Is it reliable that routers can make money?

Is it reliable that routers can make money?

"Idle broadband can make money" and "just connect to a vro to make money )"...... Reporters found that recently, there have been many vrouters in the market that claim to be "profitable" for users, and they are selling very popular. The advertisements for these vro products labeled with "Making Money" are very attractive. How much benefits can they bring to users when they are actually used?

 

Vro "will make money"

Popular sales

In March December 2014, Youku launched a vro product called Youku router Bao, which claimed to be able to earn money. According to its usage instructions, users only need to connect this router product named Youku router Bao to the Internet, and they will be able to earn tens or even hundreds of yuan each month, for a small number of users with unstable bandwidth and poor network conditions, Youku router Bao can also provide a "Fixed Income Plan" to ensure that all users can benefit from Youku router Bao.

Recently, a fortune company that uses vrouters to earn profits has also officially opened crowdfunding. It is understood that Moneyball is a router accessory, as long as you connect to the home of the router to obtain benefits. The mechanism for making money is that when a user connects a vro at home to this product, it becomes part of the thunder server network and uses its own bandwidth (mainly uploading traffic and some storage resources) used as a cdn node for the Thunder network service. The more users contribute to the thunder server network, the more crystal they get. In the Public Account "Crystal mine" directly bound to the user, the obtained "Crystal" can be converted into cash red packets for consumption or deposit into bank cards.

According to relevant data provided by Xunlei, on April 9, April this year, the first batch of 7500 profitable treasures launched by the company were snapped up within 2 minutes 50 seconds, and then the additional 7500 were sold out on the same day. On April 9, May 1, moneyball again Added 2000 sets, sold out within 25 seconds. According to the latest news on Youku Tudou smart hardware official website, March this year products launched by Youku router Bao in 25 thousand have all been sold out, creating a sales record in the intelligent routing market.

It is understood that in addition to Youku and Xunlei, in recent years, there have also been many vrouters promoted by merchants, such as huihui routing and 18 routing, to make money, these vro products have also received a lot of attention when they were launched. Among them, the preferential route is divided by the number of seconds of advertisement displayed when the user goes online, and the revenue is determined by the user's number of online users and the number of times.

Making money by using vrouters

Consumer benefits

Nowadays, sales of various vro products labeled "Making Money" by sellers are booming. However, according to comments from some users who conduct public Beta on some products, these smart router products have excellent performance in terms of network speed and storage functions compared with other common routers, however, when talking about the biggest selling point of "making money", most of the results are somewhat unsatisfactory.

"I just learned that I was selling a profitable vro on the Internet a while ago. I heard that I could use idle bandwidth to get the benefits. I think this method is good and I made an appointment on the Internet to try it out." Ms. Li told reporters that, according to the official statement of this router product, professional it players who are familiar with the method of making money can earn more than 300 yuan per month for up to MB of bandwidth. Even for ordinary users, as long as the home broadband can reach 10 MB of bandwidth, the monthly income can also be between 50 yuan and 80 yuan. "However, after I bought this router, I found that it was not as profitable as the merchant promised. It took more than a month to earn less than 10 yuan ." Said Miss Li.

After having a real experience with a vro product, the user said: "To use this vro, you must start the instance 24 hours a day. The cost is not enough.

Industry insiders

Vro making money is not that easy

"I don't know if you noticed when purchasing a vro. In fact, in some official statements about the benefits of vro products, they all differentiate between 'symmetric bandwidth' and 'asymmetric bandwidth ." In an interview, an IT industry expert said that symmetric broadband is very different from asymmetric broadband, and most of domestic users' home networks are asymmetric broadband. That is to say, the 20 m broadband installed in most users' homes is not necessarily the 20 m broadband that the router Merchant calls.

Insiders said: "from the current user's actual income results, the income gap between symmetric broadband and asymmetric broadband users is also very obvious, some benefits of symmetric 20 M bandwidth can reach 64-126 yuan, while the monthly income of asymmetric 20 M bandwidth is generally only 8-16 yuan. Therefore, for Asymmetric broadband users, it is best not to have too much expectations for the benefits of router products ."

In addition, network security experts warned that in addition to using users' idle bandwidth, some vro products rely on collecting users' Online mobile phone numbers and sending advertisements to these mobile phone numbers to earn profits, in this case, these router products may also have the risk of user information leakage while earning profits.