What WiFi7 router to buy?149Give me a reason not to buy ZTE ax3000 Survey Edition!#怎么选择路由器#
Reason for purchase
In fact, there are not many routers in the house, but I still want to buy them when I see them. Actually, it's not, because the study in the house I live in now has no network cable, and the high-rise buildings are basically load-bearing walls, and the 5G band signal attenuation is terrible. Originally, I had an AX5400Pro+, and the dual 2.5G network ports were really cool to use, but the signal in the study was still a little poor, so I wanted to buy another router to form a wireless mesh. A good point is that almost all ZTE routers can form mesh with each other, which really hits my needs.
Product name: ZTE AX3000 Survey Edition Router
Price: 149 yuan
Product appearance
Originally, I wanted to buy the Sky Survey Pro, but it was a hundred yuan more expensive, an extra 2.5G port, and the performance was improved a little, which still felt a little uncost-effective. In the end, Pinduoduo smashed the golden egg 149 and started it is still very fragrant!
In terms of appearance, ZTE has normal packaging, kraft paper-colored shell, the router body is all white, and only the WiFi6 logo is golden. It does not support custom WAN/LAN ports, three Gigabit LANs, and this configuration is normal at this price point. LAN ports are a bit few, but Gigabit LAN ports are even a polar space Q2C for me.
User experience
Because my previous router was ZTE's, this time I used the AX3000 Sky Survey Edition as the main route, plugging in the network cable and dialing up the Internet in one go. Replace the previous ax5400Pro+ to the study, restore the factory, and press the mesh button on both the main and secondary routers to start wireless mesh pairing.
It takes about 30 seconds to a minute to complete the pairing. Later, a 2.5G switch can be connected to the computer and NAS in the study.
I also have an AC1200 candy cube that is also ZTE, which is connected to the storage room at the door and used by the camera at the door of the house to connect to the Internet. It's far away, and the signal attenuation is strong, but the camera is enough.
But I still complain a little, why does the group wireless mesh not support manual switching of WiFi frequency bands, and can only be connected to the 5Ghz frequency band by default.
Purchase advice
Recently, WiFi7 has been very hot, especially two days ago, more than 200 WiFi7 routers from a factory can be described as very hot, but in my opinion, there is no need to buy WiFi7 at present, and there are not many use scenarios. More than 200 might as well buy a Sky Survey Pro!
