In the coming era of smart home, all household appliances, even ordinary daily necessities, will have intelligent factors, and intelligence not only means that you can control their switches with mobile APP, but also that the smart home system will read your daily habits and control the work of household appliances by the system. This means that when you are thirsty, the water in the cup is always hot. When you come home with sweat, the air conditioner has been working for a period of time, and the bathroom water heater also burns the water to the appropriate temperature. What's more, all of these will change your living habits. After going to the toilet, you don't need to flush manually, and you don't need to worry about cleaning your home. Cooking and cooking will become easier and more fun. Manual AI will be completely transformed into automated AI, and people are still the core of the entire smart home system, enjoying the new life changed by science and technology. All of this, in this smart home system, the intelligent router must occupy the position of the nerve center. It is the intricate information network drawn by it that leads the arrival of the smart home era. What surprises can Bihoo Smart Router, as a new product in the router field, bring us today? Listen to me slowly.
Bihoo Smart Router is developed by Beijing Huaxin Lianchuang Technology limited company The product was put into research and development in December 2014 and officially launched on October 15, 2015. and Huaxin Lianchuang Technology has 12 years of WIFI base station Independent research and development experience The products are widely used in military, aviation, port and other fields, with a market share of more than 60% in China's outdoor wireless equipment market. They have served in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, China Russia military exercises, the General Staff's communication system, the 70 year victory parade of the Anti Japanese War and other activities. Well, it's still a company that doesn't leak.
The outer package of the router is not small. It is white to clean on the whole, with the golden logo of Bihu on both sides, and the product introduction and parameters on the bottom. The outer package directly grasps the eyes of a white patient with severe disease.
The officially claimed packaging box was made in 23 processes, but... Well, I'm superficial and can't see it so deeply, but from this aspect alone, the manufacturer's painstaking creation has its own insistence and attitude to convey to consumers - meticulous, professional and unique.
When you open the box, you can see the disc shaped black body, which comes with a power adapter, two network cables and a quick setup guide.
There were some surprises during the unpacking process, such as the sleek appearance of the body, the mirror like top, and the excellent network cable. Of course, the power adapter was a bit too big, but Physical satisfaction is greater than disappointment A good router should get rid of its mediocre appearance so that people can remember it at first sight, which Bihoo has already done.
image Like this society, the beautiful appearance is always pleasing. The Bihoo router's magnesium aluminum alloy body is formed in one, precision forging+CNC fine carving+3D polishing+extremely fine sand blasting+anodizing, and the feel is exquisite and excellent; The top cover and bottom are made of the original German Bayer PC (polycarbonate), which is molded by injection molding and painted on the surface, creating a mirror like transparent black, It is not afraid of scratches and fades, In addition, the blue breathing light turns on and off at the top, giving you the feeling of moonlight pouring down the night sky. (With the help of breathing lights, black should be more fascinating than white)
With a diameter of 107mm, a height of 36mm, and a weight of nearly 200g, it can be placed in the palm of the hand. It is very light and does not feel the thickness of metal.
Several interfaces are arranged on the periphery, the blue Power interface and the white LAN interface, and the reset key is in the middle. Because the USB2.0 interface is added, some aesthetic feelings are destroyed. There are gains and losses. It is very special that Bihoo uses PoE power supply, which will be explained in detail later.
At the bottom is the logo of Bihu and a paragraph of text. The addition of anti-skid washer makes the router work more smoothly. Here it is particularly mentioned that the Nd-Fe-B permanent magnet at the bottom can be absorbed to the refrigerator and other places with iron products. With the surrounding environment, it can obviously form an elegant art product, completely getting rid of the router being placed in the dark corner to absorb dust The fate of. come Look at my decoration. Except for the door, only the refrigerator can be adsorbed. Kawasaki roses are dotted around. Hmm * (--) * ^, they can't fall down anyway!
The following are some important parameters about the performance of the router. I am not a person who values hard parameters very much. I will just mention them here.
What must be said is the gap problem of the router. I have marked two gaps that are easy to be filled with dust on the diagram. In addition, the useless interface. If the dust enters the body over time, it will certainly cause some damage. Therefore, you can prepare a box like me to install it without worrying about this problem.
Now let's talk about the plug and network cable. Because Bihoo uses PoE for power supply, and the router is also connected in a strange way, the network cable is directly connected to the power adapter instead of the router (as shown in the figure below), which causes the power adapter to be too large. If you plug it directly into the socket, the three hole socket at the bottom will not work. Here, we can't simply say good or bad, There are gains and losses in that sentence. It's depressing for those who lose power in the dormitory at night. This power supply mode directly strangles the way of using mobile power supply.
The power adapter is a pure white color matching, with a specification of 5.3mm * 3.4mm * 8.6mm, a household 220V input and an output of 24V 0.8A. It is equipped with advanced anti-static protection to further improve the safety performance of the product. However, it is hard to buy again if it breaks down.
The two network cables are 1m long, flat design, blue head power cable, white head network cable. There is no difference in function between the two except for color, and the material is particularly smooth and delicate. Although these two cables are accessories, they are not very cheap. The excellent workmanship even improves the product to a higher level. The same sentence shows the attitude in every detail, and consumers can clearly feel it.
From the packaging box to the network cable, we can see the intention of Huaxin Lianchuang Technology. Every detail of the product reveals the driving factors of beauty: from the smoothness of the wire material to the transparency of the router, from the delicacy of the packaging box to the innovation of the power adapter, and from the persistence everywhere to the beauty from the inside out, beauty is the productivity! Against the background of the rapid development of intelligent routers, the fledgling Bihu is completely superior to its competitors in appearance only compared with Xiaomi, Tengda, Jirou and TP.
Bihoo Routing supports connecting the old and new routes together. It can read the account and password from the old router to the new route. However, I don't know whether my original router is too old or this function is not perfect, and it always fails. Originally, this function is rather weak. It is easy to use even if you forget your password. You'd better input it manually.
The app initialization page of Bihoo Routing takes light blue as the keynote, which is very concise. It just feels a little less text. After opening the router, it will automatically log in, and enter the account and password to start connecting to the Internet. The APP will prompt you to bind the mobile phone number to the router, which is convenient for routing management and future maintenance and replacement. The router needs to be upgraded for the first time.
The layout is divided into three sides. The first side is routing control, which mainly includes terminal management, routing settings, and traffic statistics. The design of the first side is very novel. The real-time flow display of the upper part is a dynamic picture of the rotation of eight planets around the sun. The style is not boring, and it looks very interesting; The terminal management can limit the speed and blacklink the incoming equipment, so there is no need to talk more about it; Slide down on the first side to see the detailed statistics of today's traffic, but this is no use!
The second side is the intelligent plug-in, which integrates visitor mode, timing switch, network speed optimization, USB flash disk storage, terminal online prompt and other functions. The intelligent router has all of them; The third aspect is the management of account information and APP.
After talking about the useless, let's talk about the interesting and useful ones. In the column of room signal depth, the user can manually set the relative To achieve comprehensive signal coverage and make the best use of everything Here's a good comment!
The visitor mode is very brilliant. After the visitor mode is turned on, the router will automatically generate a new WiFi without a password: BhuWiFi visitor. After the device is connected, it will be placed on the top of the router You can pass the verification within seconds. Come at home We don't need to tell our guests the WiFi password. In this way, we can provide free WiFi for our guests, which not only ensures the security of the network password at home, but also resolves the communication embarrassment. This highlight features 10 points!
In fact, USB expansion is also inserted into the USB flash drive without any egg function, so even if the USB 2.0 is carried with me, I think it doesn't matter. It is more convenient to directly plug in the mobile phone through the OTG conversion line than this trouble, or buy a router with a large capacity hard disk. Image reading supports commonly used jpg, jpng, gif and other formats; Video playback is also effective in ordinary mp4 and 3gp files, playing smoothly and with complete pictures, but avi format cannot play; Word documents can be opened through the mobile phone's built-in reader. Other files can be downloaded and deleted, but cannot be added or copied. On the whole, it is not satisfactory. I hope that more functions can be achieved through the later APP update.
And the content of network speed optimization will be discussed in detail below.
Let's take a look at the performance of the web version software. Unlike other routers, the default IP address is 192.168.62.1
It can be seen that except for the intelligent plug-in column, other items are not very different from the APP version. For mobile storage, you need to enter bhuwifi in the address bar of my computer to view. Of course, the operation at this time is consistent with that of the computer.
After talking about the combination with software, let's talk about the important factors that determine whether a router is good or bad - whether the network speed is fast, stable or not, and whether the coverage is large?
We need to know the following about the development of WiFi
From the wireless standard of the Bihoo router: 802.11b/g/n, we can see that the Bihoo router runs at 2.4GHz, but from the publicity information, we do not find that it supports 5GHz, which can also be verified by the following tests.
2.4GHZ can achieve a transmission rate of 300-450Mb/s, and 5GHZ (802.11ac) can achieve 1Gb/s, while most domestic network speeds can not reach this level at all (assuming a 300M router, the fastest speed can reach 30MB/s, while my home network speed is at most 10MB/s, so there is no need to ask for anything). However, the attenuation at 5GHz is more severe than that at 2.4GHz, which means that there is no signal after several walls. So currently, choosing a good quality 2.4GHz router can fully meet the demand.
On the other hand, WiFi performance can be improved by modifying the wireless channel. Then the question arises, what is a channel? A wireless channel is a wireless channel that radiates radio waves as a transmission mode. In short, it is a channel for wireless data transmission. Anyway, as long as you know that changing the channel can improve the network speed, This is the principle approach of the network speed optimization project mentioned above.
Now I used the third-party test software to test the effect of the test signal: the 2.4GHz band signal is slightly stronger, There is no signal in the 5GHz band, and channel 14 is the optimal channel.
The following two pictures show the network speed results of the original router and Bihoo respectively. It seems that the network speed has improved a little, but it is not ruled out that it is the normal fluctuation of the network speed.
Officially, it is claimed that the maximum coverage of Bihoo has reached an astonishing 1949m2, which should be attributed to its powerful hardware configuration: this Bihoo uses Qualcomm's enterprise class chip Athros AR9341, which is also the largest shipment, the most mature application and the most stable performance of Qualcomm so far, to a certain extent, ensuring that Bihoo routers can have more stable performance. Secondly, Bihoo Routing also uses the Air X technology independently developed by Bihoo, which is the best communication algorithm system based on spatial adaptive algorithm. In this view, the ultra wide coverage, 100 terminals are stable and not lost, and it is not excessive publicity ① Of course, my home is 100m two The area around is also more than enough, and the measured signals in every corner of the home are still smooth.
In addition, the wireless transmission rate of Bihu Routing is 300Mbps, which exceeds the 100Mbps routing standard (100 Mbps ）, but not the so-called gigabit routing (1000 Mbps ）。 The lack of gigabit and the lack of support for 5G band make Bihoo a little awkward at the price of 249. However, the positioning of Bihoo's route is that of families and small micro enterprises. Generally speaking, Bihoo does not need or can not reach the standard of gigabit broadband, not to mention its superior ability in coverage, So I think that the fact that Bihoo Routing does not support 5GHz and does not reach gigabit cannot be regarded as a disadvantage. It is a pity at most. It can leave more room for improvement for the next generation.
Finally, let's talk about the price. For an intelligent router, 249 yuan is obviously too high, especially in the price war led by millet and other price butchers. Although you have a good face, you have many highlights. Sales volume is the main factor to measure product consumer recognition. Look at the bleak sales in Taobao and JD. If you want to survive in a large number of routers and even in the future intelligent hardware market, it is far from enough to make your face beautiful, advertise more, and innovate without pain or itch. Price reduction is still the most effective way.
Not all routes are called Bihu, which is my personal experience after using them these days. By abandoning the ugly and messy external antennas of traditional routers, Bihoo can still achieve the signal without dead corners, which must be the result of meticulous product development and production. It is an enterprise's valuable insistence to grasp the core and grasp the inside under the gorgeous appearance of beauty. If you feel that the price of 249 is not sincere enough, you will feel more satisfied than Laoluo by replacing it for free all your life (when the products you buy are similar to the new products of the same model, you can upgrade the old products to the new ones for free without paying the price difference between the new and old products). Sometimes when I see its fascinating appearance, I prefer to ignore its insignificant flaws. It is believed that Bihoo, which focuses on families and small enterprises, is just the beginning of Huaxin Lianchuang Technology, and they still have to shoulder the responsibility of scientific and technological aesthetics.
Finally, thank Bihoo Routing and Lei Feng.com for the trial opportunity!
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