Buffalo WZR-600DHP High Powered N600 Wireless Router Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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949 words · ~4 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at a router that's
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far cooler than it at first appears to be but first you look at it and you go oh
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they took a router and they put ears on it it must have been made in japan
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buffalo happens to be a japanese company okay moving right along though this is
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the wzr 600dhp this is a high power so they're going
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for extra well power for enhanced signal strength and performance dual band
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simultaneous 300 plus 300 megabit per second which honestly is as fast as any
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of your devices at this point anyway uh gigabit Ethernet okay for maximum wired
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speed multi-platform blah blah blah right there bam actually there's a
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better logo double bam dd wrt so this router is a
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high powered writer router that is hold on
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slick was complaining his camera work isn't good enough to compensate for the
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the reflective wrapping so there you go dd wrt logo it also is ready for
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bittorrent wi-fi protected setup wi-fi and whatever that is so ddwrt is a
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third-party firmware that allows you to unlock additional functionality and
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features on what would otherwise be a stock router
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so by calling out the ddw artinis of this router they have actually
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effectively said look this is compatible with what is widely regarded to be the
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best third party firmware out there it has these high-powered sort of features
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that are cute and adorable and it's not that expensive so what what
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else is there to really say uh dual bands this okay this was their ac router
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so this it falls below an ac router in terms of the performance but
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is and and a little bit behind sort of the 450 megabit per second stuff on
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wireless n but honestly you'd never really notice the difference
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between wireless and 300 and 450 on for example your ipad because your your ipad
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doesn't even support 450 and i think a lot of devices are going to get support
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for ac and skip 450 entirely because this is just my personal opinion so if i
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was looking for something very customizable that again is extremely
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cute you know japanese this might be what i go for so i'm going
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to get this assembled and de-rapified and we'll be back in a moment
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reset buttons located on the bottom of the router there's also a handy indicator for how to install the
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stand there you go
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okay maybe i didn't do it right give me a sec uh-huh
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ah there we go okay to install the stand you've also got movie engine on and off
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so i guess that's probably just a qos feature diagnostic router
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these are the two bands 2.4 gigahertz and 5 gigahertz power
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yes uh there's your wi-fi protected setup
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okay cool stuff oh shoot i forgot i was trying to avoid touching the shiny set
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oh that's not bad that's actually surprisingly uh can you
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can you tell that the fingerprints aren't that bad on there wow usually i see okay guys i see
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surfaces like this and then i'm like oh that means i can never ever touch it but
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this is this is actually okay now let's see if it gets scratched when i wipe it
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off because that's the other that's the other mark of death for uh for shiny
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stuff yeah it gets micro scratches when you wipe it but realistically you should
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be hiding this under a table somewhere anyway so i guess if you're if you're that fussy
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about it then oh that came off again
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okay the point of this is the firmware and the power guys um moving right along
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you can turn the router on off or auto
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so that makes this easy to use as just a wireless access point it has a hardware
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switch for turning that off very handy okay usb eject
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usb port for storage as well as four gigabit ports your wan
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port and your power in in terms of accessories we've got buffalo's
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characteristic flat Ethernet cable
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do do like see that's a heart right there um we've also got a power adapter
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it comes on the wrapper with you know the ssid as well as the key
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that are initially set up as well as the information you need so put this somewhere safe just in case you forget
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and you don't know how to use google to look it up i mean well no you can know
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how to use google but it's not always convenient ah screws to hold this on
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there we go see they thought of this someone at some point was like no no it
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doesn't stay on screws done deal all right and
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no way they actually
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huh so there's like different uh there's
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different feature checklists depending on the uh whether you use the stock
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firmware or the ddwrt firmware there's a setup guide as well as a warranty
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statement thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at what's actually a pretty cool looking router
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and it's also a spaceship you can slide this in here and then it's meant to be
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oriented like this you can hold it like this part you'll be like