What’s inside? Keenetic Titan (KN-1811) Teardown//Disassembly

I always wonder about what’s inside every electronics. What runs that thing?!! I had a Keenetic Titan router that I used for a long time. Of course I had wondered about and I looked for teardowns but I couldn’t find anything. There were teardowns of other models like Keenetic Ultra etc. Ultra (KN-1810) is basically the previous version of Titan KN-1811, so they have similarities but of course a lot of differences, too. So after some of my testing I decided to give it a look.

Keenetic Titan is a WiFi 6 AX3200 supported router. It has 5 gigabit Ethernet ports and a single 2.5Gbit Ethernet port, all in the backside. It has 4 external antennas and two on the motherboard inside. It is a MediaTek processor based device like the previous Kenetic Ultra. Main CPU is MediaTek MT7622B dual core CPU running at 1350 MHz. Both 2.4GHz and 5 GHz radios are managed by different MediaTek CPU’s and usually they are different to be able to use a cheaper one where it’s possible. It has 512 MB of DDR3 RAM. Actually internals are similar to some other Xiaomi series cheaper routers. However, the important part of Keenetic routers is the software. The software is derived from OpenWRT and has a lot of functionalities built in. Also supports adding packages etc.