welcome to my unboxing of the Buffalo
ac300 N900 dualband Extreme Performance
wireless router now when Buffalo says Extreme Performance what they mean by
Extreme Performance is as Extreme as it
freaking gets when it comes to wireless
so this is a Wi-Fi router it is
802.11 AC which is completely different
from 802.11a 802.11 b g and N this is
significantly faster so this guy is capable of up to 1.3 gigabits per second
remember whenever we're talking Wireless performance we're talking theoretical
performance and the real world it'll be less but this this theoretical
performance is definitely faster than your old theoretical performance I can
tell you that much for sure so that is with ultra fast wirel less 11 AC 900
megabit per second simultaneous dualband Wireless 11n so that means dual
concurrent 450 megabit per second streams even if you're using older
Wireless and equipment with it however if you pair it up with newer Wireless AC
equipment you will get screaming fast
theoretically gigabit Wireless connectivity which is up until now
completely unheard of when it comes to the consumer space anyway so it comes
with a fairly full oh I love these Ethernet cables I
have we have one of these in the tech tips room from when we did uh from when
we showcased a buffalo product in the past these are like their sexy ribbon
cable Ethernet cables very nice uh those are the kinds
of accessories that that I get excited about these days I guess I mean I'm also
excited about the you know 1.3 gabit per
second wireless performance but uh okay let's cover more more of what Buffalo
has to say for themselves before we move along so it's dualband 2.4 GHz 5 GHz
gigabit Ethernet USB port for storage and it is also multiplatform PC Mac or
mobile devices are all supported and they darn well better be okay uh
operating in oh right so AC
is different from n it doesn't operate on 2.4 GHz at all now in theory 5 GHz is
a bit of a range impediment compared to 2.4 GHz however the advantage of it is
that there is significant less interference on the 5 GHz band so while
you get it from a wireless n 5 GHz
router you get even more from a dedicated 5 GHz Wireless AC router so
moving right along also right I mean better antenna uh technology better
transmission power is also going to compensate somewhat for the reduced
range of the 5 GHz band operating in okay transs up to Ideal and
uninterrupted HD video streaming concurrent internet access amazing I
mean I can't wait wait for 1300 megabit per second internet
access yeah yeah all right 24/7 tech
support in USA and Canada only threeyear warranty on this guy right here and
we've got all of the usual stuff right here including what it includes the
wireless the wired interface so of course it's gigabit which it sort of
better be if it's going to be like I mean if it's going to be capable of
gigabit on the wireless side then it
better be gigabit wired too because that only sort of stands for reason all right
so let's see what they've included it's kind of a neat looking it's kind of a
neat looking router casing okay hold on so air Navigator is their connector CD
I've actually found in my experience I know I usually say throw away the CD but
I found router connector CDs can actually be kind of useful if you're not
uh techy and knowledgeable so if you you know buy the router for someone you can
tell them to use it also comes with a colored quick setup guide shows you how
to plug the thing into the thing and the other thing and switch the thing on as
well as oh look at that couple quick tips about uh about setting up the S ID
sing up the key it's nice to have a handy dandy reference sheet I would
probably take something like this and like tape it to the unit because that's
what I usually do with the information that I need connection guide for Android
devices oh look at that trying to be very complete about things warranty
statement Regulatory Compliance and supplemental
information hm fascinating okay so let's
have a look at what they've got in terms of included accessories screw
brackets couple mounting ho-ass so looks
like these guys going in here like uh
H H probably this would be my guess okay
give me a oh no I get it I get it I get it okay yeah so these clip in right here
if you do want to stand the router up there's little guides on the inside so
you can see that right there just like that and then it will stand without
falling over so the unit itself has a soft touch rubberized finish on it that
actually looks quite nice you've got Buffalo's Air Station branding right
about there on that side and right about there on the other side they've got a
plastic piece that goes around the top of it kind of like it looks kind of like
um like Mackie you know like with the sort of aluminum metally looking piece
going around the outside of a black thing like kind of like a iPad or
something it's my tablet the air station um on the front uh we've got our uh
connectivity indicators we've also got an illuminated Buffalo logo and moving
around to the back we find our 4 gbit Lan our internet Jack as well as our oh
that's kind of neat our onoff switch so you don't actually have to unplug it to
power cycle the router should you need to do it as well as our power input our
USB um USB port and eject button for the
safe ejection of it and a router button let's figure out what that does give me
a sec guys apparently on the entire internet information does not exist
about what this button does but what I suspect it does is it's a hardware button to change from router mode to
just wireless access point switch mode which would be really useful because
then you can take your existing setup plug this thing in hit the button it's
not going to create any conflicting IP address uh assignments anything like
that and it'll just get you going as quickly as possible also we found
something cool here's a card in the bottom of the unit that tells you all your default information without taping
things to the side of it which is pretty cool as well there's a reset button on
the bottom which if you want to reset the unit you're going to want to hold
that down and that'll reset it back to factory defaults and in terms of
included accessories we've got our power brck I think we already covered this
didn't we so I think that pretty much wraps it up now right now there aren't
really any AC devices so what's the point of an AC router it's a draft 2.0
standard at this point in time so why do you need this gigabit Wireless speed
well Buffalo has a companion product so
this is the uh the ac300 this is the
Dual Band Media Bridge so it has 4 gbit
ports and then this guy right here is basically like a huge network card think
of it that way like it's a huge external Wi-Fi dongle so that means you can
connect just one device by gigabit Ethernet to this guy right here and then
you're going to get your 1.3 gigabit per second theoretical between these two
devices and then full gigabit connectivity between this guy and
whatever computer or device it's connected to or up to four devices at a
time given that they should be bandwidth to spare um the router itself includes
all the usual features in uh things like
uh qos so you can prioritize certain things like media streaming or gaming so
that you don't get any lag and I think that pretty much covers it thank you for
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