With the next-generation 5G communication
technology, a new generation of Wi-Fi technology has also been launched — Wi-Fi
6. Recently, along with the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro smartphones, Chinese company
Xiaomi launched its first Wi-Fi 6 router in the market, called Mi AIoT Router
AX3600.
Now, after almost a month of its
announcement, the company has finally started taking pre-orders for the Mi AIoT
Router AX3600 in China. The device will be up for pre-order from 10th March
till 16th March. It carries a price tag of 599 yuan, which is roughly $86 and
comes in just one color — Black.
As for the router, having support for the
latest Wi-Fi 6 technology, the Mi AIoT Router AX3600 is a flagship product in
its category from Xiaomi. It is powered by Qualcomm’s IPQ8071A chipset that has
four Cortex-A53 cores and is clocked at 1.0GHz.
It also has a 1.7GHz dual-core NPU for
network acceleration which is why it is marketed as a 6-core chip. The chipset
on the device is paired with 512MB of RAM and 256MB of internal storage. As per
Xiaomi, up to 248 devices can be connected to the router.
The router comes with 7 high-gain antennas
where one of the antennas is an IoT device antenna, two are 2.4GHz antennas and
the remaining five are 5GHz antennas. Devices can connect via either 2.4GHz or
5GHz networks. The router also supports OFDMA technology (Orthogonal
Frequency-Division Multiple Access) which allows it to send data to multiple
terminal devices using only one transmission. Other routers that don’t support
OFDMA have to send data via multiple transmissions, which is less efficient.
The company adds that the AIoT antenna
also supports dual-frequency and provide speeds of up to 150Mbps for Internet
of Things (IoT) devices. When compared to the Mi Router AC1200, this new router
is claimed to be 155 percent faster.
The Mi AIoT Router AX3600 works with the
Mijia app and it automatically detects IoT devices from the surroundings,
allowing users to set up via one-click configuration. It can also be controlled
through a dedicated WiFi App which has now been updated to version 5.0 with new
features such as real-time notification when a device connects or disconnects
from the network.
