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At this year's MWC 2023 conference, OPPO unveiled a number of innovative technologies, including the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400.

In fact, in the router field, OPPO has been ploughing for many years. For example, when 5G was just brewing in 2019, OPPO took the lead in launching a fully self-developed wireless CPE product-OPPO 5G CPE T1. In the next two years, it also released OPPO 5G CPE Omni, OPPO 5G CPE T2 and other products, these products have a good reputation in the market.

It should be emphasized that OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 is OPPO's first Wi-Fi router product, compared with CPE products, the latter is more suitable for home fixed broadband scenarios, and the attribute of "toC" is stronger.

You can always believe in the aesthetics of OPPO.

This sentence is very applicable to any OPPO product, such as the new OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400.

It is no exaggeration to say that when I first saw it, I didn't think about the router at all. I once thought it was some new smart speaker from OPPO, because it really didn't look like a wireless router at all.

The traditional WiFi router always looks like a "multi-claw monster", with the same shape, and most of the designs put too much emphasis on the sense of technology, which is incompatible with the home decoration environment, and often encroaches on a lot of home space, so many aesthetically demanding users will hide it in a weak electric box, or on the back of the TV.

All in all, it is difficult for these traditional routers to become decorative "electronic homes".

This is not the case with the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400, which is inspired by the minimalist style of modern home and makes full use of curve design to make it a symmetrical cylinder.

The whole cylindrical body of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 also adopts a translucent design, and the router antenna is hidden inside the soft curved shell, showing a very harmonious sense of beauty.

Let's look at the details of the design.

The top of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 uses a wind-shaped structure, which increases the natural wind pressure difference between the inlet and outlet, combined with the internal 360 °bionic curved surface structure, allowing the natural wind to take away the heat generated by the router's work.

Inside the wind-driven structure, four high-gain antennas are "hidden", accompanied by six independent signal amplifiers (4x QPF4588 / 2x QPF4288).

The "wind type" is dense heat dissipation teeth, which is made of 99.7% aluminum alloy, and the tooth thickness, tooth spacing and substrate thickness are all designed to achieve the optimal inlet air flow value.

In terms of size, the AX5400 BWH data of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router is 100mm 100mm 191 (mm), and the weight is about 750g.

The bottom of the back of the AX5400 of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router is equipped with one 2.5G adaptive interface and two gigabit adaptive interfaces. All interfaces support WAN / LAN blind insertion, so users no longer need to make a distinction between interfaces.

On the left is the reset button, and on the right is the Mesh key, which is used for Mesh networking.

OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 supports Easy Mesh standard distributed networking, wireless, wired and hybrid networking, and even cross-platform and cross-brand Mesh networking.

Finally, there are accessories, including DC chargers, instructions and a 1m flat wire.

Second, on the hardware of performance measurement, the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 is equipped with Qualcomm IPQ5018 chip, 512MB large memory and 128MB storage.

Qualcomm IPQ5018 chip uses a dual-core design, this chip has been seen on many AX5400 routers, it can be said that the battle field.

In terms of specifications, OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 has 160MHz bandwidth, supports Wi-Fi 6 standard and is compatible with 802.11b / g / n / ac / ax. It can provide 2.4GHz+5GHz dual-band Wi-Fi signals at the same time, and can support up to 256 devices to access at the same time.

In addition, the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 is also equipped with OPPO self-developed O-RouterBoost network directed acceleration technology, which can quickly identify products with ColorOS 13 or above, and intelligently accelerate the three high-frequency scenarios of games, online courses and network meetings, with an official maximum acceleration of up to 20%.

Next, CTOnews.com tests the network speed, delay and jitter of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400. The test environment is about 100m, the test phone is OPPO Find N2 Filp, the test broadband is 500m telecom, and the test WiFi band is the default dual-band in one.

To facilitate your intuitive understanding, CTOnews.com simply made a room map, each test area has a corresponding logo, and the location of the router is placed near the entrance porch.

CTOnews.com tests the speed and signal strength of six areas: router location, living room balcony, second bedroom, master bedroom, study and bathroom. in order to ensure the authenticity of the data, each location is tested twice and gets the highest score.

The final test results are as follows:

To the router near, balcony, master bedroom, secondary bedroom four representative areas of specific analysis: the first is near the router.

At this time, the network speed reached 595.48 / Mbps, running full of 500m telecom broadband, not to mention, there is a growth rate of nearly 100Mbps, and after many tests, the download speed is about 590Mbps. The CTOnews.com evaluation room has also encountered this kind of "growth" situation before, and the reason for such a large test result is that the operators have increased the speed.

The speed signal near the router is also maintained around-30dBm, after all, very close to the router, this test condition is still relatively relaxed.

The next signal strength near the router is about 10 meters apart, and there is a glass door in the living room balcony area, because there is no load-bearing wall, this result is also expected, but also full of telecom 500m broadband.

The signal strength of the speed measurement in the living room balcony area is maintained around-38dBm.

The signal strength of the living room balcony is followed by the second bedroom area. Due to the separation of a load-bearing wall, although the Internet speed is not so exaggerated as "growth rate", it has also reached the download speed of 413 / Mbps.

Due to the existence of the load-bearing wall, the signal in this area still attenuates to a certain extent, and the signal strength is about-49dBm.

The signal strength of the second bedroom area is followed by the most demanding master bedroom area, which is also the farthest from the router and is blocked by three load-bearing walls.

At this time, the download rate is 119 / Mbps, and the attenuation is obvious, but the speed of 119 / Mbps does not affect the daily Internet experience.

The signal intensity is about-69dBm when measuring the speed in the master bedroom area.

The signal strength of the master bedroom area needs to be emphasized, because the author tests the router near the doorway (the light cat is here), this is not the most reasonable location, if placed in the living room and other areas, the signal coverage will be more uniform, such as the master bedroom and other areas will also have a stronger signal performance.

The author also briefly tested the walking test at the same time, as shown in the following figure of the seven test points, reaching a 100% qualified rate.

Generally speaking, the performance of OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 can fully meet the Internet needs of small, medium-sized and large households, which is nothing to worry about.

If you are a big House or a large self-built house in rural areas, you can also buy another one and achieve full house coverage through Mesh networking.

3. Comprehensive experience OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 has 160MHz bandwidth, citing the previous router evaluation of CTOnews.com:

The so-called bandwidth is the frequency range occupied by the modulation carrier, and it is also the standard of transmitting wireless signal frequency, in which 2.4GHz Wi-Fi supports 20/40MHz bandwidth and 5GHz Wi-Fi supports 20/40/80/160MHz. If the data is compared to the traffic flow, the bandwidth is the width of the road. If 80MHz bandwidth is equivalent to 4 lanes, 160MHz bandwidth is equivalent to 8 lanes. In theory, 160MHz is twice as fast.

Therefore, the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 can alleviate the "congestion" when multiple devices are connected.

As you can see, under the 160MHz bandwidth, the rate reaches 2161Mbps, and the rate of the bathroom a little further away from the router also reaches 1729Mbps.

The OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 also supports self-developed anti-jamming algorithms. Officials say that in the case of strong Wi-Fi signal interference (more than 30 different signal interference), the router downlink speed can be increased by more than 80%; while in the case of strong interference of non-Wi-Fi signals (microwave ovens, Bluetooth, etc.), the downlink rate of the router can also be increased by 20% and 50%.

As you can see from the figure above, the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 can still choose independent channels in complex network environments such as offices.

In addition, OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 also supports self-developed O-RouterBoost network-oriented acceleration technology, which can identify and connect OPPO phones and tablet products with ColorOS 13, and intelligently accelerate games, online courses, and web conference scenarios. Officials say the acceleration can be up to 20%.

Finally, CTOnews.com tests the heating of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 during operation. After all, temperature control is the key to the stable operation of the router.

In the room of about 17 °C, the highest temperature of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400, which has been running for about 2 hours, is about 32 °C, which is the heat sink area inside the "wind chimney", while the highest temperature of the shell is only 24.4 °C. the overall heating is very surprising, and obviously this "wind chimney" plays a key role in cooling.

The last part is the initial installation and later management. The first is the installation. OPPO has detailed instructions in the manual. At the same time, it also provides an OPPO mobile phone product called OPPO Connect APP, which can identify users independently. It automatically pops up to set up floating windows, and users can directly and quickly complete the initial network settings.

When the router is bound, more complex settings can be made within the App, including viewing access devices, parental control, password sharing, device maintenance and other functions. However, there is one thing to say, at present, the function of OPPO Connect App is still relatively crude. I hope that it can be updated and added more functional experience in the future.

In addition, OPPO also provides a PC-side management page, more detailed configuration on the page side, and so on.

Summary: as the first WiFi router product of OPPO, OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 has done its part, and its excellent connection performance can meet the Internet needs of different households.

Of course, the core selling point of OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 is the excellent ID design, which can be put in any corner of the home as a beautiful decoration. It is also a feast for the eyes to see every day.

This is the value of good design.

The OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 is not perfect. For example, the only three interfaces on the back are a bit of a pity. If you want to access more wired devices, you have to do something.

But generally speaking, the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 is still a design-driven product. Although OPPO has not yet announced the official pricing of this product, I would like to recommend this product to those users who have strict appearance requirements.

If you are also fed up with the stereotyped "octopus" look, you might as well take a look at the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400, which will bring you both visual and experience surprises.

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