Xiaomi AX6000 Review – Top Best Budget Wi-Fi 6 Router for 2021

Xiaomi AX6000 Review, Specs, features, Price

Xiaomi Mi Router AX6000

Announced on on December 28th, at the Xiaomi Mi 11 conference, the long-awaited flagship router product finally arrived as scheduled. This is the Mi Router AX6000. It is almost the same in appearance design as the previous generation, but although it has the same ID design, you can feel the huge progress of this generation “from 3600 to 6000” in terms of numbers.

Xiaomi AX6000 Hardware

The Xiaomi AX6000 runs MiWiFi ROM based which is based on popular open source OpenWRT framework, powered by a snappy Qualcomm IPQ5018 processor along with a 1.0GHz Network Processor Unit (NPU). It comes with 512 MB RAM and 256 MB of internal storage.

Comparing the CPU parameters of the two, the official website gives different ones. The AX3600 is a quad-core a53, and the frequency is 1.4G. The price is great, but the parameters of the new AX6000 are a bit ambiguous compared the AX6000 dual-core a53 CPU which operates at a lower frequency of 1.0GHz.

According to Xiaomi its capable of supporting 248 devices simultaneously. Most none power users will mainly benefit from improved bandwidth, but Xiaomi enthusiastic fans already using Xiaomi home appliances will definitely find this router very useful to control and manage all of their devices under the same user friendly Eco system platform.

Mi AIoT Router AX3600 (Pervious Model)

Xiaomi AX6000 Interfaces

On the back of the AX600 you will find 4 network ports. Xiaomi router AX6000 is equipped with one 2.5GbE WAN/LAN adaptive network port, along with three LAN ports surpassing the standard Gigabit Ethernet ports found in traditional routers.

2.5GbE Ethernet ports can better serve the needs of users for broadband upgrades in the years ahead. Another change compared to the previous AX3600 model is the reset/mesh button that was also added.

Xiaomi AX6000 – IoT Connectivity

The new predecessor of Xiaomi AX3600, the AX6000 featured a total of 7 external Antennas, includes 1 IoT which is dedicated to the Internet of Things products. It comes with x2 2.4GHz antennas, and x4 5GHz antennas to ensure a wider signal coverage and further enhance wall penetration performance.

Build With X6 Built-in Amplifiers  

Integrated with a 6-channel external signal amplifier. At the same time: 2.4GHz band and 5GHz band are equipped with 2 and 4 external high-performance signal amplifiers (PA power amplifier + LNA low noise amplifier). The power amplifier effectively enhances the signal transmission power, so that the signal transmitted by the router can be transmitted further, and the low noise amplifier can improve the signal receiving sensitivity, so that the router can receive weaker signals.

Xiaomi AX6000 Extra Security

As a new generation Wi-Fi6 router, Xiaomi AIoT router AX3600 supports WPA3 encryption protocol, which greatly improves the security of the router. The Xiaomi AIoT router AX3600 also supports the IPv6 protocol. IPv6 has a larger network address space. As more and more resources are deployed on a global scale to support IPv6 access.

Xiaomi AX6000 Materials

The router is made of ABS material, which has a strong sense of plasticity and poor touch. From the side, the router body is triangular. If you think about it carefully, the different generations of Xiaomi routers are completely different in design and there is no continuity you are wrong. It’s not as compact in size compared to the AX1800 with the tower shaped style design. Some users would find it problematic placing the device in crowded places such as a shelf or on a table, but the high level specs justifies the device size.

More Bandwidth

Xiaomi states that the router can supply up to 574 Mbps speeds on the 2.4 GHz frequency and up to 4804 Mbps on 5 GHz. The Xiaomi router AX6000 supports Wi-Fi 6 enhanced technologies, and further supports 4×4 160MHz high frequency bandwidth, which is doubled again compared to the current mainstream Wi-Fi 6 4×4 80MHz bandwidth.

It is also the world’s first to support the most advanced 4K QAM high-speed transmission technology to date, further compressing the data density, allowing the amount of data transmitted at the same time to increase by 20% compared to the previous generation of 1024 QAM.

The AX6000 router also supports OFDMA technology (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access) which allows it to send data to multiple terminal devices using only one transmission.

Xiaomi AX6000 Software

The AX6000 will be operated with the Xiaomi’s ‘Mi Home‘ mobile app that can automatically detect Xiaomi IoT devices, enabling users to configure and operate them with one click of a button. You can basically control all the features of the router, including disconnecting from a time-based network, firewall, real time connection optimization, applying QoS restrictions / limitations on specific devices and much more.

Xiaomi AIoT Router AX3600 vs. AX6000

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Model	Xiaomi AIoT Router AX3600	Xiaomi AIoT Router AX6000
Design Type	Horizontal	Horizontal
Theoretical throughput	3600Mbps	6000Mbps
CPU	Qualcomm x4 Cores, Cortex ARM A53 chip IPQ8071A (1.4GHz)	Qualcomm x4 Cores, Cortrax ARM A7 chip IPQ5018 (717MHz)
Network acceleration engine	Dual core 1.7GHz NPU	Dual core 1.0GHz NPU
512MB Memory
256MB ROM
Wi-Fi 6E
4K QAM Modulation
6 external high gain antennas + 1 AloT antenna
Signal amplifiers	6 independent signal amplifiers	6 independent signal amplifiers
Independent IoT Antenna
Wi-Fi 5/6 (802.11ac/ax)
MU-MIMO
OFDMA
Wi-Fi Mesh
Wall anchors
Physical Interface	1x WAN/LAN 1GbE + 3x LAN 1GbE	1x WAN/LAN 2GbE + 3x LAN 1GbE
Reset/MESH Button
Can connect up to 248 devices at the same time
Theoretical network throughput	2.4GHz: 574Mbps 5GHz: 2402Mbps	2.4GHz: 574Mbps 5GHz: 4804Mbps
12V/2A Power
Language:	Chinese, English and others with Mi Wi-Fi App	Chinese, English and others with Mi Wi-Fi App
Price	Starting at $95	Starting at $175
Product Buy Links	Click to Learn More	Click to Learn More

Price & Where to Buy

The new Xiaomi Router AX6000 router is available for pre-order in China for 599 yuan (about 295 NIS or about 92 dollars).

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