1
00:00:00,110 --> 00:00:05,260
- Today's sponsored unboxing of the Rapture GT-A6000 Wireless Router

2
00:00:05,260 --> 00:00:09,890
is gonna be a little more interesting than usual because I've equipped myself

3
00:00:09,890 --> 00:00:14,060
with a regular old residential internet connection to test some of the features

4
00:00:14,060 --> 00:00:18,960
that ASUS says makes this thing great for gamers. With one being super easy port forwarding,

5
00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,880
especially, for game consoles. Honestly, it's something that doesn't come up

6
00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:26,420
that often today, since a lot of it can be done automatically.

7
00:00:26,420 --> 00:00:29,750
But when you do have to do it manually, it can be enough of a pain in the butt

8
00:00:29,750 --> 00:00:32,910
to really turn off, especially, novice users.

9
00:00:32,910 --> 00:00:38,270
So, this is one of those videos, where you might watch going, "Hmm, I'm interested in this for myself,"

10
00:00:38,270 --> 00:00:42,267
or you might watch it going, "Hmm, I'm interested in this for a friend

11
00:00:42,267 --> 00:00:45,777
"or family member who I don't want "to help every time they can't connect

12
00:00:45,777 --> 00:00:50,360
"to the multi (indistinct) "or whatever their case may be." - [Andy] Linus, my internet!

13
00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,910
- No, your internet is fine. Your port is just blocked.

14
00:00:53,910 --> 00:00:58,410
Wow, they have really gotten the next level with their crab-shaped designs.

15
00:00:58,410 --> 00:01:01,920
They've also gone next level with the hardware. It's a quad core processor in here.

16
00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:07,370
It supports Wi-Fi 6 up to a maximum of six gigabit per second over the airwaves.

17
00:01:07,370 --> 00:01:12,020
Now, obviously that is not just to one client,

18
00:01:12,020 --> 00:01:15,320
and that is under absolutely ideal lab conditions,

19
00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:18,500
but I still would expect it to be extremely fast.

20
00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:21,700
And for nerds like me, perhaps more importantly,

21
00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:26,680
it's also got support for 2 and 1/2 gig LAN and not just one port.

22
00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:31,680
Now, ASUS has some detail about this in their documentation,

23
00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,100
but I'd actually like to poke around on the firmware and see exactly how it works,

24
00:01:35,100 --> 00:01:39,290
but basically your WAN port. You know how normally on a router, you've got one that's labeled WAN,

25
00:01:39,290 --> 00:01:42,780
so that's the one that's gonna connect to your ISP provided cable box,

26
00:01:42,780 --> 00:01:47,440
or ADSL Modem, or whatever the case may be. We can go ahead and connect that.

27
00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,750
Now, they've got a second 2 and 1/2 gig port,

28
00:01:50,750 --> 00:01:55,990
presumably, for a preferred client. Say, for example, if you had your gaming PC

29
00:01:55,990 --> 00:02:00,800
and you were to upgrade the router, well, why does everyone else who rooms with you get

30
00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,130
to have 2 and 1/2 gig internet or whatever?

31
00:02:04,130 --> 00:02:09,940
But then again, most people don't even have 2 and 1/2 gig internet speeds available.

32
00:02:09,940 --> 00:02:16,220
So, what I wanna know is if I can configure one of the 1 gigabit LAN ports to be the WAN port,

33
00:02:16,220 --> 00:02:20,590
so that I could use these 2 and 1/2 gig ports as maybe for my preferred client,

34
00:02:20,590 --> 00:02:25,150
maybe I have like a video editing workstation, and I have a high-speed NAS.

35
00:02:25,150 --> 00:02:30,570
I don't wanna store all my video footage just on my boot drive on my computer.

36
00:02:30,570 --> 00:02:34,120
I'd love to see if it could be used for a use case like that.

37
00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:39,150
Some other cool gaming oriented features are packet prioritization to particular devices,

38
00:02:39,150 --> 00:02:42,250
packet prioritization according to the application.

39
00:02:42,250 --> 00:02:45,957
So, you could say, "Okay, look, "I want my gaming PC to be preferred,

40
00:02:45,957 --> 00:02:52,560
"and I want these particular games to be preferred." ASUS also provides what they're calling a gaming VPN

41
00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,990
that supposedly reduces ping times to game servers.

42
00:02:55,990 --> 00:03:01,250
This is something that can be done. I'm not sure how good their implementation of it is.

43
00:03:01,250 --> 00:03:05,440
But I have actually noticed that when I VPN, for example, to our office,

44
00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:11,270
I actually get lower latencies to many game servers than I do just using my residential connection at home.

45
00:03:11,270 --> 00:03:14,630
And the reason for this is kind of complicated.

46
00:03:14,630 --> 00:03:19,070
iTel explained it to me once. That's our ISP here at the office. But in a nutshell,

47
00:03:19,070 --> 00:03:22,330
when you're on an enterprise connection or like commercial grade connection,

48
00:03:22,330 --> 00:03:26,830
sometimes you will get better prioritization so that you're taking fewer hops

49
00:03:26,830 --> 00:03:30,710
to get to whatever your main local hub is. And a lot of your game servers

50
00:03:30,710 --> 00:03:36,500
or even local content servers are going to be at those hubs. So in our case, the nearest big hub is VANIX,

51
00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:42,660
the Vancouver Internet Exchange. So, our office, even though it is actually farther from VANIX,

52
00:03:42,660 --> 00:03:46,560
actually, has lower latency to VANIX than my residential connection at home.

53
00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:50,930
Do you know that Jonah? - [Jonah] No. - Interesting, right? Another cool feature of the AX6000

54
00:03:50,930 --> 00:03:55,070
is that it supports WAN aggregation. So, if you have two internet connections,

55
00:03:55,070 --> 00:03:58,800
usually for redundancy or low balancing,

56
00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:03,690
you can't just have two internet connections and expect your internet speed

57
00:04:03,690 --> 00:04:07,470
on a single device to double. So, it would be for multiple devices running

58
00:04:07,470 --> 00:04:10,540
or in case one goes down. So, if you've got two internet connections

59
00:04:10,540 --> 00:04:13,970
that can actually balance between them. This used to be the kind of thing

60
00:04:13,970 --> 00:04:17,150
that you had to load up third-party OpenWrt,

61
00:04:17,150 --> 00:04:20,410
or Tomato Firmware, or whatever else in order to have.

62
00:04:20,410 --> 00:04:24,330
But nowadays you can just have it with the Stock Firmware.

63
00:04:24,330 --> 00:04:30,260
Speaking of Stock Firmware, this particular one is not on OpenWrt supported list yet,

64
00:04:30,260 --> 00:04:35,530
but I wouldn't be surprised if it shows up, because ASUS routers are pretty darn well supported

65
00:04:35,530 --> 00:04:39,410
by the project. - [Andy] Can you flip the router upside down? - Can I flip it upside down?

66
00:04:39,410 --> 00:04:43,100
You just want me to show it and it's like scuttle crab-- - [Andy] Crab rave!

67
00:04:43,100 --> 00:04:46,440
- Half-life mode. (indistinct) (Andy and Jonah laughing)

68
00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,780
I guess I should show some of the physical aspects of it.

69
00:04:49,780 --> 00:04:53,960
So, you got ventilation holes on the bottom. You got some more ventilation holes at the front,

70
00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:58,410
along with your indicator LEDs and your WPS button.

71
00:04:58,410 --> 00:05:02,030
No, that's not it, that's the WPS button. This is to turn the LEDs on and off,

72
00:05:02,030 --> 00:05:07,470
if you do not prefer to have your LEDs on. At the back, we've got our power in power button,

73
00:05:07,470 --> 00:05:12,470
2 and 1/2 gigs/1 gig, a reset switch, you've got four, 1 gig ports,

74
00:05:12,470 --> 00:05:18,000
and then you've got a USB 3 and a USB 2 port for configuring like a USB hard drive

75
00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,550
as just chip or NAS running off of your router, if you're into that sort of thing.

76
00:05:22,550 --> 00:05:26,280
It really is a nice way to save a buck. But from my personal experience,

77
00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:30,200
I've found that if that's really what you're after, you're probably better off

78
00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:34,980
just getting a less expensive router and like getting a NAS versus the more expensive routers

79
00:05:34,980 --> 00:05:38,070
to support the feature. Then again, there are some cheap ones that support it,

80
00:05:38,070 --> 00:05:41,733
but they're often really slow at it. So, your mileage may vary.

81
00:05:44,464 --> 00:05:47,860
Wait a minute, was this that simple?

82
00:05:47,860 --> 00:05:52,640
This is super cool, guys. So, my browser just, (snaps fingers) automatically,

83
00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:58,337
kind of like when you're on hotel Wi-Fi or whatever, just grabbed this local portal and was like,

84
00:05:58,337 --> 00:06:02,567
"Hey, do you wanna create a new network?" I'm like, "Heck yeah!" Okay, RoG24.

85
00:06:06,623 --> 00:06:10,150
ROG... You know what, let's pick something simple.

86
00:06:10,150 --> 00:06:14,570
I like pickles. They do not like that password.

87
00:06:14,570 --> 00:06:17,596
It says, "Danger." (Andy laughs)

88
00:06:17,596 --> 00:06:21,050
- [Andy] I like pickles. - I do like pickles though. I'll always remember that.

89
00:06:21,050 --> 00:06:24,610
I prefer to have a separate 2.4 and five gigahertz network. They do support QoS.

90
00:06:24,610 --> 00:06:29,120
So, if you have like a bunch of security cameras, or smart doorbells, or whatever else,

91
00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,840
like IoT devices, theoretically, those should be lower priority.

92
00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:36,140
But because those devices can grab

93
00:06:36,140 --> 00:06:41,220
onto the five gigahertz network, I mean, and there's no reason they should be there whatsoever,

94
00:06:41,220 --> 00:06:44,900
I like just manually putting them all on 2.4, where they'll have better range

95
00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:51,240
and they don't need the additional throughput anyway. So, do you wanna be an ax/Wi-Fi 6 mode?

96
00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,123
Heck, yeah! Login name, admin. Password.

97
00:06:55,123 --> 00:06:58,970
(Linus laughs) We suggest you try a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols.

98
00:06:58,970 --> 00:07:02,420
Do you wanna continue? I mean, it's good they have these prompts though.

99
00:07:02,420 --> 00:07:05,540
That's what we're looking at right now, this is nice. So, they've got this little dashboard,

100
00:07:05,540 --> 00:07:11,050
where you can see your aggregate download and upload speeds, monitor your network ping and ping deviation.

101
00:07:11,050 --> 00:07:13,293
I'm not sure exactly what they're pinging.

102
00:07:15,060 --> 00:07:19,850
Maybe that's just between your router and your device.

103
00:07:19,850 --> 00:07:24,690
Actually, it seems a little high. Is it just telling you how long it's taken to reach

104
00:07:24,690 --> 00:07:28,060
just generally the services that you're using? That's kind of neat.

105
00:07:28,060 --> 00:07:32,173
I hear my fans working real hard. We might just be CPU limited. Oh, okay.

106
00:07:33,213 --> 00:07:36,373
(Linus chuckles) Between OBS and Steam,

107
00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,800
it's struggling a little bit. Well, you saw it here first, folks.

108
00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,960
My laptop is bottle-necking my wireless router.

109
00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:50,970
(Linus chuckles) Okay, this is quickly becoming a mess of wires, but there we go.

110
00:07:50,970 --> 00:07:54,950
Wait a second, that's pretty impressive.

111
00:07:54,950 --> 00:07:58,780
Hold on a second. I'm not screening recording on this. So, Andy, you're gonna have to grab it.

112
00:07:58,780 --> 00:08:02,040
Let me just turn up my brightness a little bit here so you can see this better.

113
00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,800
I'm on Wi-Fi pulling down the entire rest

114
00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:10,126
of my gigabit internet connection here. Oh, hold on, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry.

115
00:08:10,126 --> 00:08:16,810
(Andy chuckles) Yeah, let's make it. Let me be very clear that this is not on a wired connection.

116
00:08:16,810 --> 00:08:19,850
Freaking nuts! I think that's the highest I've seen

117
00:08:19,850 --> 00:08:23,770
to a single client, so far. I mean, I'm obviously right next to it,

118
00:08:23,770 --> 00:08:27,420
but sometimes that's not even an advantage. Like there's...

119
00:08:27,420 --> 00:08:30,660
You wanna be a little bit farther away. So, I'm just gonna...

120
00:08:30,660 --> 00:08:33,743
I'm gonna go over here, and this 81.

121
00:08:35,881 --> 00:08:37,573
76, okay we dropped.

122
00:08:38,940 --> 00:08:45,080
74, 75. I'm gonna maybe go hide around a corner or something.

123
00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,630
This is crazy, still half a gigabit.

124
00:08:48,630 --> 00:08:51,770
Two walls! 60.

125
00:08:51,770 --> 00:08:55,420
66. 68.

126
00:08:55,420 --> 00:08:58,750
- [Andy] One more. - [Linus] Nope, it's not gonna make it.

127
00:08:58,750 --> 00:09:01,157
68 only. - [Andy] Oh.

128
00:09:03,466 --> 00:09:06,853
- [Linus] 69! - [All] Yeah! - It's kinda cool.

129
00:09:06,853 --> 00:09:10,440
I remember chatting with Joel Crane. I forget where he works now,

130
00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,780
but he used to be at this place that makes Wi-Fi tester dongles.

131
00:09:13,780 --> 00:09:17,910
And he was telling me that one of the really cool things about Wi-Fi is the way

132
00:09:17,910 --> 00:09:21,490
that it can kind of bounce signals around on things.

133
00:09:21,490 --> 00:09:27,160
And then it'll kind of figure out, "Okay, what's the timing?" And it'll sort of optimize it so that everything

134
00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:30,970
sort of arrives in approximately the right order. And when you're moving, it can't do that.

135
00:09:30,970 --> 00:09:34,130
So what's neat is that even when I'm closer,

136
00:09:34,130 --> 00:09:37,580
like getting closer to the access point, you'll see these dips,

137
00:09:37,580 --> 00:09:40,930
because it can't use those optimizations.

138
00:09:40,930 --> 00:09:45,450
Whereas when you're holding still, that's when you're gonna be at your best, 86, 90, 93.

139
00:09:48,170 --> 00:09:51,480
Are you freaking serious right now?

140
00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:56,217
Are we gonna hit? Oh, I plugged in, I plugged in. (Andy laughs) I was like, "What?"

141
00:09:57,150 --> 00:10:01,970
And it's just super cool. We've done a dedicated video about this, but basically what it is is instead of buying

142
00:10:01,970 --> 00:10:04,970
like a mesh Wi-Fi system in a box,

143
00:10:04,970 --> 00:10:09,640
you just upgrade your old ASUS router to the newest ASUS router,

144
00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:14,610
and then you put your old one in mesh mode. And you just kinda keep going like that

145
00:10:14,610 --> 00:10:19,620
and your coverage can never get any worse. You just put your highest performance access point

146
00:10:19,620 --> 00:10:23,760
in your most high traffic areas, and then you just kinda scatter your other ones around.

147
00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:27,130
Super cool. AiProtection is a Trend Micro collaboration

148
00:10:27,130 --> 00:10:30,940
that attempts to do things like blocking malicious sites, parental controls.

149
00:10:30,940 --> 00:10:36,170
Man, I'm so glad these weren't this good when I was a kid. So you can block websites, block apps.

150
00:10:36,170 --> 00:10:42,403
I mean, here we can try it. Okay, so do I like try to view adult content at work?

151
00:10:42,403 --> 00:10:45,780
- [Andy] Sure. - I mean, I guess so, right? We're tryna test this thing.

152
00:10:45,780 --> 00:10:50,767
Whoa, okay. - [Andy] Whoa! (Andy and Jonah laughing)

153
00:10:52,780 --> 00:10:57,200
- Well, ASUS, I think you got some work to do on the whole adult content thing.

154
00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,313
No, it's definitely not working, Jonah.

155
00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,890
I don't think we need to try anymore than we already have.

156
00:11:03,890 --> 00:11:08,990
I mean, you can if you want, but I haven't set it up on your device though, so.

157
00:11:08,990 --> 00:11:12,500
- [Jonah] Oh. - Yeah, won't do anything, and I'd have to set it up again.

158
00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:14,433
So, there's all your QoS.

159
00:11:15,610 --> 00:11:20,007
Hassle-free way to create port forwarding rules for online games, optimizes routing packets (indistinct).

160
00:11:22,110 --> 00:11:25,660
So, lots of different games here.

161
00:11:25,660 --> 00:11:31,320
That's fantastic, you just add them and (fingers snaps) it automatically opens up the necessary ports.

162
00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,907
Wow, that's really awesome. Oh, that's cool.

163
00:11:34,907 --> 00:11:39,240
You can do a site survey to basically see what else is around you

164
00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,250
and help optimize your Wi-Fi settings. That can be really important

165
00:11:43,250 --> 00:11:47,310
if you've got a lot of neighbors. VPN Fusion is a feature that allows you

166
00:11:47,310 --> 00:11:51,610
to configure some clients to use a VPN and other clients to not,

167
00:11:51,610 --> 00:11:56,790
if you don't want the performance hit. I'm not gonna dig into that now though.

168
00:11:56,790 --> 00:12:02,350
Oh, this is cool. Being able to switch modes so quickly and easily like this,

169
00:12:02,350 --> 00:12:06,770
that is freaking awesome. So, just AP mode,

170
00:12:06,770 --> 00:12:10,050
if you just wanna use it as an access point. Repeater, media bridge.

171
00:12:10,050 --> 00:12:13,070
So, a media bridge would use the Wi-Fi

172
00:12:13,070 --> 00:12:17,080
as like a back haul, and then you'd take like everything nearby

173
00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,550
and you'd plug it in over a wire. Obviously, there's a performance disadvantage,

174
00:12:20,550 --> 00:12:24,610
but it means that any of those devices could talk to each other over a wire,

175
00:12:24,610 --> 00:12:27,660
and then everything gets consolidated wirelessly.

176
00:12:27,660 --> 00:12:31,040
AiMesh node, that's really cool. All right, well, it doesn't excuse

177
00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:34,410
the adult content filter not working, but it appears as though the reason

178
00:12:34,410 --> 00:12:38,040
I can't get any ports open on this laptop

179
00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:42,450
is that I have our corporate anti-malware security solution

180
00:12:42,450 --> 00:12:45,600
installed on it, so. Well, I've tried everything I can think of.

181
00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,903
I've disabled UPnP, I tried to full cone NAT.

182
00:12:50,330 --> 00:12:56,360
I saw some people suggest that maybe the ISP is actually not providing you a true public IP.

183
00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:00,730
I have no way of validating that right now. But one thing I did check is whether you can set

184
00:13:00,730 --> 00:13:04,600
one of the gigabit ports to WAN. Unfortunately, I didn't see an obvious way to do that,

185
00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:09,870
But either way, when it comes to performance, this thing put up numbers that I've never seen before.

186
00:13:09,870 --> 00:13:13,470
So, you guys can check it out at the link in the video description. Thanks for ASUS for sponsoring this video.

187
00:13:13,470 --> 00:13:15,853
Thanks to you for watching it and get subscribed.