1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,160 This thing is legitimately kind of exciting. The Euromax 7 is the first Wi-Fi 7 router 2 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:12,480 we've been able to get our hands on, and Wi-Fi 7 has some clear benefits for consumers. 3 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,960 I mean, not most consumers, since the odds of you having a Wi-Fi 7 device 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,040 to connect to it is pretty slim right now, 5 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:24,520 but in the future, it will be up to, and this is Wi-Fi specs, 6 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:31,360 so you can take it for the horses, but it is, 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6e. 7 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:35,240 In order to reach the 48 gigabit per second 8 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,480 advertised peak throughput of Wi-Fi 7, 9 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:41,920 you would have to have 16 spatial streams running. 10 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,880 That is essentially 16 parallel connections 11 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:51,720 between the two devices. For context, most mobile phones have one or two 12 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,760 because of the power requirements of running more spatial streams. 13 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:00,960 That doesn't mean that in somewhere like a, oh, I don't know, say a stadium, for example, 14 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,720 that you might never see numbers at least approaching that, 15 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,520 but at home to a single device, not even close. 16 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:13,200 But that doesn't mean you won't see numbers greater than you're used to seeing with this thing, 17 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:18,680 especially if you're upgrading from Wi-Fi 6, because like Wi-Fi 6e, 18 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,800 Wi-Fi 7 has support for the 6 gigahertz band, 19 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:27,800 which means you are less likely to run into interference with your neighbors if you're somewhere like 20 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:32,720 in a high-rise or a multiplex. And because most of your devices 21 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:38,880 aren't going to be using Wi-Fi 6 gigahertz yet, it's really useful to act as a wireless backhaul 22 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:43,280 between mesh access points like these ones. 23 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:48,880 Nice and fast, no interference. Let's have a look at what's included. We've got a couple of USB-C power bricks. 24 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,440 We've got kind of cheap feeling, braided, 25 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:56,360 probably cat 5e cable. These are 45-watt power bricks. 26 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,920 You know, I was reading a ruckus article talking about how one of the concerns 27 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:04,880 about all these spatial streams and Wi-Fi 7 in general is power consumption at the access points. 28 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,240 No kidding. Is there anything else in here? 29 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:15,320 Nope, just the access points. They're that big. That's another major concern that's been flagged 30 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:20,280 about Wi-Fi 7, whether it's to handle the cooling or all the flipping antennas in them. 31 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:24,800 These access points are getting quite large. Let's take a look at some cool features here though. 32 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,600 We've got dual 10 gig ports, dual two and a half gig ports. 33 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,920 That gives you a lot of flexibility and means that your network connection 34 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:35,920 is not going to limit your internet speeds anytime soon. 35 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:41,040 In fact, I have made the argument before and I'm gonna make it again at extreme risk to myself 36 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:45,200 that consumers do not need faster than gigabit 37 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:50,120 or at most two and a half gigabit networking for a very, very long time. 38 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,400 And the reason is that most outside services, 39 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,440 so the actual websites and services 40 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:01,200 that you're connecting to are not going to be fast enough to take advantage of more than that 41 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:06,040 across their entire client base. And number two is that for raw downloads, 42 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:10,800 even downloading games from Steam, you're likely to end up CPU limited 43 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,560 before you saturate even a two and a half gig internet connection. 44 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:18,280 Wow, how on Amazon like? 45 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,560 Right there under start setup, delete my account and data. 46 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,080 Huh, the hell's a fiber aunt? To be clear, I know what they're talking about. 47 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:32,160 This would be the fiber box that's provided by your ISP. I just mean, why would they jargon this up? 48 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:33,120 Meet my aunt. 49 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:39,980 This is truly remarkable. Okay, you've got the closeup cam there, right? 50 00:03:39,980 --> 00:03:44,160 I just opened this. It already looks disgusting. 51 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:48,400 I mean, this has been out of the box for like six minutes. 52 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,040 But can you see the layer of, it's like it has fur, the dust. 53 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,400 Why are things white? Apple. 54 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,640 I blame you. I blame you. 55 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,600 These go in your ears. This is super convenient. 56 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,200 There's no uplink port. You just kind of connect whatever to whatever. 57 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:11,320 If you'll need two and a half gig for your internet, then great. If you have faster internet, connect to 10 gig. 58 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:15,400 And then you're left with whichever ports are left over to connect your devices to each other. 59 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,880 So say for example, I had two and a half gig internet. I'd go into there. 60 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:24,160 And then if I had say my, you know, editing workstation and a NAS, I'd plug those both into 10 gigs 61 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,600 so that I'd get nice fast timeline performance. Super cool. 62 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:33,920 Okay, immediately found it. Wow, built-in ZigBee and Matter and Thread. 63 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,320 Oh, that's kind of cool. Amazon's frustration free setup. 64 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:44,520 I mean, yeah, okay. Now this is where we get into trouble. 65 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:48,120 One of the worst trends in enterprise networking 66 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,960 has been the move towards everything being as a service. 67 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,720 And on the one hand, there are definitely parts of Euro Plus 68 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,640 that do make sense to have a subscription fee for. 69 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:04,240 Like for example, they've partnered with Guardian 70 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:09,240 for VPN service. It actually does cost money to run VPN servers on an ongoing basis. 71 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,240 You can't just buy hardware once and then have VPN service forever. 72 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,640 Some of these things make less sense to me. 73 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:23,200 There's the historical data that I mentioned earlier. So network data usage and monitoring network activity. 74 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,560 Why is that not just included? That's just basic. That runs locally. 75 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,960 I don't even understand what internet backup means. 76 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:36,600 Add alternate wireless connections like a personal hotspot to keep your Wi-Fi up and running 77 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,720 even when your wired connection goes down. So what, like failover? 78 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,680 Why can't I just have failover? You can even block ads. 79 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:47,640 I can't believe how expensive this is. $130 a year. 80 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:53,000 Oh wait, I get a month free. Oh, but I could get 30 days free. Do I want a month free or 30 days? 81 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,560 I guess it depends what month it is. Get the best deal. 82 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,160 Didn't I not just subscribe to it? Oh my God. 83 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,360 The last couple of things that Euro Plus includes is the ability to block apps. 84 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,600 So like Facebook or YouTube for your kids. See that? 85 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,600 That's one that really shouldn't be on a subscription. VIP support, okay. 86 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,560 That I understand. And dynamic DNS, which, 87 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,040 and I guess if you can afford the Ero Max 7, you can afford the subscription. 88 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,120 Holy, it's two pack is $1100 US dollars. 89 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,880 You're all set. How many times are you gonna tell me I'm all set? Am I all set? 90 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,320 What is happening right now? I just subscribed. 91 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,440 This is a Wi-Fi 7 device, by the way. This is the OnePlus Open. 92 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,600 Interesting, it automatically configured 93 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,600 a 2.4 slash five gigahertz network, any six gigahertz network. 94 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,960 Well, interesting. Why would it do that? 95 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:50,920 Because you will almost never end up connected to the six gigahertz network in that configuration. 96 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:56,440 It'll just grab onto the five gigahertz, 2.4 gigahertz one and it'll end up being really sticky 97 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:03,320 because six gigahertz by definition is not going to have as good range as even five gigahertz. 98 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:07,520 So I've found from my own experience, you don't wanna just have them separate 99 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:12,440 if you can avoid it. You know what, fine, sure. No, we're gonna use it like it would be out of the box. 100 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:17,000 I just took this selfie earlier because I was like, oh, look, it makes my head look really small. 101 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,360 You can block apps like Roblox. 102 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,960 Really? You know what? Fine, I'm subscribing again. 103 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:34,600 Try and stop me. Oh, I already own this item, got it. Okay, well then why are you prompting me for it? 104 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:41,560 Oh, look at this. It's now 2.45 and six gigahertz, all in the same SSID. 105 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:46,800 Okay, so what I said before then, now we have a device, add a device. 106 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,800 That one, safe. Maybe now I can enable ad blocking. 107 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:54,600 You're f***ing kidding me. 108 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:02,080 Okay, how about content? F***. 109 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,920 Full restart. Try turning it off and turning it back on. 110 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,120 Yeah, yeah, I have. Come on, Jeffy. 111 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:13,840 Just take my hard earned money. Use, oh, internet backup with an Eero Plus subscription. 112 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:21,440 It wasn't the trust me bro scandal. It wasn't the ad block scandal. 113 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:27,000 And it wasn't even this year's summer scandal. This is what pushed me over the edge. 114 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,040 Thanks, Eero. Oh, I assume that was a WPS button. 115 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:35,200 I guess WPS is just, oh no, wow, it factored. Wow, okay, that's pretty cool. 116 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,800 It factory resetted on its own. Okay, you know what, forget it. 117 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,400 For the life of me, I cannot subscribe to their service. So we won't be trying their ad blocking. 118 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,880 We won't be trying their content filtering. Maybe it's decent. 119 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:53,120 I have no idea. Not for lack of trying. What I wanna know is how fast this Wi-Fi 7 connection is 120 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:59,040 on a real device, not a hypothetical device that can do like a 320 megahertz wide channel 121 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,180 or 16 spatial streams or whatever the case may be. 122 00:09:02,180 --> 00:09:06,360 So we're connected to it. We are going on speed test, which to be clear, 123 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:10,560 is gonna be limited by the server on the other side potentially, but has gotten a lot faster lately. 124 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:17,080 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. What the actual, I mean, it's well shy of the 46 gigabit 125 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:24,980 per second that they advertise or whatever. But like, I have never seen anything like this on Wi-Fi. 126 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,280 That is incredible. And again, caveats. 127 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,880 This is not the kind of thing that you're gonna notice when you're just browsing the web 128 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:40,080 because realistically, the DNS lookup is gonna take longer than the actual data download. 129 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,260 What kind of performance do I get out of it with a legacy device? 130 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,780 Yep, that's about all Wi-Fi 5 can do. 131 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,400 Here we go. Woo, not nearly as fast. 132 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,040 I wouldn't mind it on a device that doesn't have a subscription, 133 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,880 but I mean, people seem super happy with these things. So I guess, you know, to each their own, 134 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:04,800 but man, I am way more stoked for Wi-Fi 7 than I was before. 135 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,880 Holy crap. Look at it go. 136 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,800 That's it. We've seen it. Wi-Fi 7, it's crazy. 137 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,760 It's lunchtime. See you later guys. Watch ShortCircuit, subscribe. 138 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:17,800 Three gigabit per second upload. 139 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:20,200 What the phone?