WEBVTT 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 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. 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:16.960 I mean, not most consumers, since the odds of you having a Wi-Fi 7 device 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:20.040 to connect to it is pretty slim right now, 00:00:20.040 --> 00:00:24.520 but in the future, it will be up to, and this is Wi-Fi specs, 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. 00:00:31.360 --> 00:00:35.240 In order to reach the 48 gigabit per second 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:38.480 advertised peak throughput of Wi-Fi 7, 00:00:38.480 --> 00:00:41.920 you would have to have 16 spatial streams running. 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.880 That is essentially 16 parallel connections 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:51.720 between the two devices. For context, most mobile phones have one or two 00:00:51.720 --> 00:00:55.760 because of the power requirements of running more spatial streams. 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, 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:04.720 that you might never see numbers at least approaching that, 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:08.520 but at home to a single device, not even close. 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, 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:18.680 especially if you're upgrading from Wi-Fi 6, because like Wi-Fi 6e, 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:22.800 Wi-Fi 7 has support for the 6 gigahertz band, 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 00:01:27.800 --> 00:01:32.720 in a high-rise or a multiplex. And because most of your devices 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 00:01:38.880 --> 00:01:43.280 between mesh access points like these ones. 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. 00:01:48.880 --> 00:01:52.440 We've got kind of cheap feeling, braided, 00:01:52.440 --> 00:01:56.360 probably cat 5e cable. These are 45-watt power bricks. 00:01:56.360 --> 00:01:59.920 You know, I was reading a ruckus article talking about how one of the concerns 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. 00:02:06.720 --> 00:02:10.240 No kidding. Is there anything else in here? 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 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. 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. 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:29.600 We've got dual 10 gig ports, dual two and a half gig ports. 00:02:29.600 --> 00:02:32.920 That gives you a lot of flexibility and means that your network connection 00:02:32.920 --> 00:02:35.920 is not going to limit your internet speeds anytime soon. 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 00:02:41.040 --> 00:02:45.200 that consumers do not need faster than gigabit 00:02:45.200 --> 00:02:50.120 or at most two and a half gigabit networking for a very, very long time. 00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:53.400 And the reason is that most outside services, 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:56.440 so the actual websites and services 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 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:06.040 across their entire client base. And number two is that for raw downloads, 00:03:06.040 --> 00:03:10.800 even downloading games from Steam, you're likely to end up CPU limited 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:14.560 before you saturate even a two and a half gig internet connection. 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:18.280 Wow, how on Amazon like? 00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:21.560 Right there under start setup, delete my account and data. 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. 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? 00:03:32.160 --> 00:03:33.120 Meet my aunt. 00:03:35.320 --> 00:03:39.980 This is truly remarkable. Okay, you've got the closeup cam there, right? 00:03:39.980 --> 00:03:44.160 I just opened this. It already looks disgusting. 00:03:44.160 --> 00:03:48.400 I mean, this has been out of the box for like six minutes. 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:52.040 But can you see the layer of, it's like it has fur, the dust. 00:03:52.040 --> 00:03:55.400 Why are things white? Apple. 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:58.640 I blame you. I blame you. 00:03:58.640 --> 00:04:02.600 These go in your ears. This is super convenient. 00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:06.200 There's no uplink port. You just kind of connect whatever to whatever. 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. 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. 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. 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 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:27.600 so that I'd get nice fast timeline performance. Super cool. 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:33.920 Okay, immediately found it. Wow, built-in ZigBee and Matter and Thread. 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:37.320 Oh, that's kind of cool. Amazon's frustration free setup. 00:04:37.320 --> 00:04:44.520 I mean, yeah, okay. Now this is where we get into trouble. 00:04:44.520 --> 00:04:48.120 One of the worst trends in enterprise networking 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:52.960 has been the move towards everything being as a service. 00:04:52.960 --> 00:04:56.720 And on the one hand, there are definitely parts of Euro Plus 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.640 that do make sense to have a subscription fee for. 00:05:00.640 --> 00:05:04.240 Like for example, they've partnered with Guardian 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:09.240 for VPN service. It actually does cost money to run VPN servers on an ongoing basis. 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:13.240 You can't just buy hardware once and then have VPN service forever. 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:17.640 Some of these things make less sense to me. 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. 00:05:23.200 --> 00:05:27.560 Why is that not just included? That's just basic. That runs locally. 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:30.960 I don't even understand what internet backup means. 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:36.600 Add alternate wireless connections like a personal hotspot to keep your Wi-Fi up and running 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:39.720 even when your wired connection goes down. So what, like failover? 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:43.680 Why can't I just have failover? You can even block ads. 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:47.640 I can't believe how expensive this is. $130 a year. 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? 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.560 I guess it depends what month it is. Get the best deal. 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:59.160 Didn't I not just subscribe to it? Oh my God. 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.360 The last couple of things that Euro Plus includes is the ability to block apps. 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:07.600 So like Facebook or YouTube for your kids. See that? 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:10.600 That's one that really shouldn't be on a subscription. VIP support, okay. 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:13.560 That I understand. And dynamic DNS, which, 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:20.040 and I guess if you can afford the Ero Max 7, you can afford the subscription. 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:24.120 Holy, it's two pack is $1100 US dollars. 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? 00:06:27.880 --> 00:06:32.320 What is happening right now? I just subscribed. 00:06:32.320 --> 00:06:35.440 This is a Wi-Fi 7 device, by the way. This is the OnePlus Open. 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:38.600 Interesting, it automatically configured 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:42.600 a 2.4 slash five gigahertz network, any six gigahertz network. 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:45.960 Well, interesting. Why would it do that? 00:06:45.960 --> 00:06:50.920 Because you will almost never end up connected to the six gigahertz network in that configuration. 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 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. 00:07:03.320 --> 00:07:07.520 So I've found from my own experience, you don't wanna just have them separate 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. 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. 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:19.360 You can block apps like Roblox. 00:07:26.840 --> 00:07:29.960 Really? You know what? Fine, I'm subscribing again. 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? 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. 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:46.800 Okay, so what I said before then, now we have a device, add a device. 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:51.800 That one, safe. Maybe now I can enable ad blocking. 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:54.600 You're f***ing kidding me. 00:07:57.880 --> 00:08:02.080 Okay, how about content? F***. 00:08:02.080 --> 00:08:05.920 Full restart. Try turning it off and turning it back on. 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:09.120 Yeah, yeah, I have. Come on, Jeffy. 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:13.840 Just take my hard earned money. Use, oh, internet backup with an Eero Plus subscription. 00:08:16.760 --> 00:08:21.440 It wasn't the trust me bro scandal. It wasn't the ad block scandal. 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. 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:31.040 Thanks, Eero. Oh, I assume that was a WPS button. 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:35.200 I guess WPS is just, oh no, wow, it factored. Wow, okay, that's pretty cool. 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:38.800 It factory resetted on its own. Okay, you know what, forget it. 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. 00:08:42.400 --> 00:08:45.880 We won't be trying their content filtering. Maybe it's decent. 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 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 00:08:59.040 --> 00:09:02.180 or 16 spatial streams or whatever the case may be. 00:09:02.180 --> 00:09:06.360 So we're connected to it. We are going on speed test, which to be clear, 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. 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 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. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:30.280 That is incredible. And again, caveats. 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 00:09:33.880 --> 00:09:40.080 because realistically, the DNS lookup is gonna take longer than the actual data download. 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:43.260 What kind of performance do I get out of it with a legacy device? 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:47.780 Yep, that's about all Wi-Fi 5 can do. 00:09:48.880 --> 00:09:52.400 Here we go. Woo, not nearly as fast. 00:09:52.400 --> 00:09:56.040 I wouldn't mind it on a device that doesn't have a subscription, 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, 00:09:59.880 --> 00:10:04.800 but man, I am way more stoked for Wi-Fi 7 than I was before. 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:07.880 Holy crap. Look at it go. 00:10:08.760 --> 00:10:11.800 That's it. We've seen it. Wi-Fi 7, it's crazy. 00:10:11.800 --> 00:10:15.760 It's lunchtime. See you later guys. Watch ShortCircuit, subscribe. 00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:17.800 Three gigabit per second upload. 00:10:18.760 --> 00:10:20.200 What the phone?