Use Turbo PLC Technology - HUAWEI Router Q2 Pro Review

With the increasing demand for daily use of the network, one problem that has to face is that although the users cost a lot of money to upgrade broadband, the actual improvement in use is very limited, especially the following two problems:
1.The network signal near the router in the home is very good, but for larger or slightly more complex units, the network signal in the bathroom, bedroom and other areas is weak, and the Wi-Fi connection in the farther areas becomes intermittent.
2.Try to use the bridged mode to cover a larger area. Although the network is connected, the network attenuation is very serious after each level of bridge; Or even though the network speed is not slow, but the quality of the wireless network is poor, and the network delay is very serious.
In order to solve these problems, the newly upgraded HUAWEI WiFi Q2 Pro (1 Base + 1 Satellite) is officially launched.


Continuing the simple design
In terms of appearance, HUAWEI WiFi Q2 Pro (1 Base + 1 Satellite) continues the streamlined design of the previous generation, and it is like a delicate decoration in the home. The overall shape of the Base Router is an elliptical cylinder. From the front, only the HiLink button and the bottom are added with a few concise thread lines. However, after the power is turned on, the surround indicator at the bottom becomes the highlight of the entire router, and the overall shape appears more pure and elegant.<

The design of the Satellite Router is similar to that of the Base Router but the small body design is more concise, and the back interface position slightly protrudes to form a small plane, which can better fit the wall and avoid the arc body being not stable enough on the socket.



From the back, there are three Gigabit WAN / LAN adaptive network ports at the bottom groove of the Base Router. In addition to supporting the Gigabit power line, the Satellite Router also has a Gigabit standard LAN port at the bottom.


Upgraded PLC Turbo connection
HUAWEI Router Q2 Pro has a very obvious change is that the plugs of the Base and Satellite Routers have been upgraded to three plugs. The three-phase plugs also use the ground wire with less interference, which not only largely avoids signal noise created from all kinds of home appliances, and enhanced the signal-to-noise ratio to achieve an increase in data transmission volume. Another change of HUAWEI Router Q2 Pro is that the network performance of Q2 Pro has been upgraded from 100M lossless expansion to 200M lossless expansion. And Coupled with the Satellite Router's gigabit network port, it is easy to realize the gigabit network deployment requirements in the home environment.


This seems to be just using one more ground wire, but it is actually a reflection of technological accumulation. The Q2 Pro uses HUAWEI ’s self-developed Lingxiao 5630 Gigabit Power Cat chip, which uses the new G.hn power line communication standard with higher speed, lower delay and higher anti-interference ability. And coupled with PLC Turbo technology, Q2 Pro's networking performance has been directly doubled compared to the previous one.
Zero difficulty configuration and networking
One of the great advantages of smart routers is that they are simple to connect and configure, especially HUAWEI routers. If you are using a HUAWEI mobile phone, after you enter the smart home app, there will be relevant prompts to actively guide you to configure it. As for other mobile phones, the process after downloading the APP is basically the same.

After entering the configuration process, the first step is that the users need to set a password, which shows the dual password that can be directly set in one step for Wi-Fi connection and router management page login. The second step is the selection of the coverage mode. It is recommended that users with more complex environments use the through-wall mode. Are you wondering why there are no common 2.4GHz / 5GHz dual-frequency settings? This is not because the HUAWEI router Q2 Pro does not support dual-band Wi-Fi, but because the HUAWEI Q2 Pro can easily display only one Wi-Fi in the whole house and adjust the frequency band suitable for access according to the actual network connection.

It is more easier for the networking of the Satellite Router,the users only need to find a suitable wall socket to plug in, which can be said that there is Wi-Fi where there is a socket. The wall socket was selected because some patch panels have rectification and filtering functions, which will affect the connection of the power cat.

Practical and powerful extension features
After connecting to the APP, HUAWEI Router Q2 Pro can perform complete management and general function settings through the mobile phone. For example, users can set temporary independent passwords for guests to avoid the embarrassment of leakage of connection passwords. Of course, Q2 Pro also has a wealth of enhanced plug-ins for users to choose, such as restart plans, broadband speedups, game acceleration, etc., which are all very useful extended functions.

In addition, HUAWEI Q2 Pro also supports HUAWEIHiLink smart home ecosystem, which can not only become the management hub of HUAWEI's smart home products, but also the management hub for smart home products of brands such as LIFX, TP_Link, Yeelight, Philips HUE, and Midea, which greatly reduces the restrictions on hardware brands when users set up smart homes.

Excellent measured network performance
Measured environment: office
Router placement:The Base router is placed in the video shooting room in the lower left corner
The Satellite router is placed in the large conference room in the upper right corner
Through signal strength detection, we can see that although there is only one unified Wi-Fi in the external performance, the dual 2.4G dual 5G of HUAWEI Q2 Pro router has actually achieved full coverage in secret, but their switching is too intelligent and intangible, so it cannot be easily noticed by us.


Plug the sub router into the wall socket of the large conference room and configure it before testing. The actual game measurement shows that the network experience is smooth, the connection is stable, especially the latency is extremely low, and it remains at about 10ms, which is basically no difference compared with the wired coverage method we use every day.

To avoid affecting other people in the office, we have allocated 25000Kbps network as a test by limiting the bandwidth. We have used SPEEDTEST to test the room where the Satellite router is located (large conference room) and the room where the Base router is located (video shooting room). It can be seen that the test results of the Satellite router are basically the same as those of the Base router, and the expected lossless expansion is achieved.

The upgraded HUAWEI WIFI Q2 Pro is more comprehensive than HUAWEI Q2, with more convenient networking and network connection capabilities. It has a self-developed chip and PLC Turbo blessing, and the maximum lossless expanded bandwidth is further increased to 200M,which is more suitable for the rapid increase of home network bandwidth. And coupled with the strong scalability of the APP and the intelligent hardware coverage of HUAWEIHiLink, it is definitely a good treatment for home networking difficulties.