On February 16, Redmi brought the first conference after the Lunar New Year, the protagonist of the conference in addition to the K50 mobile phone, there is a new WiFi6 routing product - Redmi AX5400, which is also the redmi brand's highest specification router products, today let's see if this router priced at 599 yuan can become a new choice in the family.
First of all, let's take a look at the design, frankly speaking, the two words of the previous several Redmi routers and design are indeed not linked together, and the design that is too "simple" does look uninteresting. But this time the AX5400 is different, the overall shape is more like the feeling of a spaceship in a science fiction movie, and the symmetrical design with the front-like "X" type LED lights looks like a lot of value.
In the details, although the AX5400 machine is still made of plastic material, it has been sprayed with metallic paint, making the product look more metallic. There are obvious heat dissipation areas in the front position and the top, which can be used well during daily use.
On the back of the fuselage, Redmi has configured a 2.5G game-specific WAN port and four 1G LAN ports for the AX5400, and there is also a dedicated power supply in the LAN port, and the 2.5G WAN port also supports switching between the LAN port, and these interfaces also support dual WAN/LAN aggregation, giving users sufficient customization space to configure different interface uses according to their own needs.
In terms of antennas, the Redmi AX5400 uses a four-antenna design, although it does not look sharp enough, but the AX5400 is equipped with six high-performance signal amplifiers (5GHz 4 + 2.4GHz 2). The maximum wireless rate of 2.4GHz + 5GHz dual-frequency concurrent can reach 5378Mbps (574Mbps in the 2.4GHz band and 4804Mbps in the 5GHz band). Compared with the AX6000, which is popular in Xiaomi routers, the Redmi AX5400 is only missing a 2.4GHz AIoT antenna, which has the potential to become the next blockbuster.
Built-in hardware level, Redmi AX5400 equipped with Qualcomm chipset, the use of dual-core 1.0GHz CPU unit and 1.0GHz single-core NPU unit, configured with NPU unit AX5400 can reduce the cpu resource occupation, the data packet forwarding efficiency increased by nearly 80%.
So, what exactly is the experience of the Redmi AX5400? We tested at three points in the company, namely the B point with a visual distance of 3 meters, the B point separated by a wall, and the C point under the duplex structure, which were also the "classic positions" when testing the router before, so it was easy to compare with the competitors.
With Redmi K50 as the test model, speedtest as the test software was used to test the rate of the 5G band at three points of A/B/C, and some signal interference factors were thrown away under the gigabit bandwidth, and the nearest A point could achieve a downlink rate of close to 800Mbps, and the B point that was about 7 meters away and spaced apart by a wall also had a rate of about 780Mbps.
From top to bottom, the test data is A/B/C points
What surprises us is actually the C point position, in the past router rate test generally overturned the position, Redmi AX5400 still has a downward rate of about 617Mbps, here is the company's farthest distance from the router location and also separated by a floor of the point, still can have such a rate performance is indeed very eye-catching.
To this end, we tested the signal strength, and in the WiFi Explorer software, we can intuitively see the A/B/C three points through the histogram.
Compared with the flagship ASUS Octopus previously used by the company, the Redmi AX5400 is not inferior in the 200㎡ unit, which is completely sufficient for general home use.
In addition, Redmi AX5400 is also a product that supports MESH networking, which can be meshed with Redmi brand or Xiaomi brand router products that support WiFi6, if it is a large flat floor or a user with a large house area, it can be further strengthened on top of the AX5400 itself's strong network coverage capabilities to ensure that there is no dead end network coverage in the whole house.
The Redmi AX5400 also supports "Easy Connect" technology, which allows Mijia smart devices to type the network. The advantage of Xiaomi's smooth connection technology is that it is found when plugged in, and it can directly click on the distribution network, eliminating the steps of connecting in the App after the user purchases the new Mijia product. In addition, the technology can also realize WiFi encryption, automatic device back to connect and the same account device, seamless switching routing, for consumers in daily use of common network problems and device problems are a good functional supplement.
On the whole, Redmi AX5400 has booked the next popular WiFi6 routing seat with its strong configuration and excellent network coverage capabilities, especially its excellent network coverage capabilities in the router products of about 500 yuan have basically belonged to the state of invincible. Looking at the current Xiaomi/Redmi brand router product line, we can find that in the router products below 1,000 yuan, AX5400 is definitely the most worth buying, with stronger technical characteristics and more design-like appearance, it is even more fragrant than AX6000. Coupled with an esports interface purpose-built for gamers, the AX5400 is a well-worthwhile product.