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now this products a little bit unique in that it is the first of its kind it's a wireless n 450 megabit per second router so what that means is that it is twice as fast as the other no no it's not twice as fast as anything it's fifty percent faster than the other high speed wireless end devices and it is three times faster than the basic wireless end devices which are rated at 150 megabit per second so let's see what trend that has to say for themselves on the box first of all this is a green net product which means that it employs some smart power saving techniques in order to reduce power consumption so things like powering off the ports that aren't being used on the switch for example it has i popping 450 megabit per second wireless speed and coverage Gigabit Ethernet ports for high-performance wired connections you can stream videos download files talk online and play games all at the same time and connect computers with one touch Wi-Fi Protected setup so like a one touch setup thing now what also makes this unique is that at the time of release there was absolutely nothing on the market in terms of 450 megabit per second clients that's have been been remedied now by trendnet themselves they have their 450 megabit per second wireless and gaming adapter these days so that helps a lot and then yeah like you can see you can see when they design the box related products a bunch of 300 megabits per second stuff so um yeah I mean I guess there's going to be notebooks with built-in 450 megabit per second but there was nothing in terms of something you could buy from trendnet that would work with it so I I thought that was pretty amusing when this first came out because it was a little while ago actually so here they're talking about the features security ah package contents which we'll see in a moment I will see what they have to say about features in security first so high speed advanced wpa2 wireless security so that's under Wireless and then there's security access restriction with internet access controller and smooth out so you can read it better there we go advanced firewall protection with network address translation and stateful packet inspection ease of use which also good on a phone off wireless switch that's handy that's actually that's actually really handy there are times when you do want to turn off your wireless or at least I've wanted to do it a couple times and I it's not always convenient to you know go log into the web based admin all right here's all the standards at support so as mentioned before these are gigabit ethernet ports to go along with the 450 megabit per second wireless so with this device you can pretty much build the fast as possible home network without getting into some pretty high-end networking gear let's move along here let you guys you can pause this obviously if you want to read and I'm not going to say too much unless there's something that really stands out to me as needing to be sad and I don't really see anything like that so this will work with your old G and B compatible wireless devices just so that you're aware backwards compatible just like any wireless end device the key difference is the speed so let's see what we find inside first we have a user's guide on disk then we have a user sky oh no this is a quick installation guide okay so we've got about three pages of English before you start installing and configuring alright so configuring Oh Noah kisses ya know like like 34 pages so they show you the very very basics which is configuring your wireless and then setting up security on it very important stuff and then obviously you can use the user guide if you want to get a little bit deeper into things so here we have one ethernet cable so that will at least get you connected from your wireless router to your internet modem and then if you want to wire up any computers you're going to have to use additional cables and then we have a power adapter so this power adapter is rated for 12 volts 1 amp so pretty much your run-of-the-mill power adapter and let's have a look at the router itself trend that's really improved so much on their on their old like blue shelled wireless products these are the slick black casings really just well they look a lot they look a lot more professional a lot more sharp so here we go here's our three antennas it does have a three antenna design so let's have a look at the physical aspects of this router so remember this is the te w 691 g r and you can see right here on the front we've got all of the indicator LEDs that we could pretty much need there's our security one there's wireless LAN there's another one I'm not sure what that one's for it's not labeled only one way to find out later we have lan 1234 labeled as well as our when port so that's another land port but really that one goes into your router more than anything else and then we have a power light so that means you can Network up to four computers and one router for your internet connection as well as any number of I mean I think it's up to something like 200 plus wireless clients although there's no way you'd want to run that many off so realistically you know you can run anywhere from 10 to 20 computers off this if you're running most of them wireless which is kind of neat here we have some ventilation holes on the side here we have some ventilation holes on the other side there's the WPS I'm going to put my hand here so that it'll actually focus there's the WPS one touch wireless set up and then let's have a close look at the back so my hand here so we'll focus there is our power in there's the reset switch there's our power switch there's that neat wireless LAN on/off switch there is our land port and there are the four land ports that I had mentioned before so I am going to do some performance testing with this guy and I'm going to be using the there te w 687 450 megabit per second client in order to find out just how fast we can make this go just what kind of range it has so thank you for checking out my unboxing and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips you