Preface
Today, the one who came to the koolshare evaluation room was the RAX50 of the netware (official website link). Wireless specifications are 2.4G 600Mbps + 5G 4800Mbps. Below I will bring you the evaluation of this WiFi6 routing
▲RAX50 has four external 7dbi high-gain antennas. Combined with Ruidong antenna technology (Beamforming+), it can improve the speed and reliability of 2.4GHz and 5GHz WiFi connections, and can effectively improve signal coverage. Four antennas can be detached and can be replaced by
▲Product specifications
Unbox
▲Packaging box is the consistent blue and black packaging color of the RAX series. You can see the model RAX50 in the lower left corner. Specifications AX5400
▲The list of accessories in the packaging box and the technical specifications of RAX50
▲Nighthawk RAX50 uses 6 data streams , Tri-core 1.5GHz processor
▲The evaluation is the NAS version, the wireless region is fixed in North America
▲Open the lid, the first thing that catches your eye is the quick installation instructions
▲The next is the net piece RAX50 wireless router body
▲The bottom is the antenna, network cable and power adapter
▲The super five-class flat network cable
▲The power adapter specification is 12V 2.5A
▲Four antennas adopt different color packaging bags
▲A list of four 7dbi high-gain antennas. Although the appearance is the same, the interior is different.
▲The bottom of the antenna is labeled. The Side is used to be installed on the left and right of the router, and Rear is installed behind the router. It can be seen that the color of the antenna feeder of Side is different from that of Rear. The Side has built-in 2.4G and G antennas, while in Rear, there are only 5G antennas
▲The surface film of the router is pasted with red and blue tags, which is convenient for users to install antennas
▲The corresponding antenna is installed according to the label on the router shell. You must not install it incorrectly. Otherwise, it will affect the appearance of
▲Nighthawk RAX50 looks very simple, and it is more than RAX40. The two antennas behind
▲The center of the top cover is an LED indicator, and the WiFi switch button and WPS button
▲The nameplate is located at the bottom. At the same time, a large number of holes were made at the bottom, which is conducive to heat dissipation
▲There are English tags under the antenna connectors on the side and back. Even if the router film is torn off, the antenna will not be installed incorrectly. The back IO interface list
▲From left to right, there are Reset buttons, USB3.0 interfaces, 4 Gigabit LAN ports, 1 Gigabit WAN port, DC power jack, and power button
▲ People prefer angle
to disassemble
▲Open the top cover, revealing the blue PCB motherboard
▲Take the PCB motherboard from the bottom cover
▲At the front of the PCB motherboard, there is no heat sink
▲After opening the metal shield cover, the front of the PCB motherboard
▲BCM6750, SoC chip, from Broadcom. It integrates a three-core 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex CPU, a 2×2 space stream WLAN that supports 802.11ax, and five Gigabit PHY
▲The upper square metal cover in the figure is the 5G external amplifier circuit PA chip and the low-noise amplifier receiving circuit LNA chip. The rectangular metal cover is the 2.4G and 5G external amplifier circuit PA chip and the low-noise amplifier receiving circuit LNA chip
▲K4B4G1646E-BYMA, which is a DDR3 with a capacity of 512MB. The RAM chip supports the highest speed of 1866Mbps. The manufacturer is Samsung
▲BCM43684, a 5G WLAN chip, from Broadcom.Supports 4x4 space stream, supports 160MHz bandwidth, supports MU-MIMO, supports 802.11ax, and supports the maximum speed of 4.8Gbps
▲The square metal cover is the 5G external amplifier circuit PA chip and the low-noise amplifier receiving circuit LNA chip. The rectangular metal cover is the 2.4G and 5G external amplifier circuit PA chip and the low-noise amplifier receiving circuit LNA chip
▲The back of the PCB motherboard is the metal shield cover on the back has been soldered and cannot be opened. The two metal shield covers here are just to shield the SoC area and 5G WiFi chip area on the front of the PCB motherboard. The inside is
▲W29N02GVSIAA, FLASH chip, with a capacity of 256MB, and the manufacturer is Winbond. Firmware
▲Simple chip diagram for storing RAX50. Among them, the BCM6750 provides 802.11ax 2.4G with 2x2 spatial stream, with a specification of 600Mbps. BCM43684 provides 802.11ax 5G with 4x4 space stream, with specifications of 4800Mbps
firmware
▲A new security software icon is added on the main page, but there is no response after clicking
▲ Because this review is the NAS version, wireless region fixed in North America is not optional. RAX50 supports OFDMA technology, supports dual-band integrated
▲RAX50 5G supports up to 160MHz bandwidth and a maximum speed of 4800Mbps. It is recommended to choose a low channel of 36-48. In terms of encryption protocol, RAX50 also supports WPA3
▲Advanced settings—In wireless settings, you can enable Beamforming, MU-MIMO, AX, etc.
▲Mode switching, you can choose to convert between AP mode and routing mode
▲Although RAX50 does not provide LED light switch button on the shell, you can choose to turn off or turn on LED lights in firmware
Throughput test
Test platform hardware part:
PC1 network card: Intel X710-T2L, PCE-AC88, PCE-AX58BTh
PC2 network card: Intel X710-T2L, PCE-AC88, PCE-AX58BTh
Software:
When installing all required patches on Windows 10 Pro, turn off the system firewall
Endpoint 9.50
IxChariot 6.70
This test uses the following test script:
High_Performance_Throughput.scr. This script is used to test the maximum transmission bandwidth
First, let’s understand several related terms for routing test results:
Throughput, which means the amount of data that the router can process per second.The higher this data, the better
Test environment:
The test is selected at home, simulate the real situation of everyone's daily use
Description:
Using the V1.0.2.32_2.0.38 firmware, the router enables WPA2 encryption
▲NAT single thread and ten thread
▲LAN to LAN one-way single thread and ten thread
▲LAN to LAN two-way single thread and ten thread
1, 4x4 80MHz 802.11AC Throughput Test
▲5G to LAN uplink single thread and ten thread
▲5G to LAN bidirectional single thread and ten thread
▲5G to LAN downlink single thread and ten thread
▲5G to 5G unidirectional single thread and ten thread
▲5G to 5G bidirectional single thread and ten thread
2, 2x2 160MHz 802.11AX Throughput Test
▲5G to LAN uplink single thread and ten thread
▲5G to LAN bidirectional single thread and ten thread
▲5G to LAN downlink single thread and ten thread
▲5G to 5G unidirectional single thread and ten thread
▲5G to 5G bidirectional single thread and ten threads
▲Data summary
▲chart summary
USB interface performance test
▲Gigabit RJ45 port wired write speed 104MB/S
▲Gigabit RJ45 port wired read speed 113MB/S
▲Use ASUS PCE-AX58BT network card, wireless write speed 23.3MB/S
▲Use ASUS PCE-AX58BT network card, wireless reading speed 74.0MB/S
▲Use ASUS PCE-AC88 network card, wireless writing speed 22.7MB/S
▲Use ASUS PCE-AC88 network card, wireless reading speed 73.4MB/S
▲ Chart summary
signal test
▲ Test environment is Jiangsu Telecom EPON gigabit broadband, signed downstream 1000M, upstream 50M
▲ client speed test. Since the EPON uplink PON port optical module is 1.25G, a PON port needs to carry a cell, and it is already very good to be able to run to 880M.
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RAX50 wireless region is North America. Its location is already shown on the icon. The approximate area description of each room
A:11 square meters
B:15 square meters
C:15 square meters
D:40 square meters
E:12 square meters
F:5 square meters (the toilet area, the load-bearing wall attenuation of signal quality is a bit serious)
G:7.5 square meters
▲ No. 1 position 2.4G, 5G signal strength and Speedtest test
▲2 at position 2.4G and 5G signal strength and Speedtest test
▲3 at position 2.4G and 5G signal strength and Speedtest test
▲4 at position 4 at position 2.4G and 5G signal strength and Speedtest test
▲ 2.4G, 5G signal strength and Speedtest test
▲ 6 position 2.4G, 5G signal strength and Speedtest test
▲ 7 position 2.4G, 5G signal strength and Speedtest test
▲ 1▲ Data Collection Total
▲ Chart summary
Temperature test
From the disassembly, the chip part of RAX50 does not have heat dissipation armor to assist in heat dissipation, so here we will test the temperature of the two chip areas of RAX50
▲ The ambient temperature is 25.6 degrees, and the ambient humidity is 66.4%
▲ Remove the shell. When performing NAT 50 threading, the temperature of BCM6750 is around 39.2 degrees
▲When performing 5G to 5G bidirectional 20 threading, the temperature of BCM43684 is around 43.3 degrees
summary
▲Webpiece RAX50 adopts BCM6750+BCM43684 BCM43684 Broadcom hardware solution, and it has solid workmanship. Even without the heat dissipation armor assists in heat dissipation, the temperature of the RAX50 is still well controlled. In addition, the official PRS Chinese version of RAX50 comes with a sailing acceleration service, which can obtain game acceleration. And this time there is a new "download acceleration". As long as the Fanyou acceleration service is activated, you can get this download acceleration application for free.Finally, in addition to the low single-threaded data of NAT, RAX50 has excellent throughput in other aspects. I hope that Netware can fix this problem in later firmware
