welcome to my unboxing of the dlink amplify this is what they're calling
okay now this is a whole home router
1000 okay so what is a whole home router
what they're saying is that for a large home this is going to provide the most
wireless coverage compared to pretty
much anything else that you can get and how are they achieving this well dink
with their patented sectorized antenna design for Superior smart beam
performance is basically and this is
their summary not mine um but what
they're basically doing is they're detecting exactly where your wireless
devices are and they are beaming
bandwidth directly to to them okay so my
understanding of this is the router actually adapts where it is delivering
the strongest signals by
focusing the wireless antenna at your devices rather than just having kind of
that uh General sort of hoam coverage it
is sending Focus signals to each of your wireless devices in order to get you
what is essentially just greater range
okay so here we go here's where they help you choose the right product for
you so all of these products are good for IPv6 technology with N300 being
better for extended Wireless for larger homes or multiple floors and N plus 300
being better for USB shareport for sharing devices an N plus 300 dual band
being better for HD video gaming and Skype calls and then finally we have
amplify npl 300 which is connectivity into virtually every corner of your home
and even out Outdoors they have a little one there so what what are they wanting
about
um okay I don't see it hold on let me
see if I can find it yes ha here we go maximum Wireless
signal rate derived from I standard to 802.11 specifications actual data thr
throughput may vary including volume of networking traffic building materials
and construction Network overhead all that kind of interesting stuff
okay oh here we go think green while this may look like your average product
it's not this is a dink green product which is as good for your wallet as it
is for the environment the dir 645 is designed to conserve energy protect our
environment from harmful substances and reduce waste by using recyclable
packaging interesting that's good I always appreciate that recyclable
packaging is actually really important a whole lot of packaging ends up in landfills and it's totally unnecessary
because the entire purpose of this box is to get you to buy it and then to not
exist anymore aha here here's a little diagram so you can see what their
patented sectorized antenna design is kind of going to look like so why don't
we get this thing opened up and have a look at the device itself so start here
so read this before installing this we're here to help start here put this in your computer in order to get going
GPL code statement okay cool we've got an Ethernet cable we've got a power
brick aha stop insert CD and Run Wizard
first so this is the strangest shaped router that I have yet to see
but I knew that already before I opened it oh use of this device may make your
wireless connection vulnerable to unauthorized ACC oh basically it's telling you to enable a password on your
wireless network which is very important because people can even do things like
commit cyber crimes on your wireless network which can be traceable back to
well your account with your internet
service provider which is bad for a number of reasons okay stop insert okay
wow there's a lot of warnings about stop and insert the CD and run the wizard
first so I'm thinking that for this product you might want to consider
stopping and running the CD the wizard
on the CD first before you go any further and to prevent overheating
remove the clear protective covers before using so dealing provides these
clear protective covers in order to keep the uh product from being all covered by
nasty horrible fingerprints before you even get a chance to use
it there we go let's go ahead and start
pulling those off because that's what we do on this channel we unbox products
which includes removing protective
films that is a very shiny router that's
about as shiny as it gets if it weren't for the Distortion I'm sure you could
see slick very clearly right about now so let's just take that off and what
all do we find on this router So the antenna is
actually in here is my understanding based on the diagram okay we've got got
an uh web indicator LED Wireless indicator LED WPS button and a power
button that's funny you don't usually see a power button on the front of a
router very strange okay we've got a dlink logo right about here on the back
we find 1 2 3 four these are gigabit Ethernet ports if memory serves yes they
are 4 gbit ports as well as a w Port so
then we've got power in as well as USB so USB allows you to use a uh any USB
storage device in order to share files on your home network which is a really
handy feature for routers to have that way if you have very simple file sharing
needs and you just want to you know well share a couple files simply on your
network you plug them into your router no big deal you don't need any additional devices uh finally on the
bottom we find our reset switch I was looking for that I couldn't figure out
where it was and I think basically
that's about as far as I'm going to be able to go in this unboxing because
until I can give you guys some concrete sort of evidence that this provid
provides better coverage and you should stay tuned on the ncixcom channel for
that to be upcoming then I can't tell you guys whether their new antenna
technology works or not but what I can tell you is that we haven't seen a whole
lot of advancement in terms of antennas on Home wireless routers in the last 10
years basically we'll see like more or like taller ones but it's all the same
basic thing so this seems like if it works it could be a huge step forward in
terms of building better networks for your homes so I'm really looking forward
to testing it out and we'll be doing that here in the tech tips room and probably across the parking lot if the
range is anything like what they're saying it's going to be and I'm very very excited so thank you for checking
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videos and big thanks to dink for letting us check this thing out I'm very
curious to see how this goes