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rtax86u and this is the first time that i have unboxed a router in probably years at this point but it does have a lot of really compelling features starting of course with support for wi-fi 6. if you're not familiar wi-fi 6 offers the usual generational upgrades so that is to say that it goes even faster than before with this one boasting an aggregate 50 700 megabit per second of course that will only be if you have many many clients connected to it and that's a theoretical maximum speed you won't necessarily see that in the real world and like other wi-fi six devices better handling of many many clients so if you live in the kind of household where there's a lot of people living there or you just happen to be an especially tech heavy household and you can't necessarily get a wire to everywhere that you need a connected device a high-end router like this one is pretty much all you can do sort of i'll touch more on that later first let's get this puppy opened up so we've got a power cord yep that's power cord all right power cord verified got the power brick power cord bones connected to the power brick bone 160 megahertz channels i looked into this back when we did some videos on wireless ax or wi-fi 6 before but this is the first device i've held in my hands to my knowledge that actually supports it what a 160 megahertz channel allows you to do is basically stream 1700 megabits per second over the air to a single client of course that's with a big asterisk because to my knowledge there's no client on the planet that is capable of actually making use of that with that said one of the things that you could use it for is as kind of like the equivalent of a carrier backhaul but in your home so if you had two routers and of course both of them wouldn't be acting in a routing role even if they had routing capabilities but if you had your main router with its built-in access point and then you had another access point that could handle 160 megahertz channels then you could effectively suck up like i think it's something like half of the available five gigahertz spectrum just for that link between them and then you could have a whole bunch of clients over on the other side that aren't going to be bottlenecked when they have that hop back to the main router that's a that's a very high-end home setup though not the kind of thing that most people would necessarily care about then again most people don't need a lot of the features of this puppy because it's kind of cray-cray so you've got dual wand ports one of them is two and a half gig and the other one is gigabit so you can have you can either aggregate two one gig connections or go straight two and a half gig you've got a one gigabit four port switch built into the back here two usb 3 ports so you can use those for adding storage or whatever the case may be of course you reset power and power in and yeah that's true let's see some lights fire up here shall we oh that's pretty cool you can turn off all of the lights even the power indicator if you just want like a totally stealthy wi-fi setup that's not the kind of thing that i would do i definitely want to know you know what's connected to what but hey if you're into it sweet oh ai mesh mode so right i said i was going to talk more about that later this unit has support for ASUS's ai mesh we actually made a video about that over on my Linus tech tips channel it's pretty cool so a lot of other wireless networking vendors they expect you to buy like a base unit and then satellite units if you want to extend your wireless network the way that ASUS handles it is up front potentially more expensive because you would use essentially full wireless routers as your extended units but if you've been using ASUS gear for a number of years you can use older ones and they've got support going way back years so you buy your new one you upgrade to wireless ax or whatever and then you go reset up your old one so you just wipe it and set it up in ai mesh mode and it will just connect to your new one and extend your wireless it's pretty freaking sweet it's honestly one of the most compelling features of their wireless routers okay wireless name winner security never stop winning 69. there's a giveaway what are we giving away these yeah this one not that one but no it's usually sent out ASUS will send out giveaways check the link below yeah we want to run in wi-fi six mode that is something to watch out for though if you have older devices they may have difficulty connecting in wi-fi six mode but frankly you're the kind of person who's spending like over 200 on a router so you probably have like a reasonably modern phone you know probably apparently this thing has a mobile game mode so you press a button and it reduces mobile gaming latency one of the biggest challenges especially if you're not a networking whiz kid is when you get a router that has a really really complicated settings menu and fortunately ASUS is actually surprisingly well laid out i love you ASUS lots of just you know basic useful features so right when you drop into it you can see your network map list out all your clients easily rename them give them aliases stuff like that which is pretty darn handy if you like keeping your network organized they've got their ai protection so this is powered by trend micro to give you real-time network monitoring if you're a really responsible user or you have protection on your individual machines it's not necessarily something that you'll need but heck it is there a qos is something that allows you to prioritize certain applications or certain types of traffic traffic analyzer gives you all kinds of fun little stats you can see it by client or by app and of course the gaming menu is not for like gaming on your router it's for any game related features so port forwarding for example is something that's relatively painless to do on one of these puppies of course the only thing most people are going to do is change their wireless settings so the only fields you really need to care about in here are if you need to reconfigure your ssid name and change your pre-shared key you might have to tinker around with this setting whether or not to enable 160 megahertz because like i said these wireless six features and ultra ultra wide channels can cause issues with some legacy clients so at least you've got the ability to turn it off one of the things that i would strongly recommend is if you are going to use ultra wide channels go ahead and manually configure which one you're on preferably after using a tool to scan for nearby ssids and see what channel they are operating on there's tons of tools that you can use to do that one of the ones that i like on Android although i haven't used it recently is called wi-fi analyzer so it just allows you to see hey what all uh what all around here ladies and gentlemen so that you can manually configure your router so it's less likely that you're going to be stepping on your neighbors or vice versa one other thing you might want to tinker with is going into the lan setting and changing the ip address of the router itself by default it's 192.168.50.1 for this particular one personally i prefer to keep all of my networking infrastructure in my house dot one dot single digit so i don't have to like guess too many things if i forget i don't feel like pulling up the uh the master list that i keep but you know that's your mileage may vary there you can of course access it through router.ASUS.com so that's pretty much all there is to say about it what is this it's a big upgrade if you're someone like riley who is still using the isp provided modem slash switch slash access point slash router those four in one devices are generally speaking hot garbage and he actually experienced this when trying to game over GeForce now when he was working on his review of the chromecast with Android tv so if he were to put that thing in modem only mode and just type into this puppy and connect his wireless clients to this i guarantee you he would have a better experience and you probably will too another great use case for something like this is NVIDIA or steam's in-home streaming so if you've got a wired connected desktop device for example and then you want to game remotely using a laptop or a cell phone or something like that this is pretty much the way to do it so you can check it out at the link in the video description thanks ASUS for sponsoring this video and thanks to you for watching"}