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Okay, so today we're going to be having a quick look at the DLink

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DGL4500. So this is from their Gamer Lounge series of networking products.

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And that means that it is optimized for, wait for it, gaming. Yes. Okay.

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Awesome. So that means that the gaming feature it seems to have over its

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cousin, the DW, oh crap, DIR 655 is that

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it has an LCD on the top and it also features game fuel priority. So, let's

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have a look at the back of the box and see what we can find in terms of information about this router. Powered

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by Game Fuel. Nothing ruins a frag faster than lag. Basically, what Game

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Fuel does is it prioritizes gaming packets over something like your

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roommate's favorite '8s hairband music. So, if someone else is downloading files

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somewhere else on your network and you are gaming, it should in theory

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prioritize those gaming packets over all of the other stuff that's going on. So,

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let me see. includes World of Conflict content. Oh, this is actually

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interesting. It is a gigabit router, so you do pay a bit of a premium, but if

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you want both extreme and wireless and gigabit, then it's pretty important to

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find a high-end router. I mean, personally, I wouldn't settle for anything less than Gigabit these days,

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especially with the way that the cost has come down. It also features dual

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technology, so your router has the power of dualband 2.04 or 5 GHz wireless

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signals to get your game on in the wireless band of your choice. Now, I'm

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not a huge fan of gaming on wireless, and you can actually check out the full

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NCX tech tips episode we did on wireless

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versus wired versus power line. And I'm

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a big power line user these days. But that doesn't mean that wireless doesn't

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still have its use and that you wouldn't still want draft N for example, or

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rather N I should call it because maybe you have a laptop and you want to stream

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HD content. N makes a huge difference for that. So, let's see what we got

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inside. First of all, here is your start, insert CD, and run wizard. I'm

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just going to ignore that phone call. Sorry about that. Okay. And then there

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is a disc. I can't imagine any reason you would ever use an installation CD

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for a router. It makes zero sense to me and I've never put one in my computer.

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Maybe there's something useful, but whatever. Okay. It's your internet, so

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take charge. Okay. So, some kind of ad. All right. Then you've got a quick

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install guide. All right. So, the quick install guide is pretty much a a world

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in conflict poster. There you go. Okay.

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And it has the router at the bottom of it. Leg is no longer an excuse. Okay.

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And then on the other side, that is where the quick install guide actually

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comes in. So here, what's funny about the quick install guide? Oh, this is

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awesome. Is there is no step that requires you to put that CD in. Okay, so

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the CD includes a manual and a router setup wizard. Okay, there you go. So it

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shows you how to set it up. Great. Okay, so next we will find an AC adapter.

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Nothing particularly exciting about that. And then we have three huge

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2.45 GHz labeled antennas which we can

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plug into the back of the router. So you can see these are like the huge bulky

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kind. There we go. Then we have a little stand for standing the router up on its

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side if you don't want to run it as like a desktop router and switch. Okay, hold

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on. We've got a Cat 5e

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cable. Yeah, that's Cat 5e, I think.

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Yeah, whatever. It doesn't really matter. And then a couple of screws for

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I think this is for wall mounting it or something. Oh, and it has little rubber feet for propping it up on the desk, I

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guess. Oh, no. It comes with rubber feet. I can't imagine what those are for. Now the cameraman's phone's

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ringing. Use of this device may make your wireless network connect. Oh, okay.

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This is a good warning to see. They give you a quick warning and show you how to

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go to their support site to set up your wireless for um WPA2 security, which is

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really important because you don't want someone, for example, tapping into your

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wireless connection to download illegal content or something like that and then

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you end up blamed for it. So, I mean, that kind of thing is pretty bad news. I

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mean, it's one of those things where, yeah, people aren't supposed to do that,

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but the same people who aren't supposed to download anything illegal are the

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ones who are doing that, right? So, here's where the LCD screen is, and

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these buttons are used for navigating through it. I have one of these at home,

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and honestly, the screen is totally useless. You should be using the the web

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gooey based uh web interface to configure the router.

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192.168.0.1. Here is a reset button. Okay. It's kind of nice to see that.

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That's Oh, no. That's not a reset. Okay. I have no idea what this button does. Sorry. Okay. Then we've got the other

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side and then we're around at the back. So, here's where we plug in our

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antennas. And you can see we've got 4 GB LAN ports. So, there's a gigabit switch

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built in. And then you've also got your uh internet uplink port right there.

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That USB port, I believe, can be used as a print server among other things. And

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the firmware updates are actually done in a really smart way on this router.

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It's really nice. You just go into the uh to the router configuration screen

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and then you just tell it go update and it does it. It's really seamless. I mean

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a lot of routers out there you have to like download it to a USB key and then

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plug it in and then upload it and it's very strange. Anyway, thank you for

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checking out my unboxing and quick product. Oh, it's shiny. We should do

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the shiny shot. Yeah, don't go away yet. See? See how shiny it is? Actually, it

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gets scratched up really fast. There's like nothing you can do. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the DGL

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4500.