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If you're anything like me, you are absolutely utterly exhausted at looking at the random BS

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new feature that somebody has put in to a Wi-Fi router to sell the people on Amazon.

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It looks like a spider or it has RGB. No, this is a Wi-Fi router that doesn't have bullsh**t.

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It just has things that, you know, a Wi-Fi router should have. And GLINET sponsored us

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to check this out. This is their Flint 2. And just, just look at this. We've got Wi-Fi 6.

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We have two 2.5 gigabit ports, rather than, you know, a lot of the ones you see online where

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it's like, oh, it's got 2.5 gig. Oh, yeah, it's just the WAN. So if you have 2.5 gig connection,

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you want a hardware or computer, too bad, buy something else. This one, they at least included

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two. It's called Multi WAN support. It runs OpenWRT. Just an operating system that's open

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source. It just works and best of all, VPN. And not just some Lamo VPN. You can run a

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WireGuard server, a private VPN for yourself so you can connect your devices at home anywhere in

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the world or, you know, stream your internet connection through your home connection securely

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at 900 megabit. Almost a gigabit off of a $200 Wi-Fi router, which is pretty freaking sick.

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I like these. These are like the convertible power bricks. We can click it onto here. Does it come

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with the other ones? Hey, it does. So you could travel with this. Look at that. Oh, cute.

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I didn't actually realize that this has redundant hardwired WAN, which is super cool. So we'll see

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in a few minutes here, but I imagine you can probably use this as like a catch the Wi-Fi

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and repeat it. You can also use a hardwired WAN. You could use two hardwired WANs. You could

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probably connect cellular to this thing. There's a USB port to tether your phone, too. And those

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two hardwired WAN ports are both the 2.5 gig. And you can see right there, you can switch it

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between WAN and LAN, like I mentioned before. So you could use this to pass a faster than one gig

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internet connection to a device or a switch or something like that. They've also got four more

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one gig Ethernet ports. So you can use this for most of your devices, like a switch, 12 volt DC

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jack USB three port on the side. Oh, look, it's got the little keyhole mount. So you can mount this

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on the wall or to something metal with the LTT cable management product. We have a little thing

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that goes in the keyhole. Stick it in there, tighten the thing. That one on magnetic. You're

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ready for this? Can we see it? Bam. Cable managed. It's kind of awesome. You can have like your PC

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right there and just like mount it to the back of the PC or to the PC case magnets. Let's let's do

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some Wi-Fi stuff. Wow. Look at all these. See, I was right. Multi WAN. We've got Ethernet one,

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Ethernet two, repeater and tethering. All right, let's connect it to the Wi-Fi two. Why not, right?

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Let's set up a multi WAN here. Why not? Oh, right here. Repeater options. Oh, beautiful. That's

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easy. Band selection five. Apply. Connect. Oh, you can even lock it to a specific access point

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if you have multiple access points or set a static IP on this, which is nice. We've now got the Ethernet

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connection that's coming into it and the office Wi-Fi going to this and then it's beaming internet

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back to me. So if I were to go into this and say, yo dog, it's failover right now. Load balance.

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Use multiple interfaces to increase the total bandwidth. Whoa. Let's disconnect. Unplugged.

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And we're still vibing. Obviously the payments will be a lot worse on Wi-Fi, but I'm connected.

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Disconnected. See? Imagine you're on like a cruise ship or something. Hey, and there we go.

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Bam. Now we have two internet connections again. And it's so easy. Like that did not take any fancy

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hacker man setup. I just literally connected to the Wi-Fi network. But that's only two. How about

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three connections? It's two iOS. Boom. Three connections now. All right. Let's unplug that.

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Boom. We're not going through the cellular on my phone over USB. Aside from that,

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it can do all of the other normal things that routers do. You can play around with your IPs

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either in an advanced or easy way. You can set up a firewall. You can open ports. You can have a

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guest network. You can do DNS over HTTPS or TLS. You can change the network. But yeah, you can

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actually run this thing just as an access point. If you already have a router, you can totally do

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that. There's IPv6 support. You can change the MAC addresses. You can do pretty much anything you

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could do with any other router. Plus they have the cool VPN stuff. And not just you can run a VPN

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server on these, which like I said before is a really strong suit. So say you're from the States

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and you have like bomb Netflix, but you're, you happen to be overseas somewhere and they have

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crap Netflix. Well, connect to your home network and watch whatever Netflix you would watch like

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you were at home. You can also connect to zero tier or tail scale natively, which is super nice.

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Tail scale and zero tier, if you're not familiar, are peer to peer VPN solutions that are really

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awesome. But let's try the WireGuard server. Generate config start. Okay, well, that was easy.

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Profiles and a profile. We'll call this Jake's laptop. Ah, it even it prompts you to use dynamic

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DNS. Because if your IP address were to change externally, you wouldn't be able to access this

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router, right? But it will, let's say enable dynamic DNS. And it gives us, okay, sick, you

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don't even have to like set up a service. They just have their own dynamic DNS service. That's

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awesome. It's been set up. I have WireGuard running on my laptop. I've got my laptop connected to our

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10 gigabit internet. And this router is connected to a separate one gig connection that we have

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for testing things out. Let's see how fast the WireGuard connections. Oh, let's go 880. Look

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at that boys and girls. Wow, magic. Naturally, if you were to use open VPN, it would be a lot

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slower since open VPN is single threaded, but WireGuard fricking rips. And the reason it can do

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that is due to the hardware acceleration on here. It is a quad core media tech chip. So it's nothing

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like the super insane. It's only a $200 router. But the hardware acceleration is what makes this

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able to go so fast. They even have ad blocking on here. Not that I would recommend that because

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that does pay for me to feed my children. My child is a cat. But still, they got DNS over HTTPS.

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They got AdGuard home. They got WPA3 support for security. They also have built in parental

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controls with bark that does require a subscription to use that. Other than that, man, it just,

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it just Wi-Fi's. It Wi-Fi's good. It routes good. It does a VPN good. It's not that expensive.

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You could also, if you're like a traveler, big travel person, you could host your own VPN on

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this thing and then get one of their cute little travel routers like the Slate AX or the Barrel AX.

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And then you can run these as a VPN client. You know what, let me show you how that works.

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The provider is the Flint 2 router. Boom. Apply. We now have our little baby Slate AX

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travel router running as a VPN client for the VPN server that's running on the Flint 2.

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Let's see how fast that goes. Damn. Look at that. Okay. That's pretty ridiculous. This is

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literally faster. I don't know how, but it's faster. Little guy can run WireGuard client at

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gig down 500 up. That's pretty good. I mean, you're probably not going to find a one gig

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connection like you're traveling, but if you did, it can handle it. It's so little.

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Last but not least, let's try the Wi-Fi. Set to 160 Y. This is still Wi-Fi 6, not Wi-Fi 6E.

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So we shouldn't expect like above gigabit speeds per se, but we should still be able to get some

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pretty fast Wi-Fi out of this thing. This is a relatively congested environment,

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so I wouldn't expect anything like much crazier than this. Yeah. It's about 600 both ways. Overall,

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pretty stout little router. I mean, it can do really fast VPN. It can do real fast Wi-Fi. It has

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two 2.5 gig ports. And for $189, I mean, if I had to pick this or a gaming router, I think

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the choice is pretty obvious. Again, thanks to GLINEP for sponsoring the video. If you guys

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like what you saw here, you can check it out at the link down below. We'll also have their

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travel routers linked down there. Those things are pretty sick. Get subscribed, like the video.

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And if you want more content, why don't you check out the video I did on the Barrel AX,

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which is one of their little travel routers. I think it's pretty sick.