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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the asus pc e - a c6 6 dual band PCIe adapter now I have no idea what the truck Asus is talking about when they call it the world's fastest 5g Wi-Fi because to my understanding 5 the GD notation is more of a cellular sort of wireless thing and there's nothing 5g about it at all because this is actually more of a gigabit sort of class of product so whatever and then it's all it's not even not even or not even that ok here we're not even done making fun of the packaging yet so this is a fast networking solution which is an abbreviation for fast EA SE and stable like that's not how that's not how abbreviations work but it's ok because as long as the product is freaking awesome then it's fine so ok so it can do thirteen hundred megahertz wireless AC 450 mega r-13 1300 1300 megabit per second wireless AC 450 megabit per second Wireless n that makes it at the fastest tiers of both of those standards for a total throughput of about 1750 megabit per second now in the real world you're not going to observe this but unlike one of the wireless AC solutions we looked at recently which was a USB based solution this one actually has the horses to back up those specs so unlike some you know I mean think about it this way guys USB is USB 2 is 480 megabit per second what were the odds it was going to deliver 1700 megabit per second or 1300 megabit per second or whatever it was rated for it's not going to work this on the other hand PCI Express so it can do up to 250 or rather 500 megabytes per second using PCIe - okay it has the same class of chipset because it's got like actual power going to it has the same class of chipset that you find in dedicated routers and whatnot which is why it has a beefy cooler on it and it has a very unique antenna design that reminds me of a Seuss's little so sorry we had some technical difficulties with our mic battery for those of you who have suggested that I use the lapel mic to fix the audio issues I don't know if you've noticed this but I've been using a lapel mic for months it was actually other issues that were causing it you know we're not actually quite done with the packaging yet anyway so power up to three times the speed of current wireless and standards yep powerful two-way transmission gives a hundred and fifty percent of the Wi-Fi range of generic client cards this I believe just based on the like uber Ness of all of it although we'd have to try it out to know for sure and bundled with extensions for the detachable antennas and I'll show you how that works in just a moment so the AC 1750 is ultimate and is suitable for web browsing simultaneous downloading HD video streaming multiplayer gaming interference persistent 5 gigahertz signal this is important this is more of a characteristic of wireless AC in general than anything else but because it uses the 5 gigahertz band rather than 2.4 gigahertz it's not going to get the same kind of interference from things like Wireless phones and cordless phones and people still have cordless phones I'm sure someone does diesels putting his hand up it's looks putting his hand up either way it won't is not as susceptible to interference from other devices that are on those bands so that's a good thing let me just put it that way although the wireless end should still operate on 2.4 gigahertz for compatibility so you have two options when you install it in your PCI Express slot you can either install the antennas on the card directly so they'll stick out the back of your computer like this and you can kind of orient them in such a way as you would like or because again interference behind your computer can be stronger than in other places you can put them all on this little base station that you can then put up somewhere higher or you know at least have it a couple feet closer to your oh yeah oh ok so apparently a soos recommends mounting it to the side of your computer even so there's oh it has a magnetized base oh that's cool so check this out so I could put it on the side of our server which would probably be a good idea right I'm getting a look from slick because the server hasn't been all that stable lately but there you go so you can mount it to that with a magnet you could just stick it up on your desk and sort of you know spread the antennas around like that so it's got a nice long cord on it it looks like about 2 feet and then that would plug directly into the wireless card itself so I have high expectations for this card and will be using it to film an episode of NCIS tech tips so I hope that whatever I'm able to show you is much more impressive than that USB card and more comparable to the wireless media bridge that we've used in the past thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look of the at the PCE AC 66 from Asus what I would consider to be the first sort of real AC client card and oh yeah it also comes with a low profile adapter stirrer should you see fit to use it don't forget to subscribe - 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