WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.520 If you're anything like me, you are absolutely utterly exhausted at looking at the random BS 00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:11.920 new feature that somebody has put in to a Wi-Fi router to sell the people on Amazon. 00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:18.320 It looks like a spider or it has RGB. No, this is a Wi-Fi router that doesn't have bullsh**t. 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:23.680 It just has things that, you know, a Wi-Fi router should have. And GLINET sponsored us 00:00:23.680 --> 00:00:28.640 to check this out. This is their Flint 2. And just, just look at this. We've got Wi-Fi 6. 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:34.240 We have two 2.5 gigabit ports, rather than, you know, a lot of the ones you see online where 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:39.040 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, 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:43.280 you want a hardware or computer, too bad, buy something else. This one, they at least included 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:49.040 two. It's called Multi WAN support. It runs OpenWRT. Just an operating system that's open 00:00:49.040 --> 00:00:54.240 source. It just works and best of all, VPN. And not just some Lamo VPN. You can run a 00:00:54.320 --> 00:01:00.480 WireGuard server, a private VPN for yourself so you can connect your devices at home anywhere in 00:01:00.480 --> 00:01:05.040 the world or, you know, stream your internet connection through your home connection securely 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:12.640 at 900 megabit. Almost a gigabit off of a $200 Wi-Fi router, which is pretty freaking sick. 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:16.480 I like these. These are like the convertible power bricks. We can click it onto here. Does it come 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:23.520 with the other ones? Hey, it does. So you could travel with this. Look at that. Oh, cute. 00:01:24.240 --> 00:01:29.920 I didn't actually realize that this has redundant hardwired WAN, which is super cool. So we'll see 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:34.880 in a few minutes here, but I imagine you can probably use this as like a catch the Wi-Fi 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:38.800 and repeat it. You can also use a hardwired WAN. You could use two hardwired WANs. You could 00:01:38.800 --> 00:01:43.520 probably connect cellular to this thing. There's a USB port to tether your phone, too. And those 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:47.280 two hardwired WAN ports are both the 2.5 gig. And you can see right there, you can switch it 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.920 between WAN and LAN, like I mentioned before. So you could use this to pass a faster than one gig 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:57.040 internet connection to a device or a switch or something like that. They've also got four more 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:02.160 one gig Ethernet ports. So you can use this for most of your devices, like a switch, 12 volt DC 00:02:02.160 --> 00:02:07.760 jack USB three port on the side. Oh, look, it's got the little keyhole mount. So you can mount this 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:13.200 on the wall or to something metal with the LTT cable management product. We have a little thing 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:18.720 that goes in the keyhole. Stick it in there, tighten the thing. That one on magnetic. You're 00:02:18.720 --> 00:02:26.880 ready for this? Can we see it? Bam. Cable managed. It's kind of awesome. You can have like your PC 00:02:26.880 --> 00:02:31.440 right there and just like mount it to the back of the PC or to the PC case magnets. Let's let's do 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:37.760 some Wi-Fi stuff. Wow. Look at all these. See, I was right. Multi WAN. We've got Ethernet one, 00:02:37.760 --> 00:02:43.120 Ethernet two, repeater and tethering. All right, let's connect it to the Wi-Fi two. Why not, right? 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:46.800 Let's set up a multi WAN here. Why not? Oh, right here. Repeater options. Oh, beautiful. That's 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:54.480 easy. Band selection five. Apply. Connect. Oh, you can even lock it to a specific access point 00:02:54.480 --> 00:02:59.680 if you have multiple access points or set a static IP on this, which is nice. We've now got the Ethernet 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:04.640 connection that's coming into it and the office Wi-Fi going to this and then it's beaming internet 00:03:04.640 --> 00:03:11.920 back to me. So if I were to go into this and say, yo dog, it's failover right now. Load balance. 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:17.360 Use multiple interfaces to increase the total bandwidth. Whoa. Let's disconnect. Unplugged. 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.880 And we're still vibing. Obviously the payments will be a lot worse on Wi-Fi, but I'm connected. 00:03:20.880 --> 00:03:25.040 Disconnected. See? Imagine you're on like a cruise ship or something. Hey, and there we go. 00:03:25.040 --> 00:03:30.000 Bam. Now we have two internet connections again. And it's so easy. Like that did not take any fancy 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.120 hacker man setup. I just literally connected to the Wi-Fi network. But that's only two. How about 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:43.440 three connections? It's two iOS. Boom. Three connections now. All right. Let's unplug that. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.600 Boom. We're not going through the cellular on my phone over USB. Aside from that, 00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:52.000 it can do all of the other normal things that routers do. You can play around with your IPs 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:58.160 either in an advanced or easy way. You can set up a firewall. You can open ports. You can have a 00:03:58.160 --> 00:04:03.280 guest network. You can do DNS over HTTPS or TLS. You can change the network. But yeah, you can 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:06.640 actually run this thing just as an access point. If you already have a router, you can totally do 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:12.080 that. There's IPv6 support. You can change the MAC addresses. You can do pretty much anything you 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:18.240 could do with any other router. Plus they have the cool VPN stuff. And not just you can run a VPN 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:22.800 server on these, which like I said before is a really strong suit. So say you're from the States 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:27.360 and you have like bomb Netflix, but you're, you happen to be overseas somewhere and they have 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:32.000 crap Netflix. Well, connect to your home network and watch whatever Netflix you would watch like 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:38.240 you were at home. You can also connect to zero tier or tail scale natively, which is super nice. 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.760 Tail scale and zero tier, if you're not familiar, are peer to peer VPN solutions that are really 00:04:41.760 --> 00:04:49.120 awesome. But let's try the WireGuard server. Generate config start. Okay, well, that was easy. 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:56.960 Profiles and a profile. We'll call this Jake's laptop. Ah, it even it prompts you to use dynamic 00:04:56.960 --> 00:05:02.160 DNS. Because if your IP address were to change externally, you wouldn't be able to access this 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:08.000 router, right? But it will, let's say enable dynamic DNS. And it gives us, okay, sick, you 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.240 don't even have to like set up a service. They just have their own dynamic DNS service. That's 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:17.920 awesome. It's been set up. I have WireGuard running on my laptop. I've got my laptop connected to our 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:22.400 10 gigabit internet. And this router is connected to a separate one gig connection that we have 00:05:22.400 --> 00:05:30.400 for testing things out. Let's see how fast the WireGuard connections. Oh, let's go 880. Look 00:05:30.400 --> 00:05:35.120 at that boys and girls. Wow, magic. Naturally, if you were to use open VPN, it would be a lot 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:40.160 slower since open VPN is single threaded, but WireGuard fricking rips. And the reason it can do 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:44.880 that is due to the hardware acceleration on here. It is a quad core media tech chip. So it's nothing 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:51.200 like the super insane. It's only a $200 router. But the hardware acceleration is what makes this 00:05:51.200 --> 00:05:56.560 able to go so fast. They even have ad blocking on here. Not that I would recommend that because 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:03.520 that does pay for me to feed my children. My child is a cat. But still, they got DNS over HTTPS. 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:08.880 They got AdGuard home. They got WPA3 support for security. They also have built in parental 00:06:08.880 --> 00:06:13.920 controls with bark that does require a subscription to use that. Other than that, man, it just, 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:19.520 it just Wi-Fi's. It Wi-Fi's good. It routes good. It does a VPN good. It's not that expensive. 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:25.920 You could also, if you're like a traveler, big travel person, you could host your own VPN on 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:30.000 this thing and then get one of their cute little travel routers like the Slate AX or the Barrel AX. 00:06:30.640 --> 00:06:34.640 And then you can run these as a VPN client. You know what, let me show you how that works. 00:06:34.640 --> 00:06:43.360 The provider is the Flint 2 router. Boom. Apply. We now have our little baby Slate AX 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:47.200 travel router running as a VPN client for the VPN server that's running on the Flint 2. 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:53.200 Let's see how fast that goes. Damn. Look at that. Okay. That's pretty ridiculous. This is 00:06:53.200 --> 00:06:59.680 literally faster. I don't know how, but it's faster. Little guy can run WireGuard client at 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:04.800 gig down 500 up. That's pretty good. I mean, you're probably not going to find a one gig 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:08.320 connection like you're traveling, but if you did, it can handle it. It's so little. 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:16.160 Last but not least, let's try the Wi-Fi. Set to 160 Y. This is still Wi-Fi 6, not Wi-Fi 6E. 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:21.120 So we shouldn't expect like above gigabit speeds per se, but we should still be able to get some 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:24.320 pretty fast Wi-Fi out of this thing. This is a relatively congested environment, 00:07:24.320 --> 00:07:30.560 so I wouldn't expect anything like much crazier than this. Yeah. It's about 600 both ways. Overall, 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:36.560 pretty stout little router. I mean, it can do really fast VPN. It can do real fast Wi-Fi. It has 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:43.200 two 2.5 gig ports. And for $189, I mean, if I had to pick this or a gaming router, I think 00:07:43.200 --> 00:07:47.920 the choice is pretty obvious. Again, thanks to GLINEP for sponsoring the video. If you guys 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:51.280 like what you saw here, you can check it out at the link down below. We'll also have their 00:07:51.280 --> 00:07:55.520 travel routers linked down there. Those things are pretty sick. Get subscribed, like the video. 00:07:55.520 --> 00:07:59.440 And if you want more content, why don't you check out the video I did on the Barrel AX, 00:07:59.440 --> 00:08:02.720 which is one of their little travel routers. I think it's pretty sick.