This thing is legitimately kind of exciting. The Euromax 7 is the first Wi-Fi 7 router
we've been able to get our hands on, and Wi-Fi 7 has some clear benefits for consumers.
I mean, not most consumers, since the odds of you having a Wi-Fi 7 device
to connect to it is pretty slim right now,
but in the future, it will be up to, and this is Wi-Fi specs,
so you can take it for the horses, but it is, 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6e.
In order to reach the 48 gigabit per second
advertised peak throughput of Wi-Fi 7,
you would have to have 16 spatial streams running.
That is essentially 16 parallel connections
between the two devices. For context, most mobile phones have one or two
because of the power requirements of running more spatial streams.
That doesn't mean that in somewhere like a, oh, I don't know, say a stadium, for example,
that you might never see numbers at least approaching that,
but at home to a single device, not even close.
But that doesn't mean you won't see numbers greater than you're used to seeing with this thing,
especially if you're upgrading from Wi-Fi 6, because like Wi-Fi 6e,
Wi-Fi 7 has support for the 6 gigahertz band,
which means you are less likely to run into interference with your neighbors if you're somewhere like
in a high-rise or a multiplex. And because most of your devices
aren't going to be using Wi-Fi 6 gigahertz yet, it's really useful to act as a wireless backhaul
between mesh access points like these ones.
Nice and fast, no interference. Let's have a look at what's included. We've got a couple of USB-C power bricks.
We've got kind of cheap feeling, braided,
probably cat 5e cable. These are 45-watt power bricks.
You know, I was reading a ruckus article talking about how one of the concerns
about all these spatial streams and Wi-Fi 7 in general is power consumption at the access points.
No kidding. Is there anything else in here?
Nope, just the access points. They're that big. That's another major concern that's been flagged
about Wi-Fi 7, whether it's to handle the cooling or all the flipping antennas in them.
These access points are getting quite large. Let's take a look at some cool features here though.
We've got dual 10 gig ports, dual two and a half gig ports.
That gives you a lot of flexibility and means that your network connection
is not going to limit your internet speeds anytime soon.
In fact, I have made the argument before and I'm gonna make it again at extreme risk to myself
that consumers do not need faster than gigabit
or at most two and a half gigabit networking for a very, very long time.
And the reason is that most outside services,
so the actual websites and services
that you're connecting to are not going to be fast enough to take advantage of more than that
across their entire client base. And number two is that for raw downloads,
even downloading games from Steam, you're likely to end up CPU limited
before you saturate even a two and a half gig internet connection.
Wow, how on Amazon like?
Right there under start setup, delete my account and data.
Huh, the hell's a fiber aunt? To be clear, I know what they're talking about.
This would be the fiber box that's provided by your ISP. I just mean, why would they jargon this up?
Meet my aunt.
This is truly remarkable. Okay, you've got the closeup cam there, right?
I just opened this. It already looks disgusting.
I mean, this has been out of the box for like six minutes.
But can you see the layer of, it's like it has fur, the dust.
Why are things white? Apple.
I blame you. I blame you.
These go in your ears. This is super convenient.
There's no uplink port. You just kind of connect whatever to whatever.
If you'll need two and a half gig for your internet, then great. If you have faster internet, connect to 10 gig.
And then you're left with whichever ports are left over to connect your devices to each other.
So say for example, I had two and a half gig internet. I'd go into there.
And then if I had say my, you know, editing workstation and a NAS, I'd plug those both into 10 gigs
so that I'd get nice fast timeline performance. Super cool.
Okay, immediately found it. Wow, built-in ZigBee and Matter and Thread.
Oh, that's kind of cool. Amazon's frustration free setup.
I mean, yeah, okay. Now this is where we get into trouble.
One of the worst trends in enterprise networking
has been the move towards everything being as a service.
And on the one hand, there are definitely parts of Euro Plus
that do make sense to have a subscription fee for.
Like for example, they've partnered with Guardian
for VPN service. It actually does cost money to run VPN servers on an ongoing basis.
You can't just buy hardware once and then have VPN service forever.
Some of these things make less sense to me.
There's the historical data that I mentioned earlier. So network data usage and monitoring network activity.
Why is that not just included? That's just basic. That runs locally.
I don't even understand what internet backup means.
Add alternate wireless connections like a personal hotspot to keep your Wi-Fi up and running
even when your wired connection goes down. So what, like failover?
Why can't I just have failover? You can even block ads.
I can't believe how expensive this is. $130 a year.
Oh wait, I get a month free. Oh, but I could get 30 days free. Do I want a month free or 30 days?
I guess it depends what month it is. Get the best deal.
Didn't I not just subscribe to it? Oh my God.
The last couple of things that Euro Plus includes is the ability to block apps.
So like Facebook or YouTube for your kids. See that?
That's one that really shouldn't be on a subscription. VIP support, okay.
That I understand. And dynamic DNS, which,
and I guess if you can afford the Ero Max 7, you can afford the subscription.
Holy, it's two pack is $1100 US dollars.
You're all set. How many times are you gonna tell me I'm all set? Am I all set?
What is happening right now? I just subscribed.
This is a Wi-Fi 7 device, by the way. This is the OnePlus Open.
Interesting, it automatically configured
a 2.4 slash five gigahertz network, any six gigahertz network.
Well, interesting. Why would it do that?
Because you will almost never end up connected to the six gigahertz network in that configuration.
It'll just grab onto the five gigahertz, 2.4 gigahertz one and it'll end up being really sticky
because six gigahertz by definition is not going to have as good range as even five gigahertz.
So I've found from my own experience, you don't wanna just have them separate
if you can avoid it. You know what, fine, sure. No, we're gonna use it like it would be out of the box.
I just took this selfie earlier because I was like, oh, look, it makes my head look really small.
You can block apps like Roblox.
Really? You know what? Fine, I'm subscribing again.
Try and stop me. Oh, I already own this item, got it. Okay, well then why are you prompting me for it?
Oh, look at this. It's now 2.45 and six gigahertz, all in the same SSID.
Okay, so what I said before then, now we have a device, add a device.
That one, safe. Maybe now I can enable ad blocking.
You're f***ing kidding me.
Okay, how about content? F***.
Full restart. Try turning it off and turning it back on.
Yeah, yeah, I have. Come on, Jeffy.
Just take my hard earned money. Use, oh, internet backup with an Eero Plus subscription.
It wasn't the trust me bro scandal. It wasn't the ad block scandal.
And it wasn't even this year's summer scandal. This is what pushed me over the edge.
Thanks, Eero. Oh, I assume that was a WPS button.
I guess WPS is just, oh no, wow, it factored. Wow, okay, that's pretty cool.
It factory resetted on its own. Okay, you know what, forget it.
For the life of me, I cannot subscribe to their service. So we won't be trying their ad blocking.
We won't be trying their content filtering. Maybe it's decent.
I have no idea. Not for lack of trying. What I wanna know is how fast this Wi-Fi 7 connection is
on a real device, not a hypothetical device that can do like a 320 megahertz wide channel
or 16 spatial streams or whatever the case may be.
So we're connected to it. We are going on speed test, which to be clear,
is gonna be limited by the server on the other side potentially, but has gotten a lot faster lately.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. What the actual, I mean, it's well shy of the 46 gigabit
per second that they advertise or whatever. But like, I have never seen anything like this on Wi-Fi.
That is incredible. And again, caveats.
This is not the kind of thing that you're gonna notice when you're just browsing the web
because realistically, the DNS lookup is gonna take longer than the actual data download.
What kind of performance do I get out of it with a legacy device?
Yep, that's about all Wi-Fi 5 can do.
Here we go. Woo, not nearly as fast.
I wouldn't mind it on a device that doesn't have a subscription,
but I mean, people seem super happy with these things. So I guess, you know, to each their own,
but man, I am way more stoked for Wi-Fi 7 than I was before.
Holy crap. Look at it go.
That's it. We've seen it. Wi-Fi 7, it's crazy.
It's lunchtime. See you later guys. Watch ShortCircuit, subscribe.
Three gigabit per second upload.
What the phone?