Pole Routing 4 app are shown in the block icons. Although the pattern is as clear as possible, but the number is too much and the classification is not perfect, the app function is displayed in a messy manner; besides the basic management functions, the extension application can be said to be a Pole Route 4 One of the highlights is that some smart home devices can also be connected. However, one thing that makes people feel disgusted is that Pole Mall has occupied one-third of the important sections of the app.
We have sorted out the features of various models of routers. Of course, due to different personal needs, the choices will be different. For the individual, the “mining†function and the VPN service that will change the idle bandwidth to network fees are the most attractive features. point.
Fifth, PC end stability test
Computer terminal 5G a point:
Computer 5Gb point:
Computer 5G c point:
Computer 5G d point:
Computer terminal 2.4G a point: (LINKSYS WRT1200AC is disconnected at this point)
Computer side 2.4G b points:
Computer side 2.4G c point:
2.4Gd point on the computer side: (LINKSYS WRT1200AC, NETGEAR R6400, and polar route 4 are disconnected at this point)
In the stability test on the computer side, the LINKSYS WRT1200AC and NETGEAR R6400 have signal disconnection, in which ASUS RT-AC66U has disconnected and reconnected. In general, the stability test is the new route 3, HUAWEI Q1, Polar route 4 performs better.
Six, mobile phone signal stability test
Mobile terminal 5G a point:
Mobile terminal 5Gb point:
Mobile terminal 5G c point:
Mobile terminal 5G d point:
Phone 2.4G a point:
Phone 2.4Gb point:
Phone 2.4G c point:
Phone 2.4G d point:
In the stability test of the mobile phone, all the routers have no disconnection; the overall test results show that the LINKSYS WRT1200AC and NETGEAR R6400 signals are the most stable.
Seventh, throughput test
Throughput testing session using AC7620 and Macbook for testing, the following are the test results and statistical charts:
From the throughput summary table above, it can be seen that the 5G band throughput LINKSYS WRT1200AC has the best data, followed by the new route3. From the 2.4G band test, ASUS has a sudden rise. From the data point of view, in addition to the HUAWEI Q1 data, the difference in several models is relatively small.
Eight, price ranking
Since the new route 3 has only been purchased once at the official micro shop so far, screenshots of orders provided by users are displayed, and other routers intercept the Jingdong price page. From the price point of view, most routers are over $500, while the price of new route 3 is below $500, and the price of route 4 is the lowest.
Nine, evaluation end
According to the configuration and performance of the first three:
Feature service attractiveness ranking:
This concludes the six router evaluation papers. I try my best to express all the routers' information and help them fully understand the advantages and pitfalls of the various routers. I believe everyone is looking at all six routers in all aspects. After the comparison, combined with personal needs, you should already have your favorite or interested router.
Thank you for reading!
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