Taking advantage of the presentation of the Xiaomi Redmi K50 Gaming Edition mobile, the Chinese company wanted to present another of its products focused on video game players, the new AX5400 routerwhich is inspired by the characteristics of the AX6000, but with some peculiarities of its own for the sector it is aimed at.
Designed for gamers
As soon as we see the first images shared by the brand, we can see that it really maintains the appearance of most hardware with a gamer aesthetic. Its design has been based on racing cars to appear that same aerodynamics. Of course, could not miss 16 million color adjustable RGB lighting and multiple breathing effects.
The Xiaomi Redmi AX5400, unlike the AX6000, is a Wi-Fi 6E router. This means that you will have a 6GHz band that makes us have a better speed in devices that are at a short distance or that require a shorter range. This does not mean that devices farthest from the router will be left out.
It has four long-range antennas in order to offer the widest coverage possible. The six independent signal boosters can effectively enhance the signal transmission power, bring stronger wall penetration effect, wider coverage, and easily cover large houses, also being Mesh Wi-Fi compatiblea technology that allows you to have several routers in a mesh to make the signal bounce throughout the house.
To take advantage of its raw speed, the Redmi AX5400 includes a dedicated 2.5 Gbps Ethernet port. Its processor is a 64-bit Qualcomm IPQ5018 with a independent NPU core at 1 GHz, greatly improving data processing capabilities, reducing network congestion and packet loss.
Improvements for online play
Designed for families with multiple devices, it operates at 512 MB of RAM which supports up to 248 devices online at the same time. Of course, it is fully compatible with the main video game platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch. Optimization improvements will not only apply in-gamebut also promise improvements in additional content downloads and performance-enhancing updates or patches.
Other interesting functions that we found in the AX5400 is that it can automatically recognize compatible Xiaomi and Redmi smartphonesnot only for a fast network configuration, but it allows you to enable acceleration in the most popular mobile games, reducing packet loss and delay to have a better chance of winning our games.
At the moment, the Redmi AX5400 router has only been announced for the Chinese market, although it is not surprising that it ends up crossing its borders, since some Xiaomi routers are already marketed in our country.
The router is already on sale in China for 599 yuan, about 95 dollars approximately. If the exchange rate remains about 84 euros At this time, we would be facing one of the cheapest alternatives to change routers and probably the most profitable in terms of quality/price if we are going to use it mainly to play video games online.