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welcome to Linus tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is Linksys we're here in the Linksys suite where Matthews gonna be telling us about the product refresh that they are bringing to the market this is pretty much the the first real generational move in Wireless since we went from G to n is that correct that is absolutely correct so show us the the Beast of all beasts the AC 1750 sure so we actually have an AC 1750 in the market today but what we're doing with this refresh through the spring and availability you'll be later in the spring is we're gonna buffer it up and take a little bit more power behind this and give you a USB 3.0 port and the capabilities of our new AC routers through the spring as well are also gonna have part of the specification of AC which includes beamforming technology and you I'm assuming you know what beamforming is last why don't you explain it to me and the viewers okay sounds great I would say that beamforming is gonna take let's use the lightbulb analogy if you would turn on a light bulb it would give you coverage throughout your entire home if you were to turn on a flashlight it would give you directional coverage towards where you're aiming it same idea with beamforming technology it's gonna take the antenna configuration and it is gonna send the Wi-Fi signal directly to those devices throughout the home so obviously are gonna get faster transfer rates and you're gonna have a better experience so tell me two things number one is do the antennas have to physically move and number two is how does it know where your devices are so no the antennas are not gonna move that's part of the specification built into it and your second question was how does it know where the devices are it is going out looking for the devices pinging those devices once it's established a connection being forming starts to do its work and that's how you're gonna see the benefit so it's gonna have to have multiple antennas if it's gonna have any idea where something is located is that correct correct and these at all three of our routers that you see in front of you right now these are all three by three antenna configuration routers on the AC side I'll very cool so I mean something that our viewers may or may not have picked up from that as usb3 is not only going to you know look blue and sexy on the back of the router but what it's also gonna do is it's gonna allow you to take advantage of that AC transfer speed with a network attached to storage device that can be something as simple as a plain old external USB 3 hard drive so let's go ahead and put this one down because this is probably gonna be pretty expensive so maybe not every viewer can afford the super uber premium one so why don't you tell us about the AC 1600 sure so the biggest difference between the two and it's pretty straightforward - and viewers obviously is that we're taking you from AC 1750 to AC 1600 so what we're doing is we're still gonna give you the great speeds on the five gig spectrum at 1300 megabits per second but on 2.4 instead of 450 megabits per second we're gonna take you down to 300 so again you're still gonna get pretty good 300 megabits per second speeds on 2.4 but still have 1300 megabits per second on the five the other difference that we'll notice here we've also taken one of the USB ports away so we're gonna give you USB 3.0 but not that additional USB 2.0 port okay so you still get to take advantage of the fast AC transfer speeds for your network attached storage but just you don't have that other auxiliary port that is absolutely correct okay now this guy over here has like a green box and sort of is smaller than the other ones what is the key difference between the EEA 6300 and the other two that we just looked at sure so again we're gonna go back and look at the speed and what this is gonna do for you this is the entry level in our AC lineup 300 megabits per second on the 2.4 867 on the 5 gigahertz spectrum so when you put it together you're upwards to AC 1200 as a combined speed so again it's just a little bit less speed on the AC spectrum but if you need more you easily take yourself up the line and choose the right product for you again on the back USB 3.0 port 4 gig land one gig lan very straightforward okay now here is here's sort of the trick now AC is still not that prevalent out there so we're gonna move actually sorry diesel we're gonna move this way a little bit so I actually tested on on my youtube channel right a USB you know unnamed you know competitor D say for example an unnamed USB stick that was AC 1200 and I put that up against a Wireless and 450 not some other USB stick competitor t say for example what we discovered was that the 450 was actually dramatically faster than the AC USB stick so if the USB sticks aren't there yet and they're not ready to take advantage of the speed can you show us what you guys have to allow customers to actually use the AC gigabit wireless yeah it's absolutely a great point Linus and you hit it right on the head so what we did when we launched our AC 1750 SKU into the marketplace in the spring of 20 the fall of 2012 is we launched the universal media connector alongside it's a single band four port AC media connector so for the customer that is buying any one of the spring routers coming up or the one that's currently in market you're now gonna be able to transfer up to 1300 megabits per second wirelessly from router to bridge and any one of those four devices that are plugged in so we looked at that as an opportunity to say let's bring not only the router to market but let's give him a corresponding media connector to do the job that we know AC can do so I mean that was a bit of I let him on on that one a little bit because I already knew that the media connector just absolutely destroys both the n450 and the USB AC stick and we actually tested one of those as well so it was something along the order of about four or five times faster than either of the other solutions so I think that pretty much wraps it up for our CES 2013 coverage of the Lynx is sweet thanks again Matthew for joining us thanks - 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