everyone loves Wi-Fi right you use it on your phone your laptop your whatever
thing that uses Wi-Fi what if I told you you could make it better MSI sponsored
this video to show off the Radix axe 6600 that could do just that it's got
Wi-Fi 60 it's got pretty lights and best
of all you can check out their virtual launch event at the link down in the
description but let's let's unbox it that's what you're really here for it's
got cool stuff on the outside I'm not really sure what meta ready means but
I'm sure Mark Zuckerberg is a big fan just on the outside of the box because
this is Wi-Fi 6E supported you're gonna
have 2.4 G 5G and 6G which you know this
is actually not not a terrible analogy
for kind of how it works the 2.4 G is like the single Lane Road the 5G is like
the two lane road six G's like look at all these Lanes this is an American
Highway damn it oh are they pre-attached that's kind of cool a lot of the times
when you get routers like this you have a big bundle of antennas you have to put
on yourself with this one pre-attached
look at that got an Ethernet cable it's important and
a power brick on the outside the MSI
logo feels like a button it's definitely a button I don't think it would be a
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
for switching the quality of service mode we've got our six antennas each of
these you see how there's like a little translucent part there's RGB in here and
the color changes according to what your quality of service profile is you got
red for gaming purple for streaming dark blue for work from home and then the
kind of cyan light blue is AI auto mode
you can think of qos or quality of service kind of like an HOV lane on the
highway except not everyone gets to go in you pick whatever your most important
traffic is so I imagine gaming it's going to prioritize game related traffic
streaming is going to prioritize your connection to Twitch or YouTube work
from home not really sure on that one but I'm sure it's something basically
think of it like an HOV lane where that traffic let's say our game packets get
prioritized they get access to go through before any of the other traffic
on your network if you're in a situation where you've run out of bandwidth say
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
that game traffic before the rest of the traffic in every situation and that
means you know if you're gaming you're not going to have lag despite other people using your network a lot and the
same for streaming I mentioned the AI auto qos mode and that's basically just
going to use an algorithm that's pre-programmed onto the router itself to
try to prioritize traffic based on the needs of your your Network's users you
can also go on the web interface and pick specific services that you're using
to prioritize so say you're like really heavy YouTube Watcher and there's lots
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
later on the outside I did confirm this is the qos button we've got an
arrangement of LEDs that one will probably be for internet you've got got
a link activity LED for all of the ports
and then power WPS for Wi-Fi protected
setup Wi-Fi button maybe that turns Wi-Fi on and off I don't know and then
there's an LED off button especially when you got lots of Lights like this if you have this thing in your bedroom or
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
interface on the back we've got four gigabit ports and a 2.5 gig Wan and Lan
which is great this is Wi-Fi 6E base so if you had an above gigabit connection
you probably could get above gigabit through this router on Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 6E
got a USB 3.0 Port presumably for expanding storage power button and then
power and of course there's a reset as well you see those two little silver
Stripes here those are actually heat pipes and then in between them is like a
giant aluminum heat sink this thing has
got some serious Cooling and it's going to need that for the 1.8 gigahertz
quad-core CPU that powers the thing I mean even just looking at the power
brick this guy says 12 volt 3 3.5 amp 42
Watts that's a fair bit of power and it should mean a fair bit of performance
they did mention in their talking points that the heat pipes and array they have in here resulted in a 12 degree lower
temperature I'm assuming that means compared to not having this upgraded
cooling um but yeah should should run cool and
quiet
oh cool look at this this is great when you log in to use your router for the
first time use the admin page for the first time it just prompts you do you
want to change the name of the Wi-Fi network so many people I go to their
house and it's like tell us 7392 like
bruh you can change that wow look at
this dashboard it's so pretty Wireless clients we have one and it's my MacBook
Pro that makes sense cool I could block it spicy memory we got traffic analyzer
we're not using a whole lot of traffic AI auto mode it appears they're using a
third-party service called GT booster to power the AI qos and the parental
control feature if you're somebody who isn't super into like phoning home and
stuff you can just disagree and use traditional qos but I am going to agree
oh look it's doing stuff now it had one breath
One Singular brick Oh it breathed again did you see the breath
hey red breath right and then
it is updating in the web GUI as I click
it maybe not instantly but within a few seconds it updated that's pretty cool
okay so word from home prioritizes online meeting streams and conference
calls so that actually makes sense so like Zoom or anything like that it'll
it'll prioritize in the work from home setting which could actually be important if you don't have great
internet I'm always thinking from the perspective of you know if you had gigabit and you were trying to use 1.1
gigabit but if you have like 20 down five up that's when features like this
are really important oh you can sync the RGB on this thing with
the RGB on your PC your MSI PC that's
actually kind of kind of awesome you got port forwarding in here it's important
if you want to like post a Minecraft server for your friends or something
like that integrated openvpn which is Suite networking
out Tracer out name server lookup netstat all the usual
stuff in here now there's actually a fair bit of control in here
I'm gonna set our our six gigahertz to 160 wide because we want lots lots of
speed as much speed as possible what can you do is this a schedule kind of like a
schedule for when this wi-fi is on I can make a schedule for when the Wi-Fi is on
cool because I hate my kids wow there's actually a lot of
there's a lot of options in here six gig
guard interval I can convert multicast to unicast which is usually called
multicast enhancement that's good oh here let's try the LED off oh I turned
off these LEDs bruh appreciate MSI
sponsoring this video but this led off button should very much turn the LEDs of
this off as well because it seems kind of silly I want to look at the
propaganda quick start guys oh it's one of these all right let me
just break out my map really quick I like that it gives you a URL to connect
to instead of an IP because if you change the subnet on your router then
whatever IP that they put on there wouldn't work they have a phone app
hey look at that I'm screen recording don't worry look it's basically the same
devices we got that they're Game Center game Turbo booster you can turn that on
you can adjust your qos profile oh you can schedule a daily reboot that's cool
oh cool it's scanning the band you're using so like 2.45 or 6 gigahertz and
telling you the other networks that are using it which is these two so if you're trying
to figure out like problems with interference you can use a tool like
this to scan the surroundings and maybe change the channel That this access
point is using to different them say your neighbors to reduce the amount of
interference all right that's like a great little app a lot of them don't
have apps like this and you just have to use the web interface and a lot of the
web interfaces are not optimized for using on a phone which obviously if you
just want to change your Wi-Fi password or adjust your parental controls really
quick not having to break out a computer is pretty nice you can set multiple
ssids so if you wanted to have like a
Wi-Fi called Jake's Wi-Fi and then you could have another Wi-Fi that says Bell
is not the real Jake you could have both of them at the same time and you can set
different passwords for them which is great you can do it by Band even so only
on the six gigahertz you have an extra one whatever you want guest Network oh
crap you can have a guest access too this is a pretty featured little little
Wi-Fi guy here I've only ever had like ISP provided or like Amazon access
points and then I went to like a full Enterprise solution I never kind of went
in between so it's amazing that a lot of these Enterprise features are also
available on a kind of consumer product like this not to say that it's not fast
but it is more oriented than normal people as part of the quality of service
features MSI has game accelerator built into this router access point I guess
it's part of the the gaming quality of service profile to ensure that when you
are gaming the gaming traffic packets
are the number one priority so you don't have any interruptions in your gaming
it's not going to help you if your ISP sucks but assuming everything coming
into this is good it should keep gaming
good okay we got our we got our AEP here
positioned optimally very close to our our computer we're on Wi-Fi 6E oh it
doesn't know that's why close whoa Eleven Hundred down
twelve hundred down damn brother 1200 up
too oh it went down to 1100. still above
it is quite literally faster than the hardwired network ports on this this lap
oh it's almost 1500 now oh
13 26 let's go 1500 holy
the laptop's fan is actually like kicking up because the speed test is so
fast one thing I will mention with Wi-Fi 6E because it's six gigahertz instead of
five gigahertz um it's gonna have less penetrating power it also means that to get crazy
crazy speeds like above gigabit like this you know as soon as we move this
guy over here we'll probably be able to see a
reduction in speed but I mean if you're in the same room you should probably be
able to get at least gigabit maybe above still almost a thousand down aren't you
this is not the BL and end-all of speed testing because there's a server on the
other end that is being used by other people you never know all right the upload speed is still 1500 up and we're
this far should I go on a little walk here we go everyone we're walking we're
walking I'm probably I mean you can see the ShortCircuit set over there I'm
probably 20 feet away now almost 800
down see what the upload speeds like oh we're still getting still uploading at a
gigabit so I mean yes there was a reduction 20 feet away I'm still getting
1100 up like that's pretty damn good okay we're gonna pretend that we're
Riley here this is the tech news oof oof I'm a lot
further probably a hundred feet maybe maybe not
100 feet let's say 50 feet through a bunch of metal and shelves and the
signal is is gone down a lot because it's six gigahertz the range is not
going to be as good so we're only getting like 200 up 130
down but if we switch back to the 5G and you could have these on the same SSID
and they would switch automatically much
better 200 down and the upload speed
clothes are like 250 to 230 230. yeah let's do I'm gonna do one over
here so it's just we're pretty close it's
just on the other side of that wall but we have one wall between us now it's
still pretty good I mean a lot of people's 5G is going to cap out at like
500 600 so 500 down 700 up through a
wall sweet overall really fast Wi-Fi with Wi-Fi 60 you can do up to eight
streams across the three bands for a theoretical Max of 6.6 gigabit which is
super fast we've got the 2.5 gig Wan which is great to see especially since
Wi-Fi 60 can support it and we just saw that nice build doesn't feel like it's
getting hot or anything I do wish the LED off button would turn those LEDs off
but other than that pretty cool product if you want to pick up the MSI Radix axe
6600 you can go on NewEgg and use code lucky 100 until March 15th to save 100
bucks off of the MSRP which is 349. so 249 that's a pretty good deal for
something with this much horsepower you can also get it on the MSI store but
that won't be at the discount so you might as well buy it from Newegg so
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