preface

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The millet empire is getting bigger and bigger, and the product line is getting longer and longer. But Rebus once said: "I hope that Xiaomi should focus enough on three types of hardware, namely, mobile phones, Xiaomi boxes and routers. These three are platform level products, and the competition is very fierce. I hope that Xiaomi's colleagues can gather in several products and do a good job of these three products wholeheartedly." From these words, we can see that Xiaomi attaches great importance to the construction of the ecosystem platform. Among them, the router plays the role of communication and interconnection, and its importance is self-evident. After the release of the Xiaomi router, its beautiful appearance, powerful configuration, and built-in hard disk have made many people accept it, and its market performance is excellent. On this basis, Xiaomi has made persistent efforts to launch a new Xiaomi route.

”We use enterprise level standards to design a new millet router. It not only has enterprise level PCB array antenna, American Broadcom dual core 1.4GHz processor, monitoring level hard disk, but also has advanced intelligent signal tracking technology Operation. When these advanced configurations are integrated, they can provide you with better signals, more reliable storage, and faster speed. That is why Xiaomi Router has become a new standard for home routers. “

From the above enterprise publicity, we can see the advantages of the new millet route, stronger hardware, and better algorithms, which I like very much. This time, I got the new millet route, and I began to plan to write the open box, system, WIFI signal strength, wall penetration capability, data throughput, etc., but when I thought about it later, although there were a lot of data to write, the form was beautiful, and the evaluation seemed professional, more users did not care about these, and wrote something closer to our daily use, which would be more grounded. If so, I decided to focus on describing the function that I most liked and used most: NAS。 I hope you will like this unconventional test..

Unpacking

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Very simple kraft paper packaging box

Open it and you can see Xiaomi Route lying quietly

Compared with the previous generation of millet route, the new millet route has a greater change in appearance, abandoning the previous generation's heteromorphic shape and returning to the square shape of map transmission. On the built-in hard disk, the 2.5 of the previous generation has become a more common 3.5-inch disk with stronger performance. What follows is an increase in the thickness of the fuselage..

The side cooling holes are used for routing and hard disk cooling.

A close-up of the interface on the back. The new Xiaomi router is equipped with a gigabit network interface, which is very useful for data transmission. Together with Broadcom 4709C dual core 1.4GHz, it provides more powerful data transmission capability.

Enterprise level PCB array antenna It has four antenna units, with a maximum gain of 4dBi at 2.4GHz and 6dBi at 5GHz, providing better signals.

The world can adjust the position randomly, which is very convenient

The back is relatively simple, except for 4 anti slip mats, there is not much decoration.

Random power supply, 1T version is 3A power supply, and 6T version is 3.5A power supply.

Close up of the effect.

NAS

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As a small AV player, it is common to hang up the phone and watch high-definition blockbusters on TV or projection. In the past, it was a computer download, and then transferred to the mobile hard disk and inserted into the high-definition machine to play, which was very tedious. Xiaomi routes its built-in hard disk to support offline download, which is not a simple NAS, which is also the most exciting place for me..

The system of Xiaomi Routing is deeply customized based on OpenWRT, which is good in function and DIY, and supports third-party plug-ins.

Here we can see the power of the gigabit network. The speed from the computer to the routing is very good.

After installing the PC side of Xiaomi Routing, we can directly manage Xiaomi Routing as a disk, which is very convenient

download

The download supports flux linkage and BT download, and is very convenient to use.

What's more, the Thunderbolt Cloud acceleration plug-in can accelerate 10 times a month for free, so you can avoid buying members

The acceleration effect is just,,

For ordinary users, Xiaomi Routing provides iQIYI, Xunlei Kankan and other plug-ins. It supports direct caching, which is also very convenient. In addition, the hard disk on the hard disk also supports the poster function, which is very cool..

Share Playback

After the download is completed, the shared viewing on the terminal is what we want to enjoy. If there is a hard disk player, it will be very simple. For SIGMA chip machines, UPNP devices or SMB shares can be found in network play, and then you can click play. But for more users, Android machines are the most used. Let me take Microwhale TV as an example to explain the broadcast method..

For mobile phone users, the ES file manager is undoubtedly the most convenient, but for TV or boxes, the ES does not optimize the remote control, which is not very convenient to use. Here I recommend you to use the small white file manager. Simple and easy to use..

In the home network, we can find millet routing.

It can be played easily with the Xiaobai player, and it also supports online subtitles, which is more convenient. However, the problem is also obvious. It is a pity that the built-in special effect subtitles cannot be played.

For users with higher requirements, KODI is a more perfect choice.. When adding media libraries, I personally recommend the Upnp sharing method. It is a great pity that Xiaomi Routing does not support NFS sharing. SMB is much slower and Upnp is better, but it is still much worse than NFS.

After adding the media library, you can see the movie.

The shaver bean paste is good.

Everyone is familiar with KODI's playback interface. KODI's powerful decoding capability allows us to play the built-in special effect subtitles, which is very useful and highly recommended.

Of course, as a NAS, downloading and sharing are only a part of it. Phone backup, QQ file assistant, and TimeMachine backup are all quite practical functions. Just like this, it is estimated that the 1T hard disk will be upgraded..

summary

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advantage:

1. Durable appearance, excellent workmanship.

2. Powerful performance, Broadcom dual core master, 256M memory, 512MROM, array antenna, gigabit Ethernet port, etc

3. The OpenWrt based system is relatively stable, with many plug-ins and high playability

4. The built-in hard disk is undoubtedly a blessing for HD fans. It is very convenient to download offline and share. It can be used as a simple NAS.

5. Xunlei Cloud acceleration plug-in gives 10 free accelerations a month, which can save us the cost of purchasing members.

Insufficient:

1. As a machine with a built-in hard disk, it is a great pity that NFS sharing mode is not supported.

2. The hard disk is not easy to replace. It should be designed as a drawer type so that we can easily replace and upgrade the hard disk

3. The UI of both mobile APP and PC is not gorgeous enough. It is not MIUI style at all. We should strengthen the design

On the whole, the brand new Xiaomi route impressed me very much, and now it has firmly occupied my main routing position. In particular, offline download makes me like it very much. I use route download for download and then use it for HD machine. I hope that Xiaomi Route will develop NFS share as soon as possible....