Welcome to another unboxing. This is the Zeil media router and I don't think
that's the whole name of it. So, we're going to call go with their proper name, which is the
NBG5715. It is blazingly fast. It has
concurrent dualband wireless N 450
megabit per second which to my understanding is actually a first with
this particular router. So you can simultaneously stream HD movies, play
online games, and web surf. Okay, that's
pretty much part of the course for a wireless router. I should certainly hope you can do all those things. Net USB
allows you to share printers and storage wirelessly, which is very cool. All
right, gigabit, net USB, 2.4 and 5 GHz.
Okay, we've got all of that going on. Let's see what they've got to say for themselves on the back. So, uh, beam
forming supports ex support extends effective wireless coverage. Okay.
Quality of service enhances gaming and multimedia streaming. Okay. And five
IPSecVPN tunnels secure data transfer.
Fascinating. So, that's something that I haven't seen as a called out spec on a
consumer level router um, ever. So, there you are. Wireless
scheduling allows energy savings. So you can turn off your wireless when you're,
you know, at home but sleeping, for example, or when you don't want your
kids surfing the net at 4 in the morning or whatever the case may be. So let's go
ahead and pull this guy open and have a look at what we've got inside the box.
So the first thing is a declaration of conformity, which I'm not particularly
interested in. Okay, next we have a utility, users guide, quick start guide,
Acrobat Reader, and project product registration CD.
Next, we have a warranty card. So, let's see how long the warranty is. Uh, we
take great pride in our quality, value, and performance and believe this product
should offer you trouble-free operation throughout its
lifetime. And it doesn't actually say how long the lifetime should
be. Fascinating. For further
information, visit zel.com/warranty. So, you can go ahead
and do that if you care that much. Hardware installation. So, this is
apparently a quick start guide. Uh, yes, it says quick start guide at the top. So
they show you how to put the antennas on, how to plug in the wan lan wan lan
wan lawn, I don't know DC in, how to
plug in the power, okay, how to plug in USB to either a printer or in some cases
a storage device if you want to go ahead and have a network store device uh which
is just a USB not powered but it has a USB
interface to your router and then you can use that as a network share. Okay,
we have a WPS setup. How to do that? All right. Wow, this thing is
huge. This is one of the bigger routers that I've seen in quite a while. So,
let's go ahead and I'll take the router out, but we're not going to look closely
at that just yet. So, let's pull out all of the
included accessories and whatnots
first. By the way, we have a trial cameraman here today. So, uh you know,
feel free to leave your comments on the uh on the YouTube comments. Let me know
what you think. you know, good,
terrible, adequate. All right, we've got three included antennas. So, I'm going
to go ahead and actually I'm not going to put those on yet because I'm going to take the plastic layer off first. This
has kind of a neat neat look to it. I
mean, I' I've never really believed that the router should be like a a fashion
statement, but if it has to not if it, you know, has to not look stupid or you
have to see it, then it might as well, you know, look kind of look kind of
different. So, there you go. It has kind of a wavy finish to it. The insides are
kind of matte and then the top is sort of glossy. Actually, this is glossy,
too. Let's see how fingerprint resistant it is. Actually, that's not bad. So,
it's got a bit of sort of smearage going on. But the good news, or bad news, I
don't know. I'm about to find out, is that it comes off really easily and doesn't scratch too easily. Because a
lot of the time these glossy finishes, especially on routers, I had one router
that had a black glossy finish on it and literally you went like this and it was
like the whole thing was just scratched up just from your fingers. Okay, so
we've got uh that must be
WPS. Wow, there's a bunch of different stuff. Okay, so you can turn the lights
on and off. You can turn the wireless on and off. So that it's a nice dedicated
button to have there. Okay, we've got
our USB ports. So, two of those. I'm going to You know what? Give me a sec
here, guys, cuz I'm going to need a minute to find out what all these buttons do. I don't think I've seen this
many buttons on a consumer router ever. Okay, we figured it out. Here's WPS.
This is wireless on. This is light on or light off. On the other side, these
probably are prompting it to look for something on the USB port. Okay, we've
got a power switch at the back. DC power in. We have 4 GB LAN ports. And then we
have our WAN port. We've also got a reset switch. So, there's your hard
reset. And I'm just going to go ahead and throw these on. In terms of the
other included accessories, there's not a whole lot. There's just a power adapter, which is just your standard
wall wart, as well as a yellow Ethernet
cable. Very styling, of course. Oh, goldplated connectors, too. Look at
that. All right. So, we'll go ahead and throw this on here. I actually don't
mind the overall layout of this. It's very unconventional. So, it kind of sits
like this on the desk, and it doesn't appear that there is a way to remove the
bottom stand. Um, so yeah, so it sits on the desk like
that and then all of the cables plug in from the back. So thank you for checking
out this unboxing and first look at the
Zeissel NBG 5715 media router. Don't
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