1 thought on “In the MESH philosophy of the Xiaomi router, 1 1 should be equal to 1”
Ernest
1 router 1 router = 1 better network. After the pigeon does not know how long, Xiaomi officially finally pushed the firmware that supports MESH networking for the Xiaomi AIOT router AX3600 (hereinafter referred to as AX3600) and Xiaomi router AX1800 (hereinafter referred to as AX1800). After the firmware update was completed, Xiaomi finally handed over the big cakes drawn to users. The starting price is not expensive but excellent performance, especially the AX3600, which is now even more "fragrant." But first of all, what is "Mesh"? The full name of "Mesh" is "network -shaped network", which is a transmission that realizes data and control instructions through dynamic routing methods with multiple network nodes. In the entire network -shaped network, all nodes can achieve point -to -point transmission. If a node fails, the entire network architecture can skip this node and find new paths for data transmission.
The most intuitive feeling of the MESH network is that the most intuitive feeling of the MESH network is that it can overwrite large -scale large apartment. Before using Mesh network networking, you want to obtain good Wi-Fi network coverage in various regions in complex large spaces often require wired or wireless relays. The MESH networking is simpler and stable than using the traditional relay to complete the network, and it is easy to use the network as an overall management. The real special Mesh router is not 599 to get a set of things. The two routers of AX3600 and AX1800 are naturally unable to compare the MESH function provided by software upgrades in terms of absolute intranet performance, switching efficiency and stability. Provide many people with a low -cost Mesh coverage scheme. will the network setting be complicated? It, take my personal use scenario as an example. The first thing to ensure is that both AX3600 and AX1800 are updated to the latest firmware versions (if you can't push, you can go directly to Xiaomi Wi-Fi official website to download the firmware manual update), and then perform a series of operations. It in the cloth scheme on my side, I chose to use AX3600 as the master node for the best network performance (of course you want to use AX1800 as a master node, I don't stop you). Set the normally connected to the Internet (broadband dial -up or other methods, depending on the specific ISP), and then the AX1800 that needs to be added as a Mesh node is restored to the factory status next to the master node AX3600.
In the mobile phone application AX3600's management page to select the MESH networking function to automatically search, match and complete the settings. The whole process of adding a node only takes about 3 minutes. If you need to add more nodes, repeat the above operations. After completing all nodes, you can place the node in the area where the node needs to cover the Wi-Fi signal in the room. Of course, the actual placement distance between the nodes and the node must consider the signal transmission and receiving between the router. If there are two two The distance between nodes should not be too far or excessive obstacles. of course, the precautions of the above nodes are based on wireless Mesh. If there is a reliable wired connection between the two nodes, then there is no problem with how you arrange it (laugh). In the completion of the network settings, the settings and functions of the AX1800 as a sub -node will be completely synchronized with the AX3600 as the general node. Therefore, the entire MESH network can be regarded as a network management emitted by 1 router. The entire wireless network name and password are all unified. Set the functions of the LED indicator of the switching router and the time restart, which will also be synchronized directly to all nodes. Therefore, there is no difference between management and management a single router. What is the effect?
is quite good. The kitchen (point 1) in the home when it was covered with an AX3600 was the weakest area of the Wi-Fi signal. The bandwidth of 200Mbps can only run a digit in the kitchen with poor signal. This network speed can only barely send and receive WeChat messages, not even Weibo. After using the AX1800 wireless MESH extension network, the downward speed in the kitchen can reach about 150Mbps, at least the threshold of "fast network". huh? Why is there only a speed of 150Mbps under the extension of the AX1800? This is the limitation of AX1800 hardware -AX3600 and AX1800 are "dual -frequency" when facing important devices such as smartphones and PCs, that is, it will emit 1 2.4GHz network and 1 5GHz network. Before using Mesh networking, I have always hidden the 2.4GHz band of AX3600 as a spare frequency band (because the 5GHz coverage capacity of AX3600 was found in the previous test was not weaker than 2.4GHz or even better). AX3600. The next point is the 5GHz band of the AX3600 is 4 × 4 antennas, and the 5GHz of AX1800 has only 2 × 2 antennas. The high -frequency width 5GHz channel given by 4 × 4 antennas can make up for the performance loss caused by the dual -frequency router when the dual -frequency router is independently returned. When the AX1800 of the 2 × 2 antenna needs to take care of the wireless return and terminal data at the same time, the 5GHz Wi-Fi performance bottleneck will appear. After all, a high-end mobile phone is enough to eat the 2 × 2 anx anx1800. So the answer is clear. If you have a lot of equipment at home or have high requirements for the transmission rate, then the performance of the AX1800 may not meet your needs when the group MESH. A better solution.
The "performance" after chatting. There is also a aspect of the use experience in the Mesh network, that is, the switching algorithm inside the network. This algorithm directly determines whether a certain device can quickly and accurately switch to the nearest node to obtain the best network performance. It, the switch of Xiaomi is much faster than I imagined, especially when the master node AX3600 roams to AX1800, almost I stood by my mobile phone on the AX1800 for a few seconds and then switched and completed it. Essence The time to switch back to AX3600 from AX1800 roaming will be slightly longer, but it is only 10 seconds more. For this cheap Mesh system, this switching efficiency can even make some professional MESH routes ashamed. of course, the above switching efficiency is based on the premise of setting up the network and stable use for a period of time. When the network was just set up, the node switching efficiency of this MESH network, especially the efficiency of switching back from AX1800 to AX3600 was really uninvited. However, after a few days of stable use, the node switching efficiency of this network has reached the level of the previous test. Maybe there is a "learning" process in the router? "Value?" The Wi-Fi 6 coverage scheme that is currently relatively cheap, using multiple Xiaomi router Mesh networking does have strong feasibility and cost-effectiveness. Because all nodes use the AX3600, the networking effects of the networking effect for 90%of the people with a width of 100Mbps ~ 200Mbps, the experience in the 90%application scenario is not too obvious to those top Mesh routes.
The step back 10,000 steps, if you still want to further reduce the cost of the group MESH, then you can use the redmi router AX5 with the same hardware scheme with the same hardware scheme to replace the AX1800 as the child node (we still the general gateway we still It is recommended that you use AX3600). Although the latter has not yet pushed the firmware that supports Mesh, since the official has already stated that the firmware push is only a matter of time. Use AX5 instead of AX1800, and can even save dozens of yuan of hardware expenses on each node. The use of my personal use scenario as an example, 1 AX3600 plus 2 AX1800 can make my home room well cover at least 150Mbps broadband access. Yuan. If the pursuit of a higher rate is covered with AX3600, the total cost reaches 1,800 yuan. The hardware investment is only 1/3 of the traditional manufacturer flagship MESH route — Of course I do not deny the performance ratio of the flagship MESH triple routing 3 AX3600 AX3600 It must be much better.
Is with users with 300Mbps or 500Mbps broadband, this MESH network composed of multiple Xiaomi routers may become a bottleneck that restricts the connection to the external network speed. In addition, for users who focus on the internal network transmission, such as the deployment of NAS devices, the performance and efficiency that this "white -free" MESH can provide must not be enough to meet their stable and reliable transmission in the local area network (such as streaming 4K 4K 4K HDR movie) demand. The words again, most of the latter types of users are not bad, so when they set up a Mesh network, they will probably skip this "white -free" dual -frequency MESH and choose to have a special return to return to return to return to return. The flagship Mesh router in the band. The performance and stability provided by those flagship routers will definitely be significantly better than the MESH of the Xiaomi router. In short, the greatest part of the MESH function of the Xiaomi router is not how powerful it is, but it is a few times the price of 80% of its top products on the price point that most people are more willing to accept. Even more experience.
1 router 1 router = 1 better network.
After the pigeon does not know how long, Xiaomi officially finally pushed the firmware that supports MESH networking for the Xiaomi AIOT router AX3600 (hereinafter referred to as AX3600) and Xiaomi router AX1800 (hereinafter referred to as AX1800). After the firmware update was completed, Xiaomi finally handed over the big cakes drawn to users. The starting price is not expensive but excellent performance, especially the AX3600, which is now even more "fragrant."
But first of all, what is "Mesh"?
The full name of "Mesh" is "network -shaped network", which is a transmission that realizes data and control instructions through dynamic routing methods with multiple network nodes. In the entire network -shaped network, all nodes can achieve point -to -point transmission. If a node fails, the entire network architecture can skip this node and find new paths for data transmission.
The most intuitive feeling of the MESH network is that the most intuitive feeling of the MESH network is that it can overwrite large -scale large apartment. Before using Mesh network networking, you want to obtain good Wi-Fi network coverage in various regions in complex large spaces often require wired or wireless relays. The MESH networking is simpler and stable than using the traditional relay to complete the network, and it is easy to use the network as an overall management.
The real special Mesh router is not 599 to get a set of things. The two routers of AX3600 and AX1800 are naturally unable to compare the MESH function provided by software upgrades in terms of absolute intranet performance, switching efficiency and stability. Provide many people with a low -cost Mesh coverage scheme.
will the network setting be complicated?
It, take my personal use scenario as an example. The first thing to ensure is that both AX3600 and AX1800 are updated to the latest firmware versions (if you can't push, you can go directly to Xiaomi Wi-Fi official website to download the firmware manual update), and then perform a series of operations.
It in the cloth scheme on my side, I chose to use AX3600 as the master node for the best network performance (of course you want to use AX1800 as a master node, I don't stop you). Set the normally connected to the Internet (broadband dial -up or other methods, depending on the specific ISP), and then the AX1800 that needs to be added as a Mesh node is restored to the factory status next to the master node AX3600.
In the mobile phone application AX3600's management page to select the MESH networking function to automatically search, match and complete the settings. The whole process of adding a node only takes about 3 minutes. If you need to add more nodes, repeat the above operations. After completing all nodes, you can place the node in the area where the node needs to cover the Wi-Fi signal in the room. Of course, the actual placement distance between the nodes and the node must consider the signal transmission and receiving between the router. If there are two two The distance between nodes should not be too far or excessive obstacles.
of course, the precautions of the above nodes are based on wireless Mesh. If there is a reliable wired connection between the two nodes, then there is no problem with how you arrange it (laugh).
In the completion of the network settings, the settings and functions of the AX1800 as a sub -node will be completely synchronized with the AX3600 as the general node. Therefore, the entire MESH network can be regarded as a network management emitted by 1 router. The entire wireless network name and password are all unified. Set the functions of the LED indicator of the switching router and the time restart, which will also be synchronized directly to all nodes. Therefore, there is no difference between management and management a single router.
What is the effect?
is quite good. The kitchen (point 1) in the home when it was covered with an AX3600 was the weakest area of the Wi-Fi signal. The bandwidth of 200Mbps can only run a digit in the kitchen with poor signal. This network speed can only barely send and receive WeChat messages, not even Weibo. After using the AX1800 wireless MESH extension network, the downward speed in the kitchen can reach about 150Mbps, at least the threshold of "fast network".
huh? Why is there only a speed of 150Mbps under the extension of the AX1800?
This is the limitation of AX1800 hardware -AX3600 and AX1800 are "dual -frequency" when facing important devices such as smartphones and PCs, that is, it will emit 1 2.4GHz network and 1 5GHz network. Before using Mesh networking, I have always hidden the 2.4GHz band of AX3600 as a spare frequency band (because the 5GHz coverage capacity of AX3600 was found in the previous test was not weaker than 2.4GHz or even better). AX3600.
The next point is the 5GHz band of the AX3600 is 4 × 4 antennas, and the 5GHz of AX1800 has only 2 × 2 antennas. The high -frequency width 5GHz channel given by 4 × 4 antennas can make up for the performance loss caused by the dual -frequency router when the dual -frequency router is independently returned. When the AX1800 of the 2 × 2 antenna needs to take care of the wireless return and terminal data at the same time, the 5GHz Wi-Fi performance bottleneck will appear. After all, a high-end mobile phone is enough to eat the 2 × 2 anx anx1800.
So the answer is clear. If you have a lot of equipment at home or have high requirements for the transmission rate, then the performance of the AX1800 may not meet your needs when the group MESH. A better solution.
The "performance" after chatting. There is also a aspect of the use experience in the Mesh network, that is, the switching algorithm inside the network. This algorithm directly determines whether a certain device can quickly and accurately switch to the nearest node to obtain the best network performance.
It, the switch of Xiaomi is much faster than I imagined, especially when the master node AX3600 roams to AX1800, almost I stood by my mobile phone on the AX1800 for a few seconds and then switched and completed it. Essence The time to switch back to AX3600 from AX1800 roaming will be slightly longer, but it is only 10 seconds more. For this cheap Mesh system, this switching efficiency can even make some professional MESH routes ashamed.
of course, the above switching efficiency is based on the premise of setting up the network and stable use for a period of time. When the network was just set up, the node switching efficiency of this MESH network, especially the efficiency of switching back from AX1800 to AX3600 was really uninvited. However, after a few days of stable use, the node switching efficiency of this network has reached the level of the previous test. Maybe there is a "learning" process in the router?
"Value?"
The Wi-Fi 6 coverage scheme that is currently relatively cheap, using multiple Xiaomi router Mesh networking does have strong feasibility and cost-effectiveness. Because all nodes use the AX3600, the networking effects of the networking effect for 90%of the people with a width of 100Mbps ~ 200Mbps, the experience in the 90%application scenario is not too obvious to those top Mesh routes.
The step back 10,000 steps, if you still want to further reduce the cost of the group MESH, then you can use the redmi router AX5 with the same hardware scheme with the same hardware scheme to replace the AX1800 as the child node (we still the general gateway we still It is recommended that you use AX3600). Although the latter has not yet pushed the firmware that supports Mesh, since the official has already stated that the firmware push is only a matter of time. Use AX5 instead of AX1800, and can even save dozens of yuan of hardware expenses on each node.
The use of my personal use scenario as an example, 1 AX3600 plus 2 AX1800 can make my home room well cover at least 150Mbps broadband access. Yuan. If the pursuit of a higher rate is covered with AX3600, the total cost reaches 1,800 yuan. The hardware investment is only 1/3 of the traditional manufacturer flagship MESH route — Of course I do not deny the performance ratio of the flagship MESH triple routing 3 AX3600 AX3600 It must be much better.
Is with users with 300Mbps or 500Mbps broadband, this MESH network composed of multiple Xiaomi routers may become a bottleneck that restricts the connection to the external network speed. In addition, for users who focus on the internal network transmission, such as the deployment of NAS devices, the performance and efficiency that this "white -free" MESH can provide must not be enough to meet their stable and reliable transmission in the local area network (such as streaming 4K 4K 4K HDR movie) demand.
The words again, most of the latter types of users are not bad, so when they set up a Mesh network, they will probably skip this "white -free" dual -frequency MESH and choose to have a special return to return to return to return to return. The flagship Mesh router in the band. The performance and stability provided by those flagship routers will definitely be significantly better than the MESH of the Xiaomi router.
In short, the greatest part of the MESH function of the Xiaomi router is not how powerful it is, but it is a few times the price of 80% of its top products on the price point that most people are more willing to accept. Even more experience.