Summary of The XIAOMI MI Router 4A Gigabit Edition

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The Xiaomi MI Router 4A Gigabit Edition is a fast and reliable router that can be controlled using an app on a mobile phone. It is protected by the General Data Protection Regulation. The author takes a backup of the firmware before flashing it. The performance tests show that the routing performance is not great and the CPU usage is high.

• 00:00:00 The Xiaomi Mirouter 4A Gigabit edition was tested for Ethernet switching and routing performance and for Wi-Fi performance. The device was first tested with the stock firmware and then with OpenWrt.
• 00:05:00 The Xiaomi MI Router 4A Gigabit Edition can perform impressive routing tests between LAN and WAN interfaces with no CPU load.
• 00:10:00 The Xiaomi Mi Router 4A Gigabit Edition can be controlled using an app on a mobile phone, and transmits data to a cloud-based service. The device is protected by the General Data Protection Regulation.
• 00:15:00 The author takes a backup of the firmware on a Xiaomi MI Router 4A Gigabit Edition before flashing it. He uses nc or netcat to pipe the output of dd or cat to a network socket on his local host, and then downloads the image with ftp. Once the router has rebooted, it will run OpenWrt and be available under the 192.168.1.1 address. The author installs the snapshot image and then installs the web frontend, htop, with opkg. The performance tests show that the routing performance is not great and the CPU usage is high.
• 00:20:00 The Xiaomi MI Router 4A Gigabit Edition can achieve similar performance to stock firmware, but with higher CPU usage. Additionally, it supports software offloading, has two Ethernet ports, and can act as a mesh point in a 5 GHz mesh.