Huawei has turned its Router X1 Pro into a gaming-flavoured follow-up in China, adding Wi-Fi 7+, a built-in Star Flash gateway, and HarmonyOS smarts while keeping the core hardware close to the standard model. The Huawei Router X1 Pro Gaming Edition is already up for pre-order at 666 yuan, or about $98. The pitch is obvious: lower latency, better wall penetration, and fewer excuses when a match goes sideways.
That price puts it in a crowded part of the router market, where vendors are leaning hard on Wi-Fi 7 branding, mesh features, and gamer-friendly software to justify more than just another black box on the shelf.
Wi-Fi 7+ and MLO headline the spec sheet
Huawei says Wi-Fi 7+ is the star of the show here, with weak-signal dual Wi-Fi acceleration and dynamic narrow-bandwidth technology designed to improve stability in tougher homes and apartments. The router also supports Multi-Link Operation, which lets compatible devices use the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands at the same time – a feature that sounds technical because it is, but it also helps reduce the jitter gamers love to hate.
- Wi-Fi 7+ support
- Multi-Link Operation for simultaneous 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz connections
- Weak-signal dual Wi-Fi acceleration
- Dynamic narrow-bandwidth technology
Four 2.5G ports and an 11-antenna tower
Instead of chasing a slimmer silhouette, Huawei kept the cylindrical body and packed in an 11-antenna array for 360-degree coverage. Inside is the company’s Lingxiao SoC with an embedded CPU intended to cut network latency, plus four 2.5G Ethernet ports for gaming PCs, consoles, and other fast-wired gear. That wired lineup is smart: plenty of households still rely on Ethernet when they want consistent speeds, not marketing copy.
- Cylindrical design
- 11-antenna array
- Four 2.5G Ethernet ports
- Huawei Lingxiao SoC with embedded CPU
HarmonyOS 4, Game Turbo and a 40-day perk
The software angle is where Huawei tries to make this more than a spec-sheet refresh. The Router X1 Pro Gaming Edition runs HarmonyOS 4, supports Huawei’s smart-home ecosystem, and includes Game Turbo, along with a free 40-day NetEase UU Accelerator membership. The built-in Star Flash gateway also signals Huawei’s effort to keep users inside its own connected-device universe, which is a familiar move across the industry even if the branding changes every quarter.
Huawei first launched the standard Router X1 Pro last year, and this gaming edition is mostly a redesign layered on top. Expect rivals to answer with more Wi-Fi 7 models and more aggressive bundle tactics, because router makers rarely pass up a chance to slap ”gaming” on something that already needed better antennas anyway.