Zyxel NBG5715 Dual Band 450Mbs Wireless Media Router Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2012-05-07
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Welcome to another unboxing. This is the Zeil media router and I don't think
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that's the whole name of it. So, we're going to call go with their proper name, which is the
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NBG5715. It is blazingly fast. It has
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concurrent dualband wireless N 450
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megabit per second which to my understanding is actually a first with
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this particular router. So you can simultaneously stream HD movies, play
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online games, and web surf. Okay, that's
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pretty much part of the course for a wireless router. I should certainly hope you can do all those things. Net USB
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allows you to share printers and storage wirelessly, which is very cool. All
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right, gigabit, net USB, 2.4 and 5 GHz.
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Okay, we've got all of that going on. Let's see what they've got to say for themselves on the back. So, uh, beam
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forming supports ex support extends effective wireless coverage. Okay.
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Quality of service enhances gaming and multimedia streaming. Okay. And five
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IPSecVPN tunnels secure data transfer.
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Fascinating. So, that's something that I haven't seen as a called out spec on a
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consumer level router um, ever. So, there you are. Wireless
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scheduling allows energy savings. So you can turn off your wireless when you're,
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you know, at home but sleeping, for example, or when you don't want your
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kids surfing the net at 4 in the morning or whatever the case may be. So let's go
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ahead and pull this guy open and have a look at what we've got inside the box.
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So the first thing is a declaration of conformity, which I'm not particularly
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interested in. Okay, next we have a utility, users guide, quick start guide,
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Acrobat Reader, and project product registration CD.
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Next, we have a warranty card. So, let's see how long the warranty is. Uh, we
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take great pride in our quality, value, and performance and believe this product
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should offer you trouble-free operation throughout its
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lifetime. And it doesn't actually say how long the lifetime should
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be. Fascinating. For further
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information, visit zel.com/warranty. So, you can go ahead
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and do that if you care that much. Hardware installation. So, this is
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apparently a quick start guide. Uh, yes, it says quick start guide at the top. So
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they show you how to put the antennas on, how to plug in the wan lan wan lan
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wan lawn, I don't know DC in, how to
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plug in the power, okay, how to plug in USB to either a printer or in some cases
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a storage device if you want to go ahead and have a network store device uh which
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is just a USB not powered but it has a USB
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interface to your router and then you can use that as a network share. Okay,
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we have a WPS setup. How to do that? All right. Wow, this thing is
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huge. This is one of the bigger routers that I've seen in quite a while. So,
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let's go ahead and I'll take the router out, but we're not going to look closely
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at that just yet. So, let's pull out all of the
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included accessories and whatnots
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first. By the way, we have a trial cameraman here today. So, uh you know,
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feel free to leave your comments on the uh on the YouTube comments. Let me know
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what you think. you know, good,
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terrible, adequate. All right, we've got three included antennas. So, I'm going
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to go ahead and actually I'm not going to put those on yet because I'm going to take the plastic layer off first. This
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has kind of a neat neat look to it. I
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mean, I' I've never really believed that the router should be like a a fashion
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statement, but if it has to not if it, you know, has to not look stupid or you
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have to see it, then it might as well, you know, look kind of look kind of
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different. So, there you go. It has kind of a wavy finish to it. The insides are
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kind of matte and then the top is sort of glossy. Actually, this is glossy,
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too. Let's see how fingerprint resistant it is. Actually, that's not bad. So,
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it's got a bit of sort of smearage going on. But the good news, or bad news, I
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don't know. I'm about to find out, is that it comes off really easily and doesn't scratch too easily. Because a
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lot of the time these glossy finishes, especially on routers, I had one router
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that had a black glossy finish on it and literally you went like this and it was
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like the whole thing was just scratched up just from your fingers. Okay, so
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we've got uh that must be
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WPS. Wow, there's a bunch of different stuff. Okay, so you can turn the lights
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on and off. You can turn the wireless on and off. So that it's a nice dedicated
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button to have there. Okay, we've got
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our USB ports. So, two of those. I'm going to You know what? Give me a sec
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here, guys, cuz I'm going to need a minute to find out what all these buttons do. I don't think I've seen this
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many buttons on a consumer router ever. Okay, we figured it out. Here's WPS.
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This is wireless on. This is light on or light off. On the other side, these
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probably are prompting it to look for something on the USB port. Okay, we've
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got a power switch at the back. DC power in. We have 4 GB LAN ports. And then we
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have our WAN port. We've also got a reset switch. So, there's your hard
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reset. And I'm just going to go ahead and throw these on. In terms of the
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other included accessories, there's not a whole lot. There's just a power adapter, which is just your standard
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wall wart, as well as a yellow Ethernet
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cable. Very styling, of course. Oh, goldplated connectors, too. Look at
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that. All right. So, we'll go ahead and throw this on here. I actually don't
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mind the overall layout of this. It's very unconventional. So, it kind of sits
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like this on the desk, and it doesn't appear that there is a way to remove the
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bottom stand. Um, so yeah, so it sits on the desk like
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that and then all of the cables plug in from the back. So thank you for checking
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out this unboxing and first look at the
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Zeissel NBG 5715 media router. Don't
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