Wireless routers are the most popular electronic devices in Chinese households now. Some houses have 1 unit, and some families have 2 units for wireless signal relay or sub-routing, and if the house is larger than one floor, they may adopt the AC+AP solution.
I don’t know when distributed routers became popular.
A router from Xiaomi, Jilu and other brands plus multiple small satellite routers, this router can only extend the 2.4G wireless signal, and uses the same SSID as the main route, but the control traffic and user traffic are transmitted in the same wireless network.
Mesh routers such as ASUS can only use wireless backhaul networking, and multiple routers can be used to form a mesh network, all routers use the same SSID, and control traffic and user traffic are transmitted in the same wireless network.
Recently, in addition to a Q2 mother-in-child router, Huawei has been transmitting through the power cat backhaul transmission, and there are different opinions about the useless online review.
Linksys Velop, NETGEAR Orbi, etc. are only wireless backhaul wired backhaul networking, which can be used to form a mesh network with multiple routers, and all routers use the same SSID, controlling traffic and user traffic to be transmitted separately. I personally think this is the most perfect, because even if the control traffic between the routers is large, it does not affect the actual experience of using the wireless.
Reason to buy
This time I bought the LINKSYS Velop AC3900M 1259 Soft Sister Coin with three router versions that support wired backhaul.
I also know that this is a dual-band router, and many people don’t like it, but considering my actual application scenarios, after careful consideration, I feel that it is compared to Velop AC6600M tri-band route
AC3900M is more suitable for me
Purchase key conditions
The key condition for purchasing AC3900M is because every room in my house has a reserved information outlet, and the most is the multimedia box when entering the home! In this way, using AC3900 wired backhaul is equivalent to a dedicated backhaul network AC6600M tri-band routing!
The key condition for purchasing AC3900M is because every room in my house has a reserved information outlet, and the most is the multimedia box when entering the home! In this way, using AC3900 wired backhaul is equivalent to a dedicated backhaul network AC6600M tri-band routing!
The key condition for purchasing AC3900M is because every room in my house has a reserved information outlet, and the most is the multimedia box when entering the home! In this way, using AC3900 wired backhaul is equivalent to a dedicated backhaul network AC6600M tri-band routing!
Appearance display
Usage experience
My actual usage environment is as follows:
pristine environment
This is my original use environment of about 80 square meters, because the router can only be placed in that position because of the problem of the location of the China Unicom entrance line, relatively speaking, all rooms can be covered wirelessly, using polar route 4. Each room is probably separated by a load-bearing wall, as long as the door is closed, the 5G signal attenuation is very strong, the 2.4G signal is full, but the actual use effect is not ideal (probably because there are more network devices related to 2.4G at home, intelligent monitoring and plugging robots, and more messy equipment). And because the router does not support MIMO, it can only work in first-in-first-out mode, so sometimes the signal is full but the wireless network is still stuck.
After the network change
After the network change, the information points of each room are connected through the gigabit switch for wired backhaul, so that AC3900M can connect backhaul through network cables.
In this way, the network connection rate is more stable and faster than the tri-band router using an 800 megabit wireless private channel connection.
**This makes the network connection faster and more stable than a tri-band router using an 800 megabit wireless private channel connection. **
**This makes the network connection faster and more stable than a tri-band router using an 800 megabit wireless private channel connection. **
After the change, when the wireless signal of the terminal is weakened, it will automatically switch to the router with a strong signal. The switching time tested with a mobile phone is at the ms level.
If it is an ordinary home user surfing the Internet, this router is very good for multimedia applications such as video. (If you play games with high latency requirements, you can connect directly to the computer with a network cable through the dual network ports of the AC3900M band, which is definitely lower than wireless latency, and stable without signal interference, which is perfect.) ）
Advanced network deployment
If you already have a high-performance router at home and don’t want to replace it, just because the house is too big and the wireless signal coverage is not good, can you use Velop AC3900M as a pure wireless access device?
The answer is yes~
My family’s current network architecture
Today’s network architecture uses a three-tier design:
The router is only responsible for the data exchange from home to the Internet, and only does the routing function with strong performance!
Gigabit switches and wireless velop (bridge mode, equivalent to wirelessly connecting to the enterprise router) only do data exchange for terminals in the home, and the line speed forwarding performance is strong. (The notebook has been tested by the wireless and Synology of velop, and it fluctuates around 50MB, and the data transmission performance of about 500 megabytes is also acceptable)
Pole route 4 is responsible for the networking of slow and only devices in the home as a secondary route, such as Mijia smart home package, various lights, plug-ins, sweeping robots, etc. It is too troublesome for smart devices to configure the network, and the previous connection will not work (friends who have replaced routers with smart devices at home should experience it very well). Then the monitoring in the home is connected through wired access. Wireless monitoring used to have unstable images, but later the network cable was unusually stable.
Summary
There are no unsuitable goods, only inappropriate prices! Tri-band routers are too expensive, and one of the frequency bands is mainly for the backhaul between devices that does not take up the user’s bandwidth. If each room in the home has reserved information points, you can really use wired backhaul instead of a tri-band backhaul router. Economical, easy to use and not expensive! Because there is really too little information about plugging in the online distributed router before buying, I will take out the plan I tossed and share。。。。。。