now I have to confess this unboxing is going to seem like kind of a random one
because I actually just recently unboxed what is the faster better stronger
replacement for this particular product the reason I'm unboxing this one is I
want to do an ncx Tech tips episode comparing the older 300 megabit per
second version which is this guy right here the Tew 647 GA against the newer
better 687 GA which is a 450 megabit per
second w less end product so I'm going
to start with my unboxing knife by
breaking the seal along this side of the product here there we go going to open
that up cuz it's going to be hard for you guys to see what's on this box with
this glossy shrink wrap covering on it
okay let's take that off there we go all right so what does trenet have to say
for themselves about this product well it has a OneTouch setup button LED
status indicators reset button on the bottom land port and a power connector
okay my understanding is that the land port on this guy is actually 1000 so
that's going to be a bit of a performance limiting factor compared to
the gigabit port on the 687 here's some related products they're
talking about uh so you can use this they're called a wireless end gaming
adapter there's nothing particularly gaming about it it can be used for a PC
or a Wii using a USB adapter or a PS uh
PS3 Xbox or a PC or television or
whatever any kind of Ethernet Network enabled device you happen to have so
Wi-Fi compliant works with BGN devices works with pretty much anything enhances
performance for online gaming okay all right uh I mean it's probably not better
than a network connection but you might be better off with this than with you
know some cheesy uh USB wireless adapter depending on the situation okay so
they're saying 4X the coverage of G and 12 times the speed of G okay and that's
pretty much it for the outside of the box so let's open up the box and find
out what's inside I suspect I already know what's going to be inside probably
a disc a manual a product an Ethernet cable and a power adapter but let's find
out just for fun so here is the setup wizard users guide so that's not
actually a driver's disc so you might want to check that out find out what's
on there next we have a quick installation guide which is two pages
long apparently in English oh no no there's a few more pages so they show
you how to uh connect it to your router set up a password all kinds of good
stuff in here all right next we find a power adapter as expected an Ethernet
cable as expected as well as the 647 GA
now what I didn't expect and then I'm going to like totally show you guys the
floor of the tech tips room here here's the 687 GA I did not expect the size
differential here so the huh yeah the
647 GA is absolutely dwarfed by the 687 GA it's
like just yeah look look at that I got to like hold these really far away to
even show you the 687 whereas the 647 is
like tiny so that's one thing the 647 has going for it it's small size here's
our Ethernet port here's our power in here's our glossy finish where you can
see my chest mounted tripod camera setup here is the wireless indicator uh Lan
indicator as well as power indicator some Trend net branding on the side I
like their glossy black outsides they're using on their current products versus
the like cheesy blue ones they had on their old ones these are really nice
here's our connect button and then on the very bottom there's a little tiny
pinpoint that's the reset button so unless there's something else in here
which there isn't thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Tew 647 GA and
stay tuned for my test of this guy
versus this guy and what Wireless 450
megabit per second actually brings to the table over an old Wireless 300
megabit per second adapter