The cheapest Wi-Fi 6 router right now comes with free earphones and a smartwatch
Honor Router 3 is breaking new grounds when it comes to Wi-Fi 6 connectivity
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Honor Router 3 -$46.99 at Gearbest(roughly £38/AU$ 69)The Honor Router 3 delivers Wi-Fi 6 speeds at an exceptional price and this router also has a clean, minimalist look. At less than $50, this router will give you the fastest Wi-Fi speeds currently possible and then some as it is a Wi-Fi 6+ device.Note that freebies are not included with this offer.
Wi-Fi 6(also known as 802.11ax) is a pretty recent wireless standard having been officially released as a protocol not so long ago, in 2019. It replaces 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5) as the fastest Wi-Fi protocol widely available in the market.
(ed: Note that the device costs €79.90 inGermany,France,Spain,Italyandthe Netherlandsand £79.99 inthe UKwhere it comes with a free HONOR Band 5 smartwatch and HONOR sport Bluetooth earphones till the end of July 2020. The offer is only available in selected territories and when purchased directly from Hihonor.)
Less than a year later, Honor is selling the Router 3, a Wi-Fi 6 router for as little as$47.99. While you need to have a compatible device to get the most out of it, the improvements on offer thanks to the sheer presence of newer hardware and technology makes it a worthwhile investment if your current ISP-provided router is not delivering.
The Honor Router 3 - which is a rebadged WiFi AX3 - delivered combined wireless speeds of up to 2976 Mbps (2.4 GHz: 574 Mbps; 5 GHz: 2402 Mbps) allowing you to transfer data to up to 20 devices simultaneously.
Note that most users will almost certainly never reach this level, mainly because it is only a theoretical maximum speed. The router is sold as a Wi-Fi 6+, and we’ve reached out to Honor to find exactly out what the “plus” version brings to the table.
A maximum of 128 devices can be registered across both bands and its four separate antennae should improve coverage especially across several walls. Insider, the router is powered by a dual-core Gigahome CPU, running at 1.2GHz; it is paired with 128MB RAM and 128MB storage.
When it comes to connectivity options, there’s one WAN port and three LAN ones, all of which are Gigabit capable.
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