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welcome to my unboxing of the buffalo AC 1300 / n900 dual band extreme performance wireless router now when Buffalo says extreme performance what they mean by extreme performance is as Extreme as it freaking gets when it comes to wireless so this is a Wi-Fi router it is 80 2.11 AC which is completely different from 80 2.11 a 80 2.11 be g and n this is significantly faster so this guy is capable of up to 1.3 gigabits per second remember whenever we're talking wireless performance we're talking theoretical performance and the real world it'll be less but this this theoretical performance is definitely faster than your old theoretical performance I can tell you that much for sure so that is with ultra-fast wireless 11ac 900 megabit per second simultaneous dual-band wireless 11n so that means dual concurrent 450 megabit per second streams even if you're using older wireless and equipment with it however if you pair it up with newer wireless AC equipment you will get screaming fast theoretically gigabit wireless connectivity which is up until now completely unheard of when it comes to the consumer space anyway so it comes with a fairly 400 I love these Ethernet cables I have we have one of these in the tech tips room from when we did from when we showcased a buffalo product in the past these are like they're sexy ribbon cable Ethernet cables very nice those are the kinds of accessories that I get excited about these days I guess I mean I'm also excited about the you know 1.3 gigabit per second wireless performance but okay let's cover more of what buffalo has to say for themselves before we move along so it's dual then 2.4 gigahertz 5 gigahertz gigabit ethernet USB port for storage and it's also multi-platform pc mac or mobile devices are all supported and they darn well better be okay operating and oh right so AC is different for men it doesn't operate on 2.4 gigahertz at all now in theory 5 gigahertz is a bit of a range impediment compared to 2.4 gigahertz however the advantage of it is that there is significantly less interference on the 5 gigahertz band so while you bit from a wireless n 5 gigahertz router you get even more from a dedicated 5 gigahertz Wireless AC router so moving right along also right I mean better antenna technology better transmission power is also going to compensate somewhat for the reduced range of the five gigahertz band operating in ok transfer speeds up to ideal and interrupt HD video streaming concurrent engine access it's amazing i mean i can't wait for 1300 megabit per second internet access yeah yeah all right 24-7 tech support in USA in canada only three year warranty on this guy right here and we've got all of the usual stuff right here including what it concludes the wireless the wired interface so of course it's gigabit which it sort of better be if it's going to be like yeah i mean if it's going to be capable of gigabit on the wireless side then it better be gigabit wired to because that only reason alright so let's see what they've included all it's kind of a neat looking I mean looking brighter casing okay hello so air navigator is their connector CD I've actually found in my experience I know I usually say throw away the CD but I found router connector sees can actually be kind of useful if you're not techy and knowledgeable so if you you know by the router for someone you can tell them to use it also comes with a colored quick set-up guide shows you how to plug the thing into the thing and the other thing and switch the thing on as well as up look at that a couple quick tips about about setting up the SSID setting up the key it's nice to have a handy dandy reference sheet I would probably take something like this and like tape it to the unit because that's what i usually do with the information that I need connection guide for Android devices oh look at that trying to be very complete about things warranty statement regulatory compliance and supplemental information hmm fascinating okay so let's have a look at what they've got in terms of included accessories screw brackets a couple mounting pujas so it looks like these guys going here like mmm-hmm this would be my guess okay can you still no I get it I get it I get it okay yeah so these clip in right here if you do want to stand the rotor up there's little guides on the inside so you can see that right there just like that and then it will stand without falling over so the unit itself has a soft touch rubberized finish on it that actually looks play nice you've got Buffalo's Air Station branding right about there on that side and right about there on the other side they thought a plastic piece that goes around the top of it kind of like it looks kind of like um like Macky you know like with the sort of aluminum II metally looking piece going around the outside of a black thing like kind of like an iPad or something it's my tablet the air station on the front we've got our connectivity indicators we've also got an illuminated Buffalo logo and moving around to the back we find our four gigabit lan our internet jack as well as our let's kind of neat our on/off switch so you don't actually have to unplug it to power cycle the router should you need to do it as well as our power input our USB USB port an eject button for the safe ejection of it and a router button let's figure out what that does give me sec guys apparently on the entire internet information does not exist about what this button does but what I suspect it does is this a hardware button to change from router mode to just wireless access points which mode which would be really useful because then you can take your existing setup plug this thing in hit the button it's not going to create any conflicting IP address assignments anything like that it'll just get you going as quickly as possible also we found something cool here's a card in the bottom of the unit that tells you all your default information without taping things to the side of it which is pretty cool as well there's a reset button on the bottom which if you want to reset the unit you're going to want to hold that down that'll reset it back to factory defaults and in terms of included accessories we've got our power brick I think we already covered this didn't we so I think that pretty much wraps it up now right now there aren't really any AC devices so what's the point of an AC router it's a draft 2 point 0 standard at this point in time so why do you need this gigabit wireless speed well buffalo has a companion product so this is the the AC 1300 this is the dual band media bridge so it has four gigabit ports and then this guy right here is basically like a huge network card think of it that way like it's a huge external Wi-Fi dongle so that means you can connect just one device by gigabit ethernet to this guy right here and then you're going to get your 1.3 gigabit per second theoretical between these two devices and then full gigabit connectivity between this guy and whatever computer or device is connected to or up to four devices at a time given that there should be bandwidth to spare the router itself includes all the usual features into things like Kos so you can prioritize certain things like media streaming or gaming so that you don't get any leg and I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out our unboxing and first look at their AC 1300 dual bed extreme performance wireless router from Buffalo and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tip form boxing's reviews and other computer videos