IT168 application Since Premier Li Keqiang advocated speed increase and fee reduction, as an old user of China Unicom Broadband, the network speed has also been upgraded from 20M to 50M for free. The speed has gone up and the price is cheaper than the original 20M. It is really an increase in volume. Reduced price. The old router at home has speed bottlenecks, poor heat dissipation, and disconnections several times a day. It is imminent to replace the router. Recently I purchased a router with a full sense of technology - the JCG JHR-AC945M router, which is worthy of being the center of a smart home network. As a digital enthusiast and science fiction fan, the appearance of this space capsule is too attractive to me. Dual-band 2600M and cloud storage are all what I need. In view of the customs and charges of major free network disks at the end of last year, I It's a headache. Think carefully about this private cloud storage as the way out.
High-end appearance packaging
I have used many digital products, and this is the first time I have seen a tall wooden box like the AC945M router. The color of the wooden box is very classic and the weight is very substantial.
The bottom of the wooden box is covered with cotton cloth, which has good anti-slip properties, but it is easy to get dust.
The copper lock of the wooden box is also bright enough and can be opened with a light break. Just press it and it closes. I tried shaking the box and the lock was quite strong.
Open the wooden box, and the router, power supply, manual and other accessories are fixed in foam with blue cloth. The router is wrapped in an environmentally friendly plastic bag from the factory, and there are small holes on both sides of the foam groove to facilitate taking out the router.
There is also blue foam on the top of the upper cover to protect the router. If you remove the blue foam, you can see the golden JCG product LOGO and the slogan "Wireless Freedom, Unlimited Wonderfulness" on the wooden box.
The hinges on the top and bottom of the wooden box are also made of copper and are pulled by a blue strap. The wood board of the wooden box is also quite thick, and the top and bottom are covered with blue cloth, which is very beautiful. There is a product serial number and barcode affixed to the side of the wooden box.
These are all the accessories of the router. From left to right and top to bottom, the blue board tied with rubber bands is used to modify the wooden box, the enterprise QR code label, and the router punch mark. sticker, blue flat network cable, black power supply, installation instructions, warranty card, and function instructions.
The instruction manual is printed in color, with pictures and texts, and contains a lot of content, including detailed mobile web page login and APP login operations.
Eight blue baffles can recycle wooden boxes into storage boxes. The end of the bezel is labeled with a number for ease of use. The size of the internal grid can be matched as needed.
The picture above is a 9-square grid composed of 4 boards, and a 6-square grid composed of 3 boards, which can store underwear and socks, as well as cosmetics, jewelry, digital gadgets, etc. This kind of wooden box with exquisite workmanship and multi-function is not just buying a coffin but not returning the pearls.
Machine appearance: This is not a sweeping robot
At first glance, the AC945M router really seems to be a very popular sweeping robot. Could it be that Jieshi has also launched a sweeping robot? In fact, it is not. This is a smart router that also functions as a smart home network center. Its design is inspired by science fiction space capsules. The top of the router is a transparent panel, and a protective film is attached at the factory to prevent scratches.
After peeling off the protective film, the mirror surface is so bright that it will be caught in the mirror accidentally when taking a photo. The black frame and panel on the top and the silver body on the bottom are full of technology.
There are 4 round non-slip pads at the bottom of the router. When propped up, they are waterproof and conducive to heat dissipation. There is a spiral heat dissipation hole between the bottom frame and the nameplate, and there is a wall-mounting hole on each side of the heat dissipation hole.
The nameplate contains the product LOGO, model, power supply, setting address, network name, network key MAC address, manufacturer information, etc.
The black upper cover and silver body of the router also have gaps for heat dissipation. There is a USB fast charging interface on the left side. It can intelligently identify devices to adjust the current, with a maximum of 5V/2.1A. It can be used by current mobile phones and tablets. use.
There is a USB3.0 storage interface on the right side, which can connect U disk, mobile hard disk and other storage devices. USB3.0 can provide higher transmission speed. There is a touch-sensitive switch on the left side of the storage interface, and you can touch the antenna light on the top of the switch.
The I/O area at the rear of the router adopts a symmetrical design. From left to right, there are RESET key, WPS key, LAN1 interface, LAN2 interface, WAN interface, LAN3 interface, LAN interface, DC power interface, On/off key. What should be mentioned here is that the router’s 4 LAN interfaces and 1 WAN interface are all Gigabit adaptive Ethernet interfaces.
After frequent actual measurements, the router weighs 775g, which is quite heavy.
The router is round, with a diameter of about 550px, and a height of about 130px including the foot pads. When purchasing, please pay attention to whether the size can fit on your desk or shelf.
Use: The lighting is full of technology
With the lights off, it looks like a sweeping robot. When the lights are turned on, I believe you will change your mind. It looks like a whirlwind. The blade has a built-in antenna light and a signal and speed display screen in the middle, turning this "sweeping robot" into a space capsule full of technology.
This is the screen when the router starts up after powering on. The product LOGO of JCG is in the middle. The number 3 at the bottom is the number of currently connected terminals. The numerator of the fraction is the uplink speed and the denominator is the downlink speed. The 2.4G wireless signal and the 5G wireless signal are displayed above respectively. The upper left corner is the external network connection signal. What needs to be mentioned here is that the signal display screen is always on, and the antenna light can touch the sensor switch, and it will automatically turn off after being turned on, which is environmentally friendly and saves electricity.
This is the blue flat network cable that comes with the product. Compared with the ordinary round thick cable, it is more beautiful, softer and easier to route.
The USB3.0 storage interface of the router can be connected to a USB flash drive, and some important files and information can be stored in it and shared on the network, which is very practical for some companies. Downloaders like me tend to use it more as a home cloud storage, connect it to a larger capacity mobile hard drive, and download and watch movies on the cloud storage at any time when traveling, or you can also store videos and photos outside. Although uploaded to cloud storage, it does not occupy mobile phone space.
Let me make an animation to demonstrate the touch-sensitive light switch. It is very sensitive. I actually tested it and it can be operated even from a few millimeters away without touching the router.
Heat dissipation is very important for routers. When the temperature is high, the router will become unstable, causing various restarts or disconnections. Therefore, after the router was running for a day, I actually tested the temperature of various parts of the router with an infrared thermometer gun. At that time, the room temperature was 25.3°C, the inside of the router through the transparent panel was 32.4°C, the outside side was 28.2°C, and the highest temperature at the bottom was 36.8°C. It seems that the router mainly relies on the heat dissipation holes at the bottom to dissipate heat. Overall, the temperature of the router is not high, with the highest temperature not exceeding 40°C. Low-temperature operation is very important for the stability of the router.
Settings: rich in functions
When you log in to the router for the first time, there is a quick setting. You can log in and use it by entering your network account and password. After successful login, enter the homepage. The homepage has 10 different color blocks, which are system information, network settings, 2.4G wireless settings, 5G wireless settings, signal management, USB management, QoS speed limit, traffic monitoring, system management, and advanced. set up.
System information includes network status, wireless status, and user list. The user list can change the name and IP binding.
Network settings can be set for LAN, WAN, MAC clone, WiFi relay, DDNS, and guest network. You can enter your account number and password to log in through the WAN.
WiFi relay is also a feature of the JCG JHR-AC945M router. The operation and settings are very simple. Select the network you want to relay and enter the wireless password of the network to complete the relay. In addition, the guest network can limit the network speed.
For wireless settings, in addition to setting the transmission frequency, 100%, 75%, 50%, and 25% can be selected. If there are children or pregnant women at home who are worried, you can set it lower. You can also set the date and specific time period for turning on the wireless network. For general companies, you can control the company network, and for families, you can control the root cause of children's use of wireless devices. The software also comes with a wireless channel congestion assessment, which allows you to select the smoothest channel.
USB management is divided into four functions: disk management, file sharing, media sharing, and print sharing. Disk sharing can remove disks, select disks, create new/ Change/delete directories. After file sharing is turned on, you can set a private disk. After media sharing is turned on, you can directly access videos, music, pictures and other materials in the shared file through media sharing (DLNA).
This is how I directly accessed the computer's network on my PC. After finding the AC945M, I entered the shared folder and opened the video files I had stored in the USB flash drive to watch. What I watched was "Roadside Picnic", a good work by a domestic rookie director. It was a very simple movie, with no stars or big scenes, but it was quiet, simple, and the scenery was beautiful.
You can scan the QR code to install the "JCG Intelligent Routing" APP on your mobile phone. The APP includes network settings, WiFi management, guest network, binding users, traffic monitoring, WiFi timing, channel selection, network status, WiFi enhancement, one-click restart, USB management*** 11 sections. Compared with the 10 sections on the PC version that can be set in depth, the mobile version mainly focuses on more practical and simpler functions.
USB management is more convenient than the PC side. After opening, USB management enters the private cloud. The mobile phone can directly access the shared files of the storage device on the router. Videos can be downloaded and watched. Pictures and videos on the mobile phone can also be directly uploaded to the router's storage device. If you go on a trip and you don’t bring your laptop or your mobile phone’s extended USB flash drive, you can upload all the photos and videos you took during the day to a private cloud. Then delete the pictures and videos on your phone and continue taking pictures the next day. This solution is also very practical for the current trend of network disk closures.
QoS speed limit, in addition to setting the overall upload and download speed, you can also individually limit the upload and download speed of each device in the LAN, and you can also see each current traffic, no need You can also see who is grabbing the Internet speed by looking at the device, so you can limit the speed appropriately.
In order to test the QoS speed limit of the router, I opened the high-definition network box in the living room and played HD movies from TV Cat. At the same time, I placed my mobile phone next to the computer and opened Youku to play variety shows. Both P2P players are playing high-definition programs, which takes up a lot of network space. At this time, I opened "CS:GO" on my computer to see the QoS speed adjustment. Through the picture above and the enlarged picture in the upper right corner, I can I can see that the game delay is only 11, which means the network is very smooth. This situation is difficult to achieve for routers without QoS.
Traffic monitoring mainly uses charts to view the traffic usage of each device in the LAN. In the past, when traffic was on a monthly basis, this function was very important. Now it is on a monthly or yearly basis, with unlimited traffic. However, this picture can also show which device takes up the most network resources, so that the speed limit and control can be carried out.
The final advanced settings include network settings, NAT, firewall, system management, and system information. Here we introduce the firewall settings of the router. The firewall has 5 functions: IP address filtering, MAC address filtering, URL filtering, domain name filtering, and system security. The first four can be filtered by directly inputting the corresponding IP address, AMC address, URL, and domain name, while system security can filter WAN pings. In-depth security settings such as packet blocking, port scanning prevention, SYN Flood attack prevention, SPI firewall, etc. Remote management is turned off by default, and it is recommended that you turn it off.
Signal test: High-power dual-band is not guaranteed
Before the test, let me introduce the network layout at my home.
Broadband: China Unicom 50M.
Layout: Three bedrooms and one living room. The study is separated from the second bedroom by a wall and a distance of 3 meters. It is separated from the living room by two walls and a distance of 7 meters. It is separated from the master bedroom by a wall and a wardrobe and a distance of 3 meters. rice.
Equipment: The router is placed in the study room, the computer is placed in the study room, and the LCD TV is placed in the living room.
This is the 2.4G network where the mobile phone is connected to the router. The delay, download speed and upload speed of each room are tested by the software.
This is the 2.4G network where the mobile phone is connected to the router. The mobile phone is running "CrossFire" and the real-time network delay data is obtained by taking a screenshot.
The mobile phone is connected to the 5G network of the router, and the delay, download speed and upload speed of each room are tested by the software.
Connect the mobile phone to the 5G network of the router, run "CrossFire" on the mobile phone, and take a screenshot of the real-time network delay data.
To summarize:
Under the 2.4G network, the latency in the four rooms is good, floating between 22-24ms; the download speed has no barrier, and the highest in the nearest study room is 39.23Mbps, the lowest is 24.03Mbps in the living room separated by two walls; the upload speed is relatively stable, floating around 7.5Mbps; the game ping value is also very stable, floating between 23-28ms, this ping value is very smooth and does not freeze Dayton.
Under the 5G network, the latency in the four rooms is equally good, with the highest in the second bedroom being only 33ms; the download speed has been improved with 5G, but because the 5G signal itself has limited ability to penetrate walls, the value is somewhat variable. The study room with the closest partition distance has a maximum of 42.28Mbps and a minimum of 17.99Mbps in the master bedroom; the upload speed is relatively stable, always floating around 7.5Mbps; although the download speed fluctuates a bit, it has little impact on the game ping value, and the values ??are all at 30ms Floating left and right, this ping value is also very smooth.
It can be seen that the Jiesi AC945M router uses 2600 dual-band, 16 "ring blade" antennas, plus V-eight and 4T4R multi-channel technology, covering my three rooms and one living room is not a problem at all, and Able to ensure speed transmission and game latency in every room on 2.4G and 5G.
Evaluation summary:
Jiesi JHR-AC945M router has a round appearance and a black transparent upper cover, which can display 16 blue LED antenna lights in real time. The middle display The screen can display the uplink and downlink speeds and the number of simultaneous Internet users in real time. There are 2.4G, 5G, and external network signals above the display. The black display screen and silver body are full of technology. There are USB fast charging interfaces and USB3.0 storage interfaces on the side of the router. The rear is equipped with 1 Gigabit WAN interface and 4 Gigabit LAN interfaces, as well as a one-click WPS button. Through router software and USB3.0 storage, you can create home cloud storage, upload and download private clouds anytime and anywhere, and free up space on mobile phones, tablets and other devices. The router is equipped with 16 antennas and uses V-eight, MU-MIMO and other technologies, combined with QoS speed limiting function, to provide full signal coverage. It also allows all devices in the LAN to transmit at a stable speed, play videos, and run games.
Jiesi JHR-AC945M router currently sells for 1,699 yuan, which is indeed a bit higher than Jiesi’s previous routers. But it has a stylish space capsule appearance, dual-core CPU, 256M DDR3 memory, 16 built-in antennas with full signal coverage, 2600M dual-band concurrency, and USB fast charging, USB3.0 interface cloud storage and other functions. The price of 1,699 yuan is also reasonable, and JCG has also launched a package discount for the AC945M. If you buy the AC945M router, add 1 yuan to get 2 wifi signal amplifiers for free, and add 99 yuan to get 4 wifi signal amplifiers for free. If you buy an AC945M router, you will get 4 wifi signal amplifiers for free. It will be more cost-effective for apartment users to buy a package. The JHR-AC945M router is not only a router with good looks and good performance, but also a simple and easy-to-use smart home network center.