Xiaomi continues to take giant steps to fully enter the video game market. On this occasion, it has presented what we could say is its first great router designed specifically for the gamer public, although it already had a few compatible ones in the catalog for online gaming of the highest possible quality.
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 router , which is inspired by the characteristics of the AX6000, but with some peculiarities of its own for the sector to which it is directed.
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, adjustable RGB lighting with 16 million colors and multiple breathing effects could not be missing.
Aggressive AX5400 design
The Xiaomi Redmi AX5400, unlike the AX6000, is a Wi-Fi 6E router. This means that it will have a 6 GHz band that makes it possible for us to have a better speed in devices that are a short distance away 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 possible coverage. The six independent signal boosters can effectively improve signal transmission power, provide stronger wall penetration effect, wider coverage, and easily cover large houses, also supporting WiFi Mesh , a technology that allows having multiple mesh routers to bounce the signal around the house.
To take advantage of its raw speed, the Redmi AX5400 includes a dedicated 2.5Gbps Ethernet port . Its processor is a 64-bit Qualcomm IPQ5018 with an independent 1 GHz NPU core , 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. The optimization improvements will not only apply in-game , but also promise improvements in additional content downloads and performance-enhancing updates or patches.
Gaming router for less than 100 euros
Other cool features we found in AX5400 is that it can automatically recognize compatible Xiaomi and Redmi smartphones , not only for quick network setup, but also enables acceleration in popular mobile games, reducing loss and the delay of packages to have more chances of victory in 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. If the exchange rate is maintained, 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.