2014 and 2015 can be called the first year of the smart router market. A large number of smart routers poured into the market, starting with smart routers and introducing new smart routers. The traditional manufacturer tplink also developed its own smart router. The mobile phone giant Xiaomi also launched Xiaomi Router in due time, and Shengda's Guoke Electronics also launched the magic bean router, The traditional software manufacturer Xunlei has also launched a Xunlei router that makes money by sharing bandwidth. Under this trend, Youku website, which focuses on video sharing, has also launched its own brand router. Today, the product that I take you to experience is Youku Tudou Routing Treasure product launched by Youku.

Youku Tudou Routing Treasure is packaged in an environmentally friendly paper box, with a sample of Youku Routing Treasure printed on the front, and it is written in the corner that this is a router that can make money.

The product model, manufacturer and other information are written on the bottom of the package of Youku Routing Treasure. The specific implementation standards are also given on the product implementation standard box. It shows that the manufacturer of Tudou Routing Treasure is a very strict manufacturer.

Open the outer package and you can see that Tudou Routing Treasure is located in it. At the same time, Youku Routing Treasure's paper instructions are provided.

Youku's instructions are printed on environmentally friendly paper, which explains how to connect the router and some simple instructions.

A paper box is provided below the Youku router to pack the switching power supply of the box.

All hardware provided by Youku Router includes a Youku router host and a switching power supply.

The power supply of Youku Router is DC12V/1A switching power supply, and the power supply port is 3.5mm round socket. This power supply is basically the same as that of other router products.

The design of the switch adopts the general style of similar products in the market at present, and the author does not like this design very much, because it takes up more space in the insertion.

Youku Routing Treasure adopts a dual antenna design, and the antenna of Routing Treasure can rotate at will.

The word Youku Tudou is written on the left side of the front distribution of Routebao. The lower right corner is the indicator light.

The words Youku and Tudou in blue and orange are clearly visible on the left.

The lower right is the indicator light of the router, including the indicator light for connecting to the network, the indicator light for wireless on, the indicator light for power supply, and the indicator light for making money.

Two LAN ports, one WAN port and power supply port are provided at the back of the router. At the same time, you can see that the antenna of the router can rotate.

Routing treasure has the RESET switch button, which can realize the restart and reset function of routing treasure. At the same time, Youku's restart button design adopts a prominent design, which is much more convenient than the embedded design of other routers, and requires no more effort to find toothpicks and other operations.

The power supply port of the router is clearly marked with the Power logo. Youku's WAN port is blue, and the LAN port is yellow.

The product model and relevant technical parameters of power supply are written on the bottom of Youku Router.

The bottom of the router is designed with an opening, which allows users to easily hang the router on the wall or other locations.

Youku Router provides a USB interface on the side, but the interface has not yet been effectively used.

The first use of Youku can be set using APP. After opening the APP, you can search the information of the router, but you can easily use all the functions only after binding the account. After the registration is completed, you can see that the home page displays the gold status of Youku. At the same time, enter the next step for convenient settings.

The network can be set in three ways: dial-up, dynamic IP and static IP connection. Here, the author uses dynamic IP. After the connection is completed, enter the page of designing wifi name and password. After the settings are completed, you can use all the functions of Youku Routing Treasure normally.

The main function of Youku Routing Treasure is to earn gold coins and exchange corresponding gifts. The app of Routing Treasure provides speed measurement function, which shows that the author's function is good. The app prompts that you can probably get less than 2900 gold coins per month, which is less than 8 yuan. For the author, I feel that the money is basically unacceptable.

Routing Treasure provides three working modes: through the wall mode, standard mode and green mode. It also provides the running status of the router.

In order to test the signal status of the router, the author took out the geek version of the magic bean router and compared the signal with Youku router. In the figure, red is the signal strength of the magic bean router, and blue is the signal status of Youku router. At one meter, the signal strength of the two routers is basically the same, and the signal strength is good. In the case of a wall, both routers have attenuation, but it is obvious that Youku has greater attenuation. In the case of two walls, in the last two displays of the above figure, the signal strength of Modou router is slightly better than that of Youku router, which shows that Youku's ability to penetrate the wall is slightly lower than that of Modou router. Of course, this is just an intuitive test. Because the signal at the test location is too complicated, it cannot completely reflect the signal strength.

Youku provides the WEB setting method, The homepage of the WEB is also about Youku gold coins. We can see that the daily income is less than 40 yuan, and the monthly gold coins income should be around 1200 yuan. The radical model of gold coins earning, that is, gold coins earning priority, is adopted. In this case, the monthly income of Youku routers is only 3 yuan, which is really not interesting to the author.

The router's web settings provide a wealth of functions, including basic network settings and advanced function settings, as well as time period settings for panel indicators.

Youku Router provides factory reset. Restoring the factory will clear all the settings of the router. However, the user bound Youku account will be retained. That is to say, you cannot switch accounts through reset.

Summary:

After a period of use, Youku Tudou Routing Treasure has a perfect network setting function, which can be easily used by users as wireless routers. Through the signal test, it can basically meet the network use of ordinary families, but as an intelligent router, there are still many problems:

1. The gold earning function of Youku Tudou Routing Treasure is too weak. The author's network is 10M optical fiber of China Mobile, and the income is only 1200, that is, about RMB 3 per month, with no hanging value at all;

2. Although USB hardware interface is provided, relevant plug-ins or application operations using this interface are not provided;

3. Although the APP function has the function of remote operation, it is too simple. Basically, except for watching Youku Coin, it has little use value;

4. From the point of view of Luci used by Youku's WEB, Youku Router uses the deeply developed OpenWrt system, which has very rich plug-ins, but Youku Router itself has very few plug-ins. It is recommended that Youku increase the number of plug-ins as soon as possible to meet users' needs.