If you're anything like me, you are absolutely utterly exhausted at looking at the random BS
new feature that somebody has put in to a Wi-Fi router to sell the people on Amazon.
It looks like a spider or it has RGB. No, this is a Wi-Fi router that doesn't have bullsh**t.
It just has things that, you know, a Wi-Fi router should have. And GLINET sponsored us
to check this out. This is their Flint 2. And just, just look at this. We've got Wi-Fi 6.
We have two 2.5 gigabit ports, rather than, you know, a lot of the ones you see online where
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,
you want a hardware or computer, too bad, buy something else. This one, they at least included
two. It's called Multi WAN support. It runs OpenWRT. Just an operating system that's open
source. It just works and best of all, VPN. And not just some Lamo VPN. You can run a
WireGuard server, a private VPN for yourself so you can connect your devices at home anywhere in
the world or, you know, stream your internet connection through your home connection securely
at 900 megabit. Almost a gigabit off of a $200 Wi-Fi router, which is pretty freaking sick.
I like these. These are like the convertible power bricks. We can click it onto here. Does it come
with the other ones? Hey, it does. So you could travel with this. Look at that. Oh, cute.
I didn't actually realize that this has redundant hardwired WAN, which is super cool. So we'll see
in a few minutes here, but I imagine you can probably use this as like a catch the Wi-Fi
and repeat it. You can also use a hardwired WAN. You could use two hardwired WANs. You could
probably connect cellular to this thing. There's a USB port to tether your phone, too. And those
two hardwired WAN ports are both the 2.5 gig. And you can see right there, you can switch it
between WAN and LAN, like I mentioned before. So you could use this to pass a faster than one gig
internet connection to a device or a switch or something like that. They've also got four more
one gig Ethernet ports. So you can use this for most of your devices, like a switch, 12 volt DC
jack USB three port on the side. Oh, look, it's got the little keyhole mount. So you can mount this
on the wall or to something metal with the LTT cable management product. We have a little thing
that goes in the keyhole. Stick it in there, tighten the thing. That one on magnetic. You're
ready for this? Can we see it? Bam. Cable managed. It's kind of awesome. You can have like your PC
right there and just like mount it to the back of the PC or to the PC case magnets. Let's let's do
some Wi-Fi stuff. Wow. Look at all these. See, I was right. Multi WAN. We've got Ethernet one,
Ethernet two, repeater and tethering. All right, let's connect it to the Wi-Fi two. Why not, right?
Let's set up a multi WAN here. Why not? Oh, right here. Repeater options. Oh, beautiful. That's
easy. Band selection five. Apply. Connect. Oh, you can even lock it to a specific access point
if you have multiple access points or set a static IP on this, which is nice. We've now got the Ethernet
connection that's coming into it and the office Wi-Fi going to this and then it's beaming internet
back to me. So if I were to go into this and say, yo dog, it's failover right now. Load balance.
Use multiple interfaces to increase the total bandwidth. Whoa. Let's disconnect. Unplugged.
And we're still vibing. Obviously the payments will be a lot worse on Wi-Fi, but I'm connected.
Disconnected. See? Imagine you're on like a cruise ship or something. Hey, and there we go.
Bam. Now we have two internet connections again. And it's so easy. Like that did not take any fancy
hacker man setup. I just literally connected to the Wi-Fi network. But that's only two. How about
three connections? It's two iOS. Boom. Three connections now. All right. Let's unplug that.
Boom. We're not going through the cellular on my phone over USB. Aside from that,
it can do all of the other normal things that routers do. You can play around with your IPs
either in an advanced or easy way. You can set up a firewall. You can open ports. You can have a
guest network. You can do DNS over HTTPS or TLS. You can change the network. But yeah, you can
actually run this thing just as an access point. If you already have a router, you can totally do
that. There's IPv6 support. You can change the MAC addresses. You can do pretty much anything you
could do with any other router. Plus they have the cool VPN stuff. And not just you can run a VPN
server on these, which like I said before is a really strong suit. So say you're from the States
and you have like bomb Netflix, but you're, you happen to be overseas somewhere and they have
crap Netflix. Well, connect to your home network and watch whatever Netflix you would watch like
you were at home. You can also connect to zero tier or tail scale natively, which is super nice.
Tail scale and zero tier, if you're not familiar, are peer to peer VPN solutions that are really
awesome. But let's try the WireGuard server. Generate config start. Okay, well, that was easy.
Profiles and a profile. We'll call this Jake's laptop. Ah, it even it prompts you to use dynamic
DNS. Because if your IP address were to change externally, you wouldn't be able to access this
router, right? But it will, let's say enable dynamic DNS. And it gives us, okay, sick, you
don't even have to like set up a service. They just have their own dynamic DNS service. That's
awesome. It's been set up. I have WireGuard running on my laptop. I've got my laptop connected to our
10 gigabit internet. And this router is connected to a separate one gig connection that we have
for testing things out. Let's see how fast the WireGuard connections. Oh, let's go 880. Look
at that boys and girls. Wow, magic. Naturally, if you were to use open VPN, it would be a lot
slower since open VPN is single threaded, but WireGuard fricking rips. And the reason it can do
that is due to the hardware acceleration on here. It is a quad core media tech chip. So it's nothing
like the super insane. It's only a $200 router. But the hardware acceleration is what makes this
able to go so fast. They even have ad blocking on here. Not that I would recommend that because
that does pay for me to feed my children. My child is a cat. But still, they got DNS over HTTPS.
They got AdGuard home. They got WPA3 support for security. They also have built in parental
controls with bark that does require a subscription to use that. Other than that, man, it just,
it just Wi-Fi's. It Wi-Fi's good. It routes good. It does a VPN good. It's not that expensive.
You could also, if you're like a traveler, big travel person, you could host your own VPN on
this thing and then get one of their cute little travel routers like the Slate AX or the Barrel AX.
And then you can run these as a VPN client. You know what, let me show you how that works.
The provider is the Flint 2 router. Boom. Apply. We now have our little baby Slate AX
travel router running as a VPN client for the VPN server that's running on the Flint 2.
Let's see how fast that goes. Damn. Look at that. Okay. That's pretty ridiculous. This is
literally faster. I don't know how, but it's faster. Little guy can run WireGuard client at
gig down 500 up. That's pretty good. I mean, you're probably not going to find a one gig
connection like you're traveling, but if you did, it can handle it. It's so little.
Last but not least, let's try the Wi-Fi. Set to 160 Y. This is still Wi-Fi 6, not Wi-Fi 6E.
So we shouldn't expect like above gigabit speeds per se, but we should still be able to get some
pretty fast Wi-Fi out of this thing. This is a relatively congested environment,
so I wouldn't expect anything like much crazier than this. Yeah. It's about 600 both ways. Overall,
pretty stout little router. I mean, it can do really fast VPN. It can do real fast Wi-Fi. It has
two 2.5 gig ports. And for $189, I mean, if I had to pick this or a gaming router, I think
the choice is pretty obvious. Again, thanks to GLINEP for sponsoring the video. If you guys
like what you saw here, you can check it out at the link down below. We'll also have their
travel routers linked down there. Those things are pretty sick. Get subscribed, like the video.
And if you want more content, why don't you check out the video I did on the Barrel AX,
which is one of their little travel routers. I think it's pretty sick.