OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 Review: Good-looking and powerful

With the development of smart homes, there are more and more connected devices in our homes. Taking my home environment as an example, from table lamps, screen hanging lamps, to rice cookers and washing machines, they are all smart home products that can be connected to mobile phones.

Compared with traditional home appliances, although most of them come from emerging Internet brands and their brand value is slightly lacking in foundation, when it comes to user experience, there is a very obvious improvement.

At the same time, as more and more home appliances need to be connected to the Internet, the original routers are gradually becoming overwhelmed, which makes me think: what kind of router should I change to?

To be honest, I really don’t like the appearance design of previous routers. The octopus and industrial style shapes don’t match the contemporary home environment at all.

At this time, I happened to get the opportunity to experience the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400. Looking at its high appearance, does it also have profound internal strength?

Today, let’s experience it together~

Appearance: It is very good-looking, and it may be the most beautiful router in 2023

For a long time, the appearance of the routers we have seen is actually very low. Some routers have seven or eight antennas erected outside the body to show that they have strong signals, or some simply give up the design and wrap it with a metal shell, calling it a metal industrial style.

But to be honest, this is all a manifestation of insufficient design capabilities.

As a company that pursues beauty extremely, OPPO naturally would not design the router in this way.

So when I unpacked the package, I was deeply shocked by the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 at first sight. I didn’t expect that a router could be designed so simply.

OPPO covers the four antennas of the router with a translucent shell, which neither blocks the antenna signals nor exposes the antenna strips, creating a sense of orderly beauty.

Therefore, when we put it in any corner of the house, we will not feel that it is out of tune with the surroundings. The ultimate harmony and unity make the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 a versatile furniture decoration with full furniture attributes!

Of course, some friends may think that such a design will definitely affect the heat dissipation of the router.

But in fact, OPPO engineers have already thought of this. From the picture, you can see that the middle of the shell is hollow and there is a vent in the center of the bottom.

In addition, there are air outlets at the bottom of the router, so there is no need to worry about poor heat dissipation of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400. This chimney-shaped design can effectively promote air circulation and ensure that the machine is always in a natural passive windless heat dissipation state.

In addition, the heat sink is made of aluminum alloy with an aluminum content of up to 99.7%, which has excellent thermal conductivity. Combined with the high thermal conductivity interface material Polymer with a thermal conductivity coefficient of 8w/mk, the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 router AX5400 has industry-leading heat dissipation performance.

Next, let’s look at the design on the back. The reset port, three WAN/LAN interfaces and power button of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 are all here. We will introduce the purpose of the network cable interface later.

The advantage of placing the interface on the back is that it can completely prevent the network cable from being exposed and destroying the integrity of the front appearance of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400.

It can be said that the design of OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 is not only beautiful, but also very thoughtful.

Configuration: Hardcore configuration, no need to change for several years

After introducing the impressive appearance of OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400, many friends may want to see how it performs in actual tests.

But please wait a moment, let us take a look at the hardware configuration of OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400. After all, this is the fundamental factor that determines how long a router can be used.

The OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 is equipped with the current mainstream Qualcomm IPQ5018 chip. This chip adopts a dual-core design and is equipped on many high-end routers.

Combined with Qualcomm QCN9024 chip to complete coverage of the 5GHz frequency band, it supports up to 160MHz bandwidth and the maximum connection rate reaches 4804Mbps + 574Mbps. With so many frequency bands, it can effectively avoid the decrease in network speed caused by frequency band interference.

For a router that supports Wi-Fi 6, memory size is also very important. After all, the biggest feature of Wi-Fi 6 is that it is designed for smart homes and ensures the ability to connect multiple devices.

So does the memory of OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 have a lot?

The large 512MB memory ensures the stability of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 in connecting to multiple devices at the same time, preventing the embarrassment of the device being kicked out due to insufficient memory.

128MB of storage in a router is already very large. Many routers from international first-tier companies are still using 32MB of storage, and it is very difficult to upgrade the system via OTA in the later stage. However, the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 does not have this worry at all.

As introduced in the previous section, the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 has a wide range of interfaces.

It is equipped with 1 extremely high-speed, future-oriented 2.5G network cable interface and 2 gigabit interfaces. You should know that if you want to use the 2.5G interface on Apple's Mac computer, you need to pay extra to upgrade. The OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 is fully equipped, which is really impressive!

In terms of direct parameters, the configuration of OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 is completely sufficient and completely beyond its level. The high-performance chip, large memory and large storage ensure that there is space for later system upgrades.

To sum it up in one simple sentence: once you buy it, you won’t have to replace it for several years.

It is worth mentioning that as a product launched by OPPO, the configuration of OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 is also very simple. When it is turned on for the first time, the OPPO mobile phone can automatically pop up a floating window, allowing users to complete the configuration of the Wi-Fi network on the mobile phone with one click.

It is also equipped with OPPO's self-developed O-RouterBoost network directional acceleration technology, which can autonomously identify OPPO phones equipped with the ColorOS 13 system and intelligently accelerate specific scenarios such as games and meetings.

Actual test: signal coverage has no dead spots, and the network speed is full without pressure

Next, let’s show you the most concerned actual test part. For this test, we specially borrowed a large house of 120 square meters for testing. We will use iPhone 14 to actually measure the speed in the Petal Speed ​​Test App.

As shown in the picture, this is the room layout where we will conduct the test. The router will be placed at A, which is under the TV cabinet. Then the signal and network speed will be tested at points B, C, and D. The broadband used for the speed test is China Unicom's 500M broadband.

Point B is very close to the router, separated only by a glass door. However, the performance of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 is so exaggerated that it can almost be said that there is no such door. After taking the average value of 5 speed tests, the download speed still reached an astonishing 530.21Mbps.

To be honest, point C is the most difficult because it is separated by two solid walls, which has a serious impact on the signal of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400. It is also where other routers often fail.

However, it can be seen from the data that the performance of OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 is still very good, and the signal strength is still as high as -52dBm, so there is no need to worry about the strength.

The download speed is also a completely sufficient 402.32Mbps, so there is basically no need to worry about the performance of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 being insufficient.

Point D is simpler than Point C, with only a solid wall separating them. The performance of the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 is still outstanding, with a download speed of 490.32 Mbps, which is honestly almost the same as Point B.

The signal strength is -35dBm, which is naturally an impeccable level. It is very powerful and has a dimensional advantage over products of the same level. It is enough to show that OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 is an extremely advanced product.

Summarize

As an old player in the digital field, I am very familiar and intimate with OPPO. As a consumer electronics brand that advocates a "humanistic design concept" that is people-oriented and experience-first, the biggest difference between OPPO and other brands is its pursuit of the ultimate aesthetics.

The launch of OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 also confirms this point. Its outstanding appearance is very harmonious when placed in the home and will definitely not feel abrupt. The designer can think of such a design, which shows that he has a very rich understanding and insight into the home environment.

The excellent signal and network speed performance once again demonstrates OPPO's network signal design capabilities as a major communications company. To be honest, there is no need to worry about this. After all, when it comes to antennas and signal strength, they are all child's play for OPPO.

For a router that only costs 599 yuan and has such outstanding performance, the OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400 is really worthy of purchase for every friend who is considering buying a router. It is really worth the money!

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.