welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Netgear
centria contrary to what you might think based on the name of this product it is
not going to supervise anything although
I guess I mean okay hold on a second because you know router's going to have
a firewall in it so maybe I'm not taking the whole Sentry of because I was
thinking like Sentry like
you know like that but the ones that pay attention not like the video game ones where it's like they look the other way
and you walk up and shank them um no centria is more like Central in this
context so the idea is that this is not only a router but also just generally a
digital media hub so it does a number of
different things home networking simplified blah blah blah etc etc
internet Wi-Fi router Network M parental controls that's important for a lot of
people ready share easy to install monitor control and repair your home
network with net gear Genie so that's their cloud-based management live
parental controls guest network access Broadband usage meter that's a great
feature air print compatible which is definitely a good thing and the fact
that it has a lot of different functionality here so you can back up so
you it does have a hard drive bay or you
well look at that you can single-click SD card backup super speed USB 3.0 ports
for expanded storage and you can have a removable easily upgradeable hard drive
you can share so this we expect with pretty much any router but you can share
your USB hard drive and your printer which is again sort of normal create a
personal cloud for secure remote access that's something that not every router
necessarily has and I can't figure out how this box opens but we'll work on
that later use your mobile device to control and play your media find and
play your media on DNA compatible devices and finally connect so highspeed
dualband Wi-Fi 450 plus 450 so it's N900
optimized for streaming two USB 3.0 ports which is ahead of pretty much
everything else out there and package cont contents which of course we will
find out because we're going to open Ah that's where it opens yay
environmentally friendly packaging love to see this so there's your paper thing
this is a big router holy smokes look at this thing all right so we're going to
need to do the old uh iPhone size
comparison here because yeah this thing is like huge so here's an iPhone and
that's a router seriously it's a router
okay and then there's like that so we're going to go ahead and switch to the
camera that makes a lot more sense to be using for this there's the iPhone
thickness compared to the router thickness and there's the size again so
yeah that's that's a big big router here's an installation guide which
presumably you will use and then inside
the rest of the packaging we have more environmentally friendly packaging Mater
no way look at this it has a drawer in
the bottom that is awesome every time I
see something that I have never seen before as an unboxer I kind of geek out
because look at that so the stuff's here and then the draw here it's like a
jewelry box not that I'd know anything about jewelry boxes um so you got a
let's see contents wise you got an Ethernet cable included so it looks like
yeah cat 5e you've got a power brick it's going to be a bigger power brick
than you'd normally see on a router because it does have the potential to
install a hard drive inside it power cable again so that's like a standard PC
power cable so it's like again be fear and then finally what appears to be a
this side up this should face back of product only used with 3 and a/4 in
thick disc okay so this is something to do with the hard drive uh mounting
mechanism so let's have a look at the router itself it's glossy I mean this
should basically be like a sin at this point like um you know someone someone
with sort of all powerful deity ability should go and Smite you know everyone
who makes things glossy because it looks
fantastic in like product brochures but
then as soon as I pick up the thing now now I've touched it now it's ruined so
you can see in that camera presumably oh
no okay maybe this is more resilient than usual you can also see surface
imperfections very very easily with uh with glossy surfaces so that's that's
something I don't like about them what have you got here so there's secure
Wi-Fi WPS button so there's the label
for that Wi-Fi on or off love seeing a
dedicated Wi-Fi on and off switch and there's a one button One Touch backup
button so this is cool okay this is the kind of feature that I don't expect to
find on a router so there SD card backup is
actually built right into the side of the unit that's very cool so there's one
of your USB 3 ports there's your backup button there's your SD card slot very
very cool the back is glossy again no surface
imperfections though I'm looking at you
and you um and then inside there
wouldn't have minded if these were a little bit easier to access because of
the shape of the router you can see it's it's a bit of a sort of I don't know
getting you can't get two fingers in there to plug an Ethernet port in easily
uh but there's an A W Port 4 GB Ethernet ports usb3 over here on the other side a
reset button a reset switch power on and off that's a toggle switch which is nice
I like knowing if it's powered on or off and DC in over here we
have the 3 and 1/2 in hard drive cage so
that is where you will actually always power off before removing the hard drive
that's good advice takes has a standard SATA interface at the back there I hope
you guys can see that I don't think you can because of Diesel's depth of field
trickery Tom Foolery that makes it so you're focused up here and not back
there but it's okay you'll have to trust me it's in there and I I think that
pretty much wraps it up so what sets the centria apart from other routers
basically the fact that you can install a hard drive in it there are other
routers Western Digital has one the uh their myet N900 uh that you can install
a hard drive in oh look at that non-slip feed on the bottom so that's good um the
fact that it's net gear so you know it's good you know there's like nothing wrong
with it it's not going to explode when you plug it in or anything like that and
any functionality that they say it has it pretty much will have so you don't
have to worry about that and of course it is so much larger than
all the other routers that it will simply crush them especially with the
hard drive inside so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
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