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welcome to my unboxing of the Buffalo

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ac300 N900 dualband Extreme Performance

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wireless router now when Buffalo says Extreme Performance what they mean by

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Extreme Performance is as Extreme as it

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freaking gets when it comes to wireless

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so this is a Wi-Fi router it is

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802.11 AC which is completely different

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from 802.11a 802.11 b g and N this is

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significantly faster so this guy is capable of up to 1.3 gigabits per second

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remember whenever we're talking Wireless performance we're talking theoretical

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performance and the real world it'll be less but this this theoretical

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performance is definitely faster than your old theoretical performance I can

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tell you that much for sure so that is with ultra fast wirel less 11 AC 900

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megabit per second simultaneous dualband Wireless 11n so that means dual

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concurrent 450 megabit per second streams even if you're using older

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Wireless and equipment with it however if you pair it up with newer Wireless AC

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equipment you will get screaming fast

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theoretically gigabit Wireless connectivity which is up until now

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completely unheard of when it comes to the consumer space anyway so it comes

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with a fairly full oh I love these Ethernet cables I

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have we have one of these in the tech tips room from when we did uh from when

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we showcased a buffalo product in the past these are like their sexy ribbon

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cable Ethernet cables very nice uh those are the kinds

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of accessories that that I get excited about these days I guess I mean I'm also

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excited about the you know 1.3 gabit per

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second wireless performance but uh okay let's cover more more of what Buffalo

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has to say for themselves before we move along so it's dualband 2.4 GHz 5 GHz

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gigabit Ethernet USB port for storage and it is also multiplatform PC Mac or

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mobile devices are all supported and they darn well better be okay uh

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operating in oh right so AC

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is different from n it doesn't operate on 2.4 GHz at all now in theory 5 GHz is

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a bit of a range impediment compared to 2.4 GHz however the advantage of it is

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that there is significant less interference on the 5 GHz band so while

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you get it from a wireless n 5 GHz

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router you get even more from a dedicated 5 GHz Wireless AC router so

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moving right along also right I mean better antenna uh technology better

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transmission power is also going to compensate somewhat for the reduced

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range of the 5 GHz band operating in okay transs up to Ideal and

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uninterrupted HD video streaming concurrent internet access amazing I

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mean I can't wait wait for 1300 megabit per second internet

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access yeah yeah all right 24/7 tech

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support in USA and Canada only threeyear warranty on this guy right here and

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we've got all of the usual stuff right here including what it includes the

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wireless the wired interface so of course it's gigabit which it sort of

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better be if it's going to be like I mean if it's going to be capable of

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gigabit on the wireless side then it

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better be gigabit wired too because that only sort of stands for reason all right

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so let's see what they've included it's kind of a neat looking it's kind of a

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neat looking router casing okay hold on so air Navigator is their connector CD

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I've actually found in my experience I know I usually say throw away the CD but

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I found router connector CDs can actually be kind of useful if you're not

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uh techy and knowledgeable so if you you know buy the router for someone you can

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tell them to use it also comes with a colored quick setup guide shows you how

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to plug the thing into the thing and the other thing and switch the thing on as

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well as oh look at that couple quick tips about uh about setting up the S ID

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sing up the key it's nice to have a handy dandy reference sheet I would

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probably take something like this and like tape it to the unit because that's

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what I usually do with the information that I need connection guide for Android

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devices oh look at that trying to be very complete about things warranty

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statement Regulatory Compliance and supplemental

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information hm fascinating okay so let's

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have a look at what they've got in terms of included accessories screw

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brackets couple mounting ho-ass so looks

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like these guys going in here like uh

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H H probably this would be my guess okay

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give me a oh no I get it I get it I get it okay yeah so these clip in right here

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if you do want to stand the router up there's little guides on the inside so

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you can see that right there just like that and then it will stand without

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falling over so the unit itself has a soft touch rubberized finish on it that

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actually looks quite nice you've got Buffalo's Air Station branding right

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about there on that side and right about there on the other side they've got a

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plastic piece that goes around the top of it kind of like it looks kind of like

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um like Mackie you know like with the sort of aluminum metally looking piece

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going around the outside of a black thing like kind of like a iPad or

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something it's my tablet the air station um on the front uh we've got our uh

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connectivity indicators we've also got an illuminated Buffalo logo and moving

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around to the back we find our 4 gbit Lan our internet Jack as well as our oh

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that's kind of neat our onoff switch so you don't actually have to unplug it to

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power cycle the router should you need to do it as well as our power input our

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USB um USB port and eject button for the

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safe ejection of it and a router button let's figure out what that does give me

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a sec guys apparently on the entire internet information does not exist

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about what this button does but what I suspect it does is it's a hardware button to change from router mode to

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just wireless access point switch mode which would be really useful because

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then you can take your existing setup plug this thing in hit the button it's

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not going to create any conflicting IP address uh assignments anything like

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that and it'll just get you going as quickly as possible also we found

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something cool here's a card in the bottom of the unit that tells you all your default information without taping

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things to the side of it which is pretty cool as well there's a reset button on

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the bottom which if you want to reset the unit you're going to want to hold

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that down and that'll reset it back to factory defaults and in terms of

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included accessories we've got our power brck I think we already covered this

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didn't we so I think that pretty much wraps it up now right now there aren't

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really any AC devices so what's the point of an AC router it's a draft 2.0

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standard at this point in time so why do you need this gigabit Wireless speed

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well Buffalo has a companion product so

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this is the uh the ac300 this is the

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Dual Band Media Bridge so it has 4 gbit

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ports and then this guy right here is basically like a huge network card think

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of it that way like it's a huge external Wi-Fi dongle so that means you can

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connect just one device by gigabit Ethernet to this guy right here and then

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you're going to get your 1.3 gigabit per second theoretical between these two

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devices and then full gigabit connectivity between this guy and

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whatever computer or device it's connected to or up to four devices at a

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time given that they should be bandwidth to spare um the router itself includes

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all the usual features in uh things like

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uh qos so you can prioritize certain things like media streaming or gaming so

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that you don't get any lag and I think that pretty much covers it thank you for

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checking out our unboxing and first look at their AC 1300 dualband Extreme

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