Preface

The development of the Internet has made more enterprises pay more attention to network security. The popular approach is to establish a private network on the public network for encrypted communication, which is commonly referred to as VPN (Virtual Private Network) network. VPN is widely used in enterprise networks. For example, Xiaomo's last listed company built a VPN network because it has branches all over the country. OA and other office systems can only be accessed through the VPN network. VPN gateway realizes remote access by encrypting data packets and converting the destination address of data packets. The dandelion router is different from the traditional VPN construction method. It is a router that realizes intelligent networking based on VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) technology. It does not need the IP address of the public network. Multiple dandelion routers form a network of remote LANs to achieve resource sharing. It can be said that this is a new Internet technology, and also the direction of future development!

  If you, as a reader, want to purchase a router for home use, then this dandelion router may not be suitable for you. If you are a network management or company operation and maintenance administrator, you can continue to read this review! Next, we will unveil the dandelion router one by one from the function!

Design Features

Different from the traditional router design style, the design style of dandelion router is Internet oriented. You can clearly see the clue from the outer package! Dandelion router, as a product launched by peanut shell, a decade old dynamic domain name resolution software, must have done more research on marketing and promotion. Many ordinary consumers may not know about peanut shells, but as consumers who have slightly struggled with routers, they believe that they are very clear that the traditional routing big brand universal router has also made a peanut shell domain name resolution portal in the management background!

Opening the front cover, we can see a yellow joke on the side, which we call the story of Brother Ma. In this era when jokes are the supreme marketing content, putting a yellow joke can stimulate people's understanding of its brand. Just like the silent support of countless homestead women and homestead men!

The back and front are designed very simply. The main slogan is: Give you a connected world! It also shows the value of this route for enterprise interconnection!

On the side, the product positioning of dandelion routing is more intuitive: born for enterprise intelligent networking! Xiaomo said that if you want to add a route to your family, this route may not be suitable for you. Here is a point of explanation. And after the test, this route still has a big gap in performance compared with other brands at the same price! Detailed explanation later!

All the accessories are here: host, charging line, power adapter interface, instructions, certificate of conformity. Here we need to mention its charging data cable: it uses a very general micro USB interface, and there are few chargers with this power interface at present! In fact, it is more convenient for users to use the charging device to charge dandelion by routing, because the interface is the same, and because its rated current and voltage are the same as those of other power supply devices similar to Android phones: current; 1A. Voltage: 5V. This is the trend, a trend towards standard interface.

The design of the host is a feature of dandelion, and the aviation silver on the surface has a frosting effect. There is only one logo of dandelion on the front. There are two antennas on the side, and the vertical axis and horizontal axis are designed to rotate! The two antennas can be placed at proper angles according to the needs of consumers. As for the beauty of antenna design, it depends on my personal preference! There is still a problem with the antenna in Xiaomo's hand. The antenna on the right side of the front is very loose, and it will fall down with a touch of hand. It can be seen that the workmanship of the product needs to be improved!

The interface of the dandelion router is very different. Each RJ-45 interface (WAN interface and LAN interface) has an LED indicator, and there is also an indicator on the front to synchronously display the network status! Is it unnecessary or just icing on the cake? The LED indicator at the end can indicate that the rear interface must be OK. If the front indicator is not lit, then there may be a problem with the circuit inside. If the front and rear indicators are not lit, then there may be a problem with the socket or RJ-45 network cable. So the rear indicator light is still useful. By looking at the introduction at the back, we can find a quite different place. The default configuration addresses of traditional routing devices are: 192.168. X.X is named, while the dandelion router is configured based on a specific website. In fact, this advantage is that it can not only configure the route locally, but also access other terminal routes through the Internet when the route is connected to the Internet. That is, the configuration on other LANs can be configured through a cloud IP address, This is also a key performance of its intelligent networking!

Routing WiFi performance

No matter what kind of router you are, whether your role is domestic or commercial, the most basic function of routing, wireless signal strength and stability are always concerned by users. Consumers with villas are most concerned about the ability of routing through the wall, while game enthusiasts are most concerned about the stability of their network speed. Yesterday, I saw a news that a guy was driving a black lol with his friends, but his girlfriend blamed him for playing games and ignoring her, pulling out the network cable directly, resulting in a beating! If the guy is downloading the replica and the routing signal is unstable, which leads to the team OVER, I don't think the above scenario is bad!

The layout of Xiaomo's house! This picture has been used many times. Tested routes include: ASUS dual band AC1200, UPL WR885N 450M, Youku Tudou route, Meizu mini route, ASUS RT-AC88U, etc. The price ranges from tens to thousands of dollars! No. 2 is the house where Xiaomo lives. The computer used for office work is the Inspiron 11 3000Series of Dell I3 series, which is a combination of tablet and notebook. The configuration is not high, but it is also reasonable. The testing tools are also very simple: mobile phones, computers, WIFI signal software, etc. Through the signal strength test and signal stability test of the five locations in the above figure, and compare with other routing devices, see if they are competitive!

Dandelion routing 2.4G signal test (due to the influence of computer and software itself, it may be different from other users' tests)

Five test points are tested continuously: 1-2-3-4-5, forming a trend chart as shown in the above figure. From the above figure, we can see that there are two walls and a door between 1 and 5. The WIFI signal strength decreases from the highest value of - 50dBm (the maximum signal value in software test is 50dBm, and the actual signal strength is higher than this) to about - 92 dBm, while the distance is only about 6m. The door is not closed, and the two test points are at the corner of the two walls. According to the general routing signal law, the distance between two walls is more than - 40 dbm. Generally, - 68 or above is considered good, and will not affect the network speed (if the surrounding interference is large or there are wireless signals of the same channel, - 45 dbm or above will not affect the network speed). The minimum signal strength is - 120 dbm, and the maximum signal strength is 0 dbm. 2. 3 The slope of two test points is separated by a door or a wall, and the signal strength is about 75dBm! This signal strength is no different from the general route. For the indoor environment, it may not really play the wall crossing function of this route. In Xiaomo's test, the wall crossing ability of the dandelion router is amazing. The following is the signal strength test of another route:

ASUS RT-AC88UA route five point signal strength test

Maybe you think, Gee. This result looks good! Whether it's good or not, I don't know if it's good. The signal strength of ASUS RU-AC88U just measured a few days ago is shown in the figure. You should know that this signal strength is not as strong as that of the traditional routing manufacturer Pulian, which is worth about 100 yuan Pulian WR885N 450M route.

The signal strength of ASUS RT-AC88U is basically stable at the same location, the same computer and the same test time sixty-five dBm Up and down. And how about our lovely dandelion router?

From the above figure, we can see that the signal stability of the dandelion router is good, but its signal strength is five units less than ASUS RT-AC88U. In fact, from the perspective of user's mobile phone presentation, there is a signal difference. So the intensity of this signal is very unsatisfactory. This is also the reason why Xiaomo thinks home use is not suitable. Because the home use environment is more complex, unlike companies, most companies are more open environment, so Xiaomo thinks it is better not to choose the dandelion route for home use!

Dandelion route download speed test (Xiaomojia No. 2 location test)

Meizu Mini Router download speed test (also Xiaomo's No. 2 location)

Xiaomo's home is equipped with 50M China Telecom optical fiber. When tested from position 2, the WIFI signal of the mobile phone is only 2 grids, and the test download speed can not reach the standard download speed: about 6MB/s. The data tested by other routes can reach a speed of nearly 7MB/S. From the download speed above, we can also see that the signal of the dandelion router is really worrying! And the signal stability shown in the figure is also poor. Although the effect of software testing has a certain deviation, some hardware indicators that can also reflect the dandelion route are really not satisfactory! It is better to look forward to its later update and iteration progress!

Routing networking function

Through the above test, we can see that the WiFi function of dandelion is not excellent. What are its selling points? The appearance design gives the answer: networking function! The network configuration of dandelion is a major feature. It is not only light in WIFI management, but also excellent in UI design. In the era of mobile Internet, the configuration of routing is becoming more APP oriented and HTML5 oriented. Dandelion is not very good here, which is closely related to the selling points of its networking functions.

Dandelion routing has no APP configuration. It can only be configured through the browser on the mobile phone, and its configuration page oraybox.com has not adapted to the mobile phone page, so the experience is very bad. I think the peanut shell will be improved later.

Website configuration is the king. There are two ways to log in, one is to log in directly with SN code, and the other is to register an account to log in to manage the networking! If you have purchased a peanut shell software service before, you can use the previous account directly. If you don't have one, you need to re register a peanut shell account.

After registering and logging in, you can add routes for configuration. If you use the SN code to log in directly, don't be afraid. When you add a device, it will automatically unbind and rebind it to a customized account for management!

After the device is bound successfully, networking can be started. Although the dandelion is a hardware product, its price is also very cheap, and it is very competitive with the hardware and software equipment used to build VPN networks in the market, another piece of revenue from dandelion routing is naturally its software services. Make profits by providing multi-dimensional services. For example, the free version can only add three local area networks. The function list of the main interface is as follows:

The construction of virtual network is very simple. Add devices>>>New LAN>>>Make a network of added dandelion routers, and you can do unified management. And we can see that a network can support up to three members, that is, three dandelion routers. If you want to expand more, you need to buy services.

It is true that there is no free lunch in the world. Paying on time and on time is really a huge profit. If a large enterprise with 30 branches needs 3840 yuan a year, it is still very cheap. According to the signal strength we tested earlier, add 2 times, 3 times, and 4 times of hardware investment, and the cost will be tens of thousands per minute. In fact, tens of thousands of dollars are not expensive, depending on whether the enterprise pays attention to safety. If you want to build your own security network system, the price is very cheap!

The networking type intelligence brought to us is peer-to-peer network. The distributed network still has to pay. However, if an enterprise wants to build a security network, it must be distributed. Therefore, if an enterprise wants to use the networking function of dandelion, it must spend money! The price is the same as I said earlier. 3840 yuan/year.

Quickly view the connected devices under each LAN through intelligent networking. If you want to control, you can enter each LAN for online control. For example, we can set various parameters of the LAN through the cloud control website: oraybox.com.

The configuration of each LAN is the configuration of each router. Its management page hierarchy and UI design are very simple and easy to operate, which is its greatest advantage. It is basically similar to other routing configuration functions. The operation is like a fool. The wireless configuration of the route will not be discussed. I hope this article can bring more information to consumers and give more thought to manufacturers!

Summary

Here is a summary according to the convention: if you want to use home routes, Xiaomo thinks you should go out and turn right to other stores; If you want to build a secure network quickly. Dandelion router based on VPC technology is a good choice for you, but you need to make a quotation and submit it to your boss for review before choosing.

advantage:

1. The design is novel and fashionable, in line with the taste habits of modern children, and the size is not large, 128.8 * 88 * 23.5, easy to manage;

2、 Fast networking technology based on VPC technology to build a secure network at low cost; This is just needed!

3. The cloud configuration system is simple, and the network infrastructure can be set up!

Disadvantages:

1. The signal strength is poor, and the signal stability needs further testing;

2. It is not suitable for home use. I hope the hardware quality will be better.