Xiaomi recently made its first Wi-Fi 6E router official. the My AX6000 router it has a price of CNY 599 (about $ 91) and is currently available for pre-order in China and will go on sale for the first time on January the 8th. It’s packed with next-gen Wi-Fi features, which we’ll mention shortly. However, it is difficult to get a proper idea of new technology without a practical illustration. In a short clip, Xiaomi did exactly that, placing the Mi Router AX6000 in the center of a huge stadium and then testing the Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max and the recently released Xiaomi Mi 11 for Wi-Fi speed at different angles and distances. . The goal was to see how much of the 800 Mbps broadband bandwidth entering the router would end up being transmitted to each phone.
Before you open the comment section, we realize that this is not a proper scientific test or a very practical one. It is intended to show the theoretical benefits of running a next-generation Wi-Fi 6E router, with a compatible client device, such as the Mi 11. Apple’s perceived “loss” here is simply due to the fact that it uses a modem. Qualcomm X55, equipped with the company’s FastConnect 6800 subsystem for Wi-Fi, while the Mi 11 enjoys the latest and greatest Qulcomm X60 modem, with its FastConnect 6900. Without going into too much technical detail, the latter has access to the new 6 GHz band, which is one of the main things that the “E” in Wi-Fi 6E denotes over “basic” Wi-Fi 6. It then runs advanced 4 stream (2×2) dual band (DBS) simultaneous operation + 2×2), allowing you to combine a 2×2 6 GHz connection with a 2×2 5 GHz connection on top of that, for a maximum theoretical maximum speed of 3.6 Gbps.
Of course, you need a compatible and capable router to get close even at such speeds, which is where the Mi Router AX6000 comes in. It has a theoretical maximum aggregate wireless output of 6000 megabytes / s and is also equipped with a 2.5Gbps LAN port. The latter is compliant with the IEEE 802.3bz standard and can work with existing Cat 5e ethernet cables, making it a great upgrade path as home internet connections start to exceed the 1Gbps mark in certain places.
Compared to “vanilla” Wi-Fi 6, which, by the way, is also a major and long-awaited upgrade over Wi-Fi ac (Wi-Fi 5), which you can read more about here, Wi-Fi 6E and the My particular AX6000 Router offers 4 × 4 160MHz bandwidth, twice the 4 × 4 80MHz bandwidth of Wi-Fi 6. Then there’s 4K QAM modulation high-speed transmission technology, which aims to compress the data transmission and achieve 20% higher density and therefore 20% more data transfer at the same time compared to the previous generation 1024 QAM. Taking advantage of that and 512MB of onboard RAM, the Mi Router AX6000 promises astonishing speeds for a single device, as well as support for up to 248 simultaneous clients. A feature that will become increasingly important with the proliferation of IoT technology.
Xiaomi Mi Router AX6000
With six independent signal boosters, the Mi Router AX6000 also promises great coverage and not just in a large open arena. A single router should be able to effectively cover a large three-room apartment. And if you need something beyond that, the AX6000 offers support for Xiaomi Mesh. Other smart software features are also included, such as automatic Wi-Fi password randomization and syncing with Xiaomi smart devices that support Xiaomi ChangKai Connect. Furthermore, the AX6000 can intelligently identify some Xiaomi / Redmi phones and automatically toggle the game-specific network optimization for your Wi-Fi traffic as needed.
There is no information yet on the international availability of the Mi Router AX6000. But judging by the speed at which some of the company’s other recent routers, such as the AX3600 or AX5, have been managing international ROMs and market releases, we may have to wait a bit for the Mi Router AX6000.
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