TrendNET TEW-684UB 450Mb/s Wireless USB Adapter Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I have kind of a neat product to unbox this is the trenet Tew 684 UB uh
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yeah it doesn't have a sexy name or anything but what's cool about this
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device is that it is the first USB 450
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mbit per second dualband Wireless N USB adapter so yes it is a USB 450 mbit per
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second wireless device so I'm going to go ahead and open this little guy up
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here comes in a very small box I mean it's a USB device so it
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couldn't be couldn't be that large right I mean it could be but wouldn't
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make much sense all right here we go so here's what trenet has to say about 450
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megabit per second dual band it is better than 450 megabit it is better
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than 300 megabit dual band better than 300 megabit and speed as well as 150
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megabit per second so it is the best okay got
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it right here we see what the device
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looks like but we're going to see that when we open it up here we see how to use it so you connect it to the
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computer okay and then it is wirelessly
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connected to your router and they recommend the Tew 691 grr which I happen
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to have one of here we go so I have a
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whole Fleet of trend net 450 megabit per second devices so you can bet there will
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be a tech tips up coming on that shortly all right so there they show the other
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devices so the 690 AP is the one that I don't have but that's fine cuz the 690
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AP is just an AP version of the 691 gr
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which is the full router so the more interesting product anyway so here it is
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it actually looks like a little tiny version of the trend net uh Tew 687 GA
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so the ga is the gaming adapter which is uh uses a gigabit Ethernet interface
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rather than a usb3 interface and then actually here I'll show it to you so
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there's the 687 GA so you can see the size difference and I'll do the
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obligatory iPhone size comparison as
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well just so you guys can see how big this thing is so it's not super large it
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could easily be carried if you were going to travel and you were going to bring this guy with you okay so it uses
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micro hold on hold on I can never remember the USB 3 cable
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standards ah oh right this is USB 2 so
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it just uses a b cable a mini B There we go good I know the USB 2 ones there you
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have it so then it plugs in Via a normal
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USB 2.0 Port so bear in mind of course
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guys that USB 2 oh okay USB 2 is
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480 megabit per second as I recall so
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what that means is that with this one device you can pretty much uh saturate
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your USB 2 bus but I mean I wouldn't
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worry too much about that because you're not going to be using the full thorough
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put of this device very often that's only when you're transferring large
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files at a time so you can see it's got a one button setup button up here
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WPS there you can see that now on the bottom it has the Mac Address as well as
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the serial number on the back there's your USB and it pretty much looks like
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this there's not much more to say so there's a WPS light and activity light
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as well as a power light on the front why I'm going to go ahead and plug that
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in I can show you what the indicator lights look like so I'm just going to
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come over here plug this into my test computer and hopefully there you go so
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that's what those lights are going to look like please Focus Mr camera there
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we are all right so thank you for
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checking out my unboxing of the trenet
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Wireless N 450 megabit pers second Tew
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684 UB don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for unboxings reviews and
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other computer videos please Focus Mr camera you know I
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think it's having a hard time focusing cuz it's so shiny there see now I can
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see it oh I missed something there it
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actually comes with a quick installation guide which is going to show you how to use WPS as well as plug it into your
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computer and a driver and utility DVD that has the users's guide on it as well
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rather CD