WEBVTT 00:00:00.110 --> 00:00:05.260 - Today's sponsored unboxing of the Rapture GT-A6000 Wireless Router 00:00:05.260 --> 00:00:09.890 is gonna be a little more interesting than usual because I've equipped myself 00:00:09.890 --> 00:00:14.060 with a regular old residential internet connection to test some of the features 00:00:14.060 --> 00:00:18.960 that ASUS says makes this thing great for gamers. With one being super easy port forwarding, 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:22.880 especially, for game consoles. Honestly, it's something that doesn't come up 00:00:22.880 --> 00:00:26.420 that often today, since a lot of it can be done automatically. 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 00:00:29.750 --> 00:00:32.910 to really turn off, especially, novice users. 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," 00:00:38.270 --> 00:00:42.267 or you might watch it going, "Hmm, I'm interested in this for a friend 00:00:42.267 --> 00:00:45.777 "or family member who I don't want "to help every time they can't connect 00:00:45.777 --> 00:00:50.360 "to the multi (indistinct) "or whatever their case may be." - [Andy] Linus, my internet! 00:00:50.360 --> 00:00:53.910 - No, your internet is fine. Your port is just blocked. 00:00:53.910 --> 00:00:58.410 Wow, they have really gotten the next level with their crab-shaped designs. 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. 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. 00:01:07.370 --> 00:01:12.020 Now, obviously that is not just to one client, 00:01:12.020 --> 00:01:15.320 and that is under absolutely ideal lab conditions, 00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:18.500 but I still would expect it to be extremely fast. 00:01:18.500 --> 00:01:21.700 And for nerds like me, perhaps more importantly, 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. 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:31.680 Now, ASUS has some detail about this in their documentation, 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, 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, 00:01:39.290 --> 00:01:42.780 so that's the one that's gonna connect to your ISP provided cable box, 00:01:42.780 --> 00:01:47.440 or ADSL Modem, or whatever the case may be. We can go ahead and connect that. 00:01:47.440 --> 00:01:50.750 Now, they've got a second 2 and 1/2 gig port, 00:01:50.750 --> 00:01:55.990 presumably, for a preferred client. Say, for example, if you had your gaming PC 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 00:02:00.800 --> 00:02:04.130 to have 2 and 1/2 gig internet or whatever? 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. 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, 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, 00:02:20.590 --> 00:02:25.150 maybe I have like a video editing workstation, and I have a high-speed NAS. 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. 00:02:30.570 --> 00:02:34.120 I'd love to see if it could be used for a use case like that. 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:39.150 Some other cool gaming oriented features are packet prioritization to particular devices, 00:02:39.150 --> 00:02:42.250 packet prioritization according to the application. 00:02:42.250 --> 00:02:45.957 So, you could say, "Okay, look, "I want my gaming PC to be preferred, 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 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:55.990 that supposedly reduces ping times to game servers. 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. 00:03:01.250 --> 00:03:05.440 But I have actually noticed that when I VPN, for example, to our office, 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. 00:03:11.270 --> 00:03:14.630 And the reason for this is kind of complicated. 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, 00:03:19.070 --> 00:03:22.330 when you're on an enterprise connection or like commercial grade connection, 00:03:22.330 --> 00:03:26.830 sometimes you will get better prioritization so that you're taking fewer hops 00:03:26.830 --> 00:03:30.710 to get to whatever your main local hub is. And a lot of your game servers 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, 00:03:36.500 --> 00:03:42.660 the Vancouver Internet Exchange. So, our office, even though it is actually farther from VANIX, 00:03:42.660 --> 00:03:46.560 actually, has lower latency to VANIX than my residential connection at home. 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:50.930 Do you know that Jonah? - [Jonah] No. - Interesting, right? Another cool feature of the AX6000 00:03:50.930 --> 00:03:55.070 is that it supports WAN aggregation. So, if you have two internet connections, 00:03:55.070 --> 00:03:58.800 usually for redundancy or low balancing, 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:03.690 you can't just have two internet connections and expect your internet speed 00:04:03.690 --> 00:04:07.470 on a single device to double. So, it would be for multiple devices running 00:04:07.470 --> 00:04:10.540 or in case one goes down. So, if you've got two internet connections 00:04:10.540 --> 00:04:13.970 that can actually balance between them. This used to be the kind of thing 00:04:13.970 --> 00:04:17.150 that you had to load up third-party OpenWrt, 00:04:17.150 --> 00:04:20.410 or Tomato Firmware, or whatever else in order to have. 00:04:20.410 --> 00:04:24.330 But nowadays you can just have it with the Stock Firmware. 00:04:24.330 --> 00:04:30.260 Speaking of Stock Firmware, this particular one is not on OpenWrt supported list yet, 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 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? 00:04:39.410 --> 00:04:43.100 You just want me to show it and it's like scuttle crab-- - [Andy] Crab rave! 00:04:43.100 --> 00:04:46.440 - Half-life mode. (indistinct) (Andy and Jonah laughing) 00:04:46.440 --> 00:04:49.780 I guess I should show some of the physical aspects of it. 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, 00:04:53.960 --> 00:04:58.410 along with your indicator LEDs and your WPS button. 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, 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, 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, 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 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. 00:05:22.550 --> 00:05:26.280 It really is a nice way to save a buck. But from my personal experience, 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 00:05:30.200 --> 00:05:34.980 just getting a less expensive router and like getting a NAS versus the more expensive routers 00:05:34.980 --> 00:05:38.070 to support the feature. Then again, there are some cheap ones that support it, 00:05:38.070 --> 00:05:41.733 but they're often really slow at it. So, your mileage may vary. 00:05:44.464 --> 00:05:47.860 Wait a minute, was this that simple? 00:05:47.860 --> 00:05:52.640 This is super cool, guys. So, my browser just, (snaps fingers) automatically, 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, 00:05:58.337 --> 00:06:02.567 "Hey, do you wanna create a new network?" I'm like, "Heck yeah!" Okay, RoG24. 00:06:06.623 --> 00:06:10.150 ROG... You know what, let's pick something simple. 00:06:10.150 --> 00:06:14.570 I like pickles. They do not like that password. 00:06:14.570 --> 00:06:17.596 It says, "Danger." (Andy laughs) 00:06:17.596 --> 00:06:21.050 - [Andy] I like pickles. - I do like pickles though. I'll always remember that. 00:06:21.050 --> 00:06:24.610 I prefer to have a separate 2.4 and five gigahertz network. They do support QoS. 00:06:24.610 --> 00:06:29.120 So, if you have like a bunch of security cameras, or smart doorbells, or whatever else, 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:32.840 like IoT devices, theoretically, those should be lower priority. 00:06:32.840 --> 00:06:36.140 But because those devices can grab 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, 00:06:41.220 --> 00:06:44.900 I like just manually putting them all on 2.4, where they'll have better range 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? 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:55.123 Heck, yeah! Login name, admin. Password. 00:06:55.123 --> 00:06:58.970 (Linus laughs) We suggest you try a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols. 00:06:58.970 --> 00:07:02.420 Do you wanna continue? I mean, it's good they have these prompts though. 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, 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. 00:07:11.050 --> 00:07:13.293 I'm not sure exactly what they're pinging. 00:07:15.060 --> 00:07:19.850 Maybe that's just between your router and your device. 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 00:07:24.690 --> 00:07:28.060 just generally the services that you're using? That's kind of neat. 00:07:28.060 --> 00:07:32.173 I hear my fans working real hard. We might just be CPU limited. Oh, okay. 00:07:33.213 --> 00:07:36.373 (Linus chuckles) Between OBS and Steam, 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:41.800 it's struggling a little bit. Well, you saw it here first, folks. 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:45.960 My laptop is bottle-necking my wireless router. 00:07:45.960 --> 00:07:50.970 (Linus chuckles) Okay, this is quickly becoming a mess of wires, but there we go. 00:07:50.970 --> 00:07:54.950 Wait a second, that's pretty impressive. 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. 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. 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:05.800 I'm on Wi-Fi pulling down the entire rest 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:10.126 of my gigabit internet connection here. Oh, hold on, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry. 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. 00:08:16.810 --> 00:08:19.850 Freaking nuts! I think that's the highest I've seen 00:08:19.850 --> 00:08:23.770 to a single client, so far. I mean, I'm obviously right next to it, 00:08:23.770 --> 00:08:27.420 but sometimes that's not even an advantage. Like there's... 00:08:27.420 --> 00:08:30.660 You wanna be a little bit farther away. So, I'm just gonna... 00:08:30.660 --> 00:08:33.743 I'm gonna go over here, and this 81. 00:08:35.881 --> 00:08:37.573 76, okay we dropped. 00:08:38.940 --> 00:08:45.080 74, 75. I'm gonna maybe go hide around a corner or something. 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:48.630 This is crazy, still half a gigabit. 00:08:48.630 --> 00:08:51.770 Two walls! 60. 00:08:51.770 --> 00:08:55.420 66. 68. 00:08:55.420 --> 00:08:58.750 - [Andy] One more. - [Linus] Nope, it's not gonna make it. 00:08:58.750 --> 00:09:01.157 68 only. - [Andy] Oh. 00:09:03.466 --> 00:09:06.853 - [Linus] 69! - [All] Yeah! - It's kinda cool. 00:09:06.853 --> 00:09:10.440 I remember chatting with Joel Crane. I forget where he works now, 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:13.780 but he used to be at this place that makes Wi-Fi tester dongles. 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 00:09:17.910 --> 00:09:21.490 that it can kind of bounce signals around on things. 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 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. 00:09:30.970 --> 00:09:34.130 So what's neat is that even when I'm closer, 00:09:34.130 --> 00:09:37.580 like getting closer to the access point, you'll see these dips, 00:09:37.580 --> 00:09:40.930 because it can't use those optimizations. 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. 00:09:48.170 --> 00:09:51.480 Are you freaking serious right now? 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?" 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 00:10:01.970 --> 00:10:04.970 like a mesh Wi-Fi system in a box, 00:10:04.970 --> 00:10:09.640 you just upgrade your old ASUS router to the newest ASUS router, 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 00:10:14.610 --> 00:10:19.620 and your coverage can never get any worse. You just put your highest performance access point 00:10:19.620 --> 00:10:23.760 in your most high traffic areas, and then you just kinda scatter your other ones around. 00:10:23.760 --> 00:10:27.130 Super cool. AiProtection is a Trend Micro collaboration 00:10:27.130 --> 00:10:30.940 that attempts to do things like blocking malicious sites, parental controls. 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. 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? 00:10:42.403 --> 00:10:45.780 - [Andy] Sure. - I mean, I guess so, right? We're tryna test this thing. 00:10:45.780 --> 00:10:50.767 Whoa, okay. - [Andy] Whoa! (Andy and Jonah laughing) 00:10:52.780 --> 00:10:57.200 - Well, ASUS, I think you got some work to do on the whole adult content thing. 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:59.313 No, it's definitely not working, Jonah. 00:11:00.760 --> 00:11:03.890 I don't think we need to try anymore than we already have. 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. 00:11:08.990 --> 00:11:12.500 - [Jonah] Oh. - Yeah, won't do anything, and I'd have to set it up again. 00:11:12.500 --> 00:11:14.433 So, there's all your QoS. 00:11:15.610 --> 00:11:20.007 Hassle-free way to create port forwarding rules for online games, optimizes routing packets (indistinct). 00:11:22.110 --> 00:11:25.660 So, lots of different games here. 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. 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:34.907 Wow, that's really awesome. Oh, that's cool. 00:11:34.907 --> 00:11:39.240 You can do a site survey to basically see what else is around you 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:43.250 and help optimize your Wi-Fi settings. That can be really important 00:11:43.250 --> 00:11:47.310 if you've got a lot of neighbors. VPN Fusion is a feature that allows you 00:11:47.310 --> 00:11:51.610 to configure some clients to use a VPN and other clients to not, 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. 00:11:56.790 --> 00:12:02.350 Oh, this is cool. Being able to switch modes so quickly and easily like this, 00:12:02.350 --> 00:12:06.770 that is freaking awesome. So, just AP mode, 00:12:06.770 --> 00:12:10.050 if you just wanna use it as an access point. Repeater, media bridge. 00:12:10.050 --> 00:12:13.070 So, a media bridge would use the Wi-Fi 00:12:13.070 --> 00:12:17.080 as like a back haul, and then you'd take like everything nearby 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:20.550 and you'd plug it in over a wire. Obviously, there's a performance disadvantage, 00:12:20.550 --> 00:12:24.610 but it means that any of those devices could talk to each other over a wire, 00:12:24.610 --> 00:12:27.660 and then everything gets consolidated wirelessly. 00:12:27.660 --> 00:12:31.040 AiMesh node, that's really cool. All right, well, it doesn't excuse 00:12:31.040 --> 00:12:34.410 the adult content filter not working, but it appears as though the reason 00:12:34.410 --> 00:12:38.040 I can't get any ports open on this laptop 00:12:38.040 --> 00:12:42.450 is that I have our corporate anti-malware security solution 00:12:42.450 --> 00:12:45.600 installed on it, so. Well, I've tried everything I can think of. 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.903 I've disabled UPnP, I tried to full cone NAT. 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. 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 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, 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. 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. 00:13:13.470 --> 00:13:15.853 Thanks to you for watching it and get subscribed.