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.
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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.
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