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everyone loves Wi-Fi right you use it on your phone your laptop your whatever

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thing that uses Wi-Fi what if I told you you could make it better MSI sponsored

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this video to show off the Radix axe 6600 that could do just that it's got

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Wi-Fi 60 it's got pretty lights and best

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of all you can check out their virtual launch event at the link down in the

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description but let's let's unbox it that's what you're really here for it's

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got cool stuff on the outside I'm not really sure what meta ready means but

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I'm sure Mark Zuckerberg is a big fan just on the outside of the box because

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this is Wi-Fi 6E supported you're gonna

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have 2.4 G 5G and 6G which you know this

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is actually not not a terrible analogy

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for kind of how it works the 2.4 G is like the single Lane Road the 5G is like

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the two lane road six G's like look at all these Lanes this is an American

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Highway damn it oh are they pre-attached that's kind of cool a lot of the times

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when you get routers like this you have a big bundle of antennas you have to put

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on yourself with this one pre-attached

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look at that got an Ethernet cable it's important and

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a power brick on the outside the MSI

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logo feels like a button it's definitely a button I don't think it would be a

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power button because this is like a Wi-Fi router you don't really want it to be off I suspect that this is probably

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for switching the quality of service mode we've got our six antennas each of

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these you see how there's like a little translucent part there's RGB in here and

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the color changes according to what your quality of service profile is you got

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red for gaming purple for streaming dark blue for work from home and then the

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kind of cyan light blue is AI auto mode

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you can think of qos or quality of service kind of like an HOV lane on the

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highway except not everyone gets to go in you pick whatever your most important

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traffic is so I imagine gaming it's going to prioritize game related traffic

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streaming is going to prioritize your connection to Twitch or YouTube work

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from home not really sure on that one but I'm sure it's something basically

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think of it like an HOV lane where that traffic let's say our game packets get

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prioritized they get access to go through before any of the other traffic

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on your network if you're in a situation where you've run out of bandwidth say

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you've got a one gigabit connection and the clients on your network want to use like 1.1 gigabit well it's going to put

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that game traffic before the rest of the traffic in every situation and that

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means you know if you're gaming you're not going to have lag despite other people using your network a lot and the

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same for streaming I mentioned the AI auto qos mode and that's basically just

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going to use an algorithm that's pre-programmed onto the router itself to

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try to prioritize traffic based on the needs of your your Network's users you

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can also go on the web interface and pick specific services that you're using

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to prioritize so say you're like really heavy YouTube Watcher and there's lots

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of people on your network well you can go in there and hit Youtube and it'll prioritize that for you which we'll see

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later on the outside I did confirm this is the qos button we've got an

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arrangement of LEDs that one will probably be for internet you've got got

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a link activity LED for all of the ports

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and then power WPS for Wi-Fi protected

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setup Wi-Fi button maybe that turns Wi-Fi on and off I don't know and then

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there's an LED off button especially when you got lots of Lights like this if you have this thing in your bedroom or

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something you're trying to go to sleep having a button to turn them off is a lot nicer than having to go into the web

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interface on the back we've got four gigabit ports and a 2.5 gig Wan and Lan

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which is great this is Wi-Fi 6E base so if you had an above gigabit connection

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you probably could get above gigabit through this router on Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 6E

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got a USB 3.0 Port presumably for expanding storage power button and then

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power and of course there's a reset as well you see those two little silver

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Stripes here those are actually heat pipes and then in between them is like a

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giant aluminum heat sink this thing has

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got some serious Cooling and it's going to need that for the 1.8 gigahertz

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quad-core CPU that powers the thing I mean even just looking at the power

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brick this guy says 12 volt 3 3.5 amp 42

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Watts that's a fair bit of power and it should mean a fair bit of performance

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they did mention in their talking points that the heat pipes and array they have in here resulted in a 12 degree lower

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temperature I'm assuming that means compared to not having this upgraded

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cooling um but yeah should should run cool and

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quiet

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oh cool look at this this is great when you log in to use your router for the

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first time use the admin page for the first time it just prompts you do you

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want to change the name of the Wi-Fi network so many people I go to their

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house and it's like tell us 7392 like

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bruh you can change that wow look at

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this dashboard it's so pretty Wireless clients we have one and it's my MacBook

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Pro that makes sense cool I could block it spicy memory we got traffic analyzer

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we're not using a whole lot of traffic AI auto mode it appears they're using a

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third-party service called GT booster to power the AI qos and the parental

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control feature if you're somebody who isn't super into like phoning home and

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stuff you can just disagree and use traditional qos but I am going to agree

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oh look it's doing stuff now it had one breath

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One Singular brick Oh it breathed again did you see the breath

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hey red breath right and then

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it is updating in the web GUI as I click

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it maybe not instantly but within a few seconds it updated that's pretty cool

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okay so word from home prioritizes online meeting streams and conference

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calls so that actually makes sense so like Zoom or anything like that it'll

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it'll prioritize in the work from home setting which could actually be important if you don't have great

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internet I'm always thinking from the perspective of you know if you had gigabit and you were trying to use 1.1

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gigabit but if you have like 20 down five up that's when features like this

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are really important oh you can sync the RGB on this thing with

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the RGB on your PC your MSI PC that's

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actually kind of kind of awesome you got port forwarding in here it's important

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if you want to like post a Minecraft server for your friends or something

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like that integrated openvpn which is Suite networking

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out Tracer out name server lookup netstat all the usual

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stuff in here now there's actually a fair bit of control in here

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I'm gonna set our our six gigahertz to 160 wide because we want lots lots of

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speed as much speed as possible what can you do is this a schedule kind of like a

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schedule for when this wi-fi is on I can make a schedule for when the Wi-Fi is on

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cool because I hate my kids wow there's actually a lot of

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there's a lot of options in here six gig

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guard interval I can convert multicast to unicast which is usually called

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multicast enhancement that's good oh here let's try the LED off oh I turned

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off these LEDs bruh appreciate MSI

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sponsoring this video but this led off button should very much turn the LEDs of

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this off as well because it seems kind of silly I want to look at the

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propaganda quick start guys oh it's one of these all right let me

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just break out my map really quick I like that it gives you a URL to connect

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to instead of an IP because if you change the subnet on your router then

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whatever IP that they put on there wouldn't work they have a phone app

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hey look at that I'm screen recording don't worry look it's basically the same

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devices we got that they're Game Center game Turbo booster you can turn that on

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you can adjust your qos profile oh you can schedule a daily reboot that's cool

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oh cool it's scanning the band you're using so like 2.45 or 6 gigahertz and

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telling you the other networks that are using it which is these two so if you're trying

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to figure out like problems with interference you can use a tool like

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this to scan the surroundings and maybe change the channel That this access

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point is using to different them say your neighbors to reduce the amount of

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interference all right that's like a great little app a lot of them don't

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have apps like this and you just have to use the web interface and a lot of the

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web interfaces are not optimized for using on a phone which obviously if you

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just want to change your Wi-Fi password or adjust your parental controls really

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quick not having to break out a computer is pretty nice you can set multiple

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ssids so if you wanted to have like a

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Wi-Fi called Jake's Wi-Fi and then you could have another Wi-Fi that says Bell

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is not the real Jake you could have both of them at the same time and you can set

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different passwords for them which is great you can do it by Band even so only

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on the six gigahertz you have an extra one whatever you want guest Network oh

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crap you can have a guest access too this is a pretty featured little little

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Wi-Fi guy here I've only ever had like ISP provided or like Amazon access

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points and then I went to like a full Enterprise solution I never kind of went

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in between so it's amazing that a lot of these Enterprise features are also

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available on a kind of consumer product like this not to say that it's not fast

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but it is more oriented than normal people as part of the quality of service

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features MSI has game accelerator built into this router access point I guess

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it's part of the the gaming quality of service profile to ensure that when you

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are gaming the gaming traffic packets

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are the number one priority so you don't have any interruptions in your gaming

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it's not going to help you if your ISP sucks but assuming everything coming

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into this is good it should keep gaming

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good okay we got our we got our AEP here

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positioned optimally very close to our our computer we're on Wi-Fi 6E oh it

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doesn't know that's why close whoa Eleven Hundred down

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twelve hundred down damn brother 1200 up

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too oh it went down to 1100. still above

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it is quite literally faster than the hardwired network ports on this this lap

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oh it's almost 1500 now oh

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13 26 let's go 1500 holy

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the laptop's fan is actually like kicking up because the speed test is so

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fast one thing I will mention with Wi-Fi 6E because it's six gigahertz instead of

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five gigahertz um it's gonna have less penetrating power it also means that to get crazy

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crazy speeds like above gigabit like this you know as soon as we move this

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guy over here we'll probably be able to see a

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reduction in speed but I mean if you're in the same room you should probably be

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able to get at least gigabit maybe above still almost a thousand down aren't you

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this is not the BL and end-all of speed testing because there's a server on the

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other end that is being used by other people you never know all right the upload speed is still 1500 up and we're

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this far should I go on a little walk here we go everyone we're walking we're

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walking I'm probably I mean you can see the ShortCircuit set over there I'm

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probably 20 feet away now almost 800

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down see what the upload speeds like oh we're still getting still uploading at a

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gigabit so I mean yes there was a reduction 20 feet away I'm still getting

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1100 up like that's pretty damn good okay we're gonna pretend that we're

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Riley here this is the tech news oof oof I'm a lot

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further probably a hundred feet maybe maybe not

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100 feet let's say 50 feet through a bunch of metal and shelves and the

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signal is is gone down a lot because it's six gigahertz the range is not

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going to be as good so we're only getting like 200 up 130

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down but if we switch back to the 5G and you could have these on the same SSID

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and they would switch automatically much

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better 200 down and the upload speed

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clothes are like 250 to 230 230. yeah let's do I'm gonna do one over

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here so it's just we're pretty close it's

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just on the other side of that wall but we have one wall between us now it's

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still pretty good I mean a lot of people's 5G is going to cap out at like

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500 600 so 500 down 700 up through a

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wall sweet overall really fast Wi-Fi with Wi-Fi 60 you can do up to eight

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streams across the three bands for a theoretical Max of 6.6 gigabit which is

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super fast we've got the 2.5 gig Wan which is great to see especially since

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Wi-Fi 60 can support it and we just saw that nice build doesn't feel like it's

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getting hot or anything I do wish the LED off button would turn those LEDs off

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but other than that pretty cool product if you want to pick up the MSI Radix axe

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6600 you can go on NewEgg and use code lucky 100 until March 15th to save 100

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bucks off of the MSRP which is 349. so 249 that's a pretty good deal for

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something with this much horsepower you can also get it on the MSI store but

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that won't be at the discount so you might as well buy it from Newegg so

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thanks for watching if you like this video give it a like if you didn't like it hit the dislike button yeah it does a

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lot bye