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what is going on guys Jays two cents here bringing it a product kind of more of an overview rather than a full like in-depth every product feature review here of the asrock g10 AC 2600 gaming router now I know some folks get really mad when they put the word gaming in something that has to do with Wireless it tends to really make a lot of people angry whether it be mouse keyboard or router but at least we're going to talk about this today I'm going to show you how I plan on using it to increase the wireless here in my house and then you guys can hopefully make a decision about whether or not this product is right for you the mastercase 5 and mastercase 5 pro from Coolermaster combines modularity with creativity giving you the freedom to build it your way make it yours by clicking the link down in the description all right so here it is right here and as you can see it is a piano finish which unfortunately you guys know I hate you can already see there's fingerprints all over it simply because I've been getting myself acquainted with it and it already looks very smudgy and greasy and I just cleaned my hands it's it's something I'm always going to give negative points for anything that has a piano finish like this because what's going to happen is it's going to attract dust it's going to attract fingerprints and when you wipe that clean it's going to start to get micro sorrel scratches in here and it's going to look terrible please for the love of God if you're watching and you manufacture routers or a device period monitors keyboards whatever no more piano finishes we need textured plastic it will always look better in the long run this is this is I'm always going to knock points off for this I'm sorry that's subjective I know but I just I hate piano mirror you know polish finish on plastic well that out of the way here is the device right here and as you can see it looks a lot like a ps4 it really does now you're not going to be able to mount this flat if you wanted to put it like on your desk or something it has to go up right you can't even wall mount it they I think they really dropped the ball on that one wall mounting this would have been a big deal because it has to go upright anyway but the reason why I has to go up right is there's eight antennas in here giving a you know obviously giving you connectivity to the wide spectrum 2.4 gigahertz 800 megabit per second connection and the 5 gigahertz wire this AC 1733 megabit connection over the five gigs which is a big deal and they advertise this as being the world's fastest 44 r8o 2.11 AC router I don't know how long that's going to be true I don't even have a way to test if that's true but I can tell you right now that they are advertising this as being extremely fast and one of the reasons why I'm doing this review is because I plan on using this as you guys know as part three of my wireless video that I talked about here in the new house is using this to extend my five gigahertz coverage here in the house now 2.4 coverage here isn't too too bad does drop off a bit towards the front of the house because the router that have now is all the way in the back of the house but I plan on using this to try and get good coverage downstairs on the 5 gigahertz spectrum I want to get 5 gigahertz coverage if I can because it's so much faster than 2.4 now this is a mu-mimo router which is a multi-user multi-input multi-output and you've got two USB 3.0 plugs right here on the back which is going to allow you to hook up wireless USB drives that you can have movies on and music and stuff it access over your entire network as well as two IR transmit lenses right here on the back which are going to allow you to use the asrock app to learn the IR function of your remotes and then your router through the software can actually control many of your devices like your TVs and smart appliances and things from anywhere within the network without even being in line of sight of those products as long as the router itself is in line-of-sight unfortunately those are on the back of the router so unless these things are putting off a ton of intensity on that IR spectrum and is bouncing off all the walls to allow you to connect your devices being on the back might limit some of the connectivity you have to the device or the appliance that this thing is hoping to control now on the top right here you've also got held in there by a magnet this they say that this is this is a free like addition I think it's part of the router obviously because it's you know designed to sit right in there this is their wireless dongle and it has two purposes one you can it's HDMI right here on the end and on the other side it's us micro USB for power as well as rj45 Ethernet here this allows you to connect this to any TV or us or HD am i connected device plug-in power to USB it includes a cable for that and then you can easy cast whatever you are displaying on your smart device like your tablet or your smartphone onto the HDMI input that this is connected to on to your big-screen TV so you can be playing mobile games and then have them casted right on to the TV which is kind of neat but from what I understand I have actually tried this myself it I want to I might do a separate video on this for what I understand it's really picky and finicky to set up which was why I want to kind of do this in a separate video rather than making this one you know 20 minutes long or whatever it might end up being but the dual purpose of this too though is with the rj45 on the back if you go to say a hotel or something that doesn't have wireless or maybe it has really spotty Wireless but it does have access to RG 45 port I said something like I said RG rj45 port you can plug this into the access port for the hotel room or again wherever you may be and then this becomes a wireless access point itself using the application from asrock you can then use this as your wireless RUP access and get online much easier that way so it's kind of neat that they include that want the test that out in the future and see how well it works but it is something that I wanted to mention on the front of the router right here it has one giant LED that changes color and blinks in certain fashions to give you different sorts of indication of the status of the router that is a disappointment to me because one of the things I really like about the router that I currently use is it's got an array of LEDs and I can always see what the different statuses are of whatever I want I want of the status of the two point four gigs Wireless the five gig Wireless I want to the status of the network the you know the intranet and I want to know the status of the actual internet connection it's all happening independently so I can monitor all of that not have to wait for a series of flashes and functions and color changes to try and figure out what's going on and then look at the LEDs and try to remember what yellow meant and what red meant and have to look up the manual it's much better to just have the LEDs down the front with a label next to each one and call it a day I get that they're trying to make this minimalistic but I think they really missed a mark on that one okay so with that said I'm going to go ahead and hook this thing up to my internet Here I am going to set this up as a wireless access point to my current network by hooking an rj45 into the back of one of the land ports and then we're going to set this up as a like I said an extender basically for my wireless and see how well the actual wireless strength on this thing works so what I'm doing here right now is I've actually just taken my router unplug my PC from my working switch I have in this office because I have more than one PC in here so I needed a switch and I have my computer connected to the router only now I've logged into the router and I have copied down all of the SSID settings all of the security encryption type the security password and all of that stuff and move that over into the wireless settings here on the asrock so what that means that they are the same on both my master and my slave routers now the other thing you're going to have to do is go in here and disable DHCP because we don't want this router handling DHCP we want that handed off to the main router that way we have no conflicts and we have one nice simple gateway that's going to be handled for everything so it's pretty easy to actually set up that Wireless now one way you can verify that the settings have actually taken place and has worked is you can look at the wireless SSA IDs that are being broadcasted before you start and you'll notice that on the ass rock anyway it hasn't had an asrock 2.4 gigahertz wireless that was being broadcasted and once I made these changes that's gone that disappeared I'm only seeing one SSID that matches the one that I had already existing and have now copied over to here now I can see that I have an AZ rock 5 gigahertz band that's showing so I need to do the same thing for the 5 gigahertz and then reboot the router once that's done what we basically do is then put everything back to the way I had it and then we can start moving this router around the house and seeing what's actually happening here with our wireless connection now the way that this is going to work best is by having an Ethernet plugged in to the wireless or to the router that way this router becomes a wired access point giving us extended range on our wireless which is the whole point of having a second router or wireless router as an access point now there's a lot of ways that we could have done this I know I could have found some you know POA or power over ethernet you know access points that literally just plug into the ethernet and call it a day but I would have had to purchase those and I already had this so I'm making do with what I already have plus I can see if all of the five gigahertz strength at this thing is advertising is all it's cracked up to be so right now I've got the asrock modem rebooting and there is no more asrock wireless networks that are showing up only the SSID is that I already had set up now the idea here is that by this being wired into the Ethernet and having identical settings to the master router here is it's going to basically seamlessly handoff to whichever router has the best signal as you move around the house now the best part of this being you know setup the way it is is I can try different rooms of the house that have Ethernet plugs inside the rooms and see which is giving me the best coverage now of course have to make sure have power in there and an Ethernet cable in my office right here might be the best room so we're going to be playing around with that and seeing exactly how well that works out now one last setting that you have to make sure is correct on here is that the default gateway or the IP address of the router is actually on the same gateway as the main router for instance as you know most routers hat used 192.168.1.1 192.168.0.1 however asrock uses 192.168.0.1 so what I had to do is I had to make sure this router was now on the exact same IP address subnet as my main router so now I've just given this thing a static IP that is well outside of the dhcp range that's been selected my master router because we don't want to get any sort of conflicts as wireless devices connect and reconnect so that's something you can find out in another video maybe I'll do it show you guys how to set up static IPS on your your you know Internet connected devices in your home so you stop getting connectivity conflicts but anyway that's what we did here we're rebooting now and now we're ready now we're finally ready to actually test this bad boy out now a lot of folks said that they think that my office right here being more centralized in the house on the second floor would be the best place to actually leave this router so that's what I'm gonna do first and now we are going to transition here from the actual camcorder which I have here on my DSLR set up by 70d we are now going to switch over to vlogging style and that was really dark right there my bad apparently I'm terrible at vlogging one of the things I like about Wi-Fi analyzer is the fact that it actually lets you scan the networks based on MAC address so I can tell which wireless 2.4 is the router inside there versus the router inside the master bedroom so now as we walk around in the upstairs you can see we've pretty much got just the needle is pegged that needle is completely pegged so let's go ahead and go downstairs and see what we got so once again here's the asrock router going right there and you can see that again our needle is just absolutely well we just moved into halfway the crane but we're pretty much pegged through most of what we're doing here now I'm going to go to the other end of the house which is where we typically had the worst connection right now we're pretty much exactly underneath the router and if you can't tell yeah there you go we are exactly underneath it and as I'm going to the far extreme you guys remember I was having some connection problems over here in this part of the house and one of the things I was thinking about doing was I'm not trying to make you guys dizzy by the way as I was thinking about actually putting the router over here on little J's computer desk right there on top that way I had a router on both ends of the house so let's go and do this let's go ahead and do a speed test over here in the extreme and we can compare it to what we got on the other video because we were barely getting what 9 megabit per second something like that wasn't too good okay so here's the Internet right here in my area and what they want to point out earlier before I did this I didn't have any 5 gigahertz coverage whatsoever but as you can see we've got full coverage and this focus sucks on this ax 33 well we've got full coverage right here at 5 gigahertz first let's go and do the 2.4 gigahertz tests let's do the speed test and let's see exactly what we've got if you guys remember last time we were all hitting like 9 megabits per second but now look by just having that router more in a centralized location look at the better connection that we have now so much better than it was now we're going to go ahead and test out the 5 gigahertz as you can see the according to this we've got pretty bad signal for 5 gigs which actually isn't too bad because we didn't have any connection here before what I find kind of funny about that is according to the iPhone we've got strong coverage so let's go ahead and see which one here is actually telling the truth so let's go ahead and test again that's in Los Angeles I don't think it I think the first time I done a vine but again I can't control the server's here on the app but like that obviously the five gigahertz is giving us the speed we want so I'm going to say that the radio on the Asus device here just isn't as good when it comes to the 5 gigahertz compared to the iPhone but look at that we are getting 66 megabits per second and the full four point or the full four up so that's actually as fast as my isp can supply it if it's only a sixty by four so as you can see now we are actually getting the coverage I wanted so I think that pretty much settles it the router should probably end up staying in the upstairs in my office the only problem is I don't really want it on that desk right there so I have to figure out where I want to put that but as you can see the five gigahertz coverage right here in this part of the house absolutely flawless so at the end of the day the Azra gaming g10 wireless router is delivering a very strong signal which is exactly what I was hoping for now what's funny about this is it's only two walls between the other router and here and then this router has the whole floor to contend with you know go through the floor and multiple walls to get to where we just were so this thing is actually putting out a very strong signal and being right here centralized in the house is actually getting us pretty good connection but what I notice is moving around the house it does handoff obviously which is what I wanted one of the two routers to work in conjunction with each other to give me the best coverage I could possibly have anywhere inside this house now there are a lot of reviews out there that go much more in-depth into the software coverage of this router it's definitely worth taking a look at I know a lot of gamers get really upset when they feel like they're branded too with the word gaming of things that typically wouldn't be gaming I think I think one comment I saw when I showed this router was like what's next gaming printers and say you know maybe but tell me what you guys think about this router as rocks stepping into the router game so it's a only time will tell if this is a space that's worthwhile for them to be into it's a very saturated space I mean you've got at asu's that's doing it net gear Linksys there there are just so many brands out there that are actually doing wireless solutions now it's it's making me wonder if the whole gaming branding of a router really makes any sort of a difference and we guys tell me what you think down in the comments I'm going to ahead and get on out of here I've got some cool things coming up here I'm the gaming rig the simulator is back in the house I can't wait to start playing some more i racing and project cars and stuff like that but i'm gonna get out of here guys thanks for watching today's video I know it was a little bit like kind of kind of chaotic and and sort of like pieced together but it's the best I could really do today anyway hope you guys enjoyed as always we will see you in the next video