On February 17, the blogger of the Communication People's Home Forum broke the news that Zhejiang Mobile began to provide no WiFi function, pure gigabit 4 mouth light cat. The move may be to promote mobile homegrown brand WiFi 6 routers. In the future, you may need to come with a WiFi 6 router, which is much more practical than the light cat with WiFi.
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It is understood that the three major operators have previously launched light cat devices with WiFi functions, but this type of product is really chicken ribs, and its WiFi performance is very general, even not as good as dozens of dollars to buy a router. Therefore, many users will choose to buy another router. What is even more uncomfortable is that some proxy operators will also charge additional equipment fees, and the cost of new broadband installations has increased significantly.
In Xiaolei's own experience, when new broadband is installed, operators will charge the equipment usage fee of the light cat, as well as the installation fee of the worker. Among them, the installation fee is generally 200 yuan, while the light cat fee is about 200 yuan. As mentioned above, the cost of light cats with WiFi features should be higher. Moreover, some operators will ask you to refund the light cat when you return to the network, but will not refund the money. If you don't return the light cat, they even ask you for compensation.
Operators in some areas give you too poor performance of the optical cat, which may also affect the network status, such as frequent network fluctuations, sudden disconnection, and the optical cat is broken when it is used. To know that the light cat itself is relatively large, if you attach a useless WiFi function, the overall performance will certainly have some impact, but also improve the failure rate of the light cat.
Xiao Lei learned that the operator initially launched a light cat with WiFi, mainly to facilitate the installation of debugging, generally not recommended for users to use. Later, this light cat became an excuse for some operators to pay extra fees.
Light cat with WiFi is not completely useless, for users living in single apartments or single rooms, performance is still barely enough, but also save money on a router. But for users with larger apartment types, it is really a chicken rib, but the operator will not give you the right to actively choose, that is, to charge this fee.
Today, China Mobile has decided to launch a light cat without WiFi capabilities, with 4 gigabit ethernet ports. The function of chicken ribs has been cut, the performance of the light cat has been upgraded, the user experience will be improved, and the future layout of the whole house intelligence will also be of great help. I hope that the other two operators can also quickly follow up and bid farewell to the era of indiscriminate charging of light cat devices as soon as possible.