Thanks to Zhang Da Ma, I gave this opportunity to test M1. Aunt Zhang’s staff work efficiency is still quite high. After the list of public testers comes out, they receive a notification and the router is quickly sent to me from Beijing.
In fact, as early as 2002, Motorola launched the world's first wireless router equipped with SURFboardAE SBG1000 router, it can be regarded as the originator of the wireless router.
SURFboardAE SBG1000
Before that, he also used Motorola's 3347 wireless router, which lasted more than a year. In addition to the one or two power outages, the company had been working normally. Later, due to the upgrade of 100MbE, the newly-listed routers began to support intelligent control of mobile phones. The software and hardware of the 3347 have gradually been unable to meet the demand, but the stability of the Motorola router has left a deep impression on me.
The M1 route is produced by Sipu Music Technology Co., Ltd. It is not an Internet-based association. Many people may not recognize this company, which is not known to the public, but in fact it is a newly formed electronic company. A brand, and Commonwealth Electronics, as a veteran listed company, has devoted many years to R&D and OEM network equipment hardware and software products, and has profound technical background. This time, the company launched the brand of the spectrum and purchased the brand of Motorola for five years. With the right to use, the products of SIBLE's own brand will be launched in due course. It is intended to transform itself from the traditional foundry industry to independent research and development. The release of the M1, a Motorola-branded motorcycle, was launched in order to test the water market, and it will be the first to set up an independent brand in the future. Therefore, this product, it should be said that the company's high expectations, as the market's stepping stone, from this point of view, the power of Motorola's routing M1 product should not be bad.
Well, the following officially unpacking, packaging and contents:
Large package size
The reverse side is written with routing information
The manufacturer is Sipu Music Technology Co., Ltd.
Router wrapped in plastic bags
Router, power supply, manual
Charger manufacturer for common electronics
The front of the router is a diamond checkered pattern with a polished Motorola logo in the middle
Using an arch bridge design to help dissipate heat
The rear is the power interface, one WAN port, four LAN ports, and one reset button
Large heat sink at the bottom, with arch bridge design, helps air circulation and heat dissipation
In the exterior design of M1, M1 has a square checkered pattern on the front, which is simple and elegant. Two antennas on the top and two on the top are on both sides. It is worth mentioning that the fuselage uses an arch bridge design, product promotion that inspired the Eiffel Tower, this design is conducive to the air circulation at the bottom of the cooling vents, help to heat. However, it is puzzling that the bottom is not actually designed to wall holes, which also limits the way the router is placed, may be designers think this M1 is more beautiful on the table.
In terms of performance specifications, the first thing to say is that M1 does not support the 5G band wifi advertised by the major routing vendors and naturally does not support the 802.11ac technology standard. At present, most of the routers whose price is under the name of Gigabit Wireless Router are superimposed on the 5G band rate and the 2.4G band rate. For example, a certain route has a nominal rate of 1200M, which may be the 5G band. The result of 900M plus 300G of 2.4G band, but we all know that the current technology of 5G band wifi signal, although the band is wider, less interference in the wireless environment, the support rate is also higher, but , When it spreads in the air or obstacles, the attenuation is relatively large. Under normal circumstances, the coverage is less than 2.4G. This is why, sometimes the 5G signal is turned on, obviously, in the room where the router is located, the transmission rate is fast, but When I walked to the wall of the room next to the room, the rate decreased linearly. Therefore, we are buying Gigabit routers. In most cases, the 5G band, which accounts for most of the "Gigabit," will not be able to achieve its maximum rate performance due to transmission problems. Instead, it will use the most "Gigabit" rate. A small portion of the 300M 2.4G band.
In the internal hardware design, Motorola M1 does not follow the trend of the flow and directly abandons the 5G band with higher transmission rate but higher transmission attenuation in actual applications. However, it chooses to further tap the narrower bandwidth, but the transmission range is wide and the attenuation is practical. The greater potential of the small 2.4G band. On the antenna, equipped with four Skyworks power amplifier modules, using 4 × 4 MIMO architecture (on the market price mainstream of the use of 2 × 2 architecture) 4 antennas to send and receive data at the same time, and support 256QAM modulation technology in wireless transmission, Make it reach the maximum transmission rate of 800M under 2.4G frequency band. Compared with most of the routers in this price segment on the market, although the 5G signal is less supported in the frequency band, in terms of practicality, it not only achieves a large transmission range in the 2.4G frequency band, but also achieves no less than 5G in most of the same price routing. The rate under the frequency band.
When the power is turned on, a small orange light will come on under the moto logo in the middle of the router. Access to the Internet, you can visit the 192.168.51.1 browser or mobile phone to download the route to install the router login interface. First show the interface of the app under the app and its menus:
The following is the login settings page and various levels of menus on the PC side:
The layout of M1's entire page layout is relatively simple. The diamond square above the main menu bar should be designed to accompany the fuselage design. The main menu is divided into homepage, Internet settings, wireless settings, parental controls, intelligent flow control, end users, More, these large options are simple and straightforward. Most of the primary functionality settings are implemented in the previous options, while more advanced settings are placed in more submenus. The advantage of this is that even a person who does not know much about a computer can easily set up the router initially without having to choose among the various levels of submenus. Smart route mainstream features such as parental controls, guest functions, and IP filtering are now available. There are two places to note here, one is smart flow control, and the second is more visitor network in submenu wireless settings: 1. In the morning, when testing the speed of wired network, it has been tested for more than a dozen times in a row. At half the normal speed, it was thought that the 100Mbps LAN port had shrunk severely. After a closer inspection, it was discovered that the smart current control was turned on to limit one hundred trillion broadband livelihoods to 50MB. 2, just login routing interface found in the end-user options, a variety of Huawei millet Apple's ip address lined up a long queue, behind a cool thought this route to hand less than a day was hacked, and finally found that the morning opened the visitor network forget Closed
It seems that most of the neighbors home Huawei mobile phones account for the majority
Used to test the wireless router transmission rate is two desktop computers and an ipod touch. Desktop computers use EDUP EP-AC1606 1200Mbps wireless network card, dual-band dual antenna, including 2.4Mbps frequency rate of 300Mbps, usb3.0 interface. The test software is WirelessMon, and web page speed.
The first computer is placed in the living room, and the router is placed at a position of approximately 4 meters with no barrier between them. The results of using WirelessMon are as follows:
The signal is about 83%
Download rate is 8266kb, approximately 64.5M bandwidth
Signal strength 68%
Download rate is 9220kbps, approximately 72M bandwidth
The rate is 11791kbps, about 92M of bandwidth
The following uses the ipod touch5 generation to test the results, we all over the head, at home only this hand can test, mobile phone memory is full of a temporary accident, will be added next time. Because the 5th-generation touch hardware is far away, the maximum rate that can be received only when the distance between the devices can and does not represent the actual wireless transmission efficiency of the route M1.
My home has an area of ​​149 square meters. The M1 is placed in the center of the house in the living room location. The above is the result I used in my room with the ipod touch5. Although we can't test the maximum transmission performance and speed, It can be seen through various test results that the coverage and intensity of the M1 wireless signal routed by Motorola is relatively stable in my home, whether it is a room or a living room. The minimum downloaded download score of 31M is measured, and it is also that I am separated from two rooms. In the case of a wall (one of which was a 40-cm concrete wall), the performance of each other room was relatively close. This also fully reflects the advantages of the wireless network in the 2.4G frequency transmission range, the attenuation of obstacles in the case of small.
This time, the second-time use of Motorola's routers, although not made for Motorola's original factory, I do not know Motorola's participation in R & D and manufacturing a few points, but after this test down, even if the brand is not set aside Motorola, Motorola route The performance of M1 is also remarkable in many places. Especially in the 2.4GHz frequency band for wireless transmission, not only four Skyworks power amplifier modules and a 4×4 MIMO architecture are used, but also the ability to transmit and pass walls is optimized. On the 256QAM modulation technology, so that the transmission rate in the 2.4GHz frequency band to 800M, breaking the previous people on the 2.4GHz intrinsic impression, so that the transmission rate to achieve close to even comparable to the price router 5GHz band performance, can be described as a fish and paws , are available.
Finally, nostalgic. I just hope that Motorola can join hands with domestic manufacturers to bring more good products to domestic consumers.
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