In addition to the 360 AI Speaker Max, the company also launched the 360 Home Firewall Router 5S with an equally attractive price tag of 169 yuan ($25). Mind you, this isn’t just a router but one with a firewall as well. Hardware firewalls are network security appliances and are of two types; perimeter firewalls and internal firewalls. Most smaller networks typically have just perimeter hardware firewalls, which control access and secure local networks from the outside world. For this reason, most perimeter firewalls also have routing capabilities as in this case. While routers (without firewall capabilities) blindly pass traffic between two separate networks, firewalls actually monitor the traffic and help block unauthorized traffic coming from the outside trying to get into your network. Some firewalls even have anti-virus and anti-spam mechanisms to protect your network from viruses and unwanted email. This is one of 360’s strongholds so we expect the router also has anti-virus and anti-spam software onboard.
The 360 Home Firewall Router 5s is equipped with dual Gigabit ports, allowing the home broadband to run quickly. It is equipped with a 28nm process SoC which is said to be 30% better than the chipset using the 40nm process. The device is also equipped with 802.11AC Wave2 MU-MIMO technology which makes the communication capacity of the router multiplied. This also enables the router to simultaneously handle the Internet access requirements of multiple terminals, thus preventing network congestion. 360 says it can successfully connect 100 devices at the same time.
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More importantly, the 360 Home Firewall Router 5s has added a signal enhancement algorithm to automatically determine the distance from the networked device and intelligently adjust the signal transmission power to ensure stable Internet access. At the same time, it is equipped with signal optimization technology for mobile devices which greatly reduces Wi-Fi disconnection while still maintaining the speed even if the device is far away from the router.
The 360 Home Firewall Router 5s will officially go on sale at 10 am on April 2 via JD.com.
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