With the release of the H3C BX54 whale router, the home router market in 2021 will also usher in a "dimensionality reduction blow."
Speaking of Liu Cixin's classic science fiction masterpiece "Three Body", I believe many readers and friends are already familiar with it. The "dimensionality reduction blow" launched from the high-dimensional world to the low-dimensional world in "Three-Body" is often talked about by science fiction fans, and has even become a popular Internet buzzword.
Let us imagine: If the home router market, which has been quiet for a long time, suddenly enters a high-performance enterprise-class router, what kind of storm will be set off? Is this also a kind of "dimensionality reduction strike"?
The H3C BX54 whale router that Quwei Technology evaluated and experienced this time is such a unique product.
Unconventional design
When I first saw the H3C BX54 whale router, I was really surprised, because the design of this product is completely different from the router in our impression. It is really not a smart speaker but a gigabit dual Frequency router?
As we all know, the common high-end routers on the market often have several external antennas, and most of them look like an octopus. The H3C BX54 whale router looks more like a smart speaker because all 4 omnidirectional high-gain antennas adopt a hidden built-in design. This also makes it have a very high degree of recognition relative to the common router products on the market.
On the body of the H3C BX54 whale router, the Wi-Fi 6 logo is very eye-catching, which seems to emphasize that this is a product that supports the latest Wi-Fi 6 specifications. It is worth mentioning that as a gigabit dual-band wireless router, in order to take care of desktop or laptop users who are still using the network cable, H3C BX54 whale router also provides 4 WAN/LAN gigabit Ethernet ports, which can be detailed It is quite humane.
The whale route that "does not take the ordinary road"
The unconventionalness of H3C BX54 whale routing is not only reflected in the design of the product, but also its internal configuration is also "unusual."
H3C BX54 whale routing uses enterprise-level professional chips from Qualcomm, which also shows its extraordinary enterprise-level professional pedigree. The chip is equipped with Qualcomm dual-core 1GHz CPU and NPU independent network acceleration engine, concurrent 12 threads, with powerful processing power and super stability, and is also the world's first home router products using Qualcomm 216 immersive home networking platform.
Not only that, the H3C BX54 whale router is also equipped with 6 top-notch Skyworks high-performance signal amplifiers in the industry, which makes it perform very well in terms of signal strength, long-distance communication stability, and anti-interference ability. Related technical parameters show that its data forwarding speed is increased by 10%, and the anti-interference ability of Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6 chip is increased by 30%. Currently, it can support 254 terminal access (after product upgrade, it can access 640 terminals), and CPU The occupancy rate has been maintained at a low level. The concurrency rate of the whole machine is three times that of the AX1800 router. The wireless rate of the 5GHz band is twice that of the mainstream AX3000 router. The ultra-large bandwidth of 160MHz is also twice that of the mainstream 80MHz router. The 4-channel 4T4R architecture wireless signal transceiving capability is also 2T2R architecture. Nearly 2 times, it can be said that any aspect can easily slap competitors.
In terms of running memory and storage flash memory configuration, the H3C BX54 whale router is also beyond the reach of competitors: in the case of other flagship home routers generally equipped with 256MB or 512MB DDR3 memory, the H3C BX54 whale router has up to 1GB of DDR3 memory! While most other flagship home routers use 128MB or 256MB flash memory, the H3C BX54 whale router has up to 8GB of flash memory! It is dozens of times more than competitors!
Seeing this, I believe that readers and friends have suddenly understood: why the author asserted at the beginning of the article that the H3C BX54 whale router is a "dimension reduction blow" to other home routers.
Convenient and easy-to-use control interface
The configuration of the H3C BX54 whale router is very simple, and the operation can be completed with a smart phone, without professional knowledge, even the elderly and children can easily use it.
Plug in the router and use the network cable included in the package to connect it to the home fiber optic broadband, and you can see the router signal prefixed with "H3C" on the Wi-Fi network on the mobile phone. At this time, the router's Wi-Fi does not have a password. After accessing Wi-Fi, enter the network configuration interface, or enter "192.168.124.1" in the mobile browser to enter the configuration wizard interface.
In the configuration wizard, the H3C BX54 whale router will automatically determine the Internet access method, which completely saves the layman the trouble of fumbling back and forth. Of course, we can also set the network connection mode, Wi-Fi name, password, etc. in more detail according to our own application requirements.
In the past, when we talk about professional equipment, we often think that this type of equipment can only be played by professionals, and ordinary people can only watch from a distance and not close. However, as a router with an enterprise-level professional pedigree, the H3C BX54 whale router has done a very good job in the ease of use of the product, which is especially commendable.
An evaluation experience that lives up to expectations
I have introduced so many far-leading technical specifications of the H3C BX54 whale router. I believe readers and friends are definitely full of expectations for its performance in practical applications. Let's take a look at the evaluation experience of this product.
The home network used in the test is 200Mbps optical fiber broadband, which is also the home broadband of the current mainstream specifications. We used the common testing software SPEEDTEST to test the relevant data of the H3C BX54 whale routing in upload and download.
It can be seen from the test results that the upload and download performance of the H3C BX54 whale router is very good, there is no data packet loss, and the stability is very good, and the jitter is as low as 1 millisecond.
Let's use WirelessMon Professional Edition to test the network signal strength of H3C BX54 whale router in different places at home, which can also test its ability to penetrate walls in complex application environments.
For the first test site, we chose the living room where the H3C BX54 whale router is located. From the test results of the professional version, it can be seen that the signal of the router is very strong. The signal strength of the 2.4GHz band is as high as 96%, and the signal strength of the 5GHz band is also as high as 90%.
For the second test site, we chose the balcony of the second bedroom, which is also the furthest place in the whole home from the H3C BX54 whale routing position. There are several walls and two doors in the middle. From the test results of the WirelessMon Professional Edition, it can be seen that the Wi-Fi signal routed by the H3C BX54 whale is attenuated after passing through several walls and doors. The signal strength in the 2.4GHz band is 56% and the signal strength in the 5GHz band is 51%. But this intensity is enough to deal with various network applications.
Evaluation experience: professional quality civilian price, you deserve it
If a manufacturer sells an enterprise-level professional product at the price of a household-level product, what would you do?
you still need to ask? Of course it's a hurry!
Through this evaluation experience, Quwei Technology believes that the performance of the H3C BX54 whale router is completely worthy of the quality of an enterprise-level professional router, while its product price is comparable to the flagship home routers commonly seen on the market. This shows that H3C's entry into the home router market with the H3C BX54 whale router is definitely not hesitating. Will this move by H3C lead other router manufacturers to follow up? Will more enterprise-level routers enter the home consumer market in the future? In any case, under H3C's "dimension reduction blow", the home router market in 2021 will not be calm.
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Recommendation index: ★★★★☆