Preface

With the development of routers today, it seems that more powerful processors, more memory, more network throughput, more complex App functions, more beautiful appearance, and smaller body are developing better and better. But when we look back, what do we need as home users? What can we really use?

Then, please follow me to experience Bihu mini, a home level wireless router and a red packet weapon.

First sight

This time, the Bihoo mini packaging box uses a pure white cardboard box, and the size is much smaller than that of a conventional router. It is worthy of being a mini. In addition to the central "Bihu" manufacturer logo on the front, there is nothing superfluous printed. But there is a point to complain about. Although the box is small, it seems that the size of the box has also been reduced. I hope that Bihoo can also use the box of standard materials and styles for Mini. After all, the box is the first impression of the product.

In addition to the full name, model, wireless standard and bar code of the product, the color of Bihoo mini and the official WeChat official account of Bihoo are also marked on the top right corner on the back.

Unpacking is still a conventional three piece set, such as the Bihoo mini host, power cord, and instructions.

The Bihoo mini mainframe adopts a typical square, and the four corners are rounded to make the originally sharp shape more rounded and comfortable. Similar to the front of the box, there is only a square pattern on the front of the Bihoo mini, which seems to reduce the overall size. Don't underestimate this small square. It is actually a breathing light and an indicator of the working status of the entire Bihoo mini.

At the bottom, the product name, model, power supply and other information are marked. At the same time, in order to prevent slipping and cover the screws for disassembly, Bihoo has placed four silicone foot stickers at the four corners of the bottom, which are white in color and dirty quickly through visual inspection.

On one side of the Bihoo mini, there are three major components of the router, two LAN ports, one WAN port and the power port. From the side, we can see that except the bottom, the entire router is formed in one piece, which is more difficult to process than the upper, middle and lower assembly structure.

On the other side, a small piece of the router, the reset key (oh no, it's a hole), is placed to restore the factory settings. Don't underestimate this hole. If something goes wrong, you have to poke it.

The other two sides are pure white.

As for the power plug, like the Bihoo mini host, it is also very mini. It is about half the size of the charger we usually use. It only occupies one socket position when plugged into the socket. It saves a lot of money for my family to plug into the seat. At the same time, there is a small detail on the plug on the side of the fuselage. In this small place, Bihoo has even designed a non slip bump. You must praise the detail design of Bihoo!

Of course, it would be more perfect if it could be designed as USB power supply in the future!

Experience

Are you still entering "192.168. X.1" to manage the router? If so, you are out.

With the development of routers, in order to facilitate the setting and management of routers, most router manufacturers have developed their own router management apps. Of course, Bihoo Routing is no exception. Users can search for "Bihoo WIFI" in Android and ios app stores to download it. In addition, Bihoo has also developed a "Bihoo WIFI Assistant" ”, can perform security detection and network speed test on the network accessed by the device.

First use of "Bihu WIFI" ”The user needs to register an account first. Don't bother. This account allows you to remotely manage Bihoo Routing Mini. No matter how far away you are, you can always know the router login status at home, which is very convenient.

However, the first time we connect to Bihoo mini, we still need to set it through the webpage. When the phone is connected to "BhuWiFi-0", the settings page will pop up. First step, Bihoo Mini will choose specific settings according to your network type. My home is a broadband dial-up network, so you need to set a broadband account and password; Click Next, you need to set the WIFI name and password, and then click Finish Setting. The web page will display the WIFI information you just set. OK, wait for the router to restart, and you can surf the Internet!

After the router is restarted, we select the WIFI name set just now to connect. Open the mobile app and log in to the account we set. Because we still have no Bihoo devices, the app will ask us to add Bihoo devices, click "Add Now", enter the web management password we just set, and complete the binding. Because we may have two or more Behoo devices, we need to add a note for each Behoo device to differentiate management. Because this router is used at home, the author sets it as "home"

On the lower level of the home, there are three menus: Terminal, Plug in and Authentication Network.

In the terminal interface, we can see all the online and offline terminals of the main network, and set notes, speed limits and blacking for an online terminal.

On the speed limit interface, the app divides the network speed into several levels, and the user's adjustment can take any value between 0.01 and infinity. Interestingly, the app is divided by several points. For example, when you are in the middle of 1-4, the app will remind you that it is still OK to watch a video in this range, which is very user-friendly, so that managers can limit according to their own needs.

Of course, if you find a strange terminal scratching the network, you can also blackout it. The blackout terminal will enter the icon in the lower right corner. The blackout terminal cannot connect to the wifi through the password. Is it a perfect solution to scratching the network.

Plug in menu can be regarded as the brain of the whole Bihoo mini. Here you can set the network information, signal strength, network speed and restart time of the router. At the same time, you can also test the network speed and optimize the network.

In terms of signal strength, because the positioning of Bihu Mini is family routing, the maximum coverage is set to three bedrooms, and can be adjusted according to your living area. You should know that the larger the coverage area, the greater the transmission power is. This is not a good thing, so you should set it according to your actual conditions. The author's home is three bedrooms, and he can access the Internet smoothly in every corner of his home.

If you think the network in your home is very slow, is there something wrong with the operator? At this time, we can use the app's router to measure the speed of the network. The author's home is a 20M broadband, and the test result is 21.3M. Well, it seems very real. However, it would be better if the download rate and upload rate could be displayed. After all, that is the indicator of network speed.

what? If you think the network speed is slow, don't worry. You can improve the network speed by optimizing the network speed and shaking it gently. But how about the effect... In fact, please comfort yourself.

this is it? That is no different from other routers!

Of course not! The biggest difference between the Bihoo router and other routers is the authentication network. We can simply understand it as follows: if users think that their broadband is sufficient and there is still surplus, they can take out a part of the network (the WiFi network name different from the main network, and the network speed can be adjusted at the "User Speed Limit") for others to use. Of course, This is not free. Visitors need to reward the administrator of the network with a specified amount according to the tips on the page after they get online.

Bihoo has built a setting template in the App, and users can set the relevant parameters in the template. During the author's evaluation, the reward parameters in the old version of the app can be adjusted. Although they cannot be applied after adjustment, this is also a bug. However, after the author upgraded the new version yesterday, the reward parameters could not be adjusted. I think it is the official who knows the bug, so the adjustment is temporarily closed. However, we still hope that the official will open the right to adjust as soon as possible after solving the problem, because this is very important. Maybe your price is lower than others', and visitors will use yours.

When we connect to reward wifi as a visitor, a webpage will pop up, reminding the visitor that he/she needs a red envelope reward to get online. Click the big reward character to enter the payment interface, which shows that a reward of 0.49 yuan can enjoy 4 hours of online time, and a variety of reward payment methods are provided!

WeChat and Alipay will not be mentioned. Everyone is familiar with them. Here we focus on the latter two: payment by others and free 30 days.

Payment by others: After the visitor clicks "Payment by others", a QR code will appear. The person who pays for the visitor will scan the QR code on his/her mobile phone WeChat to make payment. Finally, it will be WeChat payment.

This free 30 day service will pop up a purchase page of Bihoo mini. The page explains the free 30 day service: visitors can enjoy free Internet access for 30 days in all Bihoo shared wifi environments after purchasing a Bihoo mini with a price of 149 yuan through this page.

During the experience, the author found two problems.

First, not all the rewards paid by visitors were paid to the owners of the network. The author tried to reward twice, the first time was 0.58 yuan, but actually received 0.12 yuan, the second time was 0.49 yuan, and actually received 0.34 yuan. Both rewards were not paid to the author.

Second, when the visitors' terminals are iPhone and Android devices, their payment selection interfaces are different. Android lacks the payment methods of others and free 30 days compared with iPhone.

After 14 days of experience, because the author keeps the Bihu mini at home, and each house upstairs and downstairs has its own wifi, the shared network income of the author still stays at 0.47 yuan, and I still give it to myself. I envy the gods on the ranking list.

Summary

As a family level router product, Bihu Mini's powerful hardware configuration ensures the number of terminal connections and the quality of network coverage. At the same time, the addition of red packet rewards and the concept of shared network not only cleverly realizes the idle network of the network owner, but also provides convenience for those who have run out of traffic but also need the network, which increases the playability of Mini, It also provides a feasible direction for the development of routers.

But at the same time, Bihu Mini also reduces the playability of network realization due to the limitations of its home level router positioning and application environment.

If you are a home user, I think you can pay for the compact shape, super family level configuration, proper coverage, stable network, adsorbable body, and the function of reward network.

If you are a computer city or market user, because the traffic volume of the entire computer city or market is very large, the functions of red packet rewards and network sharing can really bring you a profit. You can choose to buy the Bihoo mini or the standard version of Bihoo according to your coverage needs.

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