Earlier this year, Xiaomi announced its first Wi-Fi 6 router, dubbed Xiaomi AIoT AX3600, along with the Mi 10 series flagship smartphones. Soon after the announcement, the device went on sale in China for 599 yuan, which is about $92.

Now, keeping up with the launch schedule, the company is gearing up to launch a new router along with the upcoming Mi 11 lineup, which is expected to be an Enhanced Version of the current AX3600. Ahead of the launch of this new router, the current device has received a price cut in China.

It has been confirmed through a listing on JD.com that the Xiaomi AIoT AX3600 will be available for purchase in China for 499 yuan (approximately $76) from 1st January.

As for the upcoming Enhanced Version, the company’s executive has revealed that it will have twice the bandwidth support and transmission information density has been increased by 20 percent, along with offering 2.1 times faster network speed.

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To remind you of the details of the Mi AIoT Router AX3600, it is a flagship product in this category from Xiaomi. It is powered by Qualcomm’s IPQ8071A chipset that has four Cortex-A53 cores and is clocked at 1.0GHz. The chipset on the device is paired with 512MB of RAM and 256MB of internal storage.

Xiaomi says that up to 248 devices can be connected to the router. 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. It supports OFDMA technology (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access) which allows it to send data to multiple terminal devices using only one transmission.

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 been updated with new features such as real-time notification when a device connects or disconnects from the network.

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