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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Netgear

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centria contrary to what you might think based on the name of this product it is

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not going to supervise anything although

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I guess I mean okay hold on a second because you know router's going to have

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a firewall in it so maybe I'm not taking the whole Sentry of because I was

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thinking like Sentry like

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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

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and you walk up and shank them um no centria is more like Central in this

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context so the idea is that this is not only a router but also just generally a

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digital media hub so it does a number of

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different things home networking simplified blah blah blah etc etc

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internet Wi-Fi router Network M parental controls that's important for a lot of

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people ready share easy to install monitor control and repair your home

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network with net gear Genie so that's their cloud-based management live

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parental controls guest network access Broadband usage meter that's a great

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feature air print compatible which is definitely a good thing and the fact

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that it has a lot of different functionality here so you can back up so

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you it does have a hard drive bay or you

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well look at that you can single-click SD card backup super speed USB 3.0 ports

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for expanded storage and you can have a removable easily upgradeable hard drive

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you can share so this we expect with pretty much any router but you can share

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your USB hard drive and your printer which is again sort of normal create a

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personal cloud for secure remote access that's something that not every router

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necessarily has and I can't figure out how this box opens but we'll work on

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that later use your mobile device to control and play your media find and

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play your media on DNA compatible devices and finally connect so highspeed

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dualband Wi-Fi 450 plus 450 so it's N900

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optimized for streaming two USB 3.0 ports which is ahead of pretty much

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everything else out there and package cont contents which of course we will

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find out because we're going to open Ah that's where it opens yay

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environmentally friendly packaging love to see this so there's your paper thing

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this is a big router holy smokes look at this thing all right so we're going to

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need to do the old uh iPhone size

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comparison here because yeah this thing is like huge so here's an iPhone and

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that's a router seriously it's a router

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okay and then there's like that so we're going to go ahead and switch to the

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camera that makes a lot more sense to be using for this there's the iPhone

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thickness compared to the router thickness and there's the size again so

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yeah that's that's a big big router here's an installation guide which

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presumably you will use and then inside

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the rest of the packaging we have more environmentally friendly packaging Mater

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no way look at this it has a drawer in

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the bottom that is awesome every time I

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see something that I have never seen before as an unboxer I kind of geek out

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because look at that so the stuff's here and then the draw here it's like a

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jewelry box not that I'd know anything about jewelry boxes um so you got a

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let's see contents wise you got an Ethernet cable included so it looks like

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yeah cat 5e you've got a power brick it's going to be a bigger power brick

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than you'd normally see on a router because it does have the potential to

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install a hard drive inside it power cable again so that's like a standard PC

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power cable so it's like again be fear and then finally what appears to be a

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this side up this should face back of product only used with 3 and a/4 in

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thick disc okay so this is something to do with the hard drive uh mounting

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mechanism so let's have a look at the router itself it's glossy I mean this

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should basically be like a sin at this point like um you know someone someone

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with sort of all powerful deity ability should go and Smite you know everyone

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who makes things glossy because it looks

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fantastic in like product brochures but

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then as soon as I pick up the thing now now I've touched it now it's ruined so

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you can see in that camera presumably oh

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no okay maybe this is more resilient than usual you can also see surface

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imperfections very very easily with uh with glossy surfaces so that's that's

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something I don't like about them what have you got here so there's secure

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Wi-Fi WPS button so there's the label

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for that Wi-Fi on or off love seeing a

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dedicated Wi-Fi on and off switch and there's a one button One Touch backup

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button so this is cool okay this is the kind of feature that I don't expect to

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find on a router so there SD card backup is

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actually built right into the side of the unit that's very cool so there's one

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of your USB 3 ports there's your backup button there's your SD card slot very

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very cool the back is glossy again no surface

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imperfections though I'm looking at you

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and you um and then inside there

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wouldn't have minded if these were a little bit easier to access because of

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the shape of the router you can see it's it's a bit of a sort of I don't know

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getting you can't get two fingers in there to plug an Ethernet port in easily

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uh but there's an A W Port 4 GB Ethernet ports usb3 over here on the other side a

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reset button a reset switch power on and off that's a toggle switch which is nice

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I like knowing if it's powered on or off and DC in over here we

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have the 3 and 1/2 in hard drive cage so

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that is where you will actually always power off before removing the hard drive

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that's good advice takes has a standard SATA interface at the back there I hope

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you guys can see that I don't think you can because of Diesel's depth of field

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trickery Tom Foolery that makes it so you're focused up here and not back

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there but it's okay you'll have to trust me it's in there and I I think that

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pretty much wraps it up so what sets the centria apart from other routers

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basically the fact that you can install a hard drive in it there are other

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routers Western Digital has one the uh their myet N900 uh that you can install

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a hard drive in oh look at that non-slip feed on the bottom so that's good um the

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fact that it's net gear so you know it's good you know there's like nothing wrong

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with it it's not going to explode when you plug it in or anything like that and

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any functionality that they say it has it pretty much will have so you don't

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have to worry about that and of course it is so much larger than

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all the other routers that it will simply crush them especially with the

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hard drive inside so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look

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