In April 2014, after three rounds of public beta, Xiaomi Route retail version finally came to the stage to meet the long-awaited rice noodles. Xiaomi router locates small home server with built-in hard disk. With the popularity of mobile phones and tablets, users have become less and less open PCs to access file files, and only need to connect to Xiaomi Routing. Through the Xiaomi router, the LAN will speed up the transmission of documents. With the appearance of the first generation Xiaomi router and its powerful intelligent control function, Xiaomi router has won a place in the intelligent home of the Internet. A year later, the second generation Xiaomi router also met you again in June 2015.

I'm lucky to be here today Used by Lei Feng Obtained Xiaomi router on two The trial opportunity of the generation. As a most common probationer, Xiaomi Router one Today, generations of users will experience the Xiaomi router from the following aspects:

Packaging and appearance

The packaging of the new generation router of Xiaomi continues Xiaomi's traditional kraft paper environmental protection packaging. The front of the packaging box has nothing but an "M", and the bottom of the packaging box is the relevant data introduction of the router. The simple packaging, just from the front, does not know what is inside, giving a mysterious feeling. Compared with the packaging of the first generation router, the overall packaging box is larger and thinner. Next, we will open the package and have a look at this super cool new generation millet router.

In appearance, the new millet route is obviously different from the previous generation product. The original cylinder is deformed and compressed, and becomes a square box with a standard shape. This shape is more stable and beautiful when placed. The most obvious thing is that it has two more antennas than the previous generation. The first generation is black with hard disk. The new generation 1T hard disk has a white appearance, and only the high configuration version of 6T is black.

Now Xiaomi products are becoming more and more refined. The five segment compartment design makes the new generation of Xiaomi router more beautiful and fashionable. The front and side of the router are covered with protective film. It is certain that Xiaomi is an enterprise that makes products with heart. The positive simple explanation makes it easy for you to deal with this big guy with only three movies.

The four anti slip foot pads at the bottom of the new generation router make the Xiaomi router more stable. The four foot pads make the Xiaomi router have a certain distance from the desktop, which also has a certain cooling effect.

The interfaces of the new generation Xiaomi router are arranged neatly. Needless to say, you can see the functions of each interface and button at a glance. Compared with the first generation, the new Xiaomi router has an additional switch key and an additional network cable output interface, and the USB interface still uses 2.0, which is really disappointing.

There are heat dissipation holes on both sides of the router, and heat is dissipated through the internal fan. It is estimated that one side is the air outlet and the other side is the air inlet. In this way, an air convection will be formed to dissipate heat more effectively.

hardware configuration

Hardware configuration:

Processor: BCM4709C Cortex-A9 Dual core 1.4GHz

ROM ： 512M SLC Nand Flash

Memory: 256MB DDR3-1600

Hard disk storage: three point five Inch (standard 1TB , optional 6TB ）

2.4G WiFi ： 2*2 (Support IEEE 802.11N Protocol, the highest speed can reach 300Mbps ）

5G WiFi ： 2*2 (Support IEEE 802.11AC Protocol, the highest speed can reach 867Mbps ）

Antenna: External dual band omnidirectional enterprise class PCB array antenna two Root（ 2.4G Maximum gain 4dBi 5G Maximum gain 6dBi ）

Cooling system: Specially designed cooling air duct system + Intelligent low-speed mute fan

Interface parameters:

one individual USB 2.0 Interface（ DC output ： 5V/1A ）

three individual 10/100/1000M self-adaption LAN Mouth（ Auto MDI/MDIX ）

one individual 10/100/1000M self-adaption WAN Mouth（ Auto MDI/MDIX ）

one Red / blue / Yellow tricolor LED indicator light

one System reset keys

one Systems on / Shutdown button

one Power input interface（ 12V 3A ， 6TB Hard disk version is 12V 3.5A ）

Compared with the first generation routers, the new and old routers differ in hardware parameters as follows:

　　 one The main control chip has been upgraded from the original BCM4709 Upgraded to BCM4709C The main difference between the two chips is BCM4709C The dominant frequency of is determined by 1GHz Promoted to 1.4GHz . Theoretically, the processing speed is increased 40% 。

　　 two , system flash memory, from the original 16MB Upgraded to 512MB The advantage of large flash memory is that more applications can be installed in flash memory instead of external storage.

　　 three External antenna is used. The old product uses a built-in antenna, while the new router directly uses an external antenna, so the signal is better.

　　 four , used three point five Inch monitoring hard disk, while the old router uses two point five Inch notebook hard disk. In terms of stability, the monitoring level hard disk will be better.

System application

The PC client login interface of Xiaomi router. The system of Xiaomi router is basic to OpenWRT Deep customized intelligent router operating system MiWiFi 。 ROM support Web 、 Android 、 iOS 、 Windows 、 OS X Router management software of the system.

The main interface after PC login displays the status of the router. The basic parameters of the router are all here. Package the system version, real-time network status, terminal traffic statistics, current CPU load, router memory usage status and other information of the router.

The storage status interface of the router. The system will automatically recognize pictures, videos, music, documents and other files, and automatically classify them. Very convenient data display.

Main interface of common settings, mainly including WiFi settings; Internet settings; Security Center; LAN settings; System status settings.

This is the advanced setting interface, as long as it includes: QsO intelligent speed limit; DHCP static IP allocation; DDNS; Port forwarding; VPN； Other 6 settings.

All the above are the operating interfaces of PC client. Let's take a look at the operating interfaces of mobile phone client.

This is the operation interface of the Xiaomi router's mobile phone client, as shown in the figure above, from left to right are: routers (the important display is the terminal devices connected to the router, where you can freely control any device to access the Internet, and turn it on or off anytime and anywhere); Storage (mainly including the directory, photo album, film and television of the hard disk in the router); Find resources (you can download your favorite movies and other files here); Toolbox (the powerful functions of Xiaomi router are all here).

Here are all the functions of Xiaomi Router Toolbox. Some plug-ins are still for installation. Xiaomi router is indeed a super intelligent router. With so many functions, can you play with it????

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Experience summary

First of all, as a user of the first generation Xiaomi router, I still like the appearance change of the new second generation Xiaomi router. The design of external antenna makes it more like a router. Compared with the next generation, the new generation Xiaomi router is a little heavier, but its user experience is still very good. Especially the router Thunderbolt offline download function. If you need friends who often play games or movies, you will like it. After all, you don't need it twenty-four I left my computer on for hours to download. The optimized cooling system has made great progress in noise suppression, especially in sleep. After several days of experience, we can see that the new Xiaomi router has really made a lot of effort in user experience, and ordinary users will not have too much difficulty in using it. In terms of function extension, various plug-ins are very rich. In addition, from the improvement of this generation of routers, we can see that Xiaomi focuses more on the interconnection and data transmission between routers and mobile phones, smart televisions, cameras and other devices, so as to realize the authoritarian ambition of Xiaomi's router's home intelligent control center.