›

Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!

Sign In Register

Quick Links

First Look: Hands-On with the Xiaomi Mi Router AX9000 Gaming Router | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited August 2021 in News & Features Discussion

imageFirst Look: Hands-On with the Xiaomi Mi Router AX9000 Gaming Router | MMORPG.com

Xiaomi is releasing new gaming products and we went hands-on with its new premium gaming router. Find out if it's worth a closer look in this first look!

Read the full story here


Comments

  • foppoteefoppotee Member RarePosts: 537
    Seems like it could be a real good router & all but being priced at over a quarter of a thousand dollars seems VERY steep. I can only see a practical use for this router for maybe a professional gamer that just wants the latest toy, &/or gamers that are in the midst of a commercial environment & are striving for the best possible connection under heavy traffic. Not for my casual gaming, but I'm sure there will be buyers for it.
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499
    Serious gamers use Ethernet. Simple gigabit Ethernet will be faster and more reliable than this router in every metric you can think of and also most of the ones you can't. And an Ethernet cable costs about 1% of as much as this router.

    Yes, yes, there's a perfectly legitimate role for a WiFi router that is less bad than some other WiFi routers. But they're all far from ideal for gaming.
    Lark3mSandmanjwfoppotee
  • NanfoodleNanfoodle Member LegendaryPosts: 10,901
    Nothing beats a wired connection if your a gamer.
    SovrathAsm0deusfoppoteeMensur
  • UrdenUrden Member UncommonPosts: 51

    foppotee said:

    Seems like it could be a real good router & all but being priced at over a quarter of a thousand dollars seems VERY steep. I can only see a practical use for this router for maybe a professional gamer that just wants the latest toy, &/or gamers that are in the midst of a commercial environment & are striving for the best possible connection under heavy traffic. Not for my casual gaming, but I'm sure there will be buyers for it.



    I know its the same but when you say "priced at a quarter of a thousand dollars" it's very misleading. It's 250 dollars, not an exorbitant amount. When somethings 25 dollars you don't say a quarter of a hundred dollars lol
  • WizardryWizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332
    Yeah but...but you need everything that is labelled as gaming,the gaming chair,the gaming mic,the gaming green screen,the gaming monitor,gaming glasses,gaming stupidity it's all there for people to waste money on.

    Gaming tee shirts,hats,mats and that's not all,gaming mice,gaming rgb,gamingkeyboards,gaming cases,gaming websites,gaming streamers what a HUGE massive market feeding off the whales.
    foppotee

    Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.

  • DeathtognomesDeathtognomes Member UncommonPosts: 155
    Its very likely this company is owned by the Chinese government, like the majority of the tech companies. If not directly owned, the board of directors have a government representative sitting there.

    I like my privacy and all, but the risk involved here after all the shit thats keeps happening with China, I wont think twice about not purchasing this router.

    I dont do competitive gaming so I'm good with what I have.
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499
    Urden said:

    foppotee said:

    Seems like it could be a real good router & all but being priced at over a quarter of a thousand dollars seems VERY steep. I can only see a practical use for this router for maybe a professional gamer that just wants the latest toy, &/or gamers that are in the midst of a commercial environment & are striving for the best possible connection under heavy traffic. Not for my casual gaming, but I'm sure there will be buyers for it.



    I know its the same but when you say "priced at a quarter of a thousand dollars" it's very misleading. It's 250 dollars, not an exorbitant amount. When somethings 25 dollars you don't say a quarter of a hundred dollars lol
    When the competition is something like this, you do:

    https://www.newegg.com/p/1YU-0067-002Y4
    foppotee
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499
    edited August 2021
    Stizzled said:

    Quizzical said:

    Serious gamers use Ethernet. Simple gigabit Ethernet will be faster and more reliable than this router in every metric you can think of and also most of the ones you can't. And an Ethernet cable costs about 1% of as much as this router.



    Yes, yes, there's a perfectly legitimate role for a WiFi router that is less bad than some other WiFi routers. But they're all far from ideal for gaming.



    Yep, I have a 75 ft. cable running from my router to my PC. Much faster and cheaper than this thing. Our phones/tablets/TVs are the only things that run on WiFi around here, all the PCs have Ethernet cords running to them.
    Phones and tablets on WiFi make sense.

    When my parents built a house, they ran Ethernet cables all over through the house inside the walls at about the same time that the electric wiring was put in.  Cat 6 cables, even, so if they someday want to upgrade to 10 Gbps, the wiring is all there and they'll just need to plug it in.  Even with the cost of the wall jacks, that probably still cost a lot less than this router.
    foppotee[Deleted User]
  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383
    edited August 2021
    Quizzical said:

    Phones and tablets on WiFi make sense.

    When my parents built a house, they ran Ethernet cables all over through the house inside the walls at about the same time that the electric wiring was put in.  Cat 6 cables, even, so if they someday want to upgrade to 10 Gbps, the wiring is all there and they'll just need to plug it in.  Even with the cost of the wall jacks, that probably still cost a lot less than this router.
    Well the bold part is a pretty key part.

    Try adding CAT5 into a pre-existing house. Some runs will be easy. Some will be nightmares. 

    But if you can catch the house during construction, it's very easy to drop it in while they are running the rest of the electrical and plumbing. Most newer houses all run the telephone as CAT5 anyway and it's just a matter of swapping over the jackplates.

    If it's just you and you don't have a lot of competing wifi around - wifi isn't a bad option. Where it gets bad is if the radio waves are congested and there are a lot of different wifi networks around.

    Wired ethernet is the best option, but it's not always as easy or cheap as this.

    In older homes - MOCA adapters make a good deal of sense if you have coax runs. Often you can find this from old DISH or DirectTV installs, or where people have run additional TV sets into bedrooms and such from their main cable box in the main room.

    Powerline ethernet is hit or miss - in my experience it's about the same as running wireless in a good non-crowded environment. If your in a really crowded wifi enviroment it might win out, depending on your luck with circuit breaker panel and the wifi channel lottery.

    Regardless, I wouldn't spend a ton on a fancy WiFi solution, even if you plan on gaming on WiFi. You can get commercial WiFi adapters that are really good for around $100 new (Unifi), and those will usually run rings around anything consumer - support for hundreds of users, seemless mesh, long distance adapters, etc - so long as you are patient enough to do the setup (they do not have an easy plug-and-play interface).


    foppotee
  • MensurMensur Member EpicPosts: 1,531
    I run everything on cables- also my phones and ipads and ishads and ichads

    mmorpg junkie since 1999



  • UrdenUrden Member UncommonPosts: 51

    Quizzical said:


    Urden said:



    foppotee said:


    Seems like it could be a real good router & all but being priced at over a quarter of a thousand dollars seems VERY steep. I can only see a practical use for this router for maybe a professional gamer that just wants the latest toy, &/or gamers that are in the midst of a commercial environment & are striving for the best possible connection under heavy traffic. Not for my casual gaming, but I'm sure there will be buyers for it.






    I know its the same but when you say "priced at a quarter of a thousand dollars" it's very misleading. It's 250 dollars, not an exorbitant amount. When somethings 25 dollars you don't say a quarter of a hundred dollars lol


    When the competition is something like this, you do:

    https://www.newegg.com/p/1YU-0067-002Y4



    That's not your competition. I bought a house that didnt have ethernet jacks built in. I'm not running a cable on the floor, it looks terrible and im not putting holes in drywall to pull cables. A router is for someone who needs a router.
    GameByNightTiller
  • GameByNightGameByNight Hardware and Technology EditorMMORPG.COM Staff, Member RarePosts: 811

    Urden said:



    Quizzical said:




    Urden said:





    foppotee said:



    Seems like it could be a real good router & all but being priced at over a quarter of a thousand dollars seems VERY steep. I can only see a practical use for this router for maybe a professional gamer that just wants the latest toy, &/or gamers that are in the midst of a commercial environment & are striving for the best possible connection under heavy traffic. Not for my casual gaming, but I'm sure there will be buyers for it.









    I know its the same but when you say "priced at a quarter of a thousand dollars" it's very misleading. It's 250 dollars, not an exorbitant amount. When somethings 25 dollars you don't say a quarter of a hundred dollars lol




    When the competition is something like this, you do:

    https://www.newegg.com/p/1YU-0067-002Y4






    That's not your competition. I bought a house that didnt have ethernet jacks built in. I'm not running a cable on the floor, it looks terrible and im not putting holes in drywall to pull cables. A router is for someone who needs a router.



    This is pretty much me. I have no interest in running new line, at least for now, so outside of my office, it's wifi and works well. I only have 200MB/s down anyway from my ISP here in NY, so I use a mesh wifi network in my house and it maxes out the connection just fine. I don't know how it would handle gigabit. Latency isn't an issue with my setup at least.

    All this talk about ethernet being better is a bit superfluous. It is, there's no doubt, but most games (even competitive shooters) can be played just fine with 5GHz as long as you're in a decent range. I use ethernet in my office for my desktops but WiFi for my consoles downstairs, and there isn't even a noteworthy latency difference for WoW (on my laptop), Call of Duty, or anything else. I am in the same room with my mesh extender, though.

    If you're on 2.4GHz it might be different, but for older houses a nice router can save a lot of hassle.
Sign In or Register to comment.