WD MyNet N600 Wireless Router with FasTrack QoS Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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we have four rounders to unbox from western digital and we are going to
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start with the lowest end one because that's always
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the hardest when you have an entire series of products and sort of talking
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about the cool features that are present is taking the lowest end one out of the
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entire product stack and figuring out what's exciting about it in this case
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it's not actually that difficult because the mynet series of routers has
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really one key feature that goes above and
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beyond what kind of anyone else is doing it's called fast track so fast track is
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as wd describes it um
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uh fast track stop waiting start watching smooth hd streaming to your
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smart tvs tablet smartphones computers and other connected devices so it is
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quality of service that rather than setting up manually within like a qos
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menu inside the web interface for your router and logging into that and then
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manually putting things into it which is kind of a chore every time you have some
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new game and you have to build some new profile just to make sure that it's
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prioritized it's sort of stupid so fast track the idea is you turn it on
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and based on profiles that wd builds for the mynet n600 as well as the n750
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it will just kind of automatically prioritize the things that need extra
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bandwidth and it will reserve bandwidth for them so that they don't lag and they
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don't stutter with the mine at 900 it actually recognizes the shape of the
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traffic and dynamically adjusts so it'll go oh that looks like a game and it'll
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dynamically reserve bandwidth for it even without wd rolling out profiles in
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their firmwares but with the lower end ones you do have to rely on the profiles
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from western digital this particular router is a dual band 300 plus 300
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megabit per second router so effective and 600 speed
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good range really they put that on there good range
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uh easy setup fast track streaming full hd 1080p okay it better be if it's uh
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oh look at this they have a convenient product comparison here too so range is
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house and then there's a bigger house and there's a really big house okay
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fast track fast track fast track plus is the adaptive one very cool
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100 Ethernet ports so it does have fast wireless but only fast Ethernet fast
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Ethernet isn't fast anymore it's gigabit Ethernet is the faster one one usb 2.0
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port so western digital is a storage company so it stands to reason that they
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would want to you know i don't know configure their routers so that you can
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add storage to them so something like a my book live would be a perfect
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companion for one of their
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uh for one of their my net routers in fact if you use
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a my book live you can even enable additional features like apple's file
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protocol so you can use time capsule that's what it's called right time
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capsule time machine time capsule i think
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hold on yay google time capsule is the apple
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device that has storage inside of it that allows you to use time machine to
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back up your pcs over the network so this will behave kind of like a time
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capsule once you attach a qualified
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external drive to it otherwise you don't get that apple protocol and you can
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still use it as storage but just not with the extra features so in terms of
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the physicality of it you've got a power led wireless led interwebs led and
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w-w-e-p-w-p-a yeah our private protected yeah wpa
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wwps there's the button for wps which
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sort of next to the led indicator which means that i should probably realize
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that at some point in time there's your power button on the back
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nice toggle power button dc in
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four fast Ethernet ports remember fast doesn't mean fast fast means not as fast
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which is okay because this is a lower end product uh there's your lan port
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there's your usb storage port and there's your ventilation holes and other
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than that there's not much else to say about it i mean it's you know
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simple to set up i suppose let's see if they have a quick start guide so start
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here start didn't see here okay
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one two three steps for mac one two three steps from Windows hey ironically
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the one two three steps for Windows actually look a lot simpler than the one
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two three steps for mac huh there's a disc you can use that if you
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want it comes with an Ethernet cable it comes with a power adapter and also
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comes with a technical support unlimited warranty guide with a whole bunch of numbers all
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over the world that some of them don't even make any sense i mean how many oh
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that's three different phone numbers i was like is that a phone number for
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singapore i mean singapore they must have to remember like 30 digits just to
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call somebody thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the mynet
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