now this product's a little bit unique in that it is the first of its kind it's
a wireless n 450 megabit per second
router so what that means is that it is
twice as fast as the other no no it's not twice as fast as
anything it's 50% faster than the other high-speed Wireless end devices and it
is three times faster than the basic
Wireless end devices which are rated at 100 50 megabit per second so let's see
what trend net has to say for themselves on the box first of all this is a Green
net product which means that it employs some smart power saving techniques in
order to reduce power consumption so things like powering off the ports that
aren't being used on the switch for example it has ey popping 450 megabit
per second wireless speed and coverage gigabit Ethernet ports for high performance wired connections you can
stream videos download files talk online and play games all at the same time and
connect computers with one touch Wi-Fi protected setup so like a OneTouch setup
thing now what also makes this unique is that at the time of release there was
absolutely nothing on the market in terms of 450 megabit per second clients
that's H been been remedied Now by trendnet themselves they have their 450
megabit per second wireless end gaming adapter these days so that helps a lot
and then um yeah like you can see you can see when they designed the Box
related products a bunch of 300 megabit per second stuff so um
yeah I mean I guess there's uh going to be notebooks with built-in 450 megabit
per second but uh there was nothing in terms of something you could buy from
trendnet that would work with it so I I thought that was pretty amusing when
this first came out cuz it was a little while ago actually so here they're
talking about the features security uh package contents which we'll
see in a moment but let's see what they have to say about features and Security
First so highp speed Advanced wp2
wireless security so that's under Wireless and then there's security
access restriction with internet access control here let's move that so you can read it better there we go uh Advanced
firewall protection with network address translation and stateful packet
inspection ease of use which is also good onoff oh onoff wireless switch
that's handy that's actually that's actually
really handy there are times when you do want to turn off your wireless or at
least I've wanted to do it a couple times and I it's not always convenient
to you know go log into the uh web-
based admin all right here's all the standards it support So as mentioned
before these are gigabit Ethernet ports to go along with the 450 megabit per
Wireless so with this device you can pretty much build the fastest possible
home network without getting into some pretty high-end networking
gear let's move along here let you guys you can pause this obviously if you want
to read and uh I'm not going to say too much unless there's something that
really stands out to me as needing to be
said and I don't really see anything
like that so this will work with your old G
and B compatible wireless devices just
so that you're aware so it's backwards compatible just
like any Wireless end device the key difference is the speed so let's see
what we find inside first we have a user's guide on disk then we have a user
gu oh no this is a quick installation guide Okay so we've got three pages of
English before you start installing and configuring all right so configuring oh
no I guess this oh yeah no like like three four pages um so they show you the
very very Basics uh which is configuring your
wireless and then setting up Security on it very important stuff and then
obviously you can use the user guide if you want to get a little bit deeper into
things so here we have one Ethernet cable so that'll at least get you
connected from your wireless router to your Internet modem and then if you want
to wire up any computers you're going to have to uh use additional cables and
then we have a power adapter so this power adapter is rated for 12 volts 1
amp so pretty much your run-of-the-mill
power adapter and let's have a look at the router itself shets really improved
so much on their um on their old like
blue shelled Wireless products these uh
these slick black casings really just
well they look a lot they look a lot more professional a lot more sharp so
here we go here's our three antennas so
it does have a three antenna design so let's have a look at the physical
aspects of this router so remember this is the Tew
691 gr and you can see right here on the
front we've got all of the indicator LEDs that we could pretty much need
there's our security one there's wireless
LAN there's another one I'm not sure
what that one's for it's not labeled only one way to find out later we have
Lan 1 2 3 4 labeled as well as our Wan
Port so that's another Lan Port but really that one goes into your router
more than anything else and then we have a power light so that means you can
Network up to four computers and one router for your internet connection as
well as uh any number of I mean I think it's up to something like 200 plus uh
Wireless clients although there's no way you'd want to run that many off so realistically you know you can run
anywhere from 10 to 20 computers off this if you're running most of them
Wireless which is kind of neat here we have some ventilation holes on the side
here we have some ventilation holes on the other side there's the WPS I'm going
to put my hand here so that it'll actually Focus there's the WPS OneTouch
Wireless setup and then let's have a close look at the
back so here put my hand here so it'll focus there is our power in there's the
reset switch there's our power switch switch there's that neat wireless LAN
onoff switch there is our Wan port and
there are the four Lan ports that I had mentioned before so I am going to do
some performance testing with this guy and I'm going to be using the their Tew
687 450 megabit per second client in order to find out just how fast we can
make this go just what kind of range it has so thank you for checking out my
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