In recent years, the IoT industry has evolved rapidly. In terms of family scenarios, there are many devices that need to be networked, in addition to mobile phones and computers, a series of smart devices such as smart TVs and smart homes also have the need to access the network. In this case, the router, which originally had a weak sense of existence, has become the network hub in the smart home and IoT systems, playing a more important role. The strength of a router will directly affect the user's overall intelligent experience.
At the same time, the cloud computing market is also booming, with the landing of 5G and other technologies, the form of cloud computing business, the group of groups oriented to become more and more diverse, and shows a trend of cloud services continue to extend to the edge. The advantages of reducing latency and saving bandwidth provided by edge cloud have been recognized by corresponding customers and will have broader prospects in the future. In the industry, JD Cloud has long been a well-known cloud computing platform in China, and it also has a lot of technical accumulation and business experience in the field of edge cloud.
Since 2019, JD Cloud has launched the "Wireless Treasure" router product series, which takes the home edge cloud as the core differentiated function point and creates its own unique product advantages based on the "B2C2B" business model. According to reports, based on edge computing, AI and JD.com Joylink interconnection protocol, JD Cloud Wireless Treasure has launched an intelligent edge terminal with "smart router + private cloud disk" as the carrier. Now, JD Cloud Wireless Treasure has built an edge cloud network of millions of nodes, and has also brought better digital and intelligent services to a large number of B-end enterprises.
As far as the router industry is concerned, whether it is a traditional router manufacturer, or the Internet, mobile phone manufacturers, they are more aware of the importance of router products, WiFi 6, Mesh and other new technologies and new features have been popularized on mainstream routers. However, these manufacturers often pay more attention to performance and price, and lack breakthroughs in innovative functions, resulting in serious homogenization of router products and no real differentiated selling points. In this regard, JD Cloud Wireless Treasure's home edge cloud strategy is undoubtedly more forward-looking.
In this context, Jingdong Yun wireless treasure AX6600 was officially released, and its strong parameters, strong performance, high appearance, high cost performance and other highlights instantly attracted a large number of users. Such a flagship product, XiaoLei has recently obtained, and wants to bring more and more in-depth information to everyone through actual experience.
Appearance: A high-value router that doesn't look like a router
At a glance, the exterior design of Jingdong Yun wireless treasure AX6600 is minimalist style, and the square shape brings a high value. This router does not follow the design route that traditional routers like with teeth and claws full of external antennas, and is relatively more concise and low-key, while being more technological and futuristic.
When the Jingdong Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 is placed upright, the LED dot matrix screen equipped with the front can be seen on the front, which is rare in the router, and it can display the information of the operation of some devices. At the bottom of the dot matrix screen, hidden indicators are arranged, and the light distribution area is wider, more uniform, and more beautiful. Its role is to indicate the operating status of the router through different colors.
Two buttons can be seen at the top of the router, namely the screen button and the JOY button, the former short press can switch the display content, long press can switch the screen, the latter short press for the switch LED strip and network port LED light, long press for mesh networking.
Go to the bottom of the back and you'll see a row of connectors and buttons. There are 4 Gigabit LAN ports on the left, and a 2.5G WAN port, a USB 3.0 interface, a reset hole and a DC power socket on the right.
In terms of core configuration, the chip equipped with JD Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 is Qualcomm IPQ6010, and the CPU part adopts four A53 cores with a main frequency of 1.8GHz, and also integrates an NPU with a main frequency of 1.5GHz. The router also comes with 1GB of DDR4 memory and 128GB of eMMC flash memory. In addition, jd.com wireless treasure AX6600 supports three wireless frequency bands, including 2.4GHz 2×2 (up to 574Mbps rate), 5.2GHz 4×4 (up to 4804Mbps rate), 5.8GHz 2×2 (up to 1201Mbps rate).
Overall, in terms of appearance design, Jingdong Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 has excellent appearance and exquisite workmanship; in terms of hardware performance, the router's stacking material is also very sufficient, and the configuration is luxurious; in terms of interface, the 2.5G WAN port and the full Gigabit LAN port are enough to meet daily needs, and the wireless rate has enough redundancy. Combined with the pricing of JD Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600, we can come to the conclusion of extremely high cost performance without any effort.
Of course, how it actually performs, or the following actual measurements to give the answer.
The network speed takes off, and the tri-band Wi-Fi is more stable
As we mentioned earlier, the WAN port of jd.com wireless treasure AX6600 supports a 2.5 G rate, far exceeding the gigabit rate of the same price router. At present, the speed of mainstream home broadband is still gigabit and 500M. However, domestic operators have launched 2000M broadband products, although it is still in the state of pilot and preliminary promotion, but the future popularization is only a matter of time. Therefore, in the part of the WAN port that is directly connected to the light cat, it is necessary to leave a surplus for the future. In addition, even if the gigabit broadband wants to run full, the WAN port rate has redundancy more reliably than just the gigabit capping.
Without further ado, let's start measuring. First of all, a brief description of the test environment, the broadband we chose is Guangzhou Unicom 1000M broadband, Jingdong Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 WAN port and optical cat through the network cable direct connection, the simulated scene is closer to the daily use of ordinary users. As far as the configuration of Jingdong Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 is concerned, it will not be too much of a problem to cope with this kind of family demand.
The first is the wired network speed measurement, we use the rescuer Y9000P network cable direct connection router LAN port test. Speedtest data shows that the download rate is close to full, reaching 944.75Mbps. Next is the wireless network test, this time we found more equipment, in addition to the rescuer Y9000P, there are iPhone 13 Pro, MacBook Air, OPPO Find X5 Pro, the final speed measurement results are shown in the following figure.
It should be noted that the specific network speed of wireless devices connected to the router may be affected by many factors, including Wi-Fi chips and whether the latest protocols are supported. Among them, the rescuer Y9000P and OPPO Find X5 Pro are new products, both support the latest Wi-Fi 6 protocol, the performance in the 5.2 GHz band is very eye-catching, although it does not completely run full of gigabits, but this rate has been quite a surprise for wireless networks. The MacBook Air participating in the test does not support Wi-Fi 6, but is Compatible with Wi-Fi 5, so the wireless speed is not so amazing, but the performance is still more in line with expectations.
Of course, the above is a close-up test, in order to simulate a more realistic scene, we placed the networking device in a more distant area, the straight-line distance reached 11 meters, and there is a wall in the middle, theoretically the rate of wireless Wi-Fi will have a more obvious attenuation. We tested it again with the above four devices and the results are as follows.
It can be found that after the distance is far away and there is a wall partition, the network speed has declined by a certain extent, but the performance on the 5.2GHz band is still eye-catching, and there are still two or three hundred Mbps, which is more than enough to deal with daily application scenarios. This test also allows us to discover the importance of tri-band Wi-Fi, most of the router products on the market now have only two wireless bands, JD Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 equipped with tri-band Wi-Fi, indeed can greatly improve the network experience.
On the whole, the actual network performance of JD Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 is very outstanding, whether it is a close connection or a long-distance network coverage, whether it is a laptop or a smart phone, it can obtain a stable and high-speed network experience. Even with the traditional flagship router PK, the strength of the JD Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 is not at all inferior.
Innovative features gather to see the traditional router
In addition to network performance, JD Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 has many differentiated selling points, and there are many innovations in terms of functions, so let's take a look at the actual experience.
1. LED dot matrix screen
As we mentioned earlier, the front of the Jingdong Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 fuselage is equipped with an LED dot matrix screen, which is not too common on the router. This screen can display the operation information of some routers, and the user can set which ones are displayed. In the App settings, Xiao Lei found that the information that can be displayed is the downlink rate on the network, weather conditions, clock, number of online devices, and points.
This function should not be difficult to implement, but it is very practical, this screen will be the core operation information of the router in real time display, the user can grasp its situation at any time, once the failure, you can also troubleshoot at any time. Traditional router products, users encounter failures may also have to enter the background through the browser, one by one debugging, it is possible to find out the problem. In contrast, Jingdong Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 is much friendly to users.
2. Private cloud disk
Private cloud disk is also a function that makes Xiaolei more interested, we all know that many geeks or enthusiasts will set up their own NAS private network disk to facilitate data storage and management. However, NAS is highly professional and costly, and many small white users have been dissuaded.
However, JD Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 directly provides a solution, specifically, this router has a built-in 128GB flash memory space, which can be set as private cloud disk storage space with one click on the management page. Xiao Lei tested it, directly copied a 5.28GB video file from the mobile phone to the private cloud disk, the transmission rate peak can exceed 100MB/s, less than 1 minute to pass, basically running full of gigabit network speed.
In addition, it also provides a USB 3.0 interface, which can be connected to external storage devices such as removable hard disks and USB sticks. If the 128GB of space that comes with it is not enough, you can expand the capacity through this method. Xiao Lei plugged in a 3T hard disk, the actual test down, the transfer rate can also be about 40MB/s, five or sixGB of files, a small will be passed out.
I have to say that the private cloud disk function of JD Cloud Wireless Treasure has greatly reduced the cost of our simple NAS. Moreover, it can also turn on the Samba service, so that other mobile phones, computers, TVs and other devices in a local area network can easily access the private cloud disk, whether it is reading or writing files or playing media resources, which is very convenient.
3. Family Edge Cloud Earn points to get Jingdou
Another feature of JD Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 is the online earning points function, mainly through edge computing technology, using user contributions to limit bandwidth resources, and give users point rewards. Wireless Treasure users can redeem the points they earn into Jingdou for shopping. This is undoubtedly a win-win mechanism for the Jingdong cloud platform and ordinary consumers, on the one hand, the idle bandwidth resources in the hands of users are more fully utilized to provide computing power for edge computing; on the other hand, ordinary consumers can get the corresponding rewards through this effortless way, making Jingdong Cloud Wireless Treasure a router that can "make money".
In the actual experience process, we found that the point mode of JD Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 has multiple options to choose from, allowing users to balance between online experience and earning points, which is still very user-friendly.
JD Cloud Wireless Treasure successfully led the direction of the industry
Overall, Jingdong Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 has a strong configuration, excellent network performance, high appearance, and a pricing price of 799 yuan, and the comprehensive competitiveness is even more competitive. Even if it is purely required by the assessment indicators of traditional routers, it is also a flagship router product with high cost performance and worth starting for ordinary users and enthusiasts.
But jd. Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 and even the entire Wireless Treasure product line are more important than that. In terms of the industry, Jingdong Cloud Wireless Treasure AX6600 has realized the subversion of traditional router products to a certain extent, and achieved a more competitive price under the premise of stronger configuration and high performance. At the same time, it gives more value to the router, breaks the shackles of the traditional router product concept, and excavates new use scenarios, which is more in line with the role of the router as an intelligent network hub in the era of the Internet of Everything.
LED displays, idle bandwidth reuse, small NAS, etc., are all functions or features that are relatively rare on traditional routers, but can greatly improve the user experience. The emergence of this product is undoubtedly a bombshell put into the home router market.
JD Cloud Wireless Treasure has demonstrated a unique innovative concept, and explored the comprehensive track direction of home intelligence and edge cloud, integrating multiple business areas such as "smart home hub", "cloud storage", "personal storage", "intelligent service" and so on, providing a new product direction for the router industry.
It is foreseeable that in the future, more and more manufacturers will follow the footsteps of Jingdong Cloud Wireless Treasure and jointly open the innovation of router products in the era of Internet of Everything. JD Cloud, which has deep technical precipitation in the field of edge computing, will become a leader in it, whether it is ordinary consumers or enterprise users, can benefit from it.