At the end of 2013, Xiaomi officially launched the router product, and then launched the Xiaomi router mini. A year later, Xiaomi finally released a new Xiaomi router with a large capacity hard disk. Its hardware configuration, antenna and hard disk capacity have improved to varying degrees. What's its actual experience? Follow us:

The packaging of the new Xiaomi router still follows the usual carton design of Xiaomi, with a simple brand logo on the front.

From the back of the package, we can see that the product name is: Xiaomi Router hard disk version 1TB. We got the 1TB version for 699 yuan, and the 6TB version for 2999 yuan. The former is white shell, and the latter is black, which is completely consistent in function.

After opening the package, there are quick setting steps for the router. As usual, the Xiaomi router is very simple to use. As long as you follow the prompts, ordinary users can easily connect to the Internet.

Take out the router, you can see that the side of the fuselage and the antenna are wrapped with white protective film.

Next is the router body. Seen from the top, the brand new Xiaomi router is not very different from the general router, but its thickness is much thicker due to the heat sink and 3.5-inch hard disk.

There is a working status signal light on the front of the fuselage.

The top of the fuselage is made of frosted surface, with the brand logo of Xiaomi printed on it.

There are two PCB array antennas on the left and right, which can rotate at multiple angles.

There are heat dissipation holes on the side, which form heat dissipation ducts with the internal fans of the machine body to further reduce the temperature of the router.

As far as an intelligent router is concerned, the interface of the brand new Xiaomi router is relatively rich. There is a USB interface behind it, which can be connected to external storage devices such as USB disks and cameras. It also has three gigabit LAN ports and one gigabit WAN port. of course,

The new Xiaomi router has four rubber foot pads at the bottom, and the screws for fixing the body are also hidden under these foot pads.

The accessories of the new Xiaomi router only include a power adapter, which does not include the network cable as the first generation.

The output specification of the power adapter is 12V 3.0A.

The connection of the new Xiaomi router is very convenient. Just connect the power supply, connect the network cable to the gigabit WAN port, and then connect our equipment through wireless and wired methods.

After the connection is successful, we can see that the router will be initialized automatically (the following is a screenshot of the router management page on the PC side).

During initialization, users will be asked to make simple settings.

Then we can see the official version of MiWiFi 2.0, the new management background that Xiaomi carries for the new Xiaomi router. This system is quite different from the previous system in terms of UI and settings. The management background is divided into four major items: routing status, storage status, common settings and advanced settings. In the router status, you can see that the product name is "Xiaomi Router 2", but this name does not appear on the official website. At the same time, the current external network speed, network status and terminal traffic statistics will be displayed. The entire interface is very intuitive.

The first generation Xiaomi router can also support MiWiFi 2.0 through OTA upgrade, so they are identical in function.

Click the storage status, and the capacity of the local storage hard disk and USB external storage will be displayed. We got the 1TB version, the hard disk uses the SATAIII interface, and the file system is EXT4. Detailed file storage statistics, read/write status, etc. are also shown below.

Common settings include common router settings, such as WiFi settings, Internet settings, LAN settings, etc. I believe that the settings of users who have used routers here will not be a problem.

Advanced settings include QoS intelligent speed limit, DHCP static IP allocation, DONS, VPN and other higher-level functions, which are suitable for users with high functional requirements.

The new mobile phone client of Xiaomi Router is also very powerful. It can view and manage files of different routers bound and different devices connected to the router.

The toolbox of mobile phone client has many functions, and even includes some experimental tools such as anti scratch network and network speed optimization.

We can set the mobile access file permissions through the PC web page management page or the mobile client. Here, we set the overall access.

In the mobile phone client of the router, we can also view and manage the contents of the router's hard disk and USB memory.

You can also view the contents of the Xiaomi router's hard disk through the phone's file manager, and you can also view the storage space in the connected USB device.

For camera users, the Xiaomi router has an automatic import function. When we use USB to connect the camera and router, the photos and videos in the camera will be automatically synchronized to the router. At this time, we can view these contents through computers, mobile phones, Xiaomi TVs and other different devices connected to the router.

Xiaomi router can easily view photos and video content in the camera. Although this function is very convenient, due to the speed limit of the USB interface, it is relatively slow to use. Users who need to transfer a large amount of data suggest reading the camera's memory card directly.

Xiaomi router can download rich movie and entertainment resources, including TV dramas, movies, variety shows, etc.

After selecting the corresponding resources, we can download them remotely. At the same time, the downloaded video can be automatically transferred to the mobile phone connected to the router. After that, it can be played offline using the mobile phone.

After the above experience, we can see that the new Xiaomi router has really made a lot of effort in the user experience, and ordinary users will not have too much difficulty in using it. In terms of function expansion, it also has rich additional and high-level functions. In addition, from the improvement of this generation of routers, we can see that Xiaomi focuses more on the interconnection and data transmission of routers with mobile phones, smart TVs, cameras and other devices, and we can also see Xiaomi's ambition in the entire ecological chain. For such a powerful intelligent router, the 1TB version is priced at 699 yuan, and the price performance ratio is outstanding. If the local tyrant users have very strict requirements on data storage, they can also consider directly starting the 6TB version of 2999 yuan.