TrendNET TEW-691GR 450Mb/s Gigabit Ethernet Router Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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now this product's a little bit unique in that it is the first of its kind it's
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a wireless n 450 megabit per second
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router so what that means is that it is
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twice as fast as the other no no it's not twice as fast as
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anything it's 50% faster than the other high-speed Wireless end devices and it
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is three times faster than the basic
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Wireless end devices which are rated at 100 50 megabit per second so let's see
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what trend net has to say for themselves on the box first of all this is a Green
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net product which means that it employs some smart power saving techniques in
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order to reduce power consumption so things like powering off the ports that
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aren't being used on the switch for example it has ey popping 450 megabit
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per second wireless speed and coverage gigabit Ethernet ports for high performance wired connections you can
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stream videos download files talk online and play games all at the same time and
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connect computers with one touch Wi-Fi protected setup so like a OneTouch setup
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thing now what also makes this unique is that at the time of release there was
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absolutely nothing on the market in terms of 450 megabit per second clients
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that's H been been remedied Now by trendnet themselves they have their 450
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megabit per second wireless end gaming adapter these days so that helps a lot
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and then um yeah like you can see you can see when they designed the Box
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related products a bunch of 300 megabit per second stuff so um
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yeah I mean I guess there's uh going to be notebooks with built-in 450 megabit
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per second but uh there was nothing in terms of something you could buy from
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trendnet that would work with it so I I thought that was pretty amusing when
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this first came out cuz it was a little while ago actually so here they're
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talking about the features security uh package contents which we'll
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see in a moment but let's see what they have to say about features and Security
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First so highp speed Advanced wp2
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wireless security so that's under Wireless and then there's security
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access restriction with internet access control here let's move that so you can read it better there we go uh Advanced
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firewall protection with network address translation and stateful packet
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inspection ease of use which is also good onoff oh onoff wireless switch
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that's handy that's actually that's actually
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really handy there are times when you do want to turn off your wireless or at
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least I've wanted to do it a couple times and I it's not always convenient
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to you know go log into the uh web-
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based admin all right here's all the standards it support So as mentioned
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before these are gigabit Ethernet ports to go along with the 450 megabit per
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Wireless so with this device you can pretty much build the fastest possible
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home network without getting into some pretty high-end networking
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gear let's move along here let you guys you can pause this obviously if you want
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to read and uh I'm not going to say too much unless there's something that
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really stands out to me as needing to be
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said and I don't really see anything
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like that so this will work with your old G
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and B compatible wireless devices just
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so that you're aware so it's backwards compatible just
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like any Wireless end device the key difference is the speed so let's see
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what we find inside first we have a user's guide on disk then we have a user
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gu oh no this is a quick installation guide Okay so we've got three pages of
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English before you start installing and configuring all right so configuring oh
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no I guess this oh yeah no like like three four pages um so they show you the
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very very Basics uh which is configuring your
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wireless and then setting up Security on it very important stuff and then
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obviously you can use the user guide if you want to get a little bit deeper into
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things so here we have one Ethernet cable so that'll at least get you
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connected from your wireless router to your Internet modem and then if you want
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to wire up any computers you're going to have to uh use additional cables and
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then we have a power adapter so this power adapter is rated for 12 volts 1
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amp so pretty much your run-of-the-mill
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power adapter and let's have a look at the router itself shets really improved
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so much on their um on their old like
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blue shelled Wireless products these uh
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these slick black casings really just
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well they look a lot they look a lot more professional a lot more sharp so
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here we go here's our three antennas so
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it does have a three antenna design so let's have a look at the physical
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aspects of this router so remember this is the Tew
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691 gr and you can see right here on the
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front we've got all of the indicator LEDs that we could pretty much need
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there's our security one there's wireless
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LAN there's another one I'm not sure
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what that one's for it's not labeled only one way to find out later we have
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Lan 1 2 3 4 labeled as well as our Wan
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Port so that's another Lan Port but really that one goes into your router
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more than anything else and then we have a power light so that means you can
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Network up to four computers and one router for your internet connection as
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well as uh any number of I mean I think it's up to something like 200 plus uh
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Wireless clients although there's no way you'd want to run that many off so realistically you know you can run
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anywhere from 10 to 20 computers off this if you're running most of them
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Wireless which is kind of neat here we have some ventilation holes on the side
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here we have some ventilation holes on the other side there's the WPS I'm going
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to put my hand here so that it'll actually Focus there's the WPS OneTouch
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Wireless setup and then let's have a close look at the
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back so here put my hand here so it'll focus there is our power in there's the
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reset switch there's our power switch switch there's that neat wireless LAN
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onoff switch there is our Wan port and
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there are the four Lan ports that I had mentioned before so I am going to do
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some performance testing with this guy and I'm going to be using the their Tew
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687 450 megabit per second client in order to find out just how fast we can
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make this go just what kind of range it has so thank you for checking out my
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