Zyxel NBG4615 Wireless N Router Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I have a router to unbox this is a zil wireless n router it is the nbg
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4615 and one of the things that's actually really cool about it right off
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the bat is the fact that it includes not
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one but two built-in USB ports so with
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that in mind let's go ahead and do the unboxing portion of this video right
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away so that I can show you the product itself because that is important showing
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you the product because if I did an unboxing where I don't show you the product it would be over right about now
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first of all we have a warranty card thank you for purchasing and our warranty
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is oh oh it opens up that helps a lot
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okay so it looks like it
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is I don't know how long it is okay either way you can fill it out with your
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model number and serial number and date of search purchase okay we have a quick start guide
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although you're probably not going to use this too much because it does include besides the expert configuration
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mode also an easy configuration mode so
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that should help for the non-technical Le Savvy customers to get this baby set
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up you also have support for WPS so
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that's where you just press the button on the router press the button on the
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adapter and the secure connection is done automatically we have a utility
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users guide quick start guide Acrobat reader and product registration disc
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actually there's some useful stuff on there you might not want to throw that disc away just yet we have the router
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itself which is fairly small this I like to see I'm kind of it's getting tiresome
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seeing like huge routers that are like trying to be a fashion statement so this
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is just a plain glossy white finish on the top of the router itself and then
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you have LEDs indicating all the different stuff that it does so you got
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your power LED you've got your four Lan LEDs your one W LED your wireless LED
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and then LEDs for the two USB ports you
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know what more on the router in a moment let's show you all the other things it comes with next we have a power adapter
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which looks like that we have an Ethernet cable which is
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yellow see that's just a little bit
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different you know it's like this one comes with a yellow Ethernet cable
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everyone else comes with a blue or a black Ethernet cable well these got
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going to break the mole yellow Ethernet cable also instead of being a lame 3ft
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Ethernet cable that some of some routers come with this is actually a 6ft cable
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so there you have it bull plated connectors too all right
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next we have two antennas not one but
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two okay I'm not going to try and get those out the packaging right now but I
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will go like this okay and then finally we have the
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router itself so let's show you the overall physical layout of the nbg
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4615 so on the the sides you see we have our two USB ports so that's actually I
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mean okay yes they call it out on the front of the box and you know look it's
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a net USB port but that's actually a really cool feature because not only can
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you use it to access your printer over the network you can also plug in a mass
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storage device such as a USB drive or an external hard drive at the same time so
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I haven't actually seen any other consumer router in this kind of a price
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point range that does offer that feature what else do they have to say for
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themselves here Wi-Fi compliant with 802 n and backwards compatible with B and G
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hey that might have something to do with the name of the router the
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nbg okay uh next we have wireless scheduling for energy saving oh that's
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actually kind of cool too my router at home doesn't have that so you can turn
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off the I mean that's never mind energy saving I mean yeah it's good for energy
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saving too but you can turn off the antenna during hours of the day when you
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don't want it on like at night for example um next we've got Wi-Fi
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protected setup talked about that already six level neighbor-friendly
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Wireless output power control that's actually cool too so that's a way that
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you can actually adjust the signal strength of the wireless antenna well
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not the antenna but the actual uh router itself in order to keep it from being
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too accessible so if you live in an apartment or a condo for example you can
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turn it down in six different incremental steps to a level that allows
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access throughout your entire living space but doesn't necessarily punch
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through two sets of walls and go to the people two condos over who managed to
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Guess that your wireless password was your pet's name
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okay next en enhanced security with WP
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WPA WPA 2 and a firewall that's all
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pretty much standard fair and let me see
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what else they have to say about this particular guy right here I think that's
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pretty much it uh oh it has a game engine feature evidently okay so you can
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turn that on to optimize it for games you can easily prioritize your network
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traffic with quality of service so you can set different things to lower or
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higher priorities so for example if your house is not run by me the gaming thing
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might be at the bottom but if it is run by me that might be at the top in order
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to maximize your well not maximize your pings minimize your pings maximize your
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gaming experience on the back of the unit itself we have our two antenna
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ports are convenient onoff physical
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switch for the wireless network we have our WPS button as well as a reset button
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recessed into a little Port down there use a needle to get at that okay we have
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four Lan ports and we have one Wan Port
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our DC power in as well as a complete onoff switch for the router unit itself
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and finally another antenna Port so thank you for checking out my unboxing
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of the nvg 4615 don't forget to subscribe to Linus techtips for more
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unboxings reviews and other computer videos these are gigabit ports wow this
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is actually a tremendous value for the price point that it's at gigabit
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Ethernet ports Wireless N there you have it now I'm actually done