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welcome to my unboxing of the buffalo airstation wli h4d 1300 more importantly than the model number what does it do this is a wireless AC media bridge so what does a mediabridge do basically it's a glorified Wi-Fi card because the intention of this particular device is just to give you a way to use your brand new wireless AC router remember guys I will not remember unless you've already seen the other video which case remember wireless AC is a 5 gigahertz dual band 1.3 gigabit per second wireless standard this is the next generation standard that will at some point in time be completely replacing wireless n as what everything is using although right now it is still in its infancy as of the time of doing this unboxing is in draft 2 point 0 standard however according to Buffalo it works so very very cool stuff um dual vanity abridge cetera et cetera okay let's see what get buffalo has to say for themselves so it's dual band 2.4 gigahertz and 5 gigahertz it is backwards compatible with existing wireless standard so it is also n450 so 450 megabit per second there and AC 1300 1.3 gigabit per second there it has four gigabit ethernet ports on it multi-device capable hence the four gigabit ethernet ports it's also multi-platform pc mac or mobile which it should be given that it using wireless standards to connect to things they're showing you how to set up your AC network so there's your home router there's your glorified network card and there is your wired connections going out to all of your devices so when I say glorified network card what I mean is really fancy network card because you could not only use it as a network card and connect it via a gigabit wired connection to one pc so you would have in theory gigabit wireless connectivity but you could also take it and its glory and connect it to four devices which assuming they were all fully utilizing the maximum theoretical bandwidth all still be getting about 300 megabit per second in terms of connectivity so that's pretty crazy given you'd be splitting it four ways remember guys this is all theoretical so when it comes to wireless performance the ratings don't include things like overhead or interference or all that other that other nonsense that tends to interfere with wireless however one that is theoretically faster than another one theoretically is in the real world will be faster even if those theoretical numbers don't pan out quite the way that we want them to so in terms of included stuff we've got our CD connector gives you a wizard for setting it up we've got our quick set-up guide which basically involves if you have the corresponding AC router from Buffalo this guy right here which looks a little different not very different mind you but a little bit different if you have the corresponding AC router should be pretty much a OneTouch thing we've got a couple of little feet which will help us stand up our little Air Station mediabridge guy right here should just put those down there and they slide into the appropriately slotted spot just like that yeah there's a better angle they go and you've also got a power adapter couple of screws keys for the power adapter and finally they're awesome flat ethernet cable that is like awesome in every possible way we have one here in the tech tips lab and slick and I will fight over who gets to use it alright so connect up to four wired devices to your ultra-fast 11ac or high-speed 11n wireless network once again it is capable of both so having a quick look at the physical unit itself we have a reset switch on the bottom which whoops there you go might come in handy if you ever need to reset the device to its factory defaults on the back we've got a power button we've also got power in so this is great if you want a power cycle it you don't want to just yank the plug and put it back in we've also got our four gigabit lan ports and look at that a hardware button for setting it to five gigahertz fixed mode so that'll change it from being in multi modes 2.4 gigahertz 5 gigahertz to just 5 gigahertz for I remember guys wireless-ac runs purely on the 5 gigahertz spectrum rather than relying on the older now older 2.4 gigahertz spectrum so what that means is slightly reduced in theory range however the technologies for transmission strength as well as antennas continue to move forward to compensate for it but also significantly less interference due to the under utilization of this band compared to the over utilization of 2.4 gigahertz so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the WL I h4d 1300 from Buffalo and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos