Lenovo has officially launched Lecoo, an intelligent IoT enabling brand, and released a number of new intelligent IoT products. One of the routers is very eye-catching, called Lenovo Lecoo "Digging Treasure" intelligent router, which is called blockchain mining and network penetration magic tool. How does it perform? We have found the polar route B70 that also supports mining for comparison.
Different appearance styles
On the outer packaging, Lenovo "Digging Treasure" adopts a simple and elegant color scheme. The inner layer is even rarer with a pink design. The upper shell is made of aluminum alloy, and the main body is also made of rare cherry blossom powder, which stands out among routers.
On the front of Lenovo's "Digging Gold Treasure" is the "Lecoo" logo symbol and status indicator, and on the left and right are four symmetrical antennas, each with an adjustable range of nearly 180 degrees.
The lower shell is replaced with PC+ABS plastic, and several heat dissipation holes are arranged at the same time to ensure that the temperature will not be too high during operation. There is a sticker with the product model in the bottom center, which shows that the product was developed by Lenovo in cooperation with newifi.
In terms of interfaces, one WAN interface and four LAN interfaces provided by Lenovo's "Digging Treasure" are gigabit network interfaces, which is not a problem to deal with domestic bandwidth. At the same time, there are reset buttons and USB 3.0 interfaces.
Compared with Lenovo's Lecoo "Digging Gold Treasure", the painting style of the outer package of the Polar Route B70 is completely different. The simple blue and white color matching makes the geek style overflowing, and the two styles are far from each other.
The upper shell of the Polar Route B70 is made of aluminum alloy like Lenovo's "Digging Gold Treasure", but the overall color is all black, which still highlights its feature of targeting geeks. Different from the symmetrical antenna design of Lenovo's "Digging Gold Treasure", the Polar Route B70 is also four antennas, but they are all arranged in the rear.
The lower shell of the Polar Route B70 is also made of plastic. The mesh cooling holes are designed to minimize the temperature. This is the same as Lenovo's "Digging Gold Treasure", which also has a product label. The Polar Route B70 has an additional logo at the bottom.
On the back interface, the polar route B70 is slightly different from Lenovo's "Digging Treasure". It is equipped with one WAN port and three LAN ports. It is also a gigabit network port. The reset button and USB 3.0 are not absent. The polar route B70 is different from Lenovo's "Digging Treasure" in that it replaces the bit of a LAN port with USB 2.0.
In general, Lenovo's "Digging Treasure" and Jirou B70 can be said to be totally different in terms of appearance design. Jirou B70 continues the characteristics of the brand, more expresses the sense of technology, and takes the route of geek style; Lenovo "Digging for Treasure" uses the pink+white color scheme rarely seen in ordinary routers, highlighting the warmth and taking another home route.
Different performance
Lenovo's Lecoo "Digging Gold Treasure" and Polar Route B70, as mining routers, naturally pay more attention to the performance than ordinary routers. The SoCs of the two have used the MT7621A of MediaTek, with dual core and four threads, and the main frequency is 880MHz; The memory is DDR3, and the polar route B70 is 256MB. Lenovo's "Treasure Digging" has doubled to 512MB, theoretically supporting more devices to connect at the same time; In terms of antennas, both of them are four antennas, supporting MIMO. Lenovo "Digging for Treasure" is specially equipped with four Skyworks amplifiers and symmetrical antennas. Compared with ordinary four antennas with polar routing, the signal theoretical performance should be better.
"Digging Treasures" S1 5GHz
Pole route B70 5GHz
Only theory is theory after all, or actual combat shows strength. Due to the shortage of 2.4GHz spectrum resources, in order to reduce interference and higher network speed, everyone will now try to use 5GHz WiFi. The test was separated by a load-bearing wall, about 5m away: on the signal strength of 5GHz WiFi, Lenovo "Digging Treasure" and Polar Route B70 are both between - 50 and - 60dB, with a small gap; However, in terms of stability, Lenovo's "Digging Gold Treasure" performance is better. The signal is basically continuous without disconnection, and the pole route B70 occasionally drops below - 96dB. Such signals are basically unavailable.
"Digging Treasures" S1 2.4GHz
Pole route B70 2.4GHz
The common 2.4GHz WiFi is still in the same location, similar to the situation at 5GHz. The signal strength of Lenovo's "Digging Gold" and Polar Route B70 are basically the same, both between - 40 and - 50dB; In terms of stability, both of them are interfered by other WiFi signals, both of which are lower than - 96dB in varying degrees. In comparison, "Digging for Treasure" is slightly better, not as serious as the interference of polar route B70.
"Digging Treasures" S1
Pole route B70
In the actual network speed test, there are also similarities with the signal strength performance. After multiple tests at the same location and with the same bandwidth, the average speed of Lenovo's "Digging Treasure" is slightly higher than that of Polar Route B70, and the minimum speed (66.6Mbps) and maximum speed (75.1Mbps) are also slightly better than that of Polar Route (59.9Mbps/73.7Mbps). Lenovo's "Digging Treasure" has shown its advantages in more stable signal performance.
Routing function settings
As intelligent routers, Lenovo "Digging Treasure" and Polar Router B70 both provide app management and settings on the mobile end. There is little difference in ease of use and convenience between the two, and they have advantages over traditional router manufacturers.
Lenovo's Lecoo "Digging Gold Treasure" is a cooperation between Lenovo and newifi, so the client of newifi can be used directly. On the homepage, you can see the networking equipment and real-time network speed. The functions of the router can also be set separately. At the same time, newifi provides various functional plug-ins to expand, which can meet the needs of some advanced users. With the USB 3.0 external storage device, Lenovo "Digging Treasure" can also provide NAS functions such as album backup and resource download.
The Polar Route B70 also provides its own app client to achieve similar functions. The main screen is also a networking device and network speed monitoring. It seems that there are many tools, but the functions implemented are much the same, and plug-in extensions are not missing. On the mobile client, both Jirou B70 and Lenovo "Digging Treasure" can meet the needs of most users.
How about mining income
Lenovo's Lecoo "Digging Gold Treasure" is one of the few routers on the market that is equipped with blockchain technology. Polar Route X, the first product of Polar Route that is equipped with blockchain technology, has not yet come into the market. At present, it has only opened a public beta program. Both routers can make use of idle bandwidth through blockchain technology to gain benefits for users: Lenovo's Lecoo "Digging Gold Treasure" is a "gold mine" added to newifi, and the polar route B70 is a public beta of its own polar chain.
The polar route B70 can be accessed directly by clicking the polar chain public beta in the routing tool, and then participating in the plan. The menu options are also very simple, only the rule description and exit experience plan, nothing needs to be set by the user. In terms of specific benefits, polar routes are issued using digital currency GCT or ACT (BTC exchange is supported), and users can transfer them out through the silver chain app after obtaining them.
Lenovo's "Treasure Digging" process is somewhat different. You need to apply for a digital vault account first, and then bind it before you can use the mining function. The menu options are slightly more complex than Jilu, providing mining status view, opening/closing mining, user agreements, instructions, etc. In terms of income, it is realized by issuing its own digital gold, which can be used to exchange some products. According to the current plan of the gold mining area, it should also be able to exchange with other digital currencies such as BTC in the future.
In terms of revenue, on the 50M uplink and downlink bandwidth of the office, if you attach a 64G USB flash drive, the revenue will be 0.02964 GCT and 8.400978 digital gold in about 12 hours. The larger the attached hard disk and the larger the bandwidth, the better the revenue will be. To put it simply, it seems impractical to rely on mining to make money, but it is a good choice to use the extra bandwidth to gain profits.
tail
Among the routers capable of mining, Lenovo "Digging for Gold Treasure" and Polar Route B70 are a group of rivals. With the same SoC and similar configuration, Lenovo "Digging for Gold Treasure" has a slightly better hardware with 512MB of large memory and symmetrical four antennas. In terms of mining, the polar chain of polar route has a large stock, so the income that can be obtained will not be very high. The "gold mine" in which Lenovo "Digging Treasure" participates may attract some investors because of its new participation.
Even if mining is not the icing on the cake, the router function of Lenovo's "Treasure Digging" duty is also very satisfactory. Its excellent signal performance and complete expansion plug-ins also have advantages over the Polar Route B70. If you want to buy a router for your home in the near future, it is worth considering Lenovo Lecoo "Digging Gold Treasure", which can help you get profits.
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