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welcome to my unboxing of the d-link amplify this is what they're calling okay now this is a whole home router 1000 okay so what is a whole home router what they're saying is that for a large home this is going to provide the most wireless coverage compared to pretty much anything else that you can get and how are they achieving this well dealing with their patented sector eyes dantana design for superior smart beam performance is basically and this is their summary not mine but what they're basically doing is they're detecting exactly a where your wireless devices are and they are beaming bandwidth directly to them okay so my understanding of this is the router actually adapts where it is delivering the strongest signals by focusing the wireless antenna at your devices rather than just having kind of that general sort of ho-hum coverage it is sending focused signals to each of your wireless devices in order to get you what is essentially just greater range okay so here we go here's where they help you choose the right product for you so all of these products are good for ipv6 technology with n300 being better for extended wireless for larger homes or multiple floors and an +300 being better for USB sharePort for sharing devices and n plus 300 dual-band being better for HD video gaming and Skype calls and then finally we have amplify n plus 300 which is connectivity into virtually every corner of your home and even outdoors they have a little one there so what is it what are they wanting about the cat I don't see it hold on let's see if I can find it yes haha here we go maximum wireless signal rate derived from OEE standard at 802.11 specifications actual data throughput may vary including volume of networking traffic building materials and construction network overhead all that kind of interesting stuff ok well here we go saint green while this may look like your average product is not this is a d-link green product which is good for your wallet as it is for the environment the dir 645 is designed to conserve energy protect our environment from harmful substances and reduce waste by using recyclable packaging interesting that's good I always appreciate that recyclable packaging is actually really important a whole lot of packaging ends up in landfills and it's totally unnecessary because the entire purpose of this box is to get you to buy it and then to not exist anymore ah here here's a little diagram so you can see what their patented sector is the antenna design is kind of going to look like so why don't we get this thing opened up and have a look at the device itself so start here so read this before installing this we're here to help start here put this in your computer in order to get going GPL code statement ok cool I've got an Ethernet cable we've got a power brick aha stop insert CD and run wizard first so this is the strangest shaped router that I have yet to see but I knew that already before I opened it Oh use of this device may make your wireless connection vulnerable to unauthorized I saw basically it's telling you to enable a password on your wireless network which is very important because people can even do things like commit cyber crimes on your wireless network which can be traceable back to well your account with your internet service provider which is bad for a number of reasons ok stop and search ok wow there's a lot of warnings about stopping insert the CD and run the wizard first so I'm thinking that for this product you might want to consider stopping and running the CD the wizard on the CD first before you go any further and to prevent overheating remove the clear protective covers before using so dealing provides these clear protective covers in order to keep the product from being all covered by nasty horrible fingerprints before you even get a chance to use it there we go go ahead and start pulling those off so that's what we do on this channel we unbox products which includes removing protective films that is a very shiny router that's about as shiny as it gets if it weren't for the distortion I'm sure you could see slick very clearly right about now let's just take that and what all do be fine on this router so the antenna is actually in here it is my understanding based on the diagram okay we've got an it web indicator LED wireless indicator LED WPS button and a power button that's funny you don't usually see a power button on the front of a router very strange okay we've got a d-link logo right about here on the back we find 1 2 3 4 these are gigabit ethernet ports if memory serves yes they are 4 gigabit ports as well as a LAN port so then we've got power in as well as USB so USB allows you to use a any USB storage device in order to share files on your home network which is a really handy feature for routers to have that way if you have very simple file sharing needs and you just wanna you know I'll share a couple files simply on your network you plug them into your router no big deal you don't need any additional devices finally on the bottom we find our reset switch I was looking for that I couldn't figure out where it was and I think basically that's about as far as I'm going to be able to go on this unboxing because until I can give you guys some concrete sort of evidence that this provides better coverage and you should stay tuned on the NCIX comm channel for that to be upcoming then I can't tell you guys whether their new antenna technology works or not but what I can tell you is that we haven't seen a whole lot of advancement in terms of antennas on home wireless routers in the last 10 years basically we'll see like more or like taller ones but it's all the same basic thing so this seems like if it it could be a huge step forward in terms of building better wireless networks for your homes so I'm really looking forward to testing it out we'll be doing that here in the tech tips room and probably across the parking lot if the range is anything like what they're saying it's going to be and I'm very very excited so thank you for checking out my unboxing don't forget to subscribe to Linus technics from are unboxings reviews and other computer videos and big things to dealing for letting us check this thing out I'm very curious to see how this go