preface:

The rapid development of the Internet era has also brought about the development of intelligent peripheral products, among which router is a product with rapid progress. From the time when a TP Link sold for hundreds of dollars at the beginning, no one cares about 50 yuan now. You should know that the current money is far less than the past value. In the final analysis, the violent profiteering terminators of routers still lose this new generation of products with good looks, intelligence and ultra-low prices. To break the profit model of traditional violence. Of course, today I'm not talking about routers. It is the 360WiFi expansion artifact that attracts the author in terms of appearance.

To be honest, the author was not interested in such a product at first, but when he saw the real face, he couldn't help being curious about it. I remember that I had the honor to participate in a crosstalk meeting held by Master Zhou. Oh, no, it's a talk show? Well, it's actually the launch of 360's new generation router. The Zhou family mocked themselves at how ugly the first generation router, like a soap box, was and how incessant it was. The press conference spent a lot of time talking about the design concept. After more than a year, the 360WiFi extender makes me believe that the words of Pope Zhou are not just words. A 49 yuan product is made with such a sense of technology. Don't you really think about the cost?

Open test:

Unlike previous press conferences, 360 Secure Routing was broadcast live in Zanthoxylum bungeanum at 8:00 p.m. on June 16, and a new 360WiFi extender was released. Lu Dong, general manager of 360 Secure Routing, acted as the anchor of this fancy new product conference, and the number of online viewers exceeded 580000. It can be seen that the degree of attention is not small.

According to Lu Dong, the 360WiFi extender is equipped with a high gain independent antenna and MTK7688KN chip. The wireless signal transmission effect is comparable to that of a router. Is the effect really like this? Let's have a look.

The style of Baozhuan is similar to that of p1, but its volume is much smaller. As usual, the front side is printed with a sample of the product. Some characteristic parameters of the product are introduced on the back.

The 360 WiFi extender has a very strange shape when opening the package. The 360WiFi extender has a distinctive design. It adopts a three-dimensional double rotating axis design. The 270 ° antenna and 180 ° USB interface are combined to rotate. No matter which angle the power is connected from, the antenna can be adjusted to the vertical direction to achieve the ideal effect of signal expansion.

360 wifi expander has 360 product logo on the front and wifi signal logo on the side, which is simple and generous. In the middle is an antenna shaft with exquisite CD thread, which complements the design of the center shaft of 360 router. The adjustable range of 270 ° also provides direct help for the most suitable angle.

There is a retractable USB interface on the back of the 360wifi expander for plugging in the power supply, and the USB interface of the computer is turned on to obtain the power supply. It also supports random folding at a certain angle. It provides support for better signal reception.

The WiFi extender is too close or too far away from the router to achieve ideal expansion effect. For the convenience of users, the 360WiFi extender comes with an intelligent sensor light. In addition to the function of reminding the initial installation progress and daily working status, it can also help find the ideal location for WiFi extenders.

The reason why it can be called an intelligent product is that it can be remotely controlled through the mobile phone. The better point is that the 360WiFi extender does not need to download the APP separately. It directly shares with the 360 Secure Routing APP to reduce the complexity. If you happen to use 360 Router as the main router, it will save a lot of time.

The APP interface is also relatively simple, which is not much different from the general router interface, but it is much simplified. Internet settings, equipment upgrades, timing switch on and off indicator status, etc., basically do not need any skills in operation. The status of the connection signal can also be seen on the main interface, which is generally excellent. Now let's talk about how to use the product.

The 360WiFi Extender is small, and any multi-purpose socket with USB port, mobile phone charger, computer, and even mobile power supply can supply power normally. The USB four gear detent shaft design not only ensures the stability of the power supply, but also avoids occupying multiple power supply ports.

It's quite personalized to plug the 360WiFi extender into my 380T. I have to say that it would be great if I could plug it into my desktop computer and become a wireless network card. Such a cool shape will bring much convenience to many desktop users without wireless modules.

Of course, you can also connect any USB charging head to power it. The position becomes arbitrary. So how about the performance of this product? In fact, many netizens have a misconception about routers that strong signals are the only one. In fact, the stability of a router is more important than its strength in real life.

360WiFi simply means the relay function. The function that the relay can achieve is to enhance the coverage area. What we need is not only that, but also to expand the coverage, and also to be able to transmit stable network data for us. Therefore, the author does not make any comparison on strength, which is meaningless. Direct stability test results.

△ The above figure shows the stability curve of 360WiFi extender. It can be seen that the stability of the 360WiFi extender is very high on the whole; Some people may say that there are still some fluctuations. Well, the author uses the same method to test the stability of a route in the home, as shown in the following figure:

Let's see the difference here. Don't simply use download and signal strength to measure a product. Stability is the most important thing for gamers. The 360WiFi extender is doing really well.

For a product that needs to work for a long time, you may be as concerned about the power consumption of the product as the author. The measured standby power consumption is about 1 watt in the connectionless state.

The maximum power in the connection transmission mode is 1.9 watts, and the overall performance is good (one kilowatt hour=1 kilowatt hour, you can calculate by yourself). It saves too much power than the router. The key is to ensure the signal stability.

It's time to summarize again. Is it worth buying?

First of all, the price of this product is good. If the family is relatively large, it is really necessary to adjust it. Why? The quotation marks are beautiful. They are much smaller than a huge router. Although they are small, they are not bad at all. The signal stability is not bad. If you are an online game player, you can pay more attention to this product. Stability is the king. Of course, if the home is just a few dozen square meters and the router can cover the whole range, then there is less necessity. After all, it is just a signal expansion, which is not enough to replace the router in function. On the contrary, this product will not let you down!