This article is part of a series looking at the PELADN WO4 5600H Mini PC.
The PELADN WO4 5600H is a compact mini PC built around AMD’s Ryzen 5 5600H, a 6-core, 12-thread processor with integrated Radeon graphics. It offers enough performance for everyday desktop use, office work, media playback, and light gaming. It’s available from Amazon US and Amazon UK. These are not affiliate links.
The PELADN WO4 follows a familiar formula: keep the price low, the design simple, and the performance good enough for everyday desktop duties. Rather than chasing premium mini PC territory, I’m looking at whether AMD’s Ryzen 5 5600H still has plenty to offer in a modest, affordable system.
The PELADN WO4 5600H has Wi-Fi 6, not Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7. Wireless connectivity is provided by a Realtek RTL8852BE PCIe 802.11ax adapter, handled under Linux by the rtw89_8852be kernel driver.
Wireless performance is solid rather than exceptional. With the test system located in a home office on a different floor from the router, the link settled at around -56 dBm with a 720.6 Mbit/s Wi-Fi 6 connection using 80 MHz HE-MCS 7 and two spatial streams.
I tested performance using iperf3.
$ iperf3 -c 192.168.1.237 -P 4 -t 30 -R
In my office test location, on a different floor from the router, the PELADN WO4 delivered at best nearly 600 Mbit/s of real-world Wi-Fi throughput using iperf3 with four parallel streams. That’s a solid result for a compact mini PC with internal Wi-Fi, especially given the through-floor connection. The test did record some retransmissions, so the link isn’t pristine, but performance remained steady and comfortably fast enough for everyday desktop use, streaming, large downloads, and general network transfers.
That’s a reasonable result given the distance and floor separation between my home office and the router. It’s not poor, but the Minisforum MS-02 Ultra delivers almost double the throughput from the same location.
$ ping -c 100 192.168.1.1
Latency to the router was good, with 100 pings returning an average of 3.4 ms and no packet loss. The connection did show occasional spikes, with a maximum round-trip time of 35.2 ms, but that’s unsurprising given the test system was located on a different floor from the router. Overall, this points to a stable Wi-Fi connection with good everyday responsiveness, even if latency consistency can’t match wired Ethernet.
Complete list of articles in this series:
| PELADN WO4 5600H Mini PC | |
|---|---|
| Introduction | Introduction to the series and interrogation of the machine |
| Benchmarks | Benchmarking the PELADN WO4 5600H Mini PC |
| Power | Testing and comparing the power consumption |
| Noise | How quiet is this mini PC? |
| BIOS | In the world of computing, BIOS, which stands for Basic Input/Output System, plays a crucial role |
| Wi-Fi | Measuring WiFi Performance |