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welcome to my unboxing of the Buffalo AirStation W4 d1300 more

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importantly than the model number what

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does it do this is a wireless AC Media

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Bridge so what does a Media Bridge do

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basically it's a glorified Wi-Fi card

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because the intention of this particular device

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is just to give you a way to use your brand new wireless AC router remember

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guys or will not remember unless you've already seen the other video in which

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case remember Wireless AC is a 5 GHz

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dual band 1.3 gabit per second wireless

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standard this is the next Generation standard that will at some point in time

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be completely replacing Wireless N as

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what everything is using although right now it is still in its infancy as of the

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time of doing this unboxing it is in 2.0 standard however according to Buffalo it

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works so very very cool stuff um dual

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band Media Bridge etc etc okay let's see what Buffalo has to say for themselves

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so it's dual band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz it is backwards compatible with existing

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wireless standard so it is also n450 uh so 450 megabit per second there and

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ac300 1.3 gbit per second there it has 4

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GB Ethernet ports on it it's Multi-Device capable hence the 4 GB

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Ethernet ports it's also multi platform PC Mac or mobile which it should be um

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given that it's using Wireless standards to connect to things they're showing you

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how to set up your AC Network so there's your home router there's your glorified

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network card and there is your wired

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connections going out to all of your devices so when I say glorified network

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card what I mean is really fancy network card because you could not only use it

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as a network card and connect it via a gigabit wired connection to one PC so

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you would have in theory gab Wireless connectivity but you could

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also take it in its glory and connect it

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to four devices which assuming they were all fully utilizing the maximum

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theoretical bandwidth they'd all still be getting about 300 megabit per second

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in terms of connectivity so that's pretty crazy given you'd be splitting it

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four ways remember guys this is all theoretical so when it comes to wireless

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performance the ratings don't include things like overhead or interference or

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all that other that other nonsense that tends to interfere with wireless however

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one that is theoretically faster than another one theoretically is in the real

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world will be faster even if those theoretical numbers don't pan out quite

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the way that we want them to so in terms of included stuff we've got our CD

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connector which gives you a wizard for setting it up we've got our quick setup

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guide which basically involves if you have the corresponding AC router from

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Buffalo this guy right here which looks a little different not very different

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mind you but a little bit different uh if you have the corresponding AC router

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should be pretty much a OneTouch thing we've got a couple of little feet which

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will help us stand up our little air station Media Bridge guy right here so

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you just put those down there and they slide into the appropriately slotted

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spot just like that yeah there's a better angle there

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you go and we've also got a power

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adapter couple of screws piece for the

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power adapter and finally their

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awesome flat Ethernet cable that is like

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awesome in every possible way we have one here in the tech tips lab and slick

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and I both fight over who gets to use it

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um right so connect up to four wired devices to your Ultra fast 11 AC or

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high-speed 11n wireless network once again it is capable of both so having a

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quick look at the physical unit itself we have a reset switch on the bottom

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which whoops there you go might come in handy if you ever need to reset the

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device to its factory defaults on the back we've got a power button we've also

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got power in so this is great if you want a power cyc it and you don't want

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to just yank the plug and put it back in uh We've also got our uh 4 gbit Lan

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ports and look at that a hardware button for setting it to 5 GHz fixed mode so

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that'll change it from being in multi mode so 2.4 GHz 5 GHz to just 5 GHz for

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Wi-Fi remember guys Wireless AC runs pure on the 5 GHz Spectrum rather than

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relying on the older now older 2.4 GHz

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Spectrum so what that means is slightly reduced in theory range however the

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Technologies for transmission strength as well as antennas continue to move

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forward to compensate for it but also significantly less interference due to

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the underutilization of this band compared to the overutilization of 2.4

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GHz so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the wi4 D13

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