Xiaomi router AX6000: continues the 7-antenna design and launches 4K QAM technology

The Xiaomi 11 series will officially meet us before 2021. As the world’s first Snapdragon 888 model, this time is quite surprising. At the press conference, not only Xiaomi 11 had its world premiere, but another router product, Xiaomi Router AX6000, also had its world premiere of 4K QAM modem technology. Geek Choice also received this product as soon as possible. , let us take a look at how the new flagship product of Xiaomi router performs!

The packaging of the Xiaomi router AX6000 is quite aggressive. The whole box is very large, and the appearance of this router can also be seen from the front. In the upper right corner of the front of the package, you can see the "4K QAM" logo, and there are also functional highlights of this product at the bottom.

After opening the package, you will find that a large part of the reason why the package is so big is that there are too many antennas. In fact, inside the package, apart from the router itself, there are only power supplies, network cables and a getting started guide.

The network cable that comes with the package is not too long, which is also the norm. The cable is marked "CAT.5E", which means that it is a Category 5e network cable. If it is used to access a wide area network, it can fully meet the user's needs.

The appearance design of Xiaomi router AX6000 is not much different from that of AX3600. They both adopt a long body design. To be honest, it is really not small. In the lower right corner of the fuselage, there is a gold-painted product model, and there is also a "4K QAM" logo.

Let’s first explain the meaning of 4K QAM. 4K actually means 4096, and QAM means the data throughput when the device is connected. This is Qualcomm’s latest modem technology. 4096 QAM provides an improvement of 20 compared to regular 1024 QAM.

In the middle of the fuselage, there are two vertically arranged LED indicators, namely the network indicator light and the work indicator light. This design is also continued from the AX3600. These two LED lights, combined with the body design, look quite sci-fi from the front.

Xiaomi router AX6000 adopts a 7-antenna design, including 6 high-gain antennas and 1 AIoT smart antenna, supporting 4x4 160MHz specifications. It is worth mentioning that the AIoT smart antenna in the middle has an independent LED status light. It can intelligently identify smart devices in the home and connect them through dedicated lines. If it is a Xiaomi smart device, it can also configure the network with one click.

In terms of interfaces, Xiaomi router AX6000 has a WAN/LAN switchable 2.5G high-speed interface and three LAN ports. If you use a 2.5G network port to connect to a NAS device, you can achieve smooth playback of 8K videos on the intranet.

In terms of hardware specifications, the Xiaomi router AX6000 uses Qualcomm IPQ5018 processor, which has an A53 architecture dual-core CPU and single-core NPU, and a running memory of 512MB.

In terms of speed, the theoretical maximum speed of Xiaomi router AX6000 2.4G frequency band bandwidth is 574Mbps, and the theoretical maximum speed of 5G frequency band bandwidth is 4804Mbps. With Multilink technology 2.4G 5G, the maximum concurrent speed can reach 3456Mbps, which is also Currently the only router product that can run the full wireless network bandwidth of Snapdragon 888 devices.

As the flagship new model of Xiaomi router, Xiaomi router AX6000 also supports enhanced version of Wi-Fi6, Xiaomi Changkuai connection, game acceleration, Mesh networking, etc. In terms of pricing, Xiaomi has also maintained its consistent ultra-high cost-effectiveness. For such a flagship router, the price is only 599 yuan. If you plan to buy a Snapdragon 888 device, the Xiaomi router AX6000 is currently the best partner.

Author of this article: SeaGreen

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