welcome to my unboxing of the Buffalo AirStation W4 d1300 more
importantly than the model number what
does it do this is a wireless AC Media
Bridge so what does a Media Bridge do
basically it's a glorified Wi-Fi card
because the intention of this particular device
is just to give you a way to use your brand new wireless AC router remember
guys or will not remember unless you've already seen the other video in which
case remember Wireless AC is a 5 GHz
dual band 1.3 gabit per second wireless
standard this is the next Generation standard that will at some point in time
be completely replacing Wireless N as
what everything is using although right now it is still in its infancy as of the
time of doing this unboxing it is in 2.0 standard however according to Buffalo it
works so very very cool stuff um dual
band Media Bridge etc etc okay let's see what Buffalo has to say for themselves
so it's dual band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz it is backwards compatible with existing
wireless standard so it is also n450 uh so 450 megabit per second there and
ac300 1.3 gbit per second there it has 4
GB Ethernet ports on it it's Multi-Device capable hence the 4 GB
Ethernet ports it's also multi platform PC Mac or mobile which it should be um
given that it's using Wireless standards to connect to things they're showing you
how to set up your AC Network so there's your home router there's your glorified
network card and there is your wired
connections going out to all of your devices so when I say glorified network
card what I mean is really fancy network card because you could not only use it
as a network card and connect it via a gigabit wired connection to one PC so
you would have in theory gab Wireless connectivity but you could
also take it in its glory and connect it
to four devices which assuming they were all fully utilizing the maximum
theoretical bandwidth they'd all still be getting about 300 megabit per second
in terms of connectivity so that's pretty crazy given you'd be splitting it
four ways remember guys this is all theoretical so when it comes to wireless
performance the ratings don't include things like overhead or interference or
all that other that other nonsense that tends to interfere with wireless however
one that is theoretically faster than another one theoretically is in the real
world will be faster even if those theoretical numbers don't pan out quite
the way that we want them to so in terms of included stuff we've got our CD
connector which gives you a wizard for setting it up we've got our quick setup
guide which basically involves if you have the corresponding AC router from
Buffalo this guy right here which looks a little different not very different
mind you but a little bit different uh if you have the corresponding AC router
should be pretty much a OneTouch thing we've got a couple of little feet which
will help us stand up our little air station Media Bridge guy right here so
you just put those down there and they slide into the appropriately slotted
spot just like that yeah there's a better angle there
you go and we've also got a power
adapter couple of screws piece for the
power adapter and finally their
awesome flat Ethernet cable that is like
awesome in every possible way we have one here in the tech tips lab and slick
and I both fight over who gets to use it
um right so connect up to four wired devices to your Ultra fast 11 AC or
high-speed 11n wireless network once again it is capable of both so having a
quick look at the physical unit itself we have a reset switch on the bottom
which whoops there you go might come in handy if you ever need to reset the
device to its factory defaults on the back we've got a power button we've also
got power in so this is great if you want a power cyc it and you don't want
to just yank the plug and put it back in uh We've also got our uh 4 gbit Lan
ports and look at that a hardware button for setting it to 5 GHz fixed mode so
that'll change it from being in multi mode so 2.4 GHz 5 GHz to just 5 GHz for
Wi-Fi remember guys Wireless AC runs pure on the 5 GHz Spectrum rather than
relying on the older now older 2.4 GHz
Spectrum so what that means is slightly reduced in theory range however the
Technologies for transmission strength as well as antennas continue to move
forward to compensate for it but also significantly less interference due to
the underutilization of this band compared to the overutilization of 2.4
GHz so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the wi4 D13
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