I FINALLY can get WiFi on my ROOF! - TP-Link Archer AX5400
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·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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1,415 words · ~7 min read
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- Welcome to this on location, ShortCircuit, sponsored by TP-Link, who wants to show off their
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Archer AX73, Wi-Fi 6 router.
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And what better way to do that then to install it
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at my place. A three level townhouse condo
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with concrete walls and floors. All right, let's get this puppy out of the box.
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Oh God, I feel like it's upside down. It's upside down. Power adapter. And of course the unit itself.
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Oh my gosh, look at these antennas.
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And a little Ethernet cable. Oh it's in one of these premium little bags.
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Damn, this is like a legendary pictures logos. This is pretty cool. Sleek design, not too gamery.
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This could easily be out in the open and fit your decor, even.
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You know what? And this isn't just a aesthetic. This is their new vent design. So like, basically the entire thing
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can radiate either top or bottom.
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Pretty cool. And of course, it's got the mounting hooks for just
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thumbtacks or whatever you wanna use. And it's solid. I don't really expect this to flex.
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- [Bell] How big is it? Oh God. It's about, I would say,
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what is that, 1.3 bananas in length and 0.6 bananas high.
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There are six adjustable high gain antennas
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with dual band speeds up to 5,400 megabit per second. And the single band speed on five gigahertz is
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4,800 megabits per second. I can't leave these on here.
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Oh, this is not easy. Oh my God. I need like a lighter.
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Okay, let's try another one. See this one, this one's easy.
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That's how it's supposed to go. On the IO side, we've got four different LAN ports, your WAN port, power,
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and then on the side, a USB sharing port.
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And a cool thing about this is that it's compatible with one mesh extender.
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So you can turn this into a mesh ecosystem without having to buy into a whole new ecosystem.
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And mesh would be a good solution for this place, but that's not what I have today.
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So what we're going to do is hook this up so I can get Wi-Fi
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all the way up two floors higher onto my rooftop,
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but first let's do a speed test. All right, so we're on the second floor
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and here are the speeds I'm getting with my ISP's router. And obviously these aren't great.
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I'm getting just 15 megabits per second on the download. So let's head to the roof and do another test.
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Okay. Now we're upstairs on the roof, very far away, two concrete floors,
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and let's see what we get now. I don't even know if I'm still connected to it.
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Yeah. It's not even close. Okay. So now we're going to go down to floor number 2.
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Install a router. Hopefully that's very easy, 'Cause I'm not good at networking. And then we'll try again.
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There it is. I'm gonna choose the 5G one.
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I don't know the password. Do these things stand down on its own?
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Always reminds me of those crab things from Half-Life. So I think I'm pretty much ready to do another test.
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Wow. 334 megabits per second. That's actually faster than the advertised speed
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that I pay for every month. The Archer is definitely able to handle gigabit speeds
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if you need that over Wi-Fi. If that's available in your area and to your bank account,
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but this is more than enough for me. Oh, I got full bars still.
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We hit go. Not gonna pretend that it's not, like, an order of magnitude worse,
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but crucially, we still have enough bandwidth
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to stream an HD movie from Netflix, for example. Not 4k, but HD, 1080p. It works.
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But we got those results using the five gigahertz band, which of course is higher data density,
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but with less penetrative power and range. So now let's see what we get using 2.4 gigahertz.
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And that's more like it. Double the speed. So cool.
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I'm very satisfied with that. I'm probably never going to watch Netflix out here,
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but at least I can watch my friends' Instagram stories
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and crap like that. - All right. And here are the speeds from the
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TP-Link router, that's on the second floor, while I'm down here on the first floor.
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And yeah, 40 megabits down is a lot better than the 15
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my ISP's router was doing from a floor away. Even the gigahertz band that usually has trouble
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penetrating walls, gets 26 megabits, which is quite a bit better.
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This is more like the performance difference most people should expect instead of the other results
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between the second and third floor, since the ceiling separating those floors is thicker.
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Now that I'm logged in and connected to my device, I'm greeted by a tour of all these premium features,
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like antivirus, parental controls, a family time
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lets you easily switch off a network to enjoy your time offline.
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That's exactly what I was just asking for. Okay. That's good. I might actually use that.
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And professional reports for, I suppose that's analytics.
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And other privileges, more advanced features like QoS to
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better control your network. You can even make a guest network
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for randos that are in your house. Maybe if you have an Airbnb or something like that.
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Not gonna set that up now, but that sounds like a cool feature. What else is in here?
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Home shield that gives you intrusion prevention, malicious content filter, and a DDoS protection
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to keep all your connected devices safe. That's pretty cool.
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And I can get a list of all the clients that are currently connected right now.
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In the good old days, it's just me and my Phillips Hue. But soon there'll be a bunch of other heap along here.
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Night mode. That's awesome. Since this is gonna be in a bedroom, unfortunately,
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it's great that I can turn on night mode. Okay. The LEDs are still on right now,
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but it's cause you can actually make a schedule. So from 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM, those LEDs are gonna be off.
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That's dope. Oh sick, you can share the Wi-Fi.
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So if someone asked what your Wi-Fi access ID or password is,
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instead of even describing it to them, you can have a very secure password and then just send them
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the credentials to their device so that no one has to write anything down
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or take a picture or hang it on your fridge or anything. That is super cool. This is actually a really useful app.
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So, for a quick summary, the Archer AX73 utilizes Wi-Fi 6 tech to provide you
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next gen Wi-Fi speeds up to 5,400 megabits per second.
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And four times the connection power, which is ideal for 4k or even 8K streaming, gaming, and
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the ever-growing number of devices connected in your home. Plus, home shield features the latest WPA3 encryption to
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give you full control of your network while keeping it secure. With fully loaded features and price, just under $200,
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it's a strong option to consider if you're thinking of upgrading your old router.
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With the holidays coming up, you need your Wi-Fi to be super solid and good to go.
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Cause you might have family coming over or even if you don't, you're probably gonna be gaming a lot.
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So take advantage of this. Just-in-time for the holiday season, TP-Link has a promo going on where you can get 50 bucks off
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when you buy your Archer AX73 router from Amazon, with no code needed, if you get yours before December 21st.
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So learn more and get yours today using the link in the video description.
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So thanks again to TP-Link for sponsoring this video. If you guys liked it, hit like, hit subscribe, and hit us up at the comm,
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