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Fast internet. It's the thing that everybody wants. But if you've watched

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any of the short circuits here with me, your boy Jake, sometimes it's not the

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easiest thing ever, getting fast Wi-Fi. And today, thanks to ASUS, who sponsored

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this video for us to check out their ASUS Zen Wi-Fi BT10 mesh Wi-Fi system.

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We're going to see just how easy it can be to set up a super fast Wi-Fi 7 mesh

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network in, well, not a house. It kind

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of looks like a house, but this is a warehouse, I promise you. And they also have a whole lineup of other products if

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this particular one doesn't suit your fancy. But let's open the box and check

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it out. So, looking at the front of this thing, I can definitely tell already that there's there's two in here. But

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you can also buy these things in a pack of one, a pack of three. We've got our

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two box doohickey things in there. Power

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brick. Cool. And one Ethernet cable. Nice. Now,

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for the uninitiated, if you're not familiar with Wi-Fi meshing, the idea is

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well, a lot of houses don't have hardwired internet, and uh even if they

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do, it's not always in the place that you need good Wi-Fi. So, the way that

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this setup is supposed to work, you take your main box, you plug it in at your

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ISP's fiber box or cable modem, or maybe

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into your ISP's existing router if you want. And then the second unit or third

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unit or maybe even more units go elsewhere in your house, your apartment,

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your small business, whatever. And then these two connect to each other

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wirelessly. And then this is rebroadcasted. So, they'll make a really

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high-speed connection between each other as a fast kind of back haul highway

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between each unit wirelessly. And then this is retransmitting to your other

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devices in the other place where you might not have signal. And this allows you to set up your house or other in a

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way where you have excellent coverage everywhere without having to run wires

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or having to have wires. It's um it's not a new concept, but it is a very

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powerful one uh if you don't have that existing infrastructure. Now, let's take

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a look at the individual unit here. They look to be exactly the same. I've seen

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some of these mesh Wi-Fi setups before where they have different pieces. So,

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they'll have like a main unit that's like beefier and has all of the ports on

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it and then they have the kind of substation mesh units that don't have

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anything other than power. But, these ones are virtually identical. Let's just

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take a look at one. We've got a USB 3.0 0 typeA port which you can use for say

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network storage if you want to connect to an external hard drive or for USB

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tethering if you have an internet outage. You can connect your phone and then rebroadcast your phone cellular

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connection to all of your devices as like a backup link. We've got a 1 gig

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RJ45 and then two 10 gig RJ45s which is

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a nice touch. That means you could if you have like a 2.5 gig internet

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connection, a 5 gig internet connection, a 10 gig internet connection, you can

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hook it up here and then you still get a full speed output. And the other nice

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thing is the other unit also has those same ports. So if you're bridging

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wirelessly and you've got, you know, a 2 gig wireless link or something between

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these two connections, you can still take advantage of it on the other remote

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meshed side. Then we've got a power input and then a little power

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switchy. We've got a reset button in case you screw up. And it's nice. Look

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at that. It's not like one of those stupid recessed holes you have to like

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hold a pin in and then if you don't have a pin, you're screwed. No, it's just a

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recessed button that you have to hold. So, you don't need any special tools to

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screw around with that, which is very nice. And then there's a WPS Wi-Fi

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protected setup button. I would not recommend using that for security reasons, but if you really want to, it's

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there. Speaking of power brick, what kind of power brick is this? It's a 12vt

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3 amp. So, max of 36 watts. Now, there's

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a sticker on one of these. Does that mean I need to use that one? Hi, I'm the

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main unit. Start with me. Okay, cool. Hey, this little light is green. Let's

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give it um

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internet. Now, it's strobing. Okay, I

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guess I need the app. Got the ASUS router Wi-Fi app downloaded here. Let's

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check it out. Asus Gen Wi-Fi series. Make sure you've connected the modem to

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your router's WAN port, which I have done. Set up local password. admin. I

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like that it makes you set up an admin account for your router locally because

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a lot of them just default to like whatever thing is printed on the bottom.

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Some of them I've even seen still to this day default to password as the

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password, which is so bad. Oh, it even makes an IoT network. That's so smart.

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See, one of the things with new Wi-Fi technology is that it's not always

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compatible with older stuff. And actually, what the router just did is

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made an IoT network at the same time, which is a completely separate thing.

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will show up in your list. Speedy Boy IoT that you can use for devices that

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don't work on the main network because their Wi-Fi chipset or drivers or

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whatever might be so old that they don't support it. Uh well, you shouldn't have

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a problem with that. All right, we've got both of our things connected. Didn't

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even have to do anything to get this one connected. It just connected on its own. They're all firmware updated and now we

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can try it. Wow, look at that. We can check our connection quality, what

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interface we're on for a given device, which is cool. We can bind it to one of

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the specific access points, which is a nice touch. If you have like some

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security cameras that aren't very good about deciding what Wi-Fi thing they

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connect to, you can force it to connect with that. There's family settings, so

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you can block specific content for specific people. I made a thing for

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Belle that says he's a preschooler to block all of these various things for

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him. And you can even schedule the usage. And if you're outside of your

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scheduled your allowed internet, you could even go and say reward with 60

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minutes of additional internet access if you

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want. It's not something that I would use, but if if that's a use case for

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you, that's it's there. You can you can do it. The quick internet setup is

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probably just a redo of what we did in the initial setup where you just type in

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the Wi-Fi network names. But if we go into network here, we can be a little

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bit more choosy about our options. Yeah.

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Okay. Wi-Fi 7 mode is on. That's right. This is a Wi-Fi 7 access point. It

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supports 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz

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Wi-Fi. And also has MLO, which in theory means you can have an individual device

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connect to multiple bands at the same time. So, you can take advantage of 5

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GHz and 6 GHz, assuming your device supports it to increase your speeds and

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in some cases just increase um the handling of clients, like the amount of

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clients you can handle. We can hide our SSID. We can isolate it to a given AP

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and we can even see the clients that are connected to that individual network. I

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can add a guest network. Huh. VPN network. Let's add a multi-link

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operation network. Okay. I've enabled MLO, which uh has more than one benefit.

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Actually, it allows not only our phone to connect over multiple bands. More

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importantly, for this specific use case, it allows both of these to talk to each

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other over more than one or different bands at the same time. So, say if you

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have a device that's like ripping on the 5 GHz because Wi-Fi, it's a bit of an

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oversimplification, but let's say you can only really have one device talking

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at a given time. Well, if you have one device using the 5 GHz band, then your

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two devices instead can go, "Ah, that band is really busy. Let me talk over 6

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GHz or 2.4 so that it doesn't interrupt the downstream devices as much, which is

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cool. But it also means we can get faster Wi-Fi. Um, I'm not going to start

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with that. Let's just start with normal nonMLO. Let's try speed test. Just

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normal Wi-Fi. Nor me Wi-Fi. Yo, 1300s.

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That's fast Wi-Fi, brother. That's like 1.1 GB without MLO. 1.2 even almost. And

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the upload. Yo,

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1,500. 6 GHz Wi-Fi kicks ass. It

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definitely kicks ass. Let's try MLO. To be clear, some devices don't make very

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good use of MLO, and sometimes you can even get results that are worse. But

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this OnePlus 13, from my understanding, does usually do MLO pretty good. So,

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let's see if we can go a little faster making use of both. Look at that. 2.2.

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So, it's broadcasting and transmitting over both 5 GHz and 6 GHz at the same

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time. Holy balls. That's That's three

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3.2 GB upload. Now, I say, why don't we

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walk away from our little access point here? Let's walk over to the other set

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over there. We'll go pretty far away and see how it tests and then we'll take our

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second access point, put it over there, and then try it with the mesh. So, this

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is probably about 30 or so feet away. Oh, yeah.

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We're still on MLO. 2 GB that far away.

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Now, we're probably more like 60 70 ft away through a wall. Still using MLO.

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Honestly, better than I was expecting. 1300 down, 860 up. Let's go

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even further. It's bad over here. is bad. We're far away. Let's go grab the

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other access point and see if it works more better. All right, we're back in

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the build corner. I've taken our second BT10 and plugged it in here and got it

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all meshed up. Now, let's go back over to where we were only getting like 90 90

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down 90 up and see if our speed is any better. So, instead of over here getting

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90 down and 90 up, now we're getting 800

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down. Damn, boy. So, clearly the Wi-Fi,

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but I want to see what else they got in here. I did notice they have a VPN feature so you can connect to your

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different VPN providers if you want to route devices through a VPN like say if

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you have private internet access or something like that. But they also have something called VPN Fusion. So you can

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add like up to 16 different VPN profiles

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if you have different protocols or you use multiple providers. And then you can

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like pick devices to use specific ones

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or even use multiple at the same time which is kind of cool. They have their

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AI protection powered by Trend Micro. Allows real-time network monitoring to

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detect malware, which I guess is kind of like an IPS kind of thing. Oh, yeah. Two

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AIPS. That's enabled by default, assuming you agree to the privacy

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policy. They've got parental controls, security scans. They've got basically

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everything. Like, the setup was pretty easy. All we had to do was type in our Wi-Fi name and password and an admin

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name and password and and we were off to the races. You can make changes to all

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the advanced settings if you're a bit of a nerd, but if you also just wanted to

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set it up and have good Wi-Fi out of the box, it seems to do that with the eight

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internal antennas and 10 high power frontend modules. You should be able to

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handle up to a 6,000 square ft space, but if you need more, you can add even

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more than they also sell a three-ack of these things if you need or just one if

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that's all you need as well. So, if you're interested in the ASUS Zen Wi-Fi

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BT10, you can pick up a single unit for 360 bucks, a two pack for 690, although

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I saw it on sale right there, or a three-pack for 1,000, and then you can

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have Ballin Wi-Fi 7 4K Quam MLO fast

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speeds all over your house, and you don't even need wiring. But if you do

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have wiring, you can use that, too. So, if

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you're interested in the BT10 one pack, two pack, three-pack, or any of the

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other ASUS Zen Wi-Fi products, check out the link in the description. Uh, we'll

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have links to all of them down there. So, thanks for watching, guys. If you like this video, maybe hit the like

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button. And, um, thanks to ASUS for sponsoring and let me know, do you have

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mesh Wi-Fi? Do you wish you had mesh Wi-Fi? Do you want better