The unboxing ninja chooses his prey
wisely
and they fell. Oops. Okay, so today we've got the Minet N750. This is
slightly higher end than the N600, meaning for your dualband speeds, you've
got one 450 megabit per second stream and one 300 megabit per second stream,
giving you a total of 750. And slightly lower end than the N900, which has two
450 megabit per second streams. This one also has gigabit ports, better range
than the N600, and also has easy setup.
Also has fasttrack streaming, fast track streaming, which I will go over in a
moment. also supports full HD, which it bloody well better if it has gigabit and
N750 and has 4 GB ports, which I already
talked about. I Fasttrack HD entertainment. So, let's talk about what
FastTrack does exactly. Fasttrack is profiles that WD builds into the
lower-end routers, the N600 and the N750
that I was expecting him to come look at this while I sort of talk. There we go.
Fasttrack basically is profiles that WD builds into the firmware that takes your
frequently used games and applications and turns them into priorities. So
instead of doing manual QoS, manual quality of service, which you do with
most traditional routers, WD provides all the profiles. All you got to do is
turn fasttrack on and it'll automatically prioritize things like
Skype over, you know, your brother who's
torrenting in the next room and you're like, "I'm trying to talk to grandma."
And he's like, "I'm trying to play League of Legends." And you're like, "No, I'm trying to talk to grandma." And
you have these conversations and it's just pointless. It's stupid. Just get one of these. Then you don't have to
worry about it anymore. It'll automatically prioritize. So, moving
right along. Here's the help me choose things. So, the benefits, I kind of
already covered this. So you get 4 GB ports versus the four fast Ethernet
ports on the N600. You get two USB 2 ports. So WD is a storage company. They
do want you to buy a hard drive to use with your Minet router in order to, you
know, back things up and store all your data in one place, access it from
wherever you want. If you get a compatible Western digital drive, such
as a MyBook Live, you can actually even
use your router as kind of an Apple time
capsule replacement with Time Machine. although it's compatible with Windows
utilities as well. Uh one, two, three step setup, 24/7 customer support, and
this one is rated for multiple HD streams um over Wi-Fi. I mean, I think
that's it's optimistic at the best of times. I
think if you're getting one full HD stream over Wi-Fi over any kind of
distance, you should probably be pretty happy. But who knows? I could be wrong.
I'm just unboxing it now. I haven't actually sat down and tested it yet. Uh
the Minet dashboard gives you a simple view of your essential settings, more
access, remote access with WD to go. So these
are apps that are available that you can use as well as the WD photos app. More
simplicity. Okay. Easy to auto configure, advanced QoS. Yes, that's
that fasttrack feature. Parental controls and internet security, network
diagnostic tool, auto sensing port technology, and antenna amplifiers. So
that's what makes this one higher range than the N600. In terms of included
accessories, there's not a whole lot. There's a power brick. There's warranty
as well as technical support. Phone numbers for you. There's a start here
which has steps for Mac, steps for Windows as well as a disc as well as an
Ethernet port port.
An Ethernet port which you can plug this Ethernet cable into is what I meant to
say. All right, let's have a look at the physicality of the router. There's your
power LED, your wireless LED, your wireless LED. Yes, wireless LED, your
internet LED, and your WPS LED. There's your button for that. On the top, it's
sort of matte and sort of shiny. It's actually got kind of a nice look to it. Can you see that in the camera? Does it
look good? Looks good. Yeah, Diesel's giving me the nod. Okay, so you've got
power switch, power in, 4 GB ports,
internet port, and then two storage ports, which is actually really cool.
And again, WD is a storage company. They want you to like get more storage. And I
personally totally believe in NAS storage. I'm a big NAS like guy. Uh,
this is a little basic for me. I actually have like some pretty high-end
NAS stuff going on. But uh hey, if you
don't have any network backup already, you will thank yourself if you throw a
centralized backup on here next time a computer hard drive crashes or anything
bad happens and you need to recover some data off of it. You will, yes, you'll
thank yourself. Plus, being able to access your files while you're on the go
on your tablet or your phone or whatever other device is very cool as well. So,
thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the WD Minet N750.
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