Trendnet TEW-692GR 450Mb/s Concurrent Wireless N Router Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,217 words · ~6 min read
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okay in the front of this stack I have the trenet Tew 684 UB this is a 450
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megabit dualband Wireless and USB adapter okay this was released around
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the same time as the trenet Tew 691 gr
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now this is a 450 megabit Wireless and gigabit router however what you may
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notice about these two products is that this one is actually capable of higher
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speeds than this one and these were were sold as like a like a matched pair you
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can see it'll probably recommend no it doesn't Okay well whatever trenet
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pitched it as those should work together pretty well which they will they will run at 450 megabit per second which at
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the time was not available from any other manufacturer however trenet has
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recently released an updated dualband
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450 megabit per second concurrent Wireless N router this is the Tew 692 gr
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and you can see that these guys actually have matching charts whereas the
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691 that chart ends at 450 megabit per
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second so here you can see 450 megabit per second dual band is even better than
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450 megabit per second which is even better than 300 megabit per second dual
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band which is better than and so on and so on and so forth so today's unboxing
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is going to be for the truly matching router for that wireless adapter which
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provides up to once he gets the plastic off then he
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will talk about the product there we go all right up to to 900 megabit per
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second of total Wireless throughput concurrent dual band technology
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generates two separate 450 megabit per second wireless end networks at the same
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time OneTouch network connection with Wi-Fi protected setup all gigabit wired
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ports which is an essential feature for any of these 300 megabit plus uh
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Wireless uh routers in my opinion because otherwise you're just going to
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be bottlenecked by the wired ports anyway all right green Net Technology
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lowers energy consumption by 70% remember Green net Tech green Net
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Technology turns off certain ports Powers things down allows your router to
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be less power consuming than other routers Advanced wireless encryption up
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to WPA2 radius Advanced firewall
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protection internet access control with mac and URL filtering and ease of use
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with an easy web browser configuration Remote Management and supports Universal
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plug-in play personally I love Universal plug-in play some people say it's for
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noobs I say fine then I'm a Noob cuz I like it all right here we go dual band
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wireless and USB adapter something something here it is oh no that's the
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wireless end gaming adapter there's the wireless end USB adapter and here is the
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router and here is how they envision your network to pretty much work cool
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beans okay what else we got here that's it let's open it up let's do
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the unboxing part that's right in the title of this video 692 grr unboxing so
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far I have unboxed nothing here we go so
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there's a quick installation guide which is in USA and Britain language or also
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known known as English before you start Hardware installation and how to
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configure the wireless router we have a disc which has a user's guide on it so
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maybe don't throw that away might be useful next we have a power adapter
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fairly small wall wart made by beste it's the best it's Tech plugs into your
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router makes it Go makes the little turbines inside
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spin next we have the wireless router no
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we don't okay next we have an Ethernet cable it's blue has plugs on the end
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finally we have a mounting bracket which I will take out cuz we might show you
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how to use that if I can figure it out on camera and I'm going to take off the
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plastic which will reveal the incredibly shiny Linus yeah I'm not going to show
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you the cameraman in the reflective surface sorry guys yes it is the true
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cameraman helping me today the cameraman the Apple Enthusiast not uh not Darth
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Vader not crazy Russian none of the others okay so let's have a look at the
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router itself this one features a Green net badge on it which the 691 gr does
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not have it also features a dual band 450 megabit per second logo on it you've
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got The tradet Branding here on the top you've got the WPS button this is very
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conveniently located you know what I'm kind of getting tired of seeing WPS
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buttons that are like on the back of the router or like on the side or on the
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bottom or wherever they end up being this is convenient right on the top very
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nice Kudos trenet all right we have a power we have oh interesting they're
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using an Internet Explorer logo for the W Port okay so then you you got your
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four landan indicators your wireless indicators and your WPS LED indicator
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you've got a reset switch here on the side as well as some ventilation holes
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there's a fair amount of performance in a device like this so those ventilation
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holes are probably needed you got some more ventilation holes as well as the
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antennas on the other side of the device this is a fairly unconventional layout
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usually on a router you see kind of nothing lights nothing and then ports
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and and AD and antennas and reset switches and everything on the back but
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on this one instead we've only got the ports on the back so these are all
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gigabit Network ports there's your Wan port and there is your power input on
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the back of the unit itself now it has on the bottom not a whole lot going on
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and I want you guys to note that it does have three dedicated antennas and these
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cannot be removed so these are builtin antennas so I will be doing some testing
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on the 692 gr against its little brother the 691 gr with the the guy ah the
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concurrent n USB adapter so stay tuned for that on my ncixcom channel and don't
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forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other
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computer videos cameraman figured out how the uh
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Mount worked so basically all you do is you take the router and you put it on
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there yeah it's actually that uncomplicated so what that means is and
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this is actually smarter than it at first appears because okay for one thing
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it just plugs into your ventilation holes at the bottom you can still access
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your reset switch they they did think of that and for another thing look at what
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this does so it puts it up this way so you can see your indicator lights from
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the front still it takes all of your antennas and puts them up higher which
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seems like logically intuitively might be better right and then last but not
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least it still leaves all of your ports at the back see smart