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Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

The user who has used the Huawei router is certainly impressed by its signal capability and stability, after all, Huawei has its own leading technical strength, my family is still using AX3 Pro, strong performance, and stable! Now Huawei router and updated flagship Huawei routing AX6, with Wi-Fi 6 + 7200Mbps, dual-band 4x4 & 4K QAM dual-mode parallel, as well as 8 high-performance signal amplifier, Huawei is by far the strongest performance of a single route, so its actual performance and experience how? I also tested and experienced it at the first time.

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

This time, Huawei Routing AX6 not only upgraded in performance, but also expanded in features, and the child Internet care feature is a very practical update. The epidemic era children home Internet scenarios more and more frequently, online Internet classes online tutorials to answer questions are becoming the norm. But many dual-income families can not always be at home to take care of their children, how to prevent children from excessive use of electronic products is a headache. This time Huawei routing AX6 also added the children's Internet care function, can remotely monitor the child's Internet behavior, and even prohibit cell phones and tablets and other devices to run games, check homework and other apps, a very powerful function.

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

The first look at the design of Huawei Routing AX6, the black body, both from the body volume and shape than the AX3 series is a large part. The streamlined sports car waist, as well as the dominant four high-gain foldable antenna, looks both simple and generous, but also versatile, very suitable for ordinary family use.

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

This time Huawei routing AX6 only launched a model, there is no standard version and Pro version of the distinction, the body in the right corner of the design has a touch of NFC networking function, can not enter the password networking, especially suitable for the case of visitors.

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

To look at the interface part, Huawei routing AX6 interface are in the back of the body, a total of four WAN / LAN gigabit adaptive network ports, which means that the network cable from the optical cat can be inserted into any network port to do WAN port, especially for ordinary home users to get started.

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Four omnidirectional antennas support 90 ° angle bending, in terms of storage and finishing. Can also be used on the wall.

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The body of the NFC label, not connected to the router Android/HarmonyOS phone tablet can be a touch network.

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

The boot-up networking process is simple, if you need to use advanced functions, you need to connect to the Huawei Smart Life app, an app can unify the management of all Huawei and Huawei Smart Choice of various smart products, very convenient.

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

After the first connection to the app, it is recommended to first build the house plan, and at the same time, you can follow the prompts to conduct a signal strength test in each room to facilitate the subsequent adjustment of the signal coverage strength by the router. After that, you can generate a heat map of the signal coverage of the house type, taking the test house type as an example, the home area of 160 square feet of four rooms and two halls, where the router in the entry living room against the wall, after opening through the wall mode signal can perfectly cover all the corners of the room. The system default dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) two-in-one SSID, that is, the same wifi name, the terminal can automatically switch dual-band according to its own signal strength and conditions, in order to achieve the effect of senseless cutting network, very convenient.

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one routerHuawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

The interface layout of the mobile app. The main functions are modularized, easy to find at a glance.

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

We may often encounter this situation: obviously the home connected to the computer speed is very fast, and cell phone wifi signal strength is also full, but the network speed is not powerful, and this situation occurs in the evening with the network peak or the router in the microwave oven, wireless light cat near the situation, in fact, this is the signal interference caused by the situation is very simple: just use the smart life APP in a key check function to know the problem, the system will also give network advice: for example, the detection of wifi interference near the router, you can switch the best channel with one key.

To say a word, in fact, if you encounter similar problems in the future, do not put again try to keep the router away from the microwave oven, or the home with the road function of the wireless function of the cat to disable the effect will be much better! (Generally, the operator provides a wifi function, and the default is open).

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

The test phone is Honor Magic4 Pro, tested the speed, especially Huawei router AX6 and phone speed, up to 1447Mbps.

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

Here is an actual network speed measurement. Bandwidth 800M mobile fiber into the home, the router placed in the living room next to the TV wall, which were tested A, B and C test points, the worst signal strength in the past is the bathroom A, there are two load-bearing walls and metal doors isolated, test point B is by the most inside the bedroom, the previous signal is also general, A and B browse the web to see 1080p HD video no problem, but to watch 4k video online or play King of Glory may have Not a small delay.

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After the new Huawei routing AX6, test point ABC respectively network speed as shown above, the weakest signal strength in the past, point A to play King's Glory delay is very low, multiple people at home to watch online video can still ensure that the test point C children's Internet classes smoothly without lag.

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

Another place that shows the strength of Huawei Routing AX6 is that when I went downstairs to do nucleic acid, I actually found that about 50 to 80m downstairs from my home on the 10th floor, I could actually receive a nearly full signal, and by the way, I found that it was also equivalent to an internet bandwidth of 100M, so I didn't have to worry about the lack of traffic when I queued up to do nucleic acid online!

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

In fact, as mentioned earlier, a very powerful feature of Huawei Routing AX6 is the full inclusion of the child Internet care function, the operation is very simple, as long as the child's cell phone, tablet and other devices to join the child Internet protection can be. You can find very detailed features and configurations inside, which is simply "the best tool for treating bear children" ah!

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

Other features are even richer, you can disable the payment function to prevent the family bear children charging games; you can also disable a mobile game network, or disable a certain app such as homework help, too suitable for parents too busy to keep an eye on their children at home to do their homework situation!

The main interface of the new Kids Internet Care feature is similar to Huawei Sports Health's four-leaf clover icon, which allows you to see your child's overall Internet usage for a day, the past 7 days or even a longer period of time, making the overall management of both Internet hours and Internet activity more intuitive and efficient.

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

Other features of Huawei Routing AX6 are also rich, like intelligent handicap acceleration, visual intelligent diagnosis, Huawei HomeSec®, Routing Control Center, etc., which allow you to surf the Internet faster and provide more secure protection.

Huawei Routing AX6 Review: 160 square feet of high-speed Internet with one router

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